The Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) – KSU won a silver medal in Geneva International Exhibition of Invention & Innovation (2012). The winning invention was an idea adopted from a research about defining the amount of violence

        The Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) held theNational Workshop of Information Assurance on 18/4/2012. The workshop discussed topics relevant to information security academic researches, importance of IS awareness, and IS engineering & management applications.

Participants of the workshop included 12 governmental and private organizations including King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), Saudi National Information Center of Saudi Ministry of Interior, The Center of Excellence for Hajj & Omra Research, and other Saudi universities. Speakers at the event were 13 persons with 10 research papers participation. Attendants were more than 80 persons where they found a chance to meet with officials and experts of information assurance for various entities.
The workshop is one of the series events which CoEIA keenly holds to consolidate the foundation and implementation of information assurance in various governmental and

private sectors in Saudi Arabia.

Serving the initiatives of KSU Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) to transfer knowledge and experience, the center will hold two lecture on Tuesday 10/4/2012 at 2:00 p.m. Delivered by Dr.