Information Security Research & Education Lab
CUNY College of Staten Island
The iSecure lab focuses on basic and applied research on data and information security, privacy, trust and risks, that became part of the societal problems in the hyper-connected virtual space.
Technology innovations influence every aspect of society, individuals, businesses, and national level. Along comes with them many issues associated with collecting, processing, accessing, using and sharing data/information. Security research focuses on securing data in data processing pipelines in innovative systems from design to their application. The topics of research vary from the risk assessment to the design of better data policies and secure technologies, and human behavior-level protection methods and approaches.
Many Innovations have capabilities of continuous data collection and surveillance capabilities. Protecting sensitive information is essential for successful innovations. Privacy Research topics include health privacy policy, government privacy policy and personal privacy risks, and use analytics to detect privacy risks and to protect in sharing data, especially on social media platforms.
Trust on informaion has been eroded due to many reasons, including information truthfulness issues. The research and application to computationally address the mis- and dis-information issues, biases, explainability of AI systems.
Security education resources and training are developed. Activities include: Developing security ontology as a learning platform; Providing summer camps on data security, and Info security and risk management course.