Conveniently located in Chicago, and staffed by internationally known security professionals and researchers, the Center for RITES is your ideal partner for ensuring that your organization is secure. Our goal is not just to react to attack--at which point it is frequently too late to be effective--but whenever possible to prevent such attacks from occurring.

We offer a wealth of expertise in cryptography, secure software, authorization systems, authentication, intrusion detection systems, network protocol and distributed denial of service prevention.

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What are your organization's computer security and/or privacy needs?

We want to hear from you, to work with you, and to be your partner. Whether you are concerned with privacy of your customers or patients; integrity of your financial systems; confidentiality of your proprietary information; or ensuring that your agreements are kept (non-repudiation)--we want to help you build systems which are trustworthy.

Industrial Affiliates

The center's industrial affiliates program gives affiliates early access to research results, interaction with faculty, and access to students. We want to hear about your concerns and needs; we want to be your partner.

Industrial affiliates have their participation and support acknowledged and will participate in an industrial affiliates day.

Industry projects

Industry can support projects at the center. Such projects are intended to solve industry problems and be publishable research, with joint academic--industrial authorship.

There is also the possibility for collaboration on federally funded (US government) projects of joint interests. In general, to be successful, these proposals need a history of interaction to be funded, and so early pilot programs are usually a prelude to such proposals.

Students

Access to our students via internship, projects, and to our graduates via employment.

Consulting

Sometimes, consulting arrangement are more appropriate due to proprietary concerns. The breadth of background and the depth of the center's faculty make RITES and ideal source for solving your company's issues.

Note: We are a very new center, but with roots in security going back almost two decades. Join us.

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