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Welcome to the Information Technology and Operations Center at West Point
The Information
Technology and Operations Center (ITOC) is a research center
in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
United States Military
Academy. The center is currently directed by Lieutenant
Colonel Gregory Conti and is staffed with three additional
field grade officers who have each served in the active Army
for no less the 15 years and possess a Masters or Ph.D. in
computer science. Also supporting the ITOC include a
National Security Agency Fellow and the endowed Adam's Chair
in Information Technology. The center also supports a
system administrator, two developers, and an information
manager.
The mission of the ITOC is to
educate and inspire cadets and faculty in the acquisition, use,
management, and protection of information through innovative teaching,
curriculum development, research, and outreach to Army, DoD, and federal
agencies. The center is responsible for
teaching and developing a variety of courses. Included in these
courses is Information Assurance, Information Warfare, Host Forensics,
and Network Forensics.
Recent successes and Information Assurance (IA) and Information Warfare
(IW) initiatives include:
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2006 U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Award (only
non-Army lab) |
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Designated by NSA as a Center Of Academic Excellence in IA |
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Created the Information Warfare Analysis and Research (IWAR)
Laboratory |
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Implemented a completely virtual information assurance student lab
(VMware based) |
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Developed the Cyber Defense Exercise between the 5 Service Academies
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Participates in National Science Foundation (NSF) IA Curriculum
Development |
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Conducts Annual IEEE IA Workshop (8th year) |
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Founded a Cadet IA and IW club for cadets (400+ participants) and
Special Interest Group for Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC)
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Support Cadet Summer internships at DARPA, NSA, NRO, 1st IO Command,
IA Directorate G6/CIO, and Army and DoD Computer Emergency Response
Teams (CERT), Regional CERTs, Microsoft, DOT&E |
We strongly believe
that collaboration and sharing of ideas is the greatest way to promote a
better understanding of Information Assurance. We are actively involved
in the Colloquium for Information
Systems Security Education, the IEEE
SMC society, and the IFIP TC11.8
working group and look forward to collaborating.
Contact: Lieutenant Colonel Gregory
Conti (gregory.conti@usma.edu), 845-938-4628 |