| Oakland University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education through academic year 2023. For more information click here |
| Our Ph.D. candidate, Hani Alshahrani, won the 1st Place ICCE 2018 (IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics) best poster video award for his presentation of his poster entitled "DDefender: Android Application Threat Detection Using Static and Dynamic Analysis." Congratulations Hani for your great work. |
| Among 21 teams from 3 universities participated in ISACA Scholarship Competition, our Ph.D. candidates, Ali Alshehri and Raed Alharthi, won the 1st Place in the 5th Annual Detroit Chapter ISACA Scholarship Competition. They won $4000 cash and OU earns the right to hold/display the ISACA Detroit trophy for one year. This competition is designed to enrich the experience of students by providing them a "real world" experience. The competition consists of a case study where contestants work on a case study and present their conclusions to a panel of industry professionals who will play the role of potential future employers. Congratulations Ali and Raed for your great work. |
| GenCyber summer camp 2018 program starts to accept application. To apply click here |
| 5th Annual Detroit Chapter ISACA Scholarship Competition ISACA Detroit is excited to announce our 5th Annual Scholarship Competition. This competition is designed to enrich the experience of students by providing them a “real world” experience. The competition consists of a case study where contestants work on a case study and present their conclusions to a panel of industry professionals who will play the role of potential future employers. The contestants not only have an excellent chance to win some cash, but the 1st place university also earns the right to display the ISACA Detroit trophy (just like a Stanley Cup) for the next year. So, let the competition begin. This year the competition will start on March 16, 2018 at 6 pm and end on March 18, 2018 at around 4 pm. Registration Link will be provided by mid-January 2018. The format of the competition is as follows: - You are free to form a team. It is recommended that the team is of two students, one with a background of IT auditing or assurance, and the second with a background of IT Security
- A university can send multiple teams to the competition
- Teams will be competing for three scholarships: 1st place is $4,000, 2nd place is $2,500 and 3rd place is $1,500. The winners will get a certificate and the 1st place team university will get the “ISACA Detroit Cup”. And of course all participants will get honorable mention on ISACA’s website and their monthly newsletter.
Like last year, it is also possible that the judges give out more than one 1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place awards. One year, we had two teams getting 1st place award of $4,000 each and two teams getting 3rd place award of $1,500 each - Teams will be issued a case study at 6 pm on March 16, 2018. Teams will be expected to work on the case study till Noon of March 18, 2018. At that time, the teams will present their report to the judges. This year, the presentation will be held at Oakland University, Elliott Hall, 275 Varner Drive, Rochester, MI 48309. The winners will be announced after all the teams have presented (around 3 pm on March 18, 2018).
- The case study will be made available on March 16, 2018 at 6 pm via email.
When:
March 16-18, 2018 6:00 PM - 4:00 PM Where:
Oakland University
Elliott Hall
275 Varner Drive
Rochester, Michigan 48309 Register |
| Cyber Security 2018: A Video presentation and discussion
We kick off the year with a look at how an actual cyber attack using ransomware took place in 2017, paralysing the UK's National Health Service (NHS). In 2017, the NHS was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - BBC Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS. On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on every screen a simple - some may even say polite - message appeared. 'Ooops, your files have been encrypted!' But what followed was far from civilised. It was very clear that all the data on an infected machine was now scrambled and only the hackers could unscramble it. For a price - and with an extra twist - after a few days the ransom money doubled, and if nothing was paid within a week, the hackers threatened to destroy all the data - forever. Following this there will a general discussion, Q&A and update on the current state of Meltdown and Spectre (recent hard flaws and issues with current processor chips). Date: 25 January 2018
Time: 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM
115 Library Drive
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309
Building: Engineering Center
Room Number: EC 254 |
| Oakland University hosted the GrizzHacks competition which brought together the greatest young minds for two days of excitement and technological passion. For more information click here |
| REU: OU has successfully hosted the UnCoRe program. For more information click here |
| OU has successfully hosted the GenCyber summer camp program that has delivered substantive cybersecurity training to upper elementary (4th, 5th and 6th grades), middle school, and high school students in Detroit Urban Area (Macomb county, Oakland county and Wayne county). For more information click here |
| Doctoral student wins Best Full Paper Award at 12th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISRC 2017), Oak Ridge, Tennessee.. For more information click here |
| GenCyber summer camp program starts to accept application. To apply click here |
| REU: UnCoRe program is open to accept applications now. The application deadline is February 28th, 2017. To apply click here |
| OU has successfully hosted the GenCyber summer camp program that has delivered substantive cybersecurity training to upper elementary (4th, 5th and 6th grades), middle school, and high school students in Detroit Urban Area (Macomb county, Oakland county and Wayne county). For more information click here |
| GenCyber summer camp program starts to accept application. To apply click here |
