Security Informatics

Security Informatics builds upon strong theoretical foundations and applied insights in order to build the next generation of security solutions. Graduates of our program construct practical tools to enhance security and privacy, designed with the end user in mind. Security Informatics addresses both immediate problems of today, such as phishing and click-fraud, and emerging research problems, such as privacy in ubiquitous computing environments and vehicular ad hoc networks.

Informatics is the evaluation and design of information technology in social, organizational, and economic contexts. Security informatics is the study and design of security technologies within these contexts. Security Informatics integrates frameworks and heuristics from the social sciences, design principles from HCI, and incentive-aware protocols from secure systems design

Security Informatics includes a cross-disciplinary networks of researchers, practitioners, and educators.