Category: Cybersecurity
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Dr. Rick Forno discusses infrastructure security with SIGNAL magazine
In the December 2014 issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno comments on the likelihood of a destructive cyberattack on critical American infrastructure. He was one of several experts discussing US Cyber Command’s worry about such potential incidents and how it might respond. He believes a major cyber attack against critical infrastructure is…
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Daily Record profiles UMBC's cybersecurity education & training
UMBC’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director Dr. Rick Forno and Homer Minnick, Director of UMBC Training Centers’ Cyber Academy, were featured in a recent Daily Record article examining how local universities support the cybersecurity education and training needs of corporate, military, and intelligence employers. More information: UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program UMBC Training Centers Cyber Academy
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talk: Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, 1:15pm Wed 11/12
Professor Mohamed Younis of UMBC will present a research talk on Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks at 1:15pm on Wednesday, 12 Nov. 2014 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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UMBC SFS Cybercorps Scholarship applications due Nov 17 and Feb 2
In 2012-2017, UMBC will support a total of 22 new Cybersecurity students at the BS, MS, MPS, and PhD levels in computer science and related fields. Each scholarship is for the final two years of study (three years for PhD and combined BS/MS). Each scholarship covers full tuition, fees, travel, books, and an academic year…
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CYBR students present @ NCCoE Open House
UMBC CYBR MPS students Zack Rich and Jeff Scheier (pictured) are interns at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in Rockville, MD. On October 15, 2014, they presented NCCoE use case projects to leading cybersecurity experts from both the private and public domains at the NCCoE’s fall Open House on education and workforce…
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UMBC partners on national cybersecurity research center
UMBC will play a role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center announced this week. NIST awarded a contract to operate the center to MITRE, which will partner with the University System of Maryland to carry out the center’s goals. UMBC and the University of Maryland, College…
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CYBR students participate in cybersecurity wargame
On September 18, students from UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program joined others from Penn State, Penn State Harrisburg, and the Dickinson College of Law at the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership and Development to participate in a scripted wargame considering the strategic aspects of cybersecurity during the 2014 Intelligence Community Center of Academic…
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NSA grant supports cyber-challenge prizes
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, has received an $84K grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for student winners at the 2014 Maryland Cyber Challenge finals that will take place at the CyberMaryland 2014 conference in Baltimore on 29 and 30 October.…
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New Eclipse research cluster for robust, smart hardware systems
The new Eclipse research custer includes three collaborating labs at UMBC that focus on low-level hardware design to data analytics. Current projects include wearable computing, hardware security, and human assisted computer vision. Professor Nilanjan Banerjee’s Mobile, Pervasive, and Sensor System Lab performs research in cyber-physical systems spanning mobile systems, renewable-energy driven systems, and low power…
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MS defense: C. Shah, Usability Study of the Pico Authentication Device, 2pm Mon 8/4
Chirag Shah will defend his MS thesis, A Usability Study of the Pico Authentication Device: User Reactions to Pico Emulated on an Android Phone, at 2:00pm on Monday, August 4, 2014 in room 346 of the ITE building at UMBC.