National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) Program Criteria for Measurement

Florida A&M University - CRITERIA 6 Description: Student-based IA/Cybersecurity research - The academic program encourages research in IA.  Provide examples.  This criterion focuses on STUDENT-based research and is important because research fuels the relevancy and currency of IA curricula.

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A.  Program with IA/Cybersecurity focus has thesis, dissertation, student papers, or project requirements.  Provide links to 5-10 best thesis, dissertation, student papers, or projects in IA within 3 years of application.. Graduate Student (IA Related) Thesis, Presentations, & Papers: Jude Desti (M.S., Graduate:  Fall 2010) Thesis Title:  A Framework for Smart Trusted Indicators for Browsers (STIB) Poster Presentation at ADMI 2009 (Won 1st Place) Oral Presentation at ADMI 2010 Publication:  Jude Desti, Hongmei Chi: A Framework for Smart Trusted Indicators for Browsers (STIB). Security and Management 2010: 361-367 Will Davis (M.S., Graduate:  Spring 2011) Thesis Title:  Cyber Threat Analysis for University Networks via Honeypots Poster Presentation at TAPIA 2011 Paper Presentation at ACMSE 2011 Paper Presentation at InfoSecCD 2010 (Won Best Paper) Indira Gandham (M.S., Graduate:  Fall 2011) Thesis Title: A Framework for Designing Smart Alumni Systems Paper Presentation at ADMI 2011 Maynard Yates (M.S., Exp. Graduate:  Spring 2012) Thesis Title: A Practical Study of Digital Forensics Tools for Mobile Device  Poster Presentation at ADMI 2010 Paper Presentation at  InfoSecCD 2010 Maynard Yates, II. 2010. Practical investigations of digital forensics tools for mobile devices. In 2010 Information Security Curriculum Development Conference (InfoSecCD '10) Paper Presentation at  ACMSE 2011: Paper:  Maynard Yates and Hongmei Chi. 2011. A framework for designing benchmarks of investigating digital forensics tools for mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Southeast Regional Conference (ACM-SE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 179-184 Poster Presentation at STARS Celebration 2010 NSBE Oral/Paper Presentation - 2010 Region 3 Fall Regional Conference Technical Research Exhibition (Won 1st Place) Poster & Oral/Paper Presentation - 37th National Convention (2011) Technical Research Exhibition Jamilia L. Clary (M.S., Exp. Graduate:  Spring 2012) Thesis Title:  A Practical Investigation on Browser Extensions for Security Vulnerabilities John Brown, Jr. (M.S., Exp. Graduate:  Summer 2012) Thesis Title: A Framework for Teaching Secure Coding to STEM students Undergraduate Student (IA Related) Papers, Presentations, & Projects: (2011) Xavier Simms - Project Title: Tools for Encryptions and Website Vulnerability Testing (2011) Robert Dunn - Project Title:  Parallel Computing in Cloud Environments (2011) Crystal Williams - Project Title:  Digital Forensics Tools for Identifying Fake Pictures (Stenography) (2011) Canli Wang - Project Title:  Visualization Tools for STEM Education (2011) Alex Mack - Project Title:  Database Security in Social Networking Environments (2010) Dwayne E. Shelton - Project Title: Tools for Social Networking Sites (2009) Matthew Blam (from Centenary College of Louisiana) - Project Title: Parallel Progams vis Skeletons (2009) TaCoria Jones - Project Title: Tools for Identifying Doctored Images (2009) Kevin Lawrence - Project Title: Framework for the Design of Web-based Learning for Digital Forensics (2009) Rodney Dubose - Project Title: Network Forensics: parallel computing (2009)  Jarrod Williams - Project Title:  RBAC for e-Healthcare Systems (2009) Solange1 Artie - Project Title: A Framework Based on Ontology for the Semantic Web

B.  List IA/Cybersecurity courses that require research papers(s) or virtual/physical lab project(s).  Provide IA course titles that require these papers/lab projects within 3 years of application.  Provide link to course syllabus. CIS 4360:  Introduction to Computer Security <Syllabus> CIS 4361:  Applied Security <Syllabus> CNT 4406:  Network Security and Cryptography <Syllabus> CIS 4385:  Digital Forensics <Syllabus> CNT 5412:  Network Security, Active & Passive Defenses <Syllabus> CIS 5396:  Cyber Security Forensics <Syllabus>