Tag: PURDUE

For our second annual spotlight on cyber-security, Switched turned to a renowned expert in the field: Eugene H. Spafford, Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. Among his many professional associations and corporate and governmental advisory roles, Spafford is the Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), which supports ...

In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, emergency text messaging systems were proposed as a means to spread the word more quickly. Unfortunately, in their first real-world test last month on a Colorado campus, emergency text systems didn't perform so hot. In that case, warnings took 30 minutes to be sent and only 500 students out of 30,000 had signed up to receive them. Hoping to avoid a ...