The CERIAS facility is currently located across three Purdue buildings, both on and off campus, covering 8,000 sq. ft.  This space includes offices for six faculty, 15 staff, and 27 graduate students.  Additionally, research space within these areas include two machine rooms, two multi-purpose laboratories, and a general student workstation room.

The laboratories are equipped with both general purpose computing equipment and special-purpose equipment provided by CERIAS sponsors.  Research resources include six clusters of a combined 45 Intel-based CPUs, two clusters of Sun SPARC-based machines totaling 20 CPUs, and 22 general purpose Sun, Macintosh and Intel-based workstations.  Machine rooms include five racks of server machines, including Sun, Intel and Apple equipment; a variety of networking gear including routers, switches, firewalls, SSL accelerators, VPN concentrators, and time servers; and gigabit and 100 Mbit networks using both copper and fiber.  Special purpose equipment and software includes a self-contained mobile digital forensics kit,  a number of commercial intrusion detection products, and a web-based internet survey support suite.   Printing capabilities include a 42 inch wide inkjet printer, a color laser printer, and a number of black and white laser printers.

Most of the resources detailed above are assigned to dedicated research projects.  However, in special cases they may be reassigned to particular tasks or shared with a particular project for a limited time-period.

The Center also has a modest library of security-related reference materials, proceedings and journals.  The collection includes a variety of software tools and packages for the various systems in the lab.  These materials augment the normal collection held by the University library.