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New podcast co-hosted by Hopkins expert explores cybersecurity, phishing, and ways people fall for online scams

August 23, 2018

Cybercriminals are continually thinking up new ways to manipulate online users into giving up their private information. Social engineering attacks, an increasingly common hacking technique, allows scammers to target vulnerable individuals through illicit and deceptive methods. Experts at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute have teamed up with the Cyberwire, a Baltimore-based cyber-security news […]

ISI Promotes Cybersecurity Education in Liberal Arts Colleges

August 2, 2018

In late spring, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) and College of Charleston hosted a two-and-a half-day workshop on cybersecurity education materials for liberal arts colleges. Thirty professors, undergraduates, and high school students convened on the College of Charleston campus in Charleston, South Carolina. Facilitated by two Master of Science in Security Informatics […]

Hopkins Mechanical Engineering students Partner with the Information Security Institute to Assess Security of Authentication System

March 19, 2018

Senior Mechanical Engineering (ME) students have developed an authentication and authorization system that will be used to grant or deny access to machinery in the Whiting School’s machine shop. In order to use a machine in the machine shop, a person must have been trained on that machine and have a budget to which machine […]

How Secure Is Mobile Banking? ISI’s Joe Carrigan, The Wall Street Journal

March 19, 2018

Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute’s Senior Security Engineer Joe Carrigan on the safety of mobile banking, ‘I wouldn’t do mobile banking with a bank that doesn’t have some kind of two-factor authentication.” Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal >>

Johns Hopkins Researchers and OnBoard Security Team Up to Protect Drones

February 23, 2018

Graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) teamed up with OnBoard Security, a company that develops products for vehicle communication security, to develop a system to protect safety-related messages transmitted between two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s), often called “drones.” This collaboration succeeded at implementing a secured type of Sense and Avoid […]

The Future of Blockchain

September 14, 2017

Nine years ago this October, a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitiled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” on a cryptography mailing list. The subsequent years have made for an electrifying ride. Once valued at a rate of 10,000 Bitcoins for a pizza, this September the price of Bitcoin reached a […]

4th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives is approaching

September 5, 2017

Computer breaches seem to be increasing in frequency and severity around the world, causing the leadership of organizations large and small to assess whether they’re doing enough to protect their data. At the 4th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, hosted by COMPASS Cyber Security and the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, leading-edge presenters […]

Centers for Academic Excellence Partners with JHUISI to Provide Educational Opportunities for Local Community College Students

September 5, 2017

The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) was recently awarded a grant from the Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE). The grant funds JHUISI to develop a distributable course to introduce community college students to topics at the forefront of cybersecurity research. “There is a real shortage of people to fill the cybersecurity positions in […]

WSE In The News
Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck, JHUISI’ Matt Green, Wired

April 13, 2017

Matthew Green comments on a recent lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch to obtain encrypted messages and communications sent by EPA employees.

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JHUISI Capstones at a Glance

February 9, 2017

Conducting research is the signature of the Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI) program experience at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI). Students present their research as capstone projects. Students pursue independent research on a question or problem of their choice, engage with the scholarly debates in the relevant disciplines, and – with […]

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WSE In The News Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck, JHUISI’ Matt Green, Wired

WSE In The News
Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck, JHUISI’ Matt Green, Wired