Security Informatics
For the Master of Security Informatics program, 2009-2010 academic year spring applications are welcome and will be considered.
Priority deadlines for graduate admissions are quickly approaching. To secure admission with financial aid consideration, international students should apply by December 1 and domestic students by January 15.
Security Informatics is the study and design of security technologies within these contexts. Security Informatics integrates heuristics from the social sciences and economics of risk with secure systems design. Security Informatics builds upon strong theoretical foundations to construct practical solutions for the intertwined challenges of security and privacy. Security Informatics addresses both immediate problems of today, such as phishing, and emerging research problems, including privacy in ubiquitous computing environments. Security Informatics focuses on a holistic view of security by looking at both technical, user and organizational aspects. Traditional computer security programs have focused only on the technical aspects, which is at least partially responsible for some of the modern attacks, such as phishing. This professional, industry-oriented graduate program is designed for students with undergraduate degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, management information systems, economics, informatics or related disciplines who seek advanced training in Security Informatics.
