Undergraduate Research Cybersecurity Workshop
Tuesday December 1st, 2020 – 5:00-7:00 pm
Online
- Department of Integrated Information Technology (IIT)
- The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
- University of South Carolina
Overview
South Carolina (SC) has many key national facilities, each with its own cybersecurity needs. These include the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Fort Jackson, Shaw Air Force Base, and others. According to 2018 estimates, the Department of Defense (DoD) has been struggling to hire more than 8,000 cyber positions1
Supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), UofSC is addressing the cybersecurity workforce needs by implementing an IT program with strong cybersecurity components, in partnership with the industry. In this workshop, STEM students, ROTC cadets, and veterans at UofSC will present their undergraduate research work on cybersecurity. For additional information about the ONR project, please visit the website ONR
Reference: 1 J. Lynch, “Inside the Pentagon’s Struggle to Build a Cyber Force,” Fifth Domain publication, October 29, 2018. Online: Link.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Welcome from the project team [pptx] | President Caslen, Project team: Jorge Crichigno, John Gerdes, Major Knight, Jodi Salter |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection with Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) [pptx, video] | Dakota McDaniel, Brian Nelson |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Mitigating Routing Hijacking Attacks [pptx, video] | Cadets Jack Sadle, Matthew Driver |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Protection against Reconnaissance and Scan Attacks [pptx, video] | Cadet Christopher Ngo, Kyle Radzak |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Site to site VPN with NGFWs [pptx, video] | Nathan Bohmer, Josue Hernandez |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Protection against Bruteforce Attacks with NGFW (ncrack) [pptx, video] | Cadet Brendan Curran, Lauren Waddell |
| 18:30 – 18:45 | Site to site VPN with routers [pptx] | Navy Veteran Ryan Tallent |
| 18:45 – 19:00 | An open-source library for computer networks and cybersecurity [pptx, video] | Keegan Sprankle |
| 19:00 | Concluding remarks | Project team |
| Workshop | Video | Chat |
Presenters’ Bio
For additional information about the presenters, please refer to Bio