Stanford University plays a key role in National Science Foundation-led initiatives to accelerate research into security and data privacy. It is part of TRUST -- Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology -- a multi-university initiative that includes UC Berkeley, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University as well as industrial partners like Cisco Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Sun and Symantec.

In addition to TRUST, the Stanford Security Lab leads the NSF-sponsored Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment (PORTIA) project on privacy and computer security.

As part of the collaboration, TCS will become an industrial partner on data privacy in the new TRUST initiative as well as a member of the Stanford Computer Forum: Industry Affiliates Program.