Kritika Chopra, a junior in industrial technology, has been selected as the winner of the Epsilon Pi Tau 2018 Warner Undergraduate Research Award. Chopra will be receiving a certificate and award check in the amount of $500 at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference on April 14, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Chopra …Continue reading “Chopra receives Warner Award”
Doug Jacobson, University Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was interviewed by Iowa Public Radio’s Ben Kieffer on the December 9 edition of River to River. Jacobson and ISU associate professor of information systems Brian Mennecke, give their takes on the latest news regarding privacy, data collection, and cyber-security at the link below. The Illusion of Privacy in …Continue reading “Jacobson featured on Iowa Public Radio”
Part of $40 million White House Smart Cities Initiative A team of researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University was awarded one of 12 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) research projects by the National Science Foundation this week. The GCTC, a joint initiative of the National Institute of Standards …Continue reading “Iowa State awarded NSF Global City Teams Challenge project”
“The red team is watching,” warns the web brochure about the Cyber Defense Competitions at Iowa State University. The red team is typically made up of industry professionals and graduate students. Their goal for an eight-hour cyber competition is to hack into the computer networks set up by as many as 200 students divided into …Continue reading “Iowa State cyber security experts make virtual lab available for classrooms, competitions”
Department of electrical and computer engineering online master’s program named number four in the nation The online master’s degree in information assurance at Iowa State has been ranked fourth in the nation by The Best Schools. Guidelines for selection included academic excellence, types of available classes, faculty strength, rankings and reputation. The top three schools …Continue reading “Iowa State information assurance master’s degree commended”
Data breaches like the one Target faced this holiday shopping season are a constant concern in the information assurance field. Doug Jacobson, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Iowa State University Information Assurance Center, says cybersecurity is increasingly crucial as more data is stored digitally. “Hackers are getting more sophisticated …Continue reading “Information assurance coursework-only master’s program offers flexibility in growing field”
More than 200 Iowa State University students will spend a Saturday beating back eight hours of computer attacks. It’s the latest edition of the annual Cyber Defense Competitions at Iowa State. It will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 21 on the first floor of Coover Hall. The event is free and open …Continue reading “ECpE hosts annual Cyber Defense Competition”
Hackers converged on Iowa State on Saturday for ISU’s annual Cyber Defense Competition that pitted ISU students against industry professionals in a game of virtual capture the flag. The CDC was made up of teams of ISU students who worked as defenders of cyber networks and fought malicious attacks from outside users. The situation was …Continue reading “Computer hackers take over Iowa State for competition”
Over 130 Iowa State students worked in teams to build, secure, and defend networks against experienced computer security professionals acting as hackers at Iowa State University’s Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, October 15. The Iowa State University Information Assurance Center, in association with the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) Laboratory, and the Information …Continue reading “Teams compete in ISU’s Cyber Defense Competition”
University Professor Doug Jacobson’s Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) lab could receive additional funding as part of a $5.2 million federal aid bill recently passed by the Appropriations Subcommittee. Read the full article here: www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=162686
