Information Assurance is defined by the U.S. Intelligence Community as encompassing information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. This panel introduced participants to information assurance research areas of expertise at CUNY and also at Polytechnic University.

Rapidly-shifting best practices for e-commerce security can prove daunting for even the most high-technology businesses selling over the web. E-Commerce Security encompasses authenticating the people accessing your system, controlling access to resources such as web pages for registered users, encrypting communications, and, in general, ensuring the privacy and effectiveness of transactions. Our panel discussed hot topics in this crucial arena.