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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.

FICS Research Director of Education Named Mark Yatauro Faculty Fellow 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 […]

FICS Research Co-director Selected to Aid in Global Financial Inclusion Efforts 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 […]

FICS Research Diversity Director to Present at USENIX ENIGMA 2017 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. […]

FICS Co-Director and Cisco CSO Team up at 2017 USA RSA Conference 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 […]

FICS Research Students Develop Experimental PCBs for Cybersecurity Research Training 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 […]

New SeCurity and AssuraNce (SCAN) Lab Now Operational 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 […]