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REGIONAL CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH CENTREBackground & Justification :The rapidly spreading use of computers and computer networks and the many advantages of open global network interconnections also have created increasing needs of improved information security. Software solutions and tools are irreplaceable cornerstones in network security. Network security software skills are a necessity, not only for IT and security specialists, but for every computer and computer network user. All this has profound implications on IT education, but also on all education, in which the use of computers and computer networks is inevitable. An interdependent network of information technology infrastructure called cyberspace, forms the backbone of all the information needs of all nations, but major potential applications are being hindered because of serious security and privacy concerns. A new type of threat called Cyber-terrorism has started influencing the Internet adversely. To improve the identified underlying issues, many organizations need to review as to how security risks, threats and costs are identified, measured and managed. Internet Security also has been a major concern, after various security breaches. Today, even after two and a half decades, the internet still remains vulnerable to a number of attacks. Many early network protocols that now form part of the internet infrastructure were designed without security in mind and hackers are continuously deploying more sophisticated and complex methods of attack. Hence it is very important to investigate and deploy procedures by which how security is implemented, in communication networks. Information infrastructures are an eclectic mix of open and closed networks, private and public systems, the Internet, and government, military, and civilian organizations. Significant efforts are required to provide infrastructure protection, increase cooperation between sectors, and identify points of responsibility. The threats to infrastructures are many, and are increasing daily: information warfare, hackers, terrorists, criminals, activists, and even competing organizations all pose significant threats that cannot be adequately dealt with using the current infrastructure model. Because of the need for new and different organizational infrastructures, management is has to reconsider its purpose and its methods of operation. Information technology not only challenges and alters the way we produce new goods and services, but also triggers far-reaching change in institutional arrangements, social norms, and cultural values. It is playing a crucial role in our economic well being and results in a relationship among societies and nations never experienced before. Even educational institutions are being revolutionized through distance learning by the new computer-mediated communication technology and Internet-based support. In addition to adjusting to these changes, societies will also have to come to terms with the unprecedented speed with which change occurs. This pace is accelerating, because increasingly powerful technologies facilitate the exponentially multiplying pool of knowledge and vice versa. Besides that the steadily growing international computer network user community needs an expanding staff of well educated network security professionals to guarantee the reliability of the global IT infrastructure of computer nodes in wired and wireless networks. RCSRC is a security research centre being setup at the Punjab Engineering College. The primary focus of RCSRC is to conduct high quality research in the general areas of security, and performance optimization in Networking, at affordable costs. The Centre will be a platform to provide defense against other threats such as information warfare. Our mission is to develop information infrastructures into more secure and reliable infrastructures and to enhance the communication networks and protocols of today’s best-effort Internet. The goal is to explore allied areas of networking, with the emphasis on verified designs, implementation, and evaluation of secure network systems, protocols, and applications. Institute research facilities include campus-wide wired and wireless networks as well as a heterogeneous collection of computing systems and some new infrastructure. In effect, PEC is an extensive test bed with several thousand wireless networked computers and active users. RCSRC is a security research centre being setup at the Punjab Engineering College. The primary focus of RCSRC is to conduct high quality research in the general areas of security, and performance optimization in Networking, at affordable costs. The Centre will be a platform to provide defense against other threats such as information warfare. Our mission is to develop information infrastructures into more secure and reliable infrastructures and to enhance the communication networks and protocols of today’s best-effort Internet. The goal is to explore allied areas of networking, with the emphasis on verified designs, implementation, and evaluation of secure network systems, protocols, and applications. Institute research facilities include campus-wide wired and wireless networks as well as a heterogeneous collection of computing systems and some new infrastructure. In effect, PEC is an extensive test bed with several thousand wireless networked computers and active users. |
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