External Awards
- Best paper award, IEEE Conference on Systems Sciences, 1988 on Secure Query Processing Strategies (Invited paper published in IEEE Computer, March 1989)
- Recipient of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award for contributions to secure distributed database management. As cited by IEEE, this award is given to individuals who have made outstanding and innovative contributions in the field of computer and information science and engineering within the past 15 years.
- Recipient of Career Communication Inc.'s National 2001 Woman of Color Technology Research Leadership Award
- Featured in SiliconIndia's May 2002 issue as one of the top seven technology innovators (the only woman) in USA of South Asian origin (others are from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, NASA, PARC and HP Labs). The innovation was for data and web security.
- Recipient of IEEE's 2003 Fellow Award for Contributions to Secure Systems involving databases, distributed systems and the web. As stated by IEEE, each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, election to IEEE Fellow.
- Recipient of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2003 Fellow Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Secure Database Systems and Secure Web Information Systems
- Recipient of British Computer Society (BCS) 2005 Fellow Award for contributions to information technology
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2002-2005
- 2010 Research Leadership Award for Outstanding and Sustained Leadership Contributions to the Field of Intelligence and Security Informatics presented jointly by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society's Technical Committee on Intelligence and Security Informatics in Transportation Systems and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committee on Homeland Security
- 2010 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award for seminal research contributions and leadership in data and applications security for over 25 years.
- 2010 ACM Distinguished Scientist
- 2011 AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Medal of Merit for Service to AFCEA and Sustained Professional Excellence in Communications, Electronics, Intelligence and Information Systems
- Recipient of 2011 SDPS (Society for Design and Process Science) Fellow Award for Transdisciplinary research in cyber security
- Recipient of 2011 Society of Information Reuse and Integration (Subcommittee of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society) Fellow Award for "outstanding research contributions and leadership in Secure Knowledge Management"