ABOUT

iCAST, The International Collaboration for Advancing Security Technology, was established in the 1^st quarter of 2006 to start a three year international collaboration project of research and development in the area of Information Security. This mission-oriented project was granted by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to strengthen information and communication security within all Taiwan’s academic, government, industry and service sectors. The iCAST team is consisted of members from Taiwan Information Security Center (TWISC), Institute for Information Industry (III), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University of Taiwan. Based on the agreements signed on June 12, 2006,  iCAST members began to collaborating efforts with members of Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley on 11 projects in the 1^st year and 12 projects in the 2^nd year.The 1^st year program was completed at June 30, 2006, and its results were shown in the 2^nd iCAST Conference held on June 4 and 5 of 2007. Currently, it is under the 2^nd year program from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008.

RESEARCH

Our R&D thrusts are divided into three categories: (1) Pervasive Security and Privacy Assurance, (2) Wireless and Sensor Network Security, and (3) Intrusion Detection and Management. Their specific areas include: Program/Software Security Evaluation Systems; High Security Remote Authentication; Privacy-preserving Information Systems; Security on Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Network, RFID Applications, Wireless City, Pervasive Devices, and Surveillance Networks; IDS, SOC, and Network Security and Forensics.

iCAST 2^nd year Projects

iCAST 1^st  year Projects

STRATEGY AND MISSIONS

The iCAST strategy is to establish a platform through closely knitted international collaboration for advancing information security in Taiwan.

Our missions are to:

•  Nurture Taiwan’s top talents on information security

•  Advance Taiwan industry independent R&D capacity in information security core technology

• Upgrade Taiwan’s R&D capacity in information security

•  Enhance Taiwan’s influence on global information security technology

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