Interdisciplinary Information Security Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

INSC Interdisciplinary Information Security

Interdisciplinary Information Security (INSC) is a research-driven interdisciplinary graduate program at Purdue University. INSC is structured around core classes that give students a fundamental grounding in the basics of cybersecurity and integrates perspectives from engineering and social sciences.

Students graduating from this program are well-prepared for careers in industry or academia that span topics like:

cybersecurity
information security
privacy protection
security policy
cybercrime investigation

The overall challenges that information security/cybersecurity face are not confined to one traditional topic area such as computer science but encompasses issues of (at least) software, hardware, policy, education, finance, psychology, ethics, communication, and linguistics.

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CERIAS

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; with more than a hundred researchers addressing issues of security, privacy, resiliency, trusted electronics, autonomy and explainable artificial intelligence. CERIAS brings together world-class faculty, students and industry partners to design, build and maintain trusted cyber/cyber-physical systems. CERIAS serves as an unbiased resource to the worldwide community.

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