Principal Investigator: Dr. Debbie Perouli

All scholars and co-PI Yu Keyang attended the SFS Job Fair in Washington DC. The CyberWIN program was presented on a poster at the Job Fair.
Congratulations to Marine Bruno! She has successfully graduated from the SFS CyberWIN program. First graduate!!
CyberWIN had a booth at the SysLogic MKE Cybersecurity Summit. Thank you to everyone who stopped by!
The scholars participated in several competitions: National Cyber League, Wisconsin Governor's HTB competition, WI Gov Cybersecurity Summit.
The second cohort of three students has been accepted to CyberWIN. The first cohort scholars fulfilled their internship obligation during the summer months.
Alex Gebhard, PhD candidate presented “Examining the Security of the CIP and OPC UA Industrial Protocols” .
The presentation “Data Pipelining and SIEM Strategy for Cyber Defense” by Mr. Julian Singkham, Rockwell Automation Engineer , was received with interest from the scholars and others.
The scholars and co-PI Dr. Tom Kaczmarek traveled to Washington DC to participate at the SFS Job Fair.
CyberWIN scholars measured their knowledge at the Department of Energy CyberForce 2023 competition.
Alex Gebhard, a CyberWIN scholar, presented his research poster titled "Measuring Adoption of SPF, DMARC, and CAA DNS Records with Nonfederal Governments in the United States" at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2023) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Graphs of the measurements can be found here. You can see the raw files collected for a specific government domain by typing the following at your own browser:
https://ohio.securegovernment.us/api/<domain>
We are delighted to welcome our first ever CyberWIN scholars!
Marquette University has signed an Educational Partnership Agreement with the National Security Agency (NSA). Marquette students had the opportunity to attend two virtual sessions led by an NSA expert on software reverse engineering with Ghidra.
CyberWIN PI, Dr. Perouli, participated on a panel about "Fair & Ethical AI". The talk was part of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute's (NMDSI) inaugural symposium.
We had the priviledge to host at Marquette Drs. Mike Ham and Kyle Cronin, who are the PIs of the Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Dakota State Univeristy (DSU). As part of their visit, Dr. Ham spoke during our Computer Science department's colloquium about the SFS program at DSU.
Wisconsin's largest hacker's conference, CypherCon, returned to Milwaukee for its 6th iteration. More than 50 Marquette students attended the event. Andrew Paullin, a Marquette Masters student in the Information Assurance and Cyber Defense specialization, spoke on the importance of team-based cybersecurity tournaments.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Drs. Debbie Perouli, Keke Chen, and Tom Kaczmarek a $2.6 million grant under the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. For more, please consult the NSF award information and the corresponding Marquette news story.
The award ceremony in Washington, D.C. was attended by (from left to right):