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Competition Results 2021-2022 season

April 28, 2022 09:43 AM
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition - 1st place - Kate Boekweg, Melanie Pierce, Kira Gedris, Quincy Taylor, Anna Pratt, Micheal Erickson, Richard Fountain, Jackson Thatcher
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Ten Tips for Success in the BYU Cybersecurity Program

October 29, 2021 11:53 AM
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?
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Enowars Competition Report 2021

October 29, 2021 11:34 AM
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.
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BYU team wins cash prizes for CTF write ups at UIUCTF 2021

August 23, 2021 08:43 AM
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
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BYU CTF team places 30th of 602

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
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Cybersecurity Teacher Training Finishes with Success

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.
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The Youth Are the Digital Future

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.
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BYU Announces New BS in Cybersecurity

July 21, 2020 01:59 PM
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.
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Research

Cyber Due Diligence

Cyber Due Diligence
ET Jensen, S Watts
Oklahoma Law Review, 2021

Increasing Cybersecurity Career Interest through Playable Case Studies

Increasing Cybersecurity Career Interest through Playable Case Studies
Justin Scott Giboney, Jason K McDonald, Jonathan Balzotti, Derek L Hansen, Desiree M Winters, Elizabeth Bonsignore
TechTrends, 1-15

The abacus

The abacus: A new architecture for policy-based authorization
J Siebach, J Giboney
Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 7055

A Social Engineering Victim Chatbot to Teach Adversarial Thinking

A Social Engineering Victim Chatbot to Teach Adversarial Thinking
J Giboney, R Schuetzler, M Grimes, I Dayley
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2021

To Disclose or Not to Disclose

To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Examining the Privacy Decision-Making Processes of Older vs. Younger Adults
R Ghaiumy Anaraky, KA Byrne, PJ Wisniewski, X Page, B Knijnenburg
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A Peek Into the DNS Cookie Jar

A Peek Into the DNS Cookie Jar
J Davis, C Deccio
Passive and Active Measurement: 22nd International Conference, PAM 2021

Mitigating the security intention-behavior gap

Mitigating the security intention-behavior gap: The moderating role of required effort on the intention-behavior relationship
J Jenkins, A Durcikova, JF Nunamaker Jr
Journal of the Association for Information Systems 22 (1), 1