Category: Cyber Security

It's all over the news, it's all over your phone; it's in your wallet, and it's in your home. What is it? Cybersecurity. What once was only in the realm of the defense industry and government agencies, cybersecurity concerns have…

This report was written by Michalis Kallitsis and Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan. In the last quarter of 2016 we were introduced to new types of devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, namely attacks based on vulnerable or unsecured Internet-of-Things (IoT)…

The Michigan Cyber Security Lab, the newest Michigan Cyber Range Hub, opened today at Wayne State University's Advanced Technology Education Center in Warren. WSU's lab provides space for cyber security training, business services and hands-on educational opportunities through the College…

The most important asset to a company is its data. In the event of a technical failure or glitch, the loss of data, customer records, business plans and intellectual property can be devastating. Statistics show that without proper backups, two-thirds…

At a recent conference sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), there was a lot of discussion on the huge gap between supply and demand in the cybersecurity industry. The audience was a mix of academics, government…

This year's Merit Security Summit brought together Merit Members for a day of thoughful discussions and engaging presentations related to cybersecurity. The keynote address by J. Alex Halderman, professor of computer science and engineering director at the University of Michigan's…

Good news for anyone struggling with reports or aligning two behemoth frameworks for compliance reports, the Michigan Cyber Range has formally mapped its exercises to the NIST 800 Cyber Security Framework to better assist our membership. The NIST 800 Framework…

Major web based services, including Twitter, Netflix, Amazon Web Services and Spotify were offline for most of the day last week, due to a large-scale Distributed Denial of Service attack. This onslaught targeted the home routers, DVRs and webcams of…

High School teams from across Michigan came to the 2016 North American International Cyber Summit (NAICS) at Cobo Center in Detroit on October 17, 2016, for the finals of the High School Cyber Challenge, a cybersecurity competition created by Governor…

The Security at University of Michigan IT 2016 (SUMIT_2016) Conference will bring cybersecurity experts from across the United States to Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 20, 2016. The free annual event is now in its 12th year, and much has…