ISU’s cybersecurity education center receives national Academic Excellence award

Presentation of Center of Academic Excellence award

Doug Twitchell, associate professor in the School of Information Technology and director of the Center for Information Assurance and Security Education (CIASE), and Mary Elaine Califf, director of the School of Information Technology, accepted the Center of Academic Excellence award at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 2015 conference.

Reactions: Silk Road bust proves you can’t fix stupid

image of Doug Twicthell

A joint sting operation by the U.S. and Europol shut down websites being used for illegal drugs and weapons sales. The massive operation shut down more than 400 sites, including Silk Road 2.0. Assistant Professor of Technology Doug Twitchell says the bust shows anonymous websites are not foolproof, and even technology cannot fix stupid.