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About the Center
Welcome to the Center for Applied Identity Management Research, a research collaborative which brings together stakeholders from the public and private sector, all of whom are faced with identity management challenges. Those challenges, aggravated by the rapid changes in our society, include identity theft and fraud, cyber crime, computer crime, travel and immigration document fraud, and data breaches. They impact individuals, public safety, commerce, government entitlement programs, and national security. As the concept of an identity (or entity) expands in the physical and digital worlds, determining if the person claiming an identity is really that person becomes critical to conducting business, providing access to services and systems, and tracking cyber criminals and terrorists. Responding to these challenges requires a collective effort by the key thought leaders from the public and private sectors, working in concert with academe.
The Center's mission is to conduct applied research in order to provide pragmatic outcomes, utilizing a multi-disciplined approach that draws on the expertise of its diverse members. The results will be specific and measurable, whether they are in the form of industry or law enforcement best practices, technologies, policy adjustments, or training and educational materials.
The Center's purpose is to convene key stakeholders and marshal their respective strengths to help solve very challenging societal problems. Our partners include organizations such as the United States Secret Service, the United States Marshals Service, LexisNexis, VISA, Cogent Systems, Indiana University, Intersections, Wells Fargo & Company, and Fair Isaac Corporation. Our government/law enforcement partners must adapt to quickly evolving identity fraud and cyber crimes. As such, they must understand current attack vectors and prepare for future ones. They need to become more proactive by improving investigations and enhancing training. Corporations are faced with many challenges, including increased fraud losses, compliance and regulatory oversight, and enhancing products and improving services to keep up with the rapidly changing environment. The academic research community is challenged with gaining access to key data sets, tight funding budgets, a limited ability to interact with corporate and government decision makers, and the need to infuse their curricula with cutting-edge research.
The Center is committed to harnessing the collective strengths of its partners in a trusted environment which has strong leadership. By doing so, the Center has access to empirical data, to thought leaders, to government and academic experts, and to a group of individuals from various constituencies who are committed to working cooperatively and collaboratively. Through this cooperative, collaborative effort, the Center is able to conduct empirically based practical research that can be applied immediately to solve key government, corporate, and societal problems. In this new paradigm, each entity is better able to meet its needs, and society, as a whole, benefits.
CAIMR's academic partners will lead the research effort. Indiana University, a major public research university, will host the Center and I will be directly involved in the research projects in my position at Indiana University as Senior Scholar in Identity Management. The Center is dedicated to providing public access to empirically based studies so that new knowledge can be made available to practitioners, decision-makers, policy developers, victims, advocates, and academicians. The mission of the Center will be accomplished if this independent research is utilized to improve practices, develop evidenced based policies, enhance training and academic curricula, improve current and inspire new technologies, and focus discussion on privacy and security issues.
Gary R. Gordon, Ed.D.
Executive Director
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"Indiana University is delighted to not only be a part of CAIMR, but to serve as its academic home as well. As a National Center of Academic Excellence in both Information Assurance Education and Information Assurance Research, IU is committed to enhancing the science and the practice of identity management. CAIMR's collaborative approach to these issues, and the partnership it reflects among key stakeholders in government, industry, and academia, will be invaluable to achieving that vital goal."
- Michael A. McRobbie, President, Indiana University
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