Our faculty and students are making headlines with novel approaches to cybersecurity. Read about their projects and discoveries.
February 13, 2025Jamie Wheeler brings years of real-world experience to the George Mason Cyber Security capstone course.
February 6, 2025George Mason’s EAGLE program, funded by a $3.9 million NSF grant, will support cybersecurity students aiming to work for U.S. government agencies after graduation. The program offers substantial financial support, expert guidance, and hands-on experience through internships.
January 28, 2025Mohamed Gebril is leading a project to enhance threat detection and cybersecurity response mechanisms using generative AI and large language models (LLMs). He aims to automate traditionally manual processes and develop novel methods to detect and mitigate prompt injection attacks, ultimately creating more effective threat detection systems.
January 27, 2025Evgenios Kornaropoulos received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $648,811 for work on privacy and data security under the title “Encrypted Systems with Fine-Grained Leakage.”
January 27, 2025Students from George Mason University’s Competitive Cybersecurity (MCC) club have dominated in multiple national competitions. The team got 1st place in the 2024 VMI CyberFusion and 2nd place in the 2024 Spring National Cyber League. Next, the students will be competing in the inaugural DistrictCon Hacker Conference on February 21-22.
December 3, 2024Dylan Knoff, president of Mason Competitive Cyber, recently competed internationally as a member of the U.S. Cyber Team.
November 1, 2024Matt Jablonski has been a researcher at George Mason for over a decade. This semester, he joined the faculty.
November 1, 2024A student team from George Mason University’s Center for Secure Information Systems won first place and a prize of $60,000 in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Cyber Resiliency and Measurement Challenge in October 2024.
October 21, 2024Over the past year, George Mason professor Moinul Hossain contributed to a research initiative aimed at ensuring the safety and integrity of 5G networks used by the United States military.
October 17, 2024October is Cybersecurity Month and a good time to check up on the best ways to stay “cyber smart” across all the digital platforms in your life.
October 11, 2024On October 9, 2024, the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s Northern Virginia Node accelerator program (CCI+A) culminated in a final pitch competition at Mason Square.
October 4, 2024A George Mason law school alum returned to his alma mater to teach College of Engineering and Computing students about cybersecurity.