Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition - 1st place - Kate Boekweg, Melanie Pierce, Kira Gedris, Quincy Taylor, Anna Pratt, Micheal Erickson, Richard Fountain, Jackson Thatcher
Welcome to BYU’s best major, Cybersecurity. You’ve come to an awesome place at BYU. Cybersecurity is one of the newest majors, and one of the most needed as well! Whether this is your first semester or your last, rest assured, students from all walks of life find themselves at home in our major. So, what is Cybersecurity?
On July 10th, members of the BYU Cyberia Capture the Flag team consisting of three BYU Cybersecurity students and one BYU-Idaho Computer Information Technology student competed in the 5th Edition of the ENOWARS Attack/Defense Competition. Led by Senior Micheal Erickson and his experience as a member of the BYU CCDC (Cyber Collegiate Defense Competition) team, the team placed 22nd out of 54 international teams. Rounding out the group were Sophomore Justin Applegate and Juniors Ian Cook and Kayden Payne.
8/23/21 - A BYU team of won $90 for write ups about the CTF they participated in: https://sigpwny.com/uiuctf/! Here is one of the writeups: https://github.com/BYU-CTF-group/writeups-uiuctf/tree/main/OSINT_Charlie#chaplins-pr-nightmare---8-extreme
A team from BYU participated in the Really Awesome CTF 2021. They placed 30th of 602. See their CTF season progress here: https://ctftime.org/team/155711
The teacher training week kicked off the first of three summer cybersecurity camps. Educators expanded the tools in their cyber pockets, ready to pass on their new knowledge to their upcoming students for the year.
Over the past few decades, interactions increasingly happen on online resources. Social security numbers, passwords, financial information, and more get stored on digital devices. These vulnerabilities need protection, so the youth must be prepared with how to protect: they need to know cybersecurity.
With one million cybersecurity jobs available in the United States and a 100 percent placement rate post-graduation for alumni of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, demand for a cybersecurity major is high.
Organizational science and cybersecurity: abundant opportunities for research at the interface RS Dalal, DJ Howard, RJ Bennett, C Posey, SJ Zaccaro, BJ Brummel Journal of business and psychology, 1-29
Insiders’ adaptations to security-based demands in the workplace: An examination of security behavioral complexity AJ Burns, C Posey, TL Roberts Information Systems Frontiers 23 (2), 343-360
Enumeration of the degree distribution space for finite block length LDPC codes S Giddens, MAC Gomes, JP Vilela, JL Santos, WK Harrison ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-6
Simulating Municipal Cybersecurity Incidents: Recommendations from Expert Interviews Kira Gedris, Kayla Bowman, Aatish Neupane, Amanda Hughes, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Ryan West, Jon Balzotti, Derek Hansen Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2036
Embedded Ethical Experiences: Designing Playable Case Studies for Ethics Education DL Hansen, A Neupane, K Gedris Co-Designing Resources for Ethics Education in HCI, ACM-CHI Workshop
Keyed Polar Coding for Physical-Layer Security without Channel State Information TMS Pinto, JP Vilela, MAC Gomes, WK Harrison ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-6
On Caching with Finite Blocklength Coding for Secrecy over the Binary Erasure Wiretap Channel WK Harrison, M Shoushtari 2021 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 1-6