Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust is a research area aiming to improve the cyber security of individuals, enterprises, and the entire cyber space through innovative solutions for detecting cyber attacks, expediting the recovery after attacks, enhancing privacy, ensuring trusts, and mitigating risks.

The field spans technology, management, policy issues, and social factors, which draw from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, social sciences, statistics, economics, biology, behavioral science, and management science.

Current research thrusts include innovative security and privacy-enhancing technologies such as resilient and self-healing software systems and networks, malware and software security, wireless network security, understanding and assuring information privacy; identity management, access control,trust computing, enterprise “health care” models, on-the-fly “surgery” techniques, cyber security situational awareness information security economics, policies and security management, and social implications of security.