Research Areas
Information security and trust

Overview

As information technology (IT) continues to reach into every corner of our lives, the digital age also raises serious concerns about information security. The most vital sectors of our economy - manufacturing, telecommunication, banking and finance, transportation and emergency service - are potentially susceptible to disruptions by individual and organised hackers and cyber terrorists. There is an imperative need for more research in information security.

Information security is like a chain, where its strength equals to that of the weakest link. We a holistic approach to security research, from cryptographic techniques, algorithms, security protocols, data security, to intrusion detections. In addition to explore the state-of-the-art security techniques, we study how information security technology can be applied to address the security needs of various IT systems and applications.

We believe that information security is not only bought for protection, it is also a business enabler. We investigate enterprise security and secure e-commerce solutions which enable and nurture customer relationship and even bring new ways of doing business.

Research Themes and Selected Outputs (2003-present)

1. Authentication of Query Results

2. Data Applications Security

3. Intrusion Detection Systems

4. Multimedia Security

5. Practical Private Information Retrieval

6. Security in RFID-Enabled Supply Chain

7. Trusted Computing Technology

Faculty Members

Robert DENG, Professor
DING Xuhua, Assistant Professor
GAO Debin, Assistant Professor
LI Yingjiu, Assistant Professor
PANG Hwee Hwa, Associate Professor
BAO Feng, Adjunct Professor (Institute for Infocomm Research)
LI Tieyan, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Institute for Infocomm Research)
WU Yongdong, Adjunct Associate Professor (Institute for Infocomm Research)
ZHOU Jianying, Adjunct Associate Professor (Institute for Infocomm Research)

Research Staff and Students

CAI Haibin, Visiting Research Fellow
CAI Shaoying, Research Fellow
GU Liang, Research Fellow
HAN Jin, PhD Student
LI Peng, Research Fellow
LIANG Bing, PhD Student
WENG Jian, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Significant Partnerships

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), a Research Institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

• Researchers from I2R are collaborating with our IST faculty. Examples are the joint projects “Security Architecture and Techniques for Securing Communications, Control and Management of Energy Distribution Systems” and “A Security Framework for EPCglobal Network”, both are 3 year projects funded by A*STAR.
  
  
• I2R researcher BAO Feng is appointed at SIS as an Adjunct Professor, WU Yongdong and ZHOU Jianying are appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor, and LITieyan is appointed as Adjunct Assistant Professor.