Category: Cybersecurity
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NSA highlights strong partnership with UMBC through Featured School campaign
NSA highlights strong partnership with UMBC in Featured School campaign Over the past two decades, UMBC and the National Security Agency (NSA) have developed a strong relationship, which has led to research, internship, and career opportunities for faculty, students, and alumni. UMBC is the first institution to be highlighted in NSA’s Featured School Series,…
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Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds
Cyberattacks target Americans’ thinking. Fancy Tapis/Shutterstock.com Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the country’s continuing election-related hacking have happened across all three dimensions of cyberspace – physical, informational and cognitive. The first two…
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UMBC’s Sherman receives $5.4m in funding for cybersecurity research and scholarships
UMBC receives $5.4m in funding for new cybersecurity projects NSF and NSA Fund Three Cybersecurity Projects by Prof. Alan Sherman Professor Alan Sherman and colleagues were recently awarded more than $5.4 million dollars in three new grants to support cybersecurity research and education at UMBC, including two from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from…
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2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge registration opens for student teams
2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks student teams The 2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks teams willing to test a range of skills simulating real-word cyber scenarios. Teams will climb a ladder of challenges demonstrating an ability to work together, understand both simple and complex vulnerabilities, defensive operations and gamified offensive operations. Registration is now…
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talk: Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues, 10:30 Tue 7/24, ITR346
Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues Dr. Aaron Mannes, ISHPI Information Technologies 10:30-11:30 Tuesday, 24 July 2018, ITE 346 Inexpensive sensors and information storage and processing have enabled the large-scale production of robots: autonomous systems capable of acting on the world. These systems represent an enormous technological and economic opportunity that will change…
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UMBC’s cybersecurity research partnership featured in WBAL-TV piece
Baltimore’s WBAL-TV ran a short news item on UMBC’s new partnership with Keio Research Institute (KRIS) in Japan, and Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) in the UK to investigate the use of common system simulation tools for modeling critical national infrastructure. This partnership is part of a broader international collaboration, the International Cybersecurity Center…
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UMBC launches cybersecurity research collaboration with Japanese and UK partners
University leaders, including Karl V. Steiner, third from right, signed the three-nation agreement in a ceremony at the sixth International Cybersecurity Symposium in Japan. Photo courtesy of Karl V. Steiner UMBC launches infrastructure-focused cybersecurity research collaboration with Japanese and UK partners UMBC is one of three leading academic institutions collaborating on a new research…
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UMBC Scholarship for Service Cybersecurity Spring Meeting, Fri 25 May 2018
UMBC SFS Cybersecurity Spring Meeting Student Project Reports and Cybersecurity from the view of NSA’s Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center Dave Hogue, Technical Director of NSA’s Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center (NCTOC) 11am-3pm, Friday, 25 May 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Open to the public Scholarship for Service (SFS) students will present their cybersecurity research from spring 2018.…
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talk: Big Data, Security and Privacy, 11am Wed 5/16
Big Data, Security and Privacy Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, 16 May 2018, ITE 459, UMBC The collection, storage, manipulation and retention of massive amounts of data have resulted in serious security and privacy considerations. Various regulations are being proposed to handle big data so that the privacy of the…
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talk: SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption, 12pm Fri 4/27
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption Russ Fink Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 12:00–1:00pm Friday, April 27, 2018, ITE 237, UMBC In the newly coined Privacy Age, researchers are building systems with homomorphic algorithms that enable “never decrypt” operations on sensitive data in applications such as computational private information…