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Past Programs  

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Keynote: Securing IT in Healthcare: Part III
Patty Mechael
mHealth Alliance
May 16, 2013

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Keynote: SITH3, Technology-Enabled Remote Monitoring and Support
Wendy Nilsen
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
May 17, 2013

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Intersection of mHealth and Behavioral Health
SITH3 Workshop, Panel 1
May 17, 2013

 

Newsletter 

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ISTS Information Pamphlet


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Institute for Security, Technology, and Society
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755 USA
info.ists@dartmouth.edu

The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society is dedicated to pursuing research and education to advance information security and privacy throughout society.

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ISTS-led Team Receives NSF Frontier Award for Health IT Security Project: THaW

Former ISTS Director and Champion International Professor of Computer Science David Kotz will lead a Frontier-level, $10 million, 5 year, grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program. The mission of the project, entitled Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW), is to enable the promise of health and wellness technology by innovating mobile- and cloud-computing systems that respect the privacy of individuals and the trustworthiness of medical information. 

Professor Kotz will lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-institution team that includes experts in computer science, health policy, healthcare IT, behavioral science, and business. The other institutions involved include: Johns Hopkins, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. Lisa Marsch, Director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Eric Johnson, formerly of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and ISTS affiliate, now Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, also will collaborate on the project.

Read more about the project on the THaW website; for press releases see the ISTS Newsroom.

ISTS Affiliates Present at USENIX HealthTech '13 and WOOT, Lead BoF Session at USENIX Security

Professor Sean Smith and his students Rebecca Shapiro, Samuel Tan, Chen Qin, and Emily Freebairn had two papers accepted to the 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies (HealthTech '13). Samuel Tan presented "Electronic Prescription for Controlled Substances: A Cybersecurity Perspective," which he collaborated on with Professor Smith and Rebecca Shapiro. Emily Freebairn collaborated with Professor Smith and Chen Qin on the paper, "Capability Exchange: Improving Access Control Usability in Health IT." Videos of each presentation soon will be available through the HealthTech '13 site.

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At the 7th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), Research Assistant Professor and ISTS Chief Security Advisor Sergey Bratus presented on a paper he co-authored with Professor Smith and students Julian Bangert and Rebecca Shapiro. The paper is entitled, "The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-less Computation". Rebecca Shapiro presented another paper she co-authored with Bratus and Professor Smith, ""Weird Machines" in ELF: A Spotlight on the Underappreciated Metadata".

Sergey Bratus also co-chaired a Birds of a Feather session at the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium with Meredith L. Patterson of Nuance Communications. Their topic was "Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec): Compositional Correctness for the Real World." Learn more about LangSec

SISMAT Program Lead Instructor on Alberta Primetime

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On Wednesday, August 7th, the Canadian current affairs program Alberta Primetime featured a panel discussion on the Canadian government's interest in following the path recommended by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to implement internet filters to block online pornography. Our SISMAT Program's Lead Instructor Michael Locasto participated in the discussion. Watch it here.

Securing the eCampus 2013. Presentations, Photos, and More Now Available!

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This July 16-17, ISTS and Dartmouth's Computing Services hosted the seventh annual Securing the eCampus conference on the Dartmouth campus. We had a great group of presenters for the 90+ participants. Topics such as risk assessment, multi-factor authentication, malware, privacy, security awareness and recent legislation, among others, were covered. The presentation slides, photos, and more are now posted to the website

Seeking Postdoc for Research on Security & Privacy in Health Information Systems

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Professor David Kotz is looking for a postdoc to join his team to conduct research related to security & privacy in health information systems. For more information on this opportunity, see Professor Kotz's listing

New Video Highlights ISTS Mission

A new video released by Dartmouth provides an overview of the cutting edge research and education and outreach efforts at the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS).

These efforts are designed to address the most critical issues affecting information security and privacy and the societal impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in an increasingly networked world.  

 

Highlighted Research Initiatives

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Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare (TISH). This project's multidisciplinary research will drive innovation in information-sharing technology that ensures security and privacy while addressing the pragmatic needs of patients, clinical staff, and healthcare organizations to deliver efficient, high-quality care. The National Science Foundation is funding this multi-year effort.

Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG). As noted on the TCIPG website, "Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, the University of California at Davis, and Washington State University are together addressing the challenge of how to protect the nation's power grid by significantly improving the way the power grid infrastructure is built, making it more secure, reliable, and safe." This project is funded by the Department of Energy.

Highlighted Education Initiatives

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Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT). ISTS ran the SISMAT program for the fifth time this summer. The program aims to meet regional and national needs through a program of mentoring and training in cybersecurity.

ISTS - Neukom Internship Grants. ISTS and the Neukom Institute collaborate to offer leave-term funding each term to support an undergraduate, or graduate student, in pursuing an unpaid internship with a non-profit. 

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Last Updated: 8/20/13