Researchers at Illinois Tech’s College of Computing keep pushing to find further limits of software, system, network, and artificial intelligence security, as well as cryptography and privacy issues.
Student Research
Building a Cyber Range
Illinois Tech students recently built a cyber range web application to help give their fellow students a safe space to practice cybersecurity skills.
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Cyberattacks on the ‘Invisible Battlefield’
A team of Illinois Tech student researchers have broken down how hackers implemented cyberattacks as a new weapon of war during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a recently published paper.
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Cracking Codes in Pen Testing
Illinois Tech’s CyberHawks cybersecurity student organization competed in a real-world penetration testing contest.
Read MoreFeatured Faculty
Yousef Elmehdwi
Associate Chair
Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Farzaneh Derakhshan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Maurice E. Dawson
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education
Yanxue Jia
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Nik Sultana
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Jeremy Hajek
Industry Associate Professor, Information Technology and Management
Graduate and Undergraduate Advisor
Research
Research Centers
C2SAFE
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency have designated Illinois Tech as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education.