NSA and DHS

National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R)

National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE CD)

News Highlights

NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders

The University of Central Florida has been awarded a nearly $2.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students.

Scholarship recipients will focus on cybersecurity training and research at UCF, and after graduation, must work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a p... more...

New MS Degree in Cybersecurity

A new MS degree in Cybersecurity will be available starting this Fall.

Additional details can be found on the degree page here

UCF Students Win $25,500 at Cybersecurity Competition

UCF’s teams of student cybersecurity experts cleaned up at another cyber competition recently, bringing home more than $25,000 in prize money and besting Ivy Leaguers from Yale and Brown universities, the Air Force Academy and others.

UCF Center for Cybersecurity Faculty

Computer Science

Mostafa Bassiouni, Professor

Rochelle Elva, Visiting Lecturer

Arup Guha, Associate Instructor

Ratan K. Guha, Professor

Jerry Hensel, Adjunct

Gary T. Leavens, Professor

Mark Llewellyn, Associate Lecturer

Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Associate Professor

Euripides Montagne, Associate Lecturer

Thomas Nedorost, Lecturer

Cliff Zou, Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yier Jin, Associate Professor

Statistics

Liqiang Ni, Associate Professor

Institute for Simulation and Training

Bruce Caulkins, Research Assistant Professor

Political Science

Ted Reynolds, Adjunct