The Center for Information Assurance Engineering (CIAE) is a new research and educational unit at the University of South Carolina (USC). CIAE is part of the ongoing effort at USC to increase information systems security awareness and develop high quality education and research in this area. Faculty and students associated with the CIAE are working in a broad spectrum of security topics and issues. Our goal is to become one of the leading academic institutes in the Unites States in Information Security Education. CIAE is sponsored by NSF Scholarship for Service program. More information about the NSF grant is found here.

The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have certified that University of South Carolina offers a set of courseware that has been reviewed by National Level Information Assurance Subject Matter Experts and determined to meet National Training Standard for Information Systems Security Professionals, NSTISSI No. 4011, 4013 and 4014.

CIAE is part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (Swearingen Building, Room 2D19) at the University of South Carolina. Please follow the links in this page to find out more about our work. If you have further queries you may contact us at

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