As a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Northeastern University Institute for Information Assurance presently has ongoing research collaborations with local industrial laboratories such as EMC, Intel, Analog Devices, Draper Laboratory and MITRE Corporation.

Research groups participating in this Institute include:

•	NUCAR: Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Group.
•	Network Security And Distributed Computing research group.
•	Programming Languages and Software Engineering research group.
•	Database Management and Information Retrieval research group.