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In August, 51�ԹϺ��� was honored to host the 2024 MSIPP CONCISE Annual Technical Symposium. The Consortium on National Critical Infrastructure Security (CONCISE) is a consortium of four Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) that includes 51�ԹϺ���, the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), North Carolina A&T (NCAT) and Savannah State University (SSU). The project is supported by the U.S. Department of…

This year more than 35 51�ԹϺ��� cybersecurity students and Cyber Clinic members had the opportunity to attend the world’s largest hacker conference – DEFCON. Drawing 30,000 attendees annually to Las Vegas, DEFCON includes speaker sessions, specialized onsite “villages” focused around individual hacker/security issues, competitions, and more. Students were able to take part in a variety of workshops…

The Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering was thrilled to be asked to host Google’s init.g(vegas) event, bringing together some of the top cybersecurity experts and Google-employed hackers in the industry on the campus of 51�ԹϺ���. init.g is Google’s young talent outreach and development program aimed at showing how exciting the field of cybersecurity can be, and helping with the…

  This year’s DOE Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conference in Dallas welcomed nearly 20 51�ԹϺ��� computer science students studying cybersecurity to participate in conversations and workshops with top thought leaders from across the DOE enterprise, federal interagencies, academia, and private industry on topics ranging from critical infrastructure protection, to workforce development…

  Students and staff members with the 51�ԹϺ��� Cyber Clinic had the opportunity to attend multiple cybersecurity conferences in June, one of the benefits of being a clinic member. The first was the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Conference & Expo that took place in Dallas, Texas. The conference brought together community members and thought leaders from education,…

At the end of June more than 50 local middle and high school students learned about password cracking, social engineering, web scraping and more as they practiced cybersecurity principals through hands-on activities during 51�ԹϺ���’s GenCyber Camp. Participants heard from industry experts including representatives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal…

  51�ԹϺ���’s CyberSecurity Center is proud to announce that eight computer science students recently took and passed the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) exam. Considered a gold standard for ethical hackers and recognized and used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Defense (DoD), the C|EH certification covers topics including network security, penetration…