Students aren’t just learning from cybersecurity professionals at UNLV, they are becoming them.
Several graduate students joined the university's Information Security Office a few years ago to apply their classroom knowledge to real-world scenarios. Today, student workers are going above and beyond to help ensure their campus community stays safe online.
As the demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals continues to grow, so do the resources to help students in the university’s new bachelors in cybersecurity program, where students are gaining skills and certifications to make them more competitive in the job market.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the online world, sometimes in ways that make scams more convincing than ever. From realistic emails to cloned voices and fake videos, digital deception is evolving fast. So how can you stay safe in the age of AI?
The average person spends over 6 hours online each day or a total of 91 days every year surfing the web, according to a report by DataReportal. Whether you use your time online to read work emails or scroll social media feeds, you will likely encounter some suspicious activity.
Investigating cybersecurity threats and creating top-notch automated responses came naturally to UNLV students as they faced off against hundreds of cybersecurity experts.
On April 16, student workers from our Information Security Office (ISO) joined Splunk's Southwest Boss of the SOC (BOTS) competition. The competition presented a capture the flag style experience for students, cybersecurity professionals, and educators to solve problems resembling common challenges faced by experts in the cybersecurity field.
When logging into your ACE account, you might be prompted to “verify it’s you.” This is called multifactor authentication (MFA). Although it may seem like an additional step in your busy schedule, it’s an important part of keeping your login information safe.
From taking notes in class to applying what they’ve learned to real world scenarios, seven student employees joined UNLV’s Information Security Office (ISO) this past summer to refine what they’ve been learning in their master’s program and continue adding on skills needed for their future careers. The students joined the team starting this May as graduate students pursuing their master’s degree in management information systems (MIS) or computer science and economics.
Several employees and student workers from UNLV Information Technology (IT) helped run this year’s Black Hat USA, an internationally recognized cybersecurity event series that provides cutting-edge research, developments, and trends in the world of information security. The event lasts over a six-day period, this year gaining over 20,000 attendees, in which our team helped to maintain.