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Hackers Target Israeli Government Web Sites
NBC News -- While the attacks failed to cause serious disruption, BGU's Shlomi Dolev says that cyber attacks on Israel will likely become more common. more »
Into the Danger Zone
The Jerusalem Report -- A team of BGU scientists is taking part in a U.S. challenge to develop search and rescue robots. more »
Faculty Profile: Bracha Shapira
Prof. Bracha Shapira, head of BGU’s Department of Information Systems Engineering, specializes in cyber security technologies that prevent data leakage and other online homeland security threats. more »
BGU Offers New Graduate Program in Cyber Security
BGU's master’s degree in information systems engineering with a specialization in cyber security was developed to meet the growing need for security experts in Israel and worldwide. more »
Powering the Next Generation of Disaster Response Robots
BGU researchers lead the only foreign university team participating in the U.S.-sponsored DARPA Robotics Challenge. more »
The University Promotes a Civil Resilience Network
BGU and Israel’s emergency authorities (Home Front Command) announced a new joint pilot project to build a local network for crisis response. more »
Homeland Security Institute Balances Freedom and Safety
Israel has the most experience working on the threat of terrorism, while also maintaining the values of openness and democracy. A microcosm of this dual effort is BGU's Institute of Homeland Security. more »
Homeland Security Robots
It’s difficult to map smuggling tunnels. So it would be up to a robot like the one BGU's Dr. Amir Shapiro is developing to traverse the length of the tunnel and report back with details. more »
Ben-Gurion University Confronts Terrorism
What if there was a place where the world's leading experts didn't just examine what went wrong in Mumbai…At BGU, the first University-based homeland security institute in the world is asking the tough questions. more »
Videos
Imagine a More Secure Israel with a Formidible Technological AdvantageBGU's Homeland Security Institute is designing a new future by focusing on basic science questions that lead to lifesaving technologies. more » |
Learn More About BGU's Homeland Security InstituteThe Homeland Security Institute at BGU takes a multidisciplinary approach to researching and developing technologies to keep Israel and its allies secure. more » |
Joint Israeli-Jordanian Earthquake Preparedness Training ExerciseBGU helps organize regional earthquake preparedness drill in the Arava desert. more » |
BGU’s Battlefield Snakebot and Wall-Scaling Snailbot in Popular ScienceDr. Amir Shapiro looks to the animal kingdom to design robots that can go where humans can't. more » |
Israeli Robots “Invade” New YorkJTA’s feature video about BGU’s robots when they visited New York. more » |
More Resources
- The Homeland Security Institute
- PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research
- Robotics@BGU
- BGU Robotics Laboratory
- BGN Technologies, BGU’s technology transfer company
- Deutsche Telekom
