Information Trust Institute
ITI brings together over 90 faculty and senior researchers, many graduate student researchers, and industry partners to conduct foundational and applied research to enable the creation of critical applications and cyber infrastructures. In doing so, ITI is creating computer systems, software, and networks that society can depend on to be trustworthy, that is, secure, dependable (reliable and available), correct, safe, private, and survivable. Instead of concentrating on narrow and focused technical solutions, ITI aims to create a new paradigm for designing trustworthy systems from the ground up and validating systems that are intended to be trustworthy.
ITI is an academic/industry partnership targeting application areas such as electric power, financial systems, defense, and homeland security, among others.
ITI's research is organized into three themes:
- Critical Infrastructures & Homeland Defense
- Embedded & Enterprise Computing
- Multimedia and Distributed Systems
ITI houses seven major centers:
- the Boeing Trusted Software Center
- CAESAR: the Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics
- the Center for Information Forensics
- NCASSR: the National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research
- the NSA Center for Information Assurance Education
- TCIP: the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid Center
- Trusted ILLIAC
ITI's education program includes:
- Short courses on cyber trust and cyber security
- ITI-approved certificate programs
- A planned information trust and security specialization
Learn more about ITI at www.iti.uiuc.edu.