INSC was first launched out of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). CERIAS is a cross-cutting institute at Purdue University and the world’s foremost interdisciplinary academic center for cyber and cyber-physical systems but not an academic department, and therefore does not offer degrees. However, Linguistics, Communication, Philosophy and Polytechnic Institute (Technology) departments allow you to get your degree and be connected with CERIAS.
INSC lays the groundwork for students who are interested in enriching their technical and scientific background in information security and combining it with preparation in several other disciplines. The associated academic departments have their own requirements which have to be completed in combination with the INSC requirements.
CERIAS -- the Nation's top-ranked interdisciplinary academic education and research institute -- hosts a weekly cyber security, privacy, resiliency or autonomy speaker, highlighting technical discovery, a case studies or exploring cyber operational approaches; they are not product demonstrations, service sales pitches, or company recruitment presentations.
The weekly security seminar has been held every semester since spring of 1992. We invite personnel at Purdue and visitors from outside to present on topics of particular interest to them in the areas of computer and network security, computer crime investigation, information warfare, information ethics, public policy for computing and security, the computing "underground," and other related topics.
Students at Purdue can get 1 credit hour of CS 591S course credit by attending the seminar. Interested students should contact the instructor, seminars@cerias.purdue.edu.The seminar is open to everyone, on-campus or off.