NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs.

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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.
 
NCASSR Researchers Co-Chair Collaborative Security Workshop
Adam Slagell and Kiran Lakkaraju, both NCASSR researchers based at NCSA, are among the organizers of the Third IEEE Securecomm SECOVAL Workshop (The Value of Security through Collaboration), to be held September 17, 2007 in Nice, France.
 
SELS 0.3 released
Version 0.3 of Secure Email List Services (SELS) supports encrypting to multiple recipients. SELS has been developed with support from NCASSR.