Information Infrastructure Our nation's critical infrastructures are electric power systems, telecommunications, transportation, natural gas and oil, banking & finance, emergency services and water supply systems. All infrastructures mentioned above have cyber interdependency, in which a state of one infrastructure depends heavily on electronic control signals delivered by the information infrastructure. Information infrastructure comprises hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers, servers, bridges, switches and routers. Realizing that information infrastructure is the key to the healty functioning of all critical infrastructures, CIMAP emphasizes on the following: Education The Advanced Research Institute (ARI) has established a new initiative, Center for Cyber Assurance and Trust (CyCare), in the college of Engineering at Northern Virginia Division. The mission of CyCare is to advance the knowledge and practice of information assurance through the integration of world-class research, highest quality education, strategic technology transfer and building partnerships. Research Sample research projects and initiatives in Information Assurance include: DataScan: A real-time data mining system for critical infrastructure assurance; ASSYST: agile networking of sensor systems; InfraWeb: an infrastructure web for distributed information sharing and discovery for critical infrastructure networks sCenter for Information Security (CIS), University of Tulsa Information Security Center, Georgia Tech Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University Informatics Research Institute, Idaho State University Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University Information Assurance Center, Iowa State University Information Security Program, James Madison University Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Laboratory, Oregon State University Computer Security Laboratory, University of California, Davis H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT