Category: SFS

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • talk: Results from the SFS Summer Research Study on NetAdmin, 12p Fri 9/8

    UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Results from the SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 8 September 2017 ITE 228 (or nearby), UMBC In summer 2017, UMBC held a cybersecurity research workshop that featured the UMBC Scholarship For Service (SFS) cohort working with the cooperation of the UMBC Department of Information Technology…

  • CyberCorps SFS students to meet at UMBC, Friday May 26

    CyberCorps SFS Spring Meeting at UMBC 9am-1pm, Friday, 26 May 26 2017, ITE 456, UMBC open to the public Six CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) students from Montgomery College and Prince George’s Community College will present their results solving IT security problems for their county governments. In spring 2017, these students worked collaboratively in a…

  • Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop, Friday June 3, UMBC

    The 3rd Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop 9-5 Friday, 3 June 2016 at UMBC. Free, speakers, hands-on demos and exercises, lunch included

  • Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop, Friday June 3, UMBC

    UMBC will hold the third Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop on Friday, June 3, 2016 on the UMBC campus. Free and lunch included.

  • NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service, May 15 deadline

    UMBC undergraduate and graduate students interested in cybersecurity can apply for an Federal CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service scholarship by 15 May 2016

  • ICEW – Conference Information

    ICEW 2016 will be held in UMBC’s University Center on the 3rd floor on June 3rd, 2016.  Please register at the link below. <Registration Link> Main – About the Presenters – Agenda – Conference Information

  • ICEW – About the Presenters

    Session I. Secure Coding taught through hands on exercises. Computer and Information Sciences Department, Towson University Dr. Blair Taylor is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Towson University with over 20 years of teaching experience. She developed and assessed many of the security injection modules. She has published and…

  • ICEW Agenda

    9:00a Breakfast 9:20a Opening Remarks 9:30-11:00a Session I: Secure Coding taught through hands on exercises. Carry out self-contained, lab-based modules designed to be injected into CS0-CS2 introductory computer science courses. Blair Taylor and Siddharth Kaza, Towson University 11:00-11:15a Break 11:15a-12:45p Session II: Using a mesage board as an interactive Cyber Security learning tool. Solve security…