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MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's Xinming &1xbet online games login ;Simon&1xbet online games login ; Ou, assistant professor of computing and information sciences, is among a select group of professors chosen worldwide to participate in the Hewlett-Packard Co. Labs Innovation Research Program.
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&1xbet online games login ;Modern enterprise security management is the practice of finding the best economic trade-off between security risks and costs to the organization,&1xbet online games login ; Ou said. &1xbet online games login ;A significant challenge is establishing sound quantitative risk metrics that are indispensable in economic analysis. Our research will investigate efficient and effective quantitative risk analytics methods for enterprise security, with the goal of producing a theoretically sound metric model with extensive empirical evaluation.&1xbet online games login ;
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&1xbet online games login ;I am very happy about the generous support provided by HP's Innovation Research Program and the opportunity to collaborate with HP labs researchers on this important problem,&1xbet online games login ; he said.
Ou's work also was recognized nationally this spring with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He will receive nearly 0,000 during five years for his project, &1xbet online games login ;Reasoning under Uncertainty in Cybersecurity.&1xbet online games login ; CAREER Awards support the early career-development activities of junior teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.
Ou joined K-State in 2006 and directs 1xbet online games login for the cybersecurity 1xbet online games login group Argus. His work is primarily in enterprise network security defense with a focus on attack graphs, security configuration management, intrusion detection and security metrics for enterprise networks.
Prior to K-State, Ou was a postdoctoral 1xbet online games login associate at Purdue University's Center for Education and 1xbet online games login in Information Assurance and Security, and a 1xbet online games login associate at Idaho National Laboratory. He received his doctorate in computer science from Princeton University in 2005 and earned his bachelor's and master's in computer science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.