Illinois receives $18.7M to develop testbed for electric grid security
08/16/2016 - 3:11am The project will develop a testbed that enables researchers to validate new technology and provide faster response and recovery following an attack on the electric grid.
Mark Petri to lead Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute
07/20/2016 - 4:15am Mark Petri has been named director of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Petri comes to CIRI from the Iowa Energy Center, where he had served as director since 2013.
Schneider Electric joins Illinois-led Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium
07/15/2016 - 2:04am CREDC is working to improve the resilience and security of the cyber networks that serve as the backbone of the infrastructure that delivers energy to the nation -- known as energy delivery systems (EDS).
Gao to develop technique for flying UAVs in urban environments
07/14/2016 - 9:05am ITI Assistant Professor Grace Gao and her team are working to overcome the limitations of UAVs in GPS-denied environments.
CIRI announces members of External Advisory Board
07/13/2016 - 5:16am The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence, has formed an external advisory board, which will assist with the successful management of the Institute and its research, technology transition, and education and workforce development missions.
Two CSL professors receive MURI awards
06/15/2016 - 4:26am ITI Professor Tamer Başar and CSL Professor Gary Eden received grants to work on multi-university projects.
Bernhard elected to ERC Executive Board
06/09/2016 - 4:18am ITI Professor Jennifer Bernhard has been elected to the Engineering Research Council Executive Board of Directors for 2016-2019.
ITI's Gao wins AIAA Illinois Teacher of the Year award
05/25/2016 - 10:48am Gao, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, was also recognized with Illinois teaching awards in 2014 and 2015.
Illinois names inaugural Dieckamp postdoctoral fellow
05/13/2016 - 8:35am The chosen candidate, Gabriel Weaver, will focus on designingbetter ways to assess the safety and security of cyber-physical systems.
ADSC research to enhance cybersecurity in energy systems
05/12/2016 - 7:41am Researchers, including ITI's Ravi Iyer and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, are tackling real-world issues to improve the cyber security and resiliency of power plants and the smart grid.
Will CISA Work?
04/21/2016 - 6:53am CIRI's Jay Kesan, a professor of law at Illinois, discusses the impact CISA could have on cyber crime in a WILL-580 AM Legal Matters podcast.
Illinois-led critical infrastructure center to celebrate official launch with kickoff event
04/11/2016 - 5:17am The April 12 event will feature remarks by DHS and University officials.
Technology from CES could improve the efficiency and safety of critical infrastructure
04/01/2016 - 7:42am Jeffrey Bigg, a CS grad student, investigated new technologies presented at the Consumer Electronic Show to bring to CIRI, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence aimed at improving critical infrastructure resilience.
A Minute With: Will the president's new cybersecurity plan keep our network infrastructure safe?
03/02/2016 - 9:41am An expert in the areas of technology and law, Jay Kesan spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, President Obama's new initiative to strengthen the nation's cyberdefenses over the next decade.
ICSSP team places third at Illinois Cyber Defense Competition
02/23/2016 - 3:30am The team competed against 12 other teams from colleges and universities across Illinois.
Overbye and Others Receive NSF Grant to Research Geomagnetic Disturbances
01/25/2016 - 11:02am ITI researcher Tom Overbye and others are hoping to shed light on the rare but powerful geomagnetic storms, which remain a relative mystery to most people in the field.
Nahrstedt named one of N2Women's 10 women to know in networking/communications
12/15/2015 - 7:49am Nahrstedt, who joined the Illinois faculty in 1995, is a leading researcher in multimedia systems.
Sha Receives Simon Ramo Medal
12/14/2015 - 3:55am IEEE Medals are the highest distinctions that the IEEE presents.
ADSC's cybersecurity research tackles big smart grid problems
11/20/2015 - 4:24am Researchers are looking at how an attacker can destabilize grid control systems and demand response systems, and creating new methodology to address those attacks.