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BSIT Students Host A Cyberdefense Competition for High School Students
A Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) capstone team, comprised of four Jayhackers—Edwards officers, organized and held a cyberdefense competition over the course of a week this fall. The onsite portion of the competition was hosted at the KU Edwards Campus on October 19th and 20th. Competition participants included...
EECS Professor Receives NSF Funding to Improve the Cybersecurity Management of Networks
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded EECS Assistant Professor Alexandru Bardas and his collaborator, Bradley Fidler from Stevens Institute of Technology, a research grant to design a novel framework of metrics that can be used by cybersecurity professionals to better harmonize network performance and security. ...
Ripple Supports Blockchain Research at KU with $2M gift
The Information & Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC) will receive a $2 million gift from Silicon Valley financial technology company Ripple to research technologies related to blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments. ...
EECS Professor Receives NSF Funding to Improve Cybersecurity through Morphing IT Systems - Moving Target Defense
The NSF is supporting Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Alexandru Bardas to develop a novel approach for protecting computer systems and networks. Current information technology (IT) systems used by regular users and companies are relatively static configurations; giving adversaries an advantage of time. A promising new approach, called...
Jayhackers Win First and Third Place at Cyberdefense Competition
EECS student teams, known as the Jayhackers, placed 1st and 3rd in a cyberdefense competition at Kansas State University in late October. A team of six students from KU’s computer science and computer engineering programs and eight students from the BSIT program traveled to Kansas State University in Manhattan,...
EECS Students Host Cyberdefense Competition for High School Students
The EECS Jayhackers hosted a cyberdefense competition for two weeks in fall 2018 that included high school teams as well as EECS students. In the past, Jayhacker competitions have consisted of an eight hour setup and attack phase all on one day. This year, the group decided to change the...
KU Hosts Conference on Cybersecurity for the ‘Internet of Things’
KU hosted over 100 cybersecurity experts from across the Midwest at the KU Edwards Campus on Oct. 2 for a day-long conference on “Securing the Internet of Things.” The conference keynote speakers were Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner, U.S. Army Director of Cyber, Electronic Warfare, Information Operations and Aaron Weissenfluh, the...
EECS Selected for NSA “Lablet” to Improve Security for Internet of Things with ‘Big-Thinking’ Research
EECS is leading a multidisciplinary effort at KU that will tackle the fundamental science underpinning the security of the Internet of Things (IoT), through a prestigious designation from the National Security Agency. ...
Jayhackers Compete in Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition
The EECS Information Security Club cyber defense team competed in the Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition in April 2018. The team was comprised of three club members in computer science from the Lawrence campus and three members from information technology from the Edwards campus. The team had six weeks...