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NittanyGenCyber Camp

IST hosts cybersecurity training for middle and high school STEM educators

8/8/18

Twenty-six middle and high school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers from school districts in seven states participated in the first-of-its-kind NittanyGenCyber Camp, held July 30 through Aug. 3 in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The educators gained hands-on experience on how to bring fundamental cybersecurity principles and their intersection with data science into the classroom.

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Peng Liu awarded IST’s first Professorship in Cybersecurity

5/29/18

Peng Liu, professor of information sciences and technology, was recently awarded the first Raymond G. Tronzo, MD Professorship in Cybersecurity by the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The professorship will help the college recruit and retain leading faculty in support of the college’s newly created Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations bachelor’s degree program.

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College of IST offers weeklong teacher camp on cybersecurity

5/15/18

The College of Information Sciences and Technology will host the "NittanyGenCyber Teacher Camp" July 30 to Aug. 3 at University Park. The event will prepare middle and high school STEM educators to deliver lessons focused on cybersecurity and data sciences.

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Penn State IST team places second in National Cyber Analyst Challenge

4/26/18

A team of students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology is helping to put Penn State’s cybersecurity-related programs in the national spotlight following a second place finish at the National Cyber Analyst Challenge (NCAC), which concluded April 12-13. It is the third consecutive year that the University’s team reached the finals of the competition that aims to support the development of the nation’s best students pursuing cyber-related degrees.

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Students ready for third consecutive National Cyber Analyst Challenge finals

4/2/18

A team of students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will compete in the National Cyber Analyst Challenge in Philadelphia on April 12-13. The challenge tasks undergraduate teams with analyzing a cyberattack on a fictitious company and presenting findings over three unique phases.

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IST class helps Penn State place fourth in NSA Codebreaker Challenge

3/7/18

Thanks to help from students in Xinyu Xing's security and risk analysis class, Penn State recently placed fourth in the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge, which tasks students with solving different cybersecurity issues. Penn State’s fourth-place finish is the University’s highest.

Dinghao Wu, associate professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, has received a $3.6 million grant to support reverse engineering software.

Professor receives $3.6 million grant to support cybersecurity retrofitting

1/24/18

Across all sectors and industry, including the government and military, legacy software remains critically important, but increasingly difficult, to maintain. A new grant to support reverse engineering software has been received by faculty in the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

Increased cybersecurity measures to be added to Penn State wireless service

12/5/17

To increase cybersecurity measures at Penn State and ensure the reliability of the University’s network Penn State IT will be installing a new firewall platform in front of Penn State’s wireless service on Jan. 4, 2018. This change should be transparent and have no impact to Penn State wireless users. However, applications that don’t adhere to the new firewall rulesets based on Administrative Policy AD95 may be blocked.

Peng Liu received an award from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the following project, “Building an Active Cyber Defense Toolkit based on Actionable Impact Analysis in Cloud Computing.”

IST research to help ward against cyberattacks

10/16/17

Thanks to new research from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, there may be a new way to help organizations mitigate the wave of disruption left in the wake of a cyberattack.

Diana L. Tronzo, who has endowed the professorship, with Dean Andrew Sears.

New IST professorship in cybersecurity honors alumnus, late husband

9/12/17

Through a $1 million gift, Diana L. Tronzo has endowed the Raymond G. Tronzo, MD Professorship in Cybersecurity in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The professorship, named in honor of Raymond G. Tronzo, Tronzo’s late husband and a Penn State alumnus, will help the college recruit and retain leading faculty in support of its newly created Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations bachelor’s degree program.

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Department of Defense honors IST senior with SMART scholarship

6/28/17

Luke Gleba, a third-year senior majoring in security and risk analysis, was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service. Gleba was one of 250 awardees selected from thousands of applicants.

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