- Georgia Tech Information Security Center
Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) is a department of Georgia Tech that deals with
information security issues such ascryptography ,network security ,trusted computing ,software reliability,privacy , andinternet governance . [cite web|url=http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/history.html|title=Georgia Tech Information Security Center History|accessdate=2007-08-01] GTISC has about 80 staff and many undergraduates from Colleges and Schools across the Georgia Tech campus.cite web|url=http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/faculty.html|title=Faculty and Staff|publisher=Georgia Tech Information Security Center|accessdate=2007-09-18] cite web|url=http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/students.html|title=Students|publisher=Georgia Tech Information Security Center|accessdate=2007-09-18] GTISC's current director isMustaque Ahamad . [cite web|url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/mustaque-ahamad|title=Mustaque Ahamad|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing Directory|accessdate=2007-08-01]Blaine Burnham ,Richard DeMillo , andRalph Merkle have previously served as the department's director. [cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/demillo.html|title=Hewlett-Packard's First Chief Technology Officer to Head Georgia Tech Information Security Center|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2002-08-01 |accessdate=2007-09-18] [cite news|url=http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/gtisc.htm|title= Under Attack: Information Security Battle will Require Computer Users to Make Tough Choices|work=Georgia Tech Research News|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2004-03-24 |accessdate=2007-09-18] [cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/gtisc_pricewaterhouse.html|title=Georgia Tech Information Security Center Partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to Create an Information Security Technology Testbed Laboratory|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2000-06-14 |accessdate=2007-09-18]It was established in April 1998 after the
Sam Nunn Information Security Forum, due to Georgia Tech's strengths in technology and policy, and a need for improved security research and education. [cite web|url=http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/history.html|title=GTISC History|publisher=Georgia Tech Information Security Center|accessdate=2007-09-18] Researchers come from theGeorgia Tech Research Institute as well as Georgia Tech's College of Computing, College of Liberal Arts, and School of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering.References
External links
* [http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/ GTISC website]
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