The Center for Information and Computer Security (CICS) is an interdisciplinary center, bringing together individuals and organizations with an interest in the areas of information security, computer security, information assurance, and cybercrime. CICS has been recognized by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a "Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education".

The mission of the Center for Information and Computer Security is to coordinate and promote educational, research, and service projects in information and computer security, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary initiatives. In particular, the Center's primary activities will be to:

1. Coordinate educational offerings to ensure that students have available to them quality courses in information and computer security, from a variety of discipline-specific viewpoints;
2. Coordinate joint research projects which advance the knowledge and state of the art in information and computer security;
3. Provide service and expertise in information and computer security to the university and to the North Texas area.

Latest news:  

April 2012: UNT to organize a workshop on information security in Denton in April 10-12, 2012

The workshop will address several state of the art topics in information assurance, security informatics,
computer crime, network security, cryptography and trusted platforms. The workshop
is open to all the faculty and students of the community colleges in DFW metroplex.

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