The Cybersecurity Center at Mizzou focuses on interdisciplinary research and educational approaches to national security problems. The center brings together affiliated faculty from engineering, information technology, business, law, medicine, social sciences and mathematics.

Through collaborative research, the center has brought in funding from the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Laboratory, the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy. Research topics include formal methods, cryptography, data security and privacy, secure multiparty computation, AI security and cloud security.

The center’s work contributed to the University of Missouri’s recognition as a National Security Association Center for Academic Excellence.