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Cybersecurity & Compliance Department

The Cybersecurity & Compliance Department trains security specialists able to take responsibility for data security and regulatory compliance across research infrastructure. Students complete projects in zero-trust network architecture (ZTNA) design, PKI/certificate management, SIEM-based threat detection with ELK and Wazuh, and applying ISO 27001/GDPR compliance frameworks. Graduates head into the workforce having already lived through the full security cycle as project work — access-control policy design, threat detection and response, and regulatory audit readiness.

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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Symmetric-Key Cryptography & Block Cipher Design
Symmetric-Key Cryptography & Block Cipher Design
Block-cipher design engineers invertibility and computational hardness together.…
Horst Feistel
Stream Ciphers & One-Time Pad / Perfect-Secrecy Encryption
Stream Ciphers & One-Time Pad / Perfect-Secrecy Encryption
The one-time pad is the theoretical limiting case of perfect secrecy. This cours…
Gilbert Vernam
Cryptographic Hash Functions & Message/Certificate Integrity
Cryptographic Hash Functions & Message/Certificate Integrity
Hash functions let a small digest stand in for a much larger object. This course…
Hans Dobbertin
Public-Key Infrastructure & Certificate-Based Trust Foundations
Public-Key Infrastructure & Certificate-Based Trust Foundations
PKI establishes trust between parties who have never met through certificate cha…
James H. Ellis
Classical Cryptanalysis Methodology & Cipher-Breaking
Classical Cryptanalysis Methodology & Cipher-Breaking
Classical cryptanalysis reconstructs mechanisms without the machine in hand. Thi…
Marian Rejewski
Formal Access-Control & Capability-Based Security Models
Formal Access-Control & Capability-Based Security Models
Capability-based security represents access rights directly as unforgeable token…
Norman Hardy
Trusted Computing Base, Security Evaluation Criteria & Early Firewalls
Trusted Computing Base, Security Evaluation Criteria & Early Firewalls
The trusted computing base is the minimal set necessary and sufficient to enforc…
Stephen T. Walker
System Vulnerability Analysis & Penetration Testing Methodology
System Vulnerability Analysis & Penetration Testing Methodology
Penetration testing probes the deployed system itself. This course teaches the w…
Paul A. Karger
Intrusion Detection, Reference Monitors & SIEM Foundations
Intrusion Detection, Reference Monitors & SIEM Foundations
Intrusion detection is continuous surveillance beyond the access-control gate. T…
James P. Anderson
Computer Security Risk Assessment & Tiger-Team Testing
Computer Security Risk Assessment & Tiger-Team Testing
Risk assessment ranks security investments on evidence. This course teaches weig…
Willis H. Ware
Data Privacy, Fair Information Practices & GDPR Heritage
Data Privacy, Fair Information Practices & GDPR Heritage
Fair information practices redefine privacy as control rather than secrecy. This…
Alan F. Westin
Computer Crime Research & Security Governance (ISMS/ISO 27001 Heritage)
Computer Crime Research & Security Governance (ISMS/ISO 27001 Heritage)
Security governance builds management systems from real computer-crime case reco…
Donn B. Parker
Malware Analysis & Ransomware Defense
Malware Analysis & Ransomware Defense
Malware analysis reverse-engineers the attacker's weapon itself. This course tea…
Peter Szor
Network Security Architecture & Security Engineering (Zero-Trust Heritage)
Network Security Architecture & Security Engineering (Zero-Trust Heritage)
Network security engineering takes shared infrastructure itself as the unit of a…
Dan Kaminsky