Category: Cybersecurity
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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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Bryan Vanek (CS, ’18), president of national champion CyberDawgs team, heads to computer security career
Bryan Vanek, president of national champion CyberDawgs team, heads to computer security career UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation this week, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the world, we reflect on all they have achieved. Here is a CSEE student profile…
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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: 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…
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SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 27
SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 27 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships to UMBC is 12noon Friday April 27, 2018, for possible scholarships beginning fall 2018. See www.cisa.umbc.edu for details and application forms. These major scholarships include tuition, generous stipend, and more, in return for government employment. Applicants must have at least…
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🗣️ talk: Human Factors in Cyber Security, 12-1 Fri 4/13, ITE 229, UMBC
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Human Factors in Cyber Security Dr. Josiah Dykstra Cyber Security Researcher, US Department of Defense 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 229, UMBC Humans play many roles in the effectiveness of cyber security. While users are often blamed for security compromises, human strengths and weaknesses also affect people who…
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talk: Circuit Complexity of One-Way Boolean Functions, 12pm Fri 2/23, ITE229
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Experimentally Measuring the Circuit Complexity of One-Way Boolean Functions Brian Weber, CSEE, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 23 February 2018, ITE 229 I present preliminary results from an exhaustive search for one-way functions in certain classes of small Boolean functions. One-way functions are functions that are easy to compute but hard to invert. They…
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talk: Towards Hardware Cybersecurity, 11am Tue 2/20, ITE325, UMBC
Towards Hardware Cybersecurity Professor Houman Homayoun George Mason University 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday, 20 Febuary 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Electronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare,…
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talk: Results of the 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC, 12pm Fri 2/9, ITE228
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Results from the January 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 9 February 2018, ITE 228 (or nearby) January 22-26, 2018, UMBC SFS scholars worked collaboratively to analyze the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer system. The…