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Farag Visits Homer City High School, Encourages Students to Pursue Cybersecurity Careers

Waleed Farag visited with Homer City High School students to relay information about cybersecurity careers and promote the Institute of Cybersecurity activities and opportunities available to them.

  • 30 January 2023
Faculty Achievements IUP Now For Students and Advisors

IUP Offering Free Advanced Cybersecurity Camp for Middle and High-School Students

Thanks to an eighth year of funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, Indiana University of Pennsylvania will offer a free, one-week GenCyber cybersecurity camp for middle and high school students.

  • 20 January 2023
Student Opportunities University News Community For Students and Advisors

IUP Offering Free Advanced Cybersecurity Camp for Middle and High-School Students

Thanks to an eighth year of funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, Indiana University of Pennsylvania will offer a free, one-week GenCyber cybersecurity camp for middle and high school students.

  • 20 January 2023
For Students and Advisors Student Opportunities Community University News

National Centers of Academic Excellence Tech Talk, Jan. 19

CAE Tech Talk held January 19, 2023

  • 17 January 2023
For Students and Advisors IUP Now

NSA CAE Internship, March 2023

The National Security Agency, in partnership with the GBC Academy and US Cyber Command's DreamPort Program, seeks applicants for an eight-week paid internship program designed for college juniors and seniors about to enter the technical workforce.

  • 11 January 2023
IUP Now Internships or Jobs For Students and Advisors

National Centers of Academic Excellence Tech Talk, Dec. 15

Join the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Tech Talk on December 15, 2022. This month‘s presentations include “The Rise of Side Channel Attacks: the case of wireless and mobile systems” and “Enhancing Finger Photo Presentation Attack Detection for Secure Smartphone Unlock.”

  • 12 December 2022
IUP Now For Students and Advisors

CAE-Forum, Dec. 7

The CAE Forum on Dec. 7, 2022, will feature a presentation titled "Improving Cybersecurity by Addressing Cognitive Biases."

  • 07 December 2022
For Students and Advisors Events

Farag Represents IUP in Panel Discussion with Pa. Labor and Industry Secretary

Waleed Farag attended a roundtable discussion at the River Valley STEAM Academy with Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier, along many other industry leaders and educators, including Pennsylvania College of Technology President Michael Reed, Indiana Chamber of Commerce President Mark Hilliard, State Senator Joe Pittman, and State Representative Jim Struzzi.

  • 07 December 2022
Faculty Achievements

IUP Secures $731,099 to Develop Framework to Detect, Mitigate Cybersecurity Attacks in Zero-Trust Environments

An Indiana University of Pennsylvania computer science faculty member and director of IUP’s Institute for Cybersecurity has received $731,099 from the National Security Agency to develop cybersecurity solutions for contemporary work habits, including remote working environments.

  • 29 November 2022
IUP Now Faculty Achievements

CAE Forum, Nov. 2

The CAE Forum on Nov. 2, 2022, will feature the following two presentations: #1 The use of Steganography and Steganalysis Trends in Computer Forensics; and #2 Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning Algorithms to Adversarial Attacks for Cyber-Physical Power Systems.

  • 31 October 2022
For Students and Advisors Events

NSA Future Computing Summer Internship 2023

For the second consecutive year, the Advanced Computing Systems Research Program in the NSA Research Directorate is joining with their counterparts in the High-Performance Computing Solutions and Operations organizations to provide a select number of undergraduate students with an exciting eight-week internship opportunity.

  • 31 October 2022
Internships or Jobs Student Opportunities

IUP Secures Funding for Full-Tuition Scholarship for Cybersecurity Doctoral Student

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received $203,130 from the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Program, which the National Security Agency manages, to support a qualified student seeking a doctoral degree in cybersecurity.

  • 20 October 2022
Group Achievements

IUP Cybersecurity Day Set for October 18

  • 17 October 2022
IUP Now For Students and Advisors

National Centers of Academic Excellence Tech Talk, October 20, 2022

Join the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Tech Talk on October 20, 2022. This month‘s presentations include “Security Patch Identification on Open-Source Software” and “A Metrics-Driven Approach to Prioritizing Vulnerability Mitigation.”

  • 17 October 2022
For Students and Advisors IUP Now

Institute for Cyber Security Hosts International Cybersecurity Experts

IUP’s Institute for Cyber Security hosted cybersecurity experts from 17 countries on September 23. The experts were invited to the US under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program.

  • 12 October 2022
IUP Now

Farag Secures Largest Grant in University History to Enhance Cybersecurity Education Across Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received $4.98 million from the Department of Defense for the first three years of a novel project to enhance Cybersecurity and STEM education in Pennsylvania (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

  • 12 October 2022
IUP Now Staff Achievements

CISA and GWC Virtual Workshop, October. 20th

Join the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Girls Who Code (GWC) as we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week!

  • 12 October 2022
For Students and Advisors IUP Now

CAE Forum, October. 5

The CAE Forum on October 5, 2022 will feature the following two presentations: #1 CyberChef Lessons for Learning Encryption; and #2 Demystifying and exploiting IoT Timeout Behaviors in Smart Home.

  • 05 October 2022
For Students and Advisors IUP Now

Codebreaker Challenge Tech Talk 2

For any interested students, NSA has scheduled another Technical Talk for the Codebreaker Challenge. This event will feature instruction and demonstration from an NSA Subject Matter expert on Ghidra.

  • 26 September 2022
For Students and Advisors IUP Now

Codebreaker Challenge Tech Talk

For any interested students, NSA has scheduled another Technical Talk for the Codebreaker Challenge. This event will feature instruction and demonstration from an NSA Subject Matter expert on Web Exploitation.

  • 19 September 2022
For Students and Advisors

International Cyber League: Collegiate Cup 2022

ICL: Collegiate Cup allows students in cyber security programs to compete in live-fire challenges that mirror the scenarios they will face on the job in a hyper-realistic cyber range. This is your chance to prove that you have what it takes to excel in your career as a cyber defender – and win world-class prizes!

  • 15 September 2022
IUP Now For Students and Advisors

CAE Forum, September 7

The CAE Forum on September 7, 2022, will feature the following two presentations: #1 Teaching Adversarial Thinking for Cybersecurity, and #2 Dreams Deferred: The Cost of Cybersecurity Education

  • 31 August 2022
Events For Students and Advisors IUP Now

NSA Job Opportunities

Why NSA? When you start a career at National Security Agency, you get the complete package: an invaluable mission, an abundance of professional growth, and generous investment in your health, well-being, and future

  • 05 August 2022
For Students and Advisors Internships or Jobs

2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge

The annual Codebreaker Challenge developed by the National Security Agency is back. The 2022 Codebreaker Challenge consists of a series of tasks that are worth varying points based on the task's level of difficulty. Schools will be ranked according to the total number of points accumulated by students.

  • 04 August 2022
For Students and Advisors Events IUP Now

CAE Tech Talk, May 19

Join the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Tech Talk on May 19, 2022. This month's presentations include “Volatility” and “Ransomware and the Zero Trust Framework.”

  • 18 May 2022
IUP Now Events
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