CICS News

2014 Security on the Move and in the Clouds (SoMiC) Workshop

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the National Convergence Technology Center at Collin College, will host the 3rd SoMiC Workshop: Security on the Move and in the Clouds (SoMiC) later this Spring. Speakers from area Faculty, Graduate Students, and Industry Professionals are all welcome and encouraged to attend. Suggested general topic areas include:

2013 SoMiC Workshop: Security on the Move and in the Clouds

Posted: 
Friday, April 5, 2013

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the National Convergence Technology Center at Collin College, will host the 2nd SoMiC Workshop: Security on the Move and in the Clouds on April 5, 2013 at UNT’s Discovery Park campus. The Keynote speech at 8:30 will be given by Bhavani Thuraisingham of UTD. More program information is here. Faculty, Graduate Students, and Industry Professionals are all welcome and encouraged to attend.

CSE Cyber Defense team qualifies for 2013 Southwest Regional CCDC

(L-R) Tawfiq Shah, Santiago Serrato, Dr. Gomathisankaran, Christa Holt, Yernat Yestekov, and Jimi Mills at a practice session on February 1.
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Monday, February 25, 2013

The Cyber Defense Team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has passed the qualifying round and will compete in the Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) on March 9 and 10 in San Antonio, TX. The qualifying round was held on January 25 and 26. Teams from the following universities will be competing:

UNT designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Dr. Ram Dantu, Director of the Center For Information and Computer Security (CICS) and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the University of North Texas as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) for the academic years 2012 through 2017. CICS is ranked as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE-IAE) from 2012-2017.

2012 SoMic Workshop: Security on the Move and in the Clouds

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Workshop: Security on the Move and in the Clouds was held at UNT's Discovery Park on April, 9, 2012. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the Convergence Technology Center at Collin College, hosted a workshop on Security issues related to mobile device platforms and applications, Social Media and the Cloud.

Center for Information and Computer Security (CICS) helps Denton achieve recognition

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

The UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering's Center for Information and Computer Security (CICS) has helped the City of Denton to be recognized as one of the top 10 best data security cities in the country. Dr. Ram Dantu is the Director of this CSE Center. The report, by New Jersey-based corporate location consulting shop Boyd Co.

UNT Hosts a Seminar series in Information Security and Privacy.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Experts from the industry were invited to talk on the information security, threats, frauds, compliance, privacy, and emerging technologies. See the document below for more information. 

UNT Competes at 2009 CCDC

Back row, (L-R): Paul Sroufe, Prudhvi Surapaneni, Daniel Piers Front row, (L-R): Dr. Philip Sweany, Blake Eakin, Angel Fox, Matt Bisho
Posted: 
Thursday, April 2, 2009

The 2009 Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition was held at Texas A&M College Station this year. It is a three day competition whereby teams defend various software and hardware against a RED TEAM attack. This year UNT brought a team of six people, two graduates and four undergraduates to participate. There were eight teams total at Texas A&M this year.

CSE Security Team Competes in 2008 CCDC

(L-R) Ebru Celikel, Mitch Clay, Paul Sroufe, Tze-I Yang, Prudhvi Krishna, Angel Fox, Arthur Williams, Kevin Myung-Hoon Jung, Blake Eakin, and Chris Gathright
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

CCDC, which stands for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, is a defense-based competition that is based on providing and sustaining the security of an enterprise network infrastructure together with a well maintained business information system.

UNT Team Places Third in 2007 Southwest Regional College Cyber Defense Competition

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

UNT hosted the Southwest Regional College Cyber Defense competition March 23-25, 2007 at Research Park. This was one of five regional competitions in the nation and this was also the largest with ten teams competing. Each team consisted of eight members set up in separate rooms with six computers each, imitating a business network and web page with the goal of updating the network while protecting it at the same time for three days. A "red team" made up of five security specialists tried to disrupt the networks in several ways that simulated hacker attacks in the real world.

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