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(CIAE)

Center of Information Assurance Education

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø's Commitment

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø is very committed to the Information Assurance program for education, research, and outreach because of the crucial nature of cyber security for this nation. The National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE) at TU serves as the organizing body to offer resources and assistance for faculty, students, and the community in conducting teaching, research, and other activities in Information Assurance.

Overview
Objectives
Partners
Contact

Welcome and Designation

Welcome to the 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE) located within the Computer Science Department in the Brimmer College of Business and Information Science. The National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE) at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø has been designated as through academic year 2027 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA).

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø (TU) is very committed to Information Assurance/Cyber Defense program of education, research, and outreach because of the crucial nature of cyber security for the nation. The National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE) at TU serves as the organizing body to offer resources and assistance for faculty, students, and the community in conducting teaching, research, and other activities in Information Assurance.

Connected logos for DHS, CAE, and DOD
     

Objectives of the CIAE

  • To apply for and receive designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD).
  • To improve and expand undergraduate curriculum in IA/CD.
  • To enhance the Masters Program in Information Systems and Computer Security.
  • To acquire external funding to support IA/CD activities, such research, training, scholarships.
  • To provide IA/CD training to TU students and local community.
  • To provide public visibility to the IA/CD educational and research efforts underway at CIAE.

 

     

Information Assurance Partners

  • Mississippi State University:  Dr. Drew Hamilton
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte:  Dr. Bill Chu
  • The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga:  Dr. Li Yang
  • North Carolina A&T State University:  Dr. Xiaohong Yuan

 

   

   

Contact Us

Dr. Fan Wu
Professor and Head, Computer Science Department
Director, National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE)
Email: fwu@tuskegee.edu 
Phone: 334-727-8362

Dr. Cassandra Thomas
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Assistant Director, National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE)
Email: cthomas@tuskegee.edu 
Phone: 334-727-8587

CIAE Links and Resources

CIAE Organizational Chart

 

CIAE Organizational Chart

  

 

  

     

  

Authority/Authorization

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø (TU) has been designated a National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE) to serve as a regional model for promoting excellence in information security education, to assist businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and industry in their information security needs, and to serve as the first point of call for any information security emergency. The Center is housed in the department of Computer Science in the College of Business and Information Science.

The endorsement and intent letter from the Provost of 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø and letter from the Dean of TU College of Business and Information Science demonstrate the official approval for the establishment of the TU Center of Information Assurance Education.

Also the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), the National Security Agency (NSA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have certified that the set of courseware offered by 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø meets the National Training Standard for Information Systems Security Professionals, CNSS (formerly NSTISSI) Nos. 4011 and 4012.  

  

Affiliate IA/CD Faculty

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø Faculty
  • Dr. Fan Wu, Director of the National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE), and Head of Computer Science Department
  • Dr. Cassandra Thomas, Assistant Director of the National Center of Information Assurance Education (CIAE)
  • Dr. Jay Bhuyan
  • Dr. Xiao Chang
  • Dr. Paramjit Kahai
  • Dr. Mohammad Rahman
  • Dr. Yasmeen Rawajfih

  

Cybersecurity PoS

Curriculum of MS in Information Systems and Computer Security
The IA/CD-related courses are listed below:
  • ISCS 504 Data Networks and Cloud Computing
  • ISCS 505 Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • ISCS 506 Database Systems
  • ISCS 530 Information Security
  • ISCS 531 Network Security and Management
  • ISCS 532 Information Security Policy and Risk Analysis
  • ISCS 536 Mobile Security
The non-IA/CD-related courses which cover IA content are listed below:
  • BUSN 351 Management Information Systems
  • BUSN 422 Financial Institutions
  • COEG 305 Fundamental of Cybersecurity Engineering

 

  

Research and Publications

Recent IA/CD Research Grants:
  1. National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Collaborative: ALAMOSE: Authentic Learning Modules for DevOps Security Education; 2022-2025
  2. IBM: Quantum Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection using Qiskit; 2022-2023
  3. National Science Foundation (NSF): S-STEM: Improving Minority Student Retention Rate and Success in Computer Science; 2022-2028
  4. National Science Foundation (NSF)/Whatcom Community College: JROTC Cyber Academy Pilot Program 2022; 2022.
  5. National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: SaTC: Building Research Capacity in AI Based Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity; 2022-2023.
  6. National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Authentic Learning of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity with Portable Hands-on Labware; 2021-2024. 
  7. National Science Foundation (NSF): IUSE: Collaborative Research: A Data-Driven Employer-Academia Partnership for Continual Computing Curricular Change; 2021-2024.
  8. National Science Foundation (NSF): Partnership to Provide Technology and Cyber-security Experiences to Alabama Black Belt through Mobile Application Development; 2021-2025. 
  9. National Science Foundation (NSF)/UA: EPSCoR: IGM: A Platform for Harnessing Big Hydrological Datasets for Integrated Groundwater Management, 2020-2024. 
  10. Department of Defense (DOD)/UAH: Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) Critical Technology Studies Program; 2018-2021.
  11. National Security Agency (NSA): NCAE-C Cyber Curriculum and Research 2020 Program - Part 2. A Machine Learning Framework for Intrusion Detection based on System Events; 2020-2022.
  12. National Science Foundation (NSF): Scholarship for Service Program (SFS): Collaborative Research: Broadening Secure Mobile Software Development (SMSD) Through Curriculum and Faculty Development; 2017-2021.
  13. National Science Foundation (NSF): CyberCorp: Scholarship for Service (SFS)-Scholarship Program, Collaborative Research: Strengthening the National Cyber Security Workforce; 2017-2022. (Program Website)
  14. National Science Foundation (NSF): ITEST Strategies: The Tuskegee Partnership to Provide Technology Experiences through Aerial Drones in High Schools of the Alabama Black Belt; 2016-2020.
  15. National Science Foundation (NSF): Strategies: The Eyes Say it All: Using web page design and eye-tracking technology to learn STEM concepts, research skills, and human factors; 2013-2018.
  16. National Science Foundation (NSF): Scholarship for Service Program (SFS): Collaborative Research: Capacity Building through Curriculum and Faculty Development on Mobile Security; 2012-2016.
  17. Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Scientific Leadership Awards: Portable Smart Platforms for Detection of Biological Pathogens and Chemicals; 2012-2018
  18. Department of Defense (DoD): Systems Engineering using Secure Open Source Technology; 2011-2012.
  19. National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Project: Teaching Cryptography through Hand-on Learning and Case Studies, 2010-2013.
  20. National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Project: CI-TEAM Implementation Project: A Digital Forensics Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Training Initiative for America's Veterans, 2008-2012.
  21. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Change Your World Grant Program: Mobile Computer Graphics and Gaming Development; 2009.

 

Recent IA/CD Publications:

  1. Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Masrura Tasnim, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero, Akond Rahman, and Fan Wu, Software Supply Chain Attacks: Investigating Novel Approaches to Mitigate SSC Threats, the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (IEEE ISSRE 2022), Charlotte, NC. Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, 2022
  2. Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Mazharul Islam, Fazlul Alam, Hossain Shahriar, Akond Rahman, Fan Wu and Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, BieVote: A Biometric Identification Enabled Blockchain-Based Secure and Transparent Voting Framework, the 21st IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2022), Wuhan, China. Oct. 28 – Oct. 30, 2022
  3. Mohammad Taneem Bin Nazim, Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Hossain Shahriar, Md Abdullah Khan, Mohammad Masum, Nazmus Sakib, and Fan Wu, Systematic Analysis of Deep Learning Model for Vulnerable Code Detection, the IEEE 46th Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2022), Jun. 27 – Jul. 1, 2022.
  4. Akond Rahman, Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hossain Shahriar and Fan Wu, Towards Automation for MLOps: An Exploratory Study of Bot Usage in Deep Learning Libraries, the IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2022), Jun. 27 – Jul. 1, 2022.
  5. Farzana Ahamed Bhuiyan, Stacy Prowell, Hossain Shahriar, Fan Wu and Akond Rahman, Shifting Left for Machine Learning: An Empirical Study of Security Weaknesses in Supervised Learning-based Projects, the IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2022), Jun. 27 – Jul. 1, 2022.
  6. Akond Rahman, Shazibul Islam Shamim, Hossain Shahriar and Fan Wu, Can We use Authentic Learning for Educating Students About Secure Infrastructure as Code Development?, the proceedings of 27th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education ( ITiCSE 2022), Dublin, Ireland. Jul. 8 - Jul. 13, 2022.
  7. Dan Lo, Hossain Shahriar, Kai Qian, Miahcel Whitman, and Fan Wu, Colab Cloud Based Portable and Shareable Hands-on Labware for Machine Learning to Cybersecurity, the proceedings of IEEE BigData 2021, Orlando, FL. Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2021.
  8. Mohammad Masum, Hossain Shahriar, Hisham Haddad, Md Jobair Faruk, Mohammad Rahman, Muhaiminul Adnan, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Md Abdullah Khan, Maria Valero, and Fan Wu, Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimization for Deep Neural Network-Based Network Intrusion Detection, the proceedings of IEEE BigData 2021, Orlando, FL. Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2021.
  9. Jobair Hossain, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero, Farhat Lamia Borsha, Shahriar Sobhan, Md Abdullah Khan, Michael Whitman, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Dan Lo, Akond Rahman, and Fan Wu, Malware Detection and Prevention using Artificial Intelligence Techniques, the proceedings of IEEE BigData 2021, Orlando, FL. Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2021.
  10. Zhuolin Li, Hao Zhang, Hossain Shahriar, Michael Whitman, Dan Lo, Kai Qian, and Fan Wu, Denial of Service (DoS) Attack Detection: Performance Comparison of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms, 18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2020), Calgary, Canada, August 17-21, 2020.
  11. Hossain Shahriar, Kai Qian, Dan Lo, Michael Whitman and Fan Wu, Enhancing Proactive Control Mobile and Web Software Security Education with Hands-on Labware, Fast Abstract, IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC2020), Madrid, Spain, July 13-17, 2020.
  12. Dan Lo, Kai Qian, Hossain Shahriar, Fan Wu, Johng-Chern Chern, Pascal Paschos, and Chuang Ng, Information Assurance and Security Education on Undergraduate Computing Degree Programs, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'20), Portland, OR, March 11-14, 2020.
  13. Hossain Shahriar, Michael Whitman, Dan Lo, Fan Wu and Cassandra Thomas, Case Study-based Portable Hands-on Labware for Machine Learning in Cybersecurity, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'20), Portland, OR, March 11-14, 2020.
  14. Jay Bhuyan, Fan Wu, Cassandra Thomas, Kai Koong, Jung Won Hur, and Chih-Hsuan Wang, Aerial Drone: An Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Minority High School Students in the U.S., TechTrends (2020), TECH-D-19-00200. SCI Index: 0.96, H Index: 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7.
  15. Binita Bohara, Jay Bhuyan, Fan Wu, and Junhua Ding, A Survey on the Use of Data Clustering for Intrusion Detection System in Cybersecurity, International Journal of Network Security and Its Applications (IJNSA), Volume 12 Number 1, January 2020. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijnsa.2020.12101.
  16. Hossain Shahriar, Michael Whitman, Dan Lo, Fan Wu, Cassandra Thomas, and Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Experiential Learning: Case Study-based Portable Hands-on Regression Labware for Cyber Fraud Prediction, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2019.
  17. Hossain Shahriar, Arabin Talukder, Mohammad Rahman, Hongmei Chi, Sheikh Ahamed, Fan Wu, Hands-on File Inclusion Vulnerability and Proactive Control for Secure Software Development. The 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer, Software, and Application, Milwaukee, USA, July 2019.
  18. Hossain Shahriar, Kai Qian, Dan Lo, Mohammad Rahman, Fan Wu, Sheikh Ahamed, and Emmanuel Agu, Plugin-based Intervention for Secure Software Development. The proceeding of 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Cincinnati, OH, October 16 – 19, 2019.
  19. Hossain Shahriar, Kai Qian, Md Arabin Islam Talukder, Dan Lo, Mohammad Rahman, Fan Wu, and Sheikh Ahamed, DroidPatrol: A Static Analysis Plugin for Secure Mobile Software Development, IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC2019), Milwaukee, WI, United States, July 15-19, 2019.
  20. Kai Qian, Dan Lo, Reza Parizi, Fan Wu, Emmanuel Agu and Bei-Tseng Chu, Authentic Learning Secure Software Development (SSD) in Computing Education, the proceeding of 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), San Jose, CA, October 3 – 6, 2018.
  21. Xianyong Meng, Kai Qian, Dan Lo, Prabir Bhattacharya, and Fan Wu, Secure Mobile Software Development with Vulnerability Detectors in Static Code Analysis, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC 2018), Rome, Italy, June 19-21, 2018.
  22. Reza M. Parizi, Kai Qian, Hossain Shahriar, Fan Wu, and Lixin Tao, Benchmark Requirements for Assessing Software Security Vulnerability Testing Tools, fast abstract, the IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2018), Tokyo, Japan, July 23-27, 2018.
  23. Kai Qian, Hossain Shahriar, Lei Li, Fan Wu, and Prabir Bhattacharya, Learning Database Security with Hands-on Mobile Labs, the proceeding of 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN, October 18 – 21, 2017.

Internal Cybersecurity News

Internal Cybersecurity News

Recent Students' Activities
  1. 2 TU teams participated – BE (Black Enterprise) Hackathon. Event sponsored by American Airlines, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, October 6-8, 2022.
  2. 1 TU CS student participated in National Minecraft Contest hosted by Microsoft, and won the 3rd place, August, 2022.
  3. Guest Lecture (Virtual): TU students participated the invited virtual lecture by the officers from Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on the cybersecurity work at DIA and how to apply federal government jobs, March 22, 2022
  4. National Cyber League Competition, October 22-24, 2021.
  5. 2 TU teams participated - HBCU Technology Conference 2021 - Bot-a-Thon / Future of Work Academy (FOWA). Event sponsored by Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Microsoft, September 16-30, 2021.
  6. Guest Lecture (Virtual): TU students participated the invited virtual lecture by the hiring manager of Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) under DoD on how to prepare themselves for federal government cybersecurity related jobs, September 14, 2021
  7. HBCU Minecraft: Education Edition Hackathon, May 2021, TU team's (4 students) submission was selected to be played by students of District of Columbia Public Schools and was showcased at the Ed Games Expo on June 4, 2021.
  8. MetaCTF Cyber Games Capture the Flag Competition, October 24, 2020.
  9. 2 student participated 2020 Summer Seminar organized by Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence - The Summer Seminar is a two-week program held twice a year and is designed to provide selected students from CAE-designated universities with in-depth exposure to the intelligence field with a focus on intelligence analysis through classroom instruction, interactive exercises, simulations, briefs, panel discussions and agency tours.
  10. 5 TU CS students participated the BE Smart Hackathon 2020 (virtual), Fort Worth, Texas, October 9-10, 2020.
  11. 4 TU CS students participated the BE Smart Hackathon 2019 (in-person), Austin, Texas, September 13- 16, 2019.
Recent Faculty Development Activities
  1. CS Faculty attended 2022 NCAE-C Executive Leadership Forum, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gulfport, MS on July 27-28, 2022.
  2. CS Faculty attended NSF Sponsored Faculty Workshop on Privacy Technologies Education Workshop (Virtual), July 7-8, 2022
  3. CS Faculty attended 2022 CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium in-person, Atlanta, GA on June 08-10, 2022.
  4. CS Faculty attended NSF Sponsored Faculty Workshop on Cybersecurity Games (Virtual), May 21, 2022.
  5. CS Faculty attended 2021 Southeast CAE Cybersecurity Forum virtually on November 19, 2021.
  6. CS Faculty attended 2021 CAE in Cybersecurity Principals Meeting virtually on November 17, 2021.
  7. CS Faculty attended NSF Sponsored Faculty Workshop on Cybersecurity Labs & CTF (Virtual) on August 2-3, 2021.
  8. CS Faculty attended NSF Sponsored Guided Inquiry Collaborative Learning faculty workshop on Cybersecurity (Virtual) May 17-19, 2021.
  9. CS Faculty attended 2020 CAE in Cybersecurity Community Symposium virtually on October 07, 2020.
  10. CS Faculty attended 2019 Southeast CAE Cybersecurity Forum in Pensacola, FL on September 11-13, 2019.
CS Department hosted ITEST Summer Academy for High School teachers and students, July 06-July 29, 2022

CS Department hosted a summer academy for high school teachers and students. The summer academy covered topics in Cybersecurity and made the participates aware of cyber attacks threats and the solutions to prevent cyber attacks. ()

CS Department hosted JROTC Summer Academy for JROTC cadets, June 12-June 25, 2022

CS Department hosted an onsite summer academy for twenty JROTC cadets from June 12 through June 25.  The cadets were housed at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø and enrolled in a 3-credit hours dual enrollment introductory computer science course. The primary course content included computer fundamentals and cybersecurity concepts.

CS Faculty chaired the breakout session at 2022 SaTC PI meeting at Washington DC, May 31-June 02, 2022

Dr. Fan Wu chaired the breakout session on "Security Education" at 2022 SaTC PI meeting at Washington DC to share his educational experience from CAE-CD. This breakout session addressed two of the most important issues faced today and in the next ten years in cybersecurity education. These issues need to be deliberated because they have consequences for you, your students, your institutions, and the nation. Workforce composition: More people, more diverse, and more qualified? How can such workforce composition be achieved? What is happening and what needs to be created for such a workforce? Teaching content: What should we be teaching to what students? What will become obsolete? Which material is the most important to be taught?

Mobile Software Security Webinar (Virtual), April 02, 2022

Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø co-hosts a Mobile Software Security Webinar jointly provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Kennesaw State University virtually to cybersecurity community.

Virtual STEM Seminar, October 09, 2021

This seminar is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR RII Program, Award Number: 2019561. Dr. Li Jiang from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department gave a seminar on STEM topics to high school students from Brook T. Washington High School at Tuskegee.

Mobile Software Security Workshop (Virtual), May 29, 2021

Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø co-hosts a Mobile Software Security Workshop jointly provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Kennesaw State University virtually to cybersecurity community.

R Data Science Coding Bootcamp, May 17-18, 2021

Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø hosts a on-Line coding bootcamp jointly provided by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø that taught basic R programming, data wrangling and integration, visualization. Practice examples include COVID19 data analysis and survey data analysis.

Summer Drone Academy, June 05-28, 2019

Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø hosts a summer drone academy for local high school students. Summer Program that targets students attending high school (rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders) in the surrounding Blackbelt school districts: Macon County and Montgomery County. This summer we had over 30 student participants. IC CAE related topics included in the summer curriculum for program attendees were: Social 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø Data Analysis and Visualization, Password Security, Privacy and Security, Security Threats - Ransomware and Identity Theft. The participants were shocked to learn of the risks they expose themselves to on the Internet and appreciated the exercises which demonstrated and taught them how to protect themselves in the Cyber Environment.

Mobile Software Security Workshop, May 04, 2019

Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø hosts a workshop on Mobile Software Security. This workshop is intended to promote Secure Mobile Software Development (SMSD) in education, to enhance student learning experience, and to foster collaboration among faculty in SMSD field.

The University has been awarded CyberCorps: SFS-Scholarship grant to strength the national cyber security workforce

The University has been awarded a five-year SFS-Scholarship grant from NSF starting from January 1, 2017. The project is to strength the national cyber security workforce. For the detail information, please visit the scholarship website (http://www.tuskegee.edu/sfs), or contact Dr. Fan Wu (fwu@tuskegee.edu).

Golden Tigers Team participated in 2016 Black Enterprise TechConneXt Hackahthon competition and advanced to the TOP 3

91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø participated in 2016 Black Enterprise TechConneXt Hackahthon competition, which just took place in San Fransisco, CA during Oct. 8 - Oct. 11, 2016. The golden tiger team members include Joshua Silas (Freshman, EE), Madison Helmstetter (Junior, CS), Deasia Little (Senior, CS) , Jaylin Brown (Senior, CS, Team Leader), The team advanced to top 3 and made the presentation to the event. We learned the lessons including teamwork, product design and development, etc. The basic cyber contents, including secured wireless communication, software security design, etc. .

Mobile Security Workshop, July 30, 2015

This workshop will be held at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø on July 30, 2015 and is intended to promote mobile security in education, to enhance student learning experience, and to foster collaboration among faculty in Information Assurance (IA)/Cyber Defense (CD) field.

Hands-On Cryptography Workshop, June 07 - June 08, 2012

This workshop is intended to promote cryptography in education, to enhance student learning experience, and to foster collaboration among faculty in Information Assurance (IA) field. 

The Second Summer CSI Digital Forensics Camp, June 25 - June 29, 2012

The second Summer Digital Forensics (CSI) Camp was held in Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø between June 25 and June 29 in 2012.  Twelve students from local high schools attended the second CSI Camp.

The First Summer CSI Digital Forensics Camp, June 27 - July 01, 2011

The first Summer Digital Forensics (CSI) Camp was held in Computer Science Department at 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø between June 27 and July 01 in 2011.  Seven students from local high schools attended the first CSI Camp.

SECCDC Competition, March 2011
Technology BootCamp 2010

On September 18th 2010, 91ÖÆÆ·³§ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø's Computer Science Department hosted the first Saturday Technology Boot Camp for high school students in the surrounding area.

External Cybersecurity News

Cybersecurity Students News

 

Cybersecurity in the News

IA/CD Resources for Students and Faculty

IA/CD Journals/Magazines:

Computer Science Advisory Board

Computer Science Advisory Board members , their Title and Affiliation
NAME AFFILIATION TITLE
Jacqueline McKinney,
Advisory Board Chair
N/A N/A
Olugbenga Adalumo

Intuitive Surgical Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Embedded Software Engineer
Eddie L Cason

Amari Kai Technology, Atlanta, GA

Founder, Chief Scientist
Thomas D. Laryea III

DCS Corporation, Warren, MI

Embedded Software Technical Lead
Rodney Bryan

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA

Director of Software Engineering
Paul Buchanan

Home Depot, Atlanta, GA

Manager
Mark Floyd

DreamWorks Animation, Glendale, CA

Senior Software Engineer
Venita Stewart-Wilson

InComm Payments, St. Petersburg, Fl

Program Manager - Release Management & Engineering
Wendell Jordan-Brangman

Freddie Mac, McLean, VA

Manager
Eugenio Walters

Intel, Austin, TX

 Software Engineer
 Thaddeus Walker

Lockheed Martin, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Software Engineer 
Phillip Whiters

Advanced Computer Consultants and Training, Inc., Atlanta, GA

President 

 

Advisory Board Meeting Schedule
Annual Meeting Dates
2023 TBA
2022 June 24, 2022
2021 July 9, 2021
2020 June 26, 2020
2019 June 14, 2019

 

IA/CD Awareness Training

The following presentation is a short training Powerpoint to help orient you to the need for security when accessing the University's electronic resources.

The following presentation is a short training Powerpoint to help understand more on internet security.

Here is some training topics and materials from the Office of Information Technology (OIT):

More Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Awareness Information can be find at: