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UMBC partners on national cybersecurity research center

UMBC will play an exciting role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) announced this week. The National...

Posted: October 9, 2014, 12:08 PM

hackUMBC ’14 concludes

Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create,...

Posted: September 30, 2014, 10:35 AM

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...

Posted: September 10, 2014, 4:29 PM

hackUMBC ’14 Registration Opens

The second hackUMBC is coming! (And has nothing to do with security.) hackUMBC ’14 will take place on the weekend of 27-28 September (Saturday into Sunday). The event is open to students of any...

Posted: August 29, 2014, 4:15 PM

CyberNEXS comes to UMBC

The UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program is pleased to announce that it will incorporate the CyberNEXS virtual training environment within its courses and activities during AY14-15. Assistant CYBR...

Posted: July 31, 2014, 11:44 AM