Information Security Research at UIUC

Information security , also known as Cyber Security is the detection and prevention of vulnerabilities and attacks that lead to theft of information or damages to hardware, software, or data of computer systems. The increase in the amount of new hardware and software that get released and their increasing number of users cause new vulnerabilities and attacks to be found every day. Due to its complexity, both in terms of politics and technology, it is also one of the major challenges of the contemporary world.

On top of cyber security, information security is also about the role of information and communications technologies in shedding light on issues such as vulnerability of children and adults to domestic violence, oppression, and/or exploitation.