Student Spotlight

Professor Alan Sherman received two research awards from the National Science Foundation to support work at UMBC on cybersecurity. Sherman is a co-principal investigator on a two year, $300K...

The 2013 Maryland Cyber Challenge season has begun! Last week, Challenge co-founder Dr. Richard Forno and other Challenge officials conducted a kick-off orientation webinar  (PDF) outlining the...

MS Defense Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Linked Data for Cybersecurity Vulnerability Descriptions Arnav Joshi 9:00-11:00 Monday, 22 July 2013, 325b ITE The Web is typically...

MCLEAN, Va., July 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI),  Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), and the University...

First-year Cybersecurity MPS student Andrew Shiffer placed third in Microsoft's "Cybersecurity 2020" student essay contest.  The contest allows Microsoft to solicit original research about...

MS Thesis Defense A Multilayer Framework to Catch Data Exfiltration Puneet Sharma 10:30am Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 325b ITE, UMBC Data exfilteration is the unauthorized leakage of...

MS Thesis Defense Extracting cybersecurity related entities, terms and concepts from text Ravendar Lal 10:30am Tuesday, 28 May 2013, ITE325b, UMBC Securing computers, data,...

Five students in UMBC's College of Engineering and Information Technology have been selected for major scholarships to pursue studies in cybersecurity-related fields under UMBC's participation in...

MS Defense Social Media Analytics: Digital Footprints Sandhya Krishnan 9:00am Monday, 13 May 2013, ITE325b In this work we describe an approach to distinguish real and impostor/...

On May 7, 2013, Dr. Richard Forno, Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity and Director of UMBC's Graduate Cybersecurity Program, conducted an invited talk on the proposed...