Information Trust Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ICSSP Scholarships

Visit the site for the Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP) for information on how to obtain a scholarship covering your last 2 years of undergraduate study in information assurance or security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ITI Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

Visit the site for the annual ITI Undergraduate Summer Internship Program, which accepts applications for summer near the start of each calendar year.

Security Resources

Here is a list of useful security sites:

• Build Security In Portal - A DHS-sponsored repository of information on secure software engineering.
• National Information Assurance Training and Education Center - Contains links to many security documents, particularly government documents.
• CITES security - Information about security issues on the UIUC campus.
• SANS Institute - Information about current threats
• UIUC Security reading group - Fall 05 site and Site from previous semesters - Contains links to discussed papers and discussion notes.

Here is a list of links to some foundational papers that are referenced in UIUC security classes. Some older papers are mirrored here. Other papers are linked to the copyrighted repository.

• Secure Computer Systems: Mathematical Foundations Volume 1, D. Elliott Bell and Leonard J. LaPadula, MITRE Technical Report 2547, dated 1 March 1973.
• Secure Computer Systems: Mathematical Foundations Volume II, Leonard J. LaPadula and D. Elliott Bell, MITRE Technical Report 2547, dated 31 May 1973.
• Secure Computer System: Unified Exposition and Multics Interpretation, D. Elliot Bell and Leonard J. LaPadula, MITRE Technical Report 2997, March 1976.
• Setuid Demystified, Hao Chen, David Wagnre, and Drew Dean.
• The Chinese Wall Security Policy, D. Brewer and M. Nash, Proc. IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, 1989.
• A Comparison of Commercial and Military Computer Security Policies , D. Clark and D. Wilson, 1987.
• A Comment on the "Basic Security Theorem" of Bell and LaPadula, J. McLean, Information Processing Letters 20 (1985), pp. 67-70. <!--li>Reasoning about Security Models, J. McLean, 1987.

UIUC Information Assurance Policies, Plans, and Procedures

• University of Illinois system-wide policies, plus the UI Ethics Office.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus policy sites include the Office of the Chief Information Officer Security Services and Information Privacy site and the Office of the Chief Information Officer Information Technology Policies site.
• University of Illinois Administrative Information Technology Services pages for policies and security incident response plan.
• Business and Financial Policies and Procedures page on Information Technology Policy.
• UIUC policy on acceptable use.
• University of Illinois policy on Social Security numbers.
• Office of University Audits, including information on security policies and audits.
• Student and staff security measures: CITES Security main site and Bluestem information, as well as computing services resources for staff and students.

Other UIUC Resources

• Illinois summit on Cybersecurity video clips are available here.

Other Resources Outside UIUC

• National Science and Technology Council's Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development (April 2006).
• "Secure Software Assurance: A Guide to the Common Body of Knowledge to Produce, Acquire, and Sustain Secure Software (Draft, v0.9)," from the Department of Homeland Security (Jan. 9, 2006).
• The newly released (Nov. 2005) CNSS Instruction No. 4016, "National Information Assurance Training Standard for Risk Analysts." <!--li>Applications are being accepted for the Federal Cyber Corps Scholarship for Service program at the Naval Postgraduate School. The awards are for Fall 2006 admissions into their 2-year Masters program in computer science. Deadline is March 1, 2006.
• National Security Agency, Central Security Service's web site of information assurance events.
• National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (NIATEC). <!--li>(ISC)2® Seeks Candidates for annual $50,000 Information Security Scholarship Program. Full-Time Post-Graduate Information Security Students Can Receive Up to $12,500 Apiece in Individual Awards. [ Flyer | More Details (PDF) ].
• Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC).
• Illustrative Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems and Related Technology maintained at SRI International.
• Other University Sites and Course Materials , maintained by Professor Ronald L. Rivest at MIT. <!--li>List of Security Related Conferences maintained at GMU-->
• IEEE Cipher Calendar of Security and Privacy Related Events.
• CFPs from Security and Privacy Related Conferences maintained by IEEE.
• InfoSec News (ISN) security mailing list provided by C4I.org.
• The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities provided by SANS/FBI.
• NSTISSC National Education and Training Standard for System Certifiers.