Cate Leads IU Cybersecurity to 'Excellence'
The National Security Agency has assigned Indiana University "center of excellence"
status for the academy's ongoing commitment to the protection of digital information
from hackers and other Internet-savvy troublemakers.
As a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, IU becomes a formal partner in national efforts to keep networks and computers safe and secure.
Indiana Law Professor Fred H. Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), says the title "reflects the university's internationally recognized prominence in the study, teaching and use of information technologies."
According to the NSA, the center of excellence designation lasts five years and is the result of "a rigorous review" in which applicants are "evaluated against stringent criteria."
"We credit the determined leadership of then-Vice President of Information Technology Michael McRobbie, the hard work of faculty from across the university to create an information security curriculum and research program, and the perseverance of CACR Associate Director Scott Orr, who shepherded the university's application these past three yearsl," Cate said.
Read the media announcement.
More about Fred H. Cate
Professor Cate specializes in information privacy and security law issues, testifying frequently before Congress and regularly speaking for industry, professional, and
government groups.
He recently hosted "U.S. Document Production and International Data Protection: Managing Conflicting Requirements" an international conference for law firms and multinational corporations to explore the conflict between U.S. discovery requirements and national data protection laws, and to consider how companies can best manage the risk.
Cate is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the Research Steering Committee of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.