Cybersecurity Resources

Links to useful information regarding information assurance and computer security for practicing professionals and students studying in our NOSS & BAS-C programs.

General Resources

• NIATEC - The National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (General IA education and training resources)
• Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE)
• CNSS: Committee on National Security Systems
• CERIAS: Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue
• US-CERT - U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
• CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
• Cisco's Information Assurance Resources

Organizations

• Research-Oriented:
  • IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy (includes security conference calendar and call-for-papers lists)
  • IACR: International Association for Cryptologic Research
• Professional/Certification/Training Groups and Information:
  • ISSA: Information Systems Security Association - Professional organization
  • (ISC)2 - International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (issues certifications, including CISSP)
  • Cisco Training & Events - including info on Cisco certifications
  • SANS - Network and Computer Security Training

Publications

• Computer Security History Project - Seminal Papers (Classic papers in computer security, including Anderson, Bell-LaPadula, Orange Book, Multics papers, and more)
• National Information Assurance Glossary (CNSS 4009)
• NIST 800-series publications

News Sources

• SecurityFocus
• SC Magazine
• TechNewsWorld - Security Section
• NetworkWorld

Subscription-based Research Resources

The following are important research or commercial publications available to current CPTC students, faculty, and staff.

These are subscription-based and may be accessed by students and employees through the Learning Resource Center (LRC) systems.

• ACM Digital Library
  Specific publications of interest:
  • Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC)
  • New Security Paradigms Workshop
  • Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering
  • Workshop on Secure Web Services
  • Workshop on Security of ad hoc and Sensor Networks
• IEEE Library
  Specific publications of interest:
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • IEEE Security&Privacy Magazine
  • IEE Proceedings Information Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop
• USENIX (proceedings over a year old are freely available)
• NDSS: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
• ASCAC: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

The following materials to CPTC students who can check them out.

• DoD Training Materials (CDs):
  • Information Assurance Policy & Technology
  • Computer Network Defense
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Active Defense - An Executive's Guide to Information Assurance
  • Firewall and Router Fundamentals
  • System Administrator - Incident Preparation & Response for UNIX
  • OPSEC Fundamentals
• Cisco training materials:
  • Cisco Router Security
  • Securing Cisco Routers