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Over fifty different posters from universities across Florida competed in this year’s poster session. Only eight earned the distinction of Best Poster in specific categories. Get to know our poster winners and their work!

FICS Research held its second annual Conference on Cybersecurity this week at the University of Florida’s Emerson Alumni Hall.

CyberGators at FICS Research is as student-driven organization dedicated to advancing cybersecurity, privacy, and awareness.

Members of FICS Research have published two new books: Hardware IP Security and Trust and Hardware Protection through Obfuscation.

We are pleased to share that Professor Swarup Bhunia was recently awarded the title of Steven Yatauro Faculty Fellow for the excellence and dedication he has exemplified in his research efforts in the field of Electrical Engineering. The first to receive this honor through the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, Dr. Bhunia has been contributing […]

FICS Research Co-director, Prof. Patrick Traynor, who was also recently named the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering at the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department (CISE), was selected to be a CFI fellow by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. The CFI Fellows Program, which was […]

Professor Daniela Oliveira will be delivering a talk entitled Security for Vulnerable Populations – On the Interplay of Weapons of Influence and Life Domains in Predicting Older Adults Susceptibility to Spear Emails at this year’s USENIX ENIGMA Conference in Oakland, California on January 31, 2017. Abstract: Spear-phishing emails are used as a central component in many […]

Professor Mark Tehranipoor and Cisco System’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Edna Conway, will be delivering a joint talk entitled From Design to Resign: Securing the Electronics LifeCycle at this year’s RSA USA Conference in San Francisco, CA on February 16, 2017. The 2017 RSA USA Conference, which takes place from February 13-7, 2017, provides a public […]

Graduate students at FICS Research have developed a series of experimental printed-circuit boards (PCBs), unique to the University of Florida, that are being used to train the university’s first cohort of hardware-oriented cybersecurity experts. Designed in conjunction with FICS Research professors who teach hardware security courses and based on the practical theorem acquired from those […]

The Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research is pleased to announce the opening of the SeCurity and AssuraNce (SCAN) Lab, a 2,500 square foot security research laboratory housing over $7M in advanced scientific equipment (see our Facilities pages). The SCAN lab is made possible in part by a partnership between University of Florida and TESCAN […]