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

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

News Highlights

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.

#UCFBusiness Professor Uses Technology to Engage Students on Cybersecurity Issues

The breaches of Ashley Madison and Target customer databases in recent months have made cybersecurity a highly relevant topic. UCF College of Business Administration (#UCFBusiness) Lecturer Steven Hornik, Ph.D., is using a creative technological approach to keep his students engaged and thinking about this important issue.

New Graduate-Level Certificate Provides Critical Training in Cybersecurity

Barely a week goes by without a major retailer or government institution announcing a data breach that put customers’ personal information in the hands of hackers.

With the growing need for workers who know their way around network security, the University of Central Florida has launched a new graduate certificate program for fall 2015 aimed at providing students with the expertise th... more...

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