Prof. Dasgupta Honored by Greater Memphis IT Council

Posted on 2020-10-22

Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, Hill Professor of Cybersecurity and director of the Center for Information Assurance, was honored by the Greater Memphis IT Council at its annual INNOVATE IT conference for his development of the patent for Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication.

Regina Whitley, IT Council Executive Director, explained "We conducted a live poll to select the top Innovation in Entrepreneurship and the University of Memphis Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication was ranked #1 by the attendees. We are very proud to extend our first innovation award to Dr. Dasgupta and the University of Memphis for this outstanding application."

The INNOVATE IT event was held virtually on October 8, at https://www.btsvirtualevents.com/innovateit.