| June | UTD designated the NSA/DHS COE (Center for Excellence) in Information Assurance Education. |
| October | Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joins UTD from MITRE/NSF as Professor of Computer Science and establishes the Cyber Security Research and Education Center. |
| January | Dr. Latifur Khan, Ph.D. from University of Southern California, joins the center and conducts research in data mining for malware detection. Center forms research group in cyber security. |
| September | Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D. from Purdue/CERIAS, joins UTD and the center. |
| October | Center (Thuraisingham/Khan) receives its first grant ($300K) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to conduct research on information operations via infospheres in collaboration with George Mason University (GMU). |
| June | Center establishes collaboration with Raytheon (Thuraisingham/Khan) and receives funding to conduct research in geospatial information management. |
| September | Dr. Kevin Hamlen, Ph.D. from Cornell, joins UTD and the Center. |
| October | Center receives funding (Kantarcioglu/Thuraisingham) from AFOSR to conduct research in risk-based access control and provenance with Purdue University. |
| August | Center receives NSF Medium Cyber Trust Grant (Thuraisingham/Khan) to conduct research on policy management for semantic web with University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC )and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). |
| September | Center receives grant from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (Khan/Thuraisingham) to conduct research in geospatial data integration in collaboration with University of Minnesota. Kevin Hamlen receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award. |
| October | Center receives grant from NASA (Khan/Ng/Thuraisingham) to conduct research in data mining for detecting faults in collaboration with University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). |
| March | Center receives DoD MURI (Thuraisingam/Kantarcioglu/Khan) to conduct research in assured information sharing in collaboration with UMBC, Purdue, UIUC, University of Michigan and UTSA. |
| April | Center receives grant from IARPA to conduct research under the KDD project. |
| June | UTD is among the first group of 18 universities to be designated a NSA/DHS COE for Information Assurance Research. |
| September | Center receives grant from AFOSR to conduct research in assured cloud computing. |
| January | Kantarcioglu receives NSF CAREER award. |
| February | Center hosts the NSF Data and Applications Security Workshop in Arlington, VA with $50K funding from NSF. |
| June | Center hosts the Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference in Dallas, TX with $10K funding from NSF. |
| August | Center receives EAGER (Hamlen/Thuraisingham) to conduct research in secure peer-to-peer data management. |
| September | Center receives AFOSR grant (Thuraisingham/Khan/Kantarcioglu) to conduct research in secure semantic networks. |
| October | Center receives NIH grant (Kantarcioglu) to conduct research in genomic data privacy in collaboration with Vanderbilt. |
| November | Center receives ONR grant (Kantarcioglu) to conduct research in botnet detection in collaboration with Purdue, UTSA and University of Wisconsin. |
| January | Dr. Kamil Sarac, Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the center. |
| April | Center receives grant from AFOSR (Hamlen/Khan/Thuraisingham) to conduct research on reactively adaptive malware. |
| June | Center receives Medium NeTS grant from NSF (Kantarcioglu) to conduct research in data provenance in collaboration with Purdue. |
| September | Center receives Small Trustworthy Computing Grant (Kantarcioglu/Khan) to conduct research in privacy aware ontology alignment in collaboration with Purdue. Center receives $1.8m NSF Scholarship for Service award (Sarac/Thuraisingham/Kantarcioglu/Hamlen/Sha) to train US citizens in Information Assurance. |
| April | Khan receives $25K gift from Tektronix to research scalability issue for large CDR dataset. |
| May | Center receives $235K award from Homeland Protection Institute (Khan) to work on Android phone security with the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). |
| July | Center receives funding of $10K from Raytheon (Khan) to conduct research in malicious behavior pattern extrapolation. |
| August | Center receives a portion of $1.1m Medium Trustworthy Computing award (Hamlen) in collaboration with University of Illinois Chicago for work on web advertisement security. Center receives $243K award (Khan) from AFOSR for cloud infrastructure development. |
| September | Zhiqiang Lin, Ph.D. from Purdue University, join UT Dallas and the Center. Kantarcioglu is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at UT Dallas. Center receives a portion of $3m Large Trustworthy Computing award (Kantarcioglu) from the NSF in collaboration with UTSA and Purdue for research on privacy-enhanced secure data provenance. Hamlen receives $500K NSF Career award on language-based polymorphic malware security. Center receives $265K NSF Capacity Building award (Thuraisingham/Sarac/colleagues) for Assured Cloud Computing Education. Center receives $74K DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) award (Thuraisingham/Sarac/colleagues) for the 2011-2012 academic year (one undergraduate and one graduate student). Thuraisingham gives keynote address on Data Mining for Malware Detection at the European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference 2011 in Athens, Greece. |
| October | Center hosts inaugural TexSAW (Texas Security Awareness Week) jointly with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas and $10K funding from NSF. |
| November | Center receives a portion of $1.4m DARPA award (Lin) in collaboration with Purdue to safeguard legacy data that resides on outdated operating systems. |
| December | Thuraisingham gives keynote address in Sydney, Australia on Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing at the 9th IEEE Conference in Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing. |