The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou’s research on “Raising Flags: Detecting Covert Storage Channels Using Relative Entropy” has been selected for presentation at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. The conference will be held July 22-24, 2017 in Beijing, China. Her research was co-authored with Dr. Josephine Chow…
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Cyber Club Hacked to Top Prize at Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition
When it comes to cyber security, no other university in South Carolina hacked it as well as the College of Charleston last weekend. That’s because students in the College’s Cybersecurity Club took home the top prize at the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition on Sunday, April 10, 2017, at Trident Technical College in North Charleston…
CS Students Participate in National Cyber League Season Games
During the Fall 2016 semester, the Department of Computer Science had students participate in the National Cyber League (NCL). The NCL provides an ongoing virtual training ground for collegiate students to develop, practice, and validate their cybersecurity skills using next-generation high-fidelity simulation environments with individual and team games. The content of the competition involves solving…
Student Spotlight: Maz Little, Research Accepted at International Conference for Internet Technology & Secured Transactions
Congratulations to Maz Little for the acceptance of his research, “Temporal Resource Scheduling Equity,” to be presented at the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST). The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 5-7, 2016. Little will present remotely and will be published in the IEEE digital library. Little…
Looking for a Career in Cybersecurity?
With never-ending cyber attacks on corporate and personal assets, society needs experienced, skilled professionals to protect and defend. According to the bureau of labor statistics, the job growth is 18% and with a 1.5 million predicted global shortfall by 2020, cyber security professionals will continue to be in high demand. Check out the following stats…
Alexandrea Mellen Talks App Development and Entrepreneurship
By Zachary Elmer April 15, 2013. That was the day Alexandrea Mellen’s life changed. As a spectator at the Boston Marathon, she walked by the finish line shortly before the first bomb went off. She remembered how people ran in to help those who were hurt after the event, and from then on she knew she…
CyberPaths: Broadening the Path to the STEM Profession Through Cybersecurity Learning
By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou The project CyberPaths started from a need and perfect timing of events… or you could call it, a perfect storm! I was in a small teaching school, without sanitized cybersecurity labs, even worse I did not have a way to perform simple computer network experiments for my research and teaching. Receiving my…
What Does “hacker” Really Mean?
By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou What does the word “hacker” really mean? If you search for the definition online, you will find that it is “a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc.: a person who hacks into a computer system” [1]. Today the word hacker…
CS Student Organization: Cybersecurity Club
As the department continues to celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), this week’s blog will feature the Cyber Security Club. Officially sanctioned on November 11th, 2014, the cyber security club is a student-led, student-run group that focuses on the security and privacy within all realms of information technology. With Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou as the…
New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou
Kicking off National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome a new faculty member with a specialization in cyber security, Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou. Dr. X, as she prefers, brings with her a wealth of knowledge and academic experience, along with a $300k NSF grant to integrate cyber security…