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This past Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida and FICS Research member, Daniela Oliveira, led the second in a two-part series of workshops aimed at promoting collaboration between US and Brazilian researchers in developing innovative solutions to current and emerging cyber security and privacy […]

Reverse engineering (RE) is a process in which the goal is to reproduce, duplicate, or enhance chips and systems based on the study of an original object and/or system. For electronic systems, reverse engineering (RE) could be performed at chip, board, and system levels. Electronic RE intentions include verification of a design for the purposes […]

Zimu is a FICS Research student who is currently working towards a doctoral degree under the tutelage of Dr. Forte, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UF. He received a B.S. in Automation and Control from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China and an M.E in Electrical Engineering from SUNY at […]

Regarded as the greatest distinction bestowed upon only ten students of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering each academic year, the Attributes of a Gator Engineer Awards recognize five undergraduate and five PhD students who exemplify the five qualities all UF engineers are encouraged to espouse: 1. Creativity, 2. Leadership, 3. Integrity, 4. Professional Excellence, […]

Researchers in UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering such as Domenic Forte are developing new ways to keep us safe and secure in our increasingly digital lives.

While President Obama was signing executive orders on Tuesday to strengthen the government’s defenses against cyber security attacks and proposing a $19 billion budget for for IT upgrades and cyber initiatives in the coming year, the newly formed Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, or FICS Research, was holding its first annual conference at the University […]

JANUARY 20, 2016, Daniela Oliveira , a professor in the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, thinks a bit of unpredictability could help outsmart malware. That’s the logic behind Chameleon, the operating system she’s developing with colleagues at UF, Stony Brook University and the University of California, Davis. Source: http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2016/01/defending-your-computer-from-cyber-attacks-sun-tzu-style-.php

On December 1, 2015, Ms. Donna Dodson, Deputy Cyber Security Advisor at NIST, accompanied by Chancellor Criser III, gave a presentation on “Cybersecurity and NIST” which explains the role played by NIST in research and development of technologies to provide protections for information and the communication infrastructure as well as the needed standards, tests and metrics for those […]

The researchers at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research , or FICS, provide the highest level of expertise to government, industry and academia in all aspects of cybersecurity and assurance – including hardware, networks, mobile, Big Data, biometrics, Internet of Things (IOT), applied cryptography, nanoscale, social sciences and law. Today, they are offering up these […]

On November 17, 2015, Prof. Patrick Traynor participated in the Washington Journal’s “Sunshine State Tour” series and talked about the development of cybersecurity infrastructure, current cybersecurity challenges, and what government and the private sector can do to combat threats. He spoke from the C-SPAN 2016 Campaign Bus, parked at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Source: http://www.c-span.org/video/?400479-5/washington-journal-patrick-traynor-internet-security