Cae-r application Narrative New cae applicants a. Cd research Initiatives
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- 2. Research Rating
- DIGITAL FORENSICS Full Time Faculty Dr. Sanjay Goel
- DIGITAL FORENSICS Part-Time Faculty Deb Snyder
- COMPUTER SCIENCE Full Time Faculty Paliath Narendran
- FACULTY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Data Mgmt Systems Security
- Industrial Control Systems / SCADA
- Network Security Engineering
- Secure Mobile Technology
- Secure Software Development
- Secure Telecommunications
- Security Incident Analysis
- Systems Security Engineering
- CD Research Expertise/Impact
- 5. Graduate Level Production Number of Students
- Relevant Student Papers
- 7. Subject Matter Preparation
- List of CAE CD-R Documents
- Publications and Research (publications)
- 6. Research Funding (research)
| CAE-R Application Narrative
1. New CAE Applicants a. CD Research Initiatives UAlbany has developed a strong portfolio of research and educational programs in cybersecurity that extends across three colleges: the School of Business; the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity; and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The Digital Forensics department in the School of Business is less than three years old, but built on a strong, decade-long foundation of information security research and pedagogy. The undergraduate program in Digital Forensics, established in 2014, is a restricted CPA program (3.25 and above), which already has 186 students enrolled. The program has two dedicated cyber defense teaching labs with their own quarantined network. In addition, there is a cybersecurity research lab in which undergraduate students can participate in research projects, under the supervision of doctoral students. A Digital Forensics Masters program is in the University development and approval process, with an expected launch date of Fall, 2018. A one-year, 36-credit program, it will have two tracks: Security Data Analytics and Digital Forensics. The doctoral program is a multidisciplinary program shared across multiple colleges, with a specific track for Information Security. Cybersecurity pedagogy research has increased the hands-on components of the University’s Digital Forensics curriculum, improving its relevance, and broadening and deepening student engagement. Curriculum based on active engagement and research means students are solving complex problems individually and in groups, informed by government and industry partners. Associate Dean of Cybersecurity Dr. Sanjay Goel has developed pedagogical concepts of flipped classrooms and a “teaching hospital” in the context of cybersecurity education, encouraging students to crystallize theoretical knowledge into field knowledge, and to learn by doing. Security problems from the department’s partners in New York state government and law enforcement agencies are introduced, solved and abstracted into living cases for curriculum dissemination. The Digital Forensics program harnesses the strengths of the School of Business, the School of Criminal Justice, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, and the College of Computing and Information. This interdisciplinary approach educates students in the protection, defense, and investigation of information and information systems in industry state and federal governments, and not-for-profit environments. The faculty reflects the interdisciplinary breadth and depth of the cyber defense field, from well-published academic cybersecurity scholars, to practitioners with lifelong experience in police forensics, to the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for New York State. Located in the seat of New York State government, UAlbany has many research and educational connections and collaborations, particularly in the field of cybesecurity, with public-sector agencies. Professor Goel authored New York State’s Information classification policy, which has become a standard across all NY State agencies. The Digital Forensics program is actively involved in the community and region, and has established articulation agreements and collaborative relationships with six regional two-year community colleges, to bolster their cyber defense programs through shared resources, and to create a pipeline for their top students to the undergraduate Digital Forensics program. The University’s cyber defense research strengths include a strong record of publications in security data analytics and data mining within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Faculty c.v.’s and publication records from both the Digital Forensics department (School of Business) and the Computer Science Department (College of Engineering and Applied Sciences) are included in this application. UAlbany’s dedicated cybersecurity research center, FACETS: Forensics, Analytics, Complexity, Energy and Transportation Security Center, is committed to protecting the nation’s electronic infrastructure. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others, UAlbany’s FACETS Center fosters innovative research built on blended strengths in information security, data mining, cybersecurity, digital forensics and information technology security, and research strengths in behavioral foundations of security, self-organized systems, cyber-warfare, resilient transportation, SCADA and other cyber-intelligent systems. UAlbany researchers partner with accounting firms such as EY, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, and Accenture; cybersecurity firms Rational Enterprise, the Center for Internet Security, and CounterTack; as well as General Electric and other digital technology research and consumer product companies. It works closely with the New York State Police and government agencies, collaborating in research as well as cybersecurity economic development and internship programs and support. The Digital Forensics program is known for strong cyber defense research streams in Behavioral Security, Privacy, CyberPhysical Systems, and Security Education. Other research strengths include Health Care Security and the emerging field of cyber warfare; both the actors and motivations involved, and how to bridge the trust gap among nations. For many years Dr. Sanjay Goel was involved in the Grey Goose Project, a consortium of researchers who voluntarily worked to gather intelligence on international cyber events critical to national security. The PI participates regularly in Track 2 diplomatic events and meetings on cyber issues to assess the challenges involved in international cooperation in cyber issues, such as the Tenth International Garmisch Forum in Germany in April, 2016. For the last ten years, Professor Goel has led the annual symposium on information assurance, which is held in conjunction with the New York State Cybersecurity Conference, and attracts over 1,000 participants. Several faculty members in the Digital Forensics and Computer Science departments have roles in the organization and execution of the conference. PI Goel also organizes cybersecurity tracks in information systems conferences. The faculty is well engaged in the research community, and each attends an average of two conferences annually in the field, such as AMSES, ISES, IFIP, ESIS, etc. UAlbany is an anchor institution for cybersecurity in Albany, and New York State. In acknowledgment of this role, Dr. Goel was recently awarded funding from NIST and the EDA to build and foster the cybersecurity ecosystem regionally, from education to economic development. With the overarching goal of ensuring an adequate cybersecurity workforce, with NIST funding UAlbany will support cyber defense programs at local high schools and community colleges, workforce and professional preparation regionally, and develop CyberExplorers, a cybersecurity summer camp program. The EDA grant will: help UAlbany build public-private partnerships in cybersecurity entrepreneurship; conduct a yearly cybersecurity industry analysis to address the area's workforce needs; and extend UAlbany’s Cyber Innovation Lab, FACETS, and other research resources for cybersecurity product research and development regionally. Building on its reputation as a cybersecurity research institution, UAlbany will develop new research and entrepreneurial opportunities to advance a high throughput engine of economic growth for New York State’s Capital region. b. CD Area of Study The State University of New York, Albany has cybersecurity curricula spanning three colleges: The School of Business, the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The designated Cyber Defense Area of Study for this CAE CD-R application is the University’s Digital Forensics program. This academic program was established in 2014, developed on the foundation of a strong Information Technology Management program, and designed with a focus on the importance of research, to grow and strengthen this burgeoning, and critically important field. The undergraduate Digital Forensics program will soon be expanded with a Masters degree program. The CD Area of Study (cdarea) folder contains a list: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/cdarea/list.docx as well as syllabi: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/cdarea/syllabi for undergraduate core courses in the Digital Forensics program as evidence of the area of study. This link provides an overview map of the four-year course of study: http://www.albany.edu/business/forensics-course-map.php. c. Declared CD Center Forensics, Analytics, Complexity, Energy and Transportation Security Center (FACETS) is a leading research center in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity dedicated to protecting the nation’s electronic infrastructure. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others, UAlbany’s FACETS Center fosters innovative research built on blended strengths in information security, data mining, cybersecurity, digital forensics and information technology security, as well as research strengths in behavioral foundations of security, self-organized systems, cyber-warfare, resilient transportation, SCADA and other cyber-intelligent systems. http://www.albany.edu/facets 2. Research Rating SUNY Albany Carnegie Classification: R1 Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity 3. Faculty CVs The State University of New York, Albany’s Digital Forensics program was established in 2014, and built on the basis of a strong, ten-year old program in Information Technology, housed in the University’s School of Business. In response to the program’s rapid growth, Digital Forensics currently has six full-time research-active faculty, twelve part-time faculty, and is in the search process to fill four additional faculty positions. The current primary research streams are: Behavioral Security, Privacy, CyberPhysical Systems, and Security Education, and the program is expanding into Health Care Security. The department has been awarded over three million dollars in research funding this year, and one million in its first year. Information on full-time faculty, as well as selected part-time faculty, follows. This Faculty c.v. folder: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/facultycvs/df contains a copy of each full-time Digital Forensic faculty member’s curriculum vitae, and selected curriculum vitae of Computer Science faculty: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/facultycvs/cs whose work is related to cyber defense.
http://graduatebusiness.albany.edu/sanjay-goel/ Full time instructor Primary areas of CD research/expertise: Cyber Investigations, Data Mgmt Systems Security, Data Security Analysis, Digital Forensics, Industrial Control Systems / SCADA, Network Security Engineering, Security Administration, Secure Telecommunications Dr. Yuan Hong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Security and Digital Forensics, and also an affiliated faculty in the Department of Computer Science (Courtesy), the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (Courtesy) and the Center for Forensics, Analytics, Complexity, Energy, Transportation and Security (FACETS). Dr. Yuan Hong received his Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2013. His research interests include Privacy, Security, Digital Forensics, Optimization and Data Analytics. He has published in refereed journals and conferences proceedings, including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Journal of Computer Security, AAA Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Energy Research, Optimization Letters, CIKM, EDBT, ICDM, etc. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, SUNY Research Foundation, and UAlbany. http://www.albany.edu/faculty/hong/ Full time instructor Primary areas of CD research/expertise: Data Mgmt Systems Security, Data Security Analysis, Digital Forensics, Industrial Control Systems / SCADA, Network Security Engineering, Security Administration, Secure Telecommunications Dr. Justin Giboney is an assistant professor in Information Technology Management and Digital Forensics at the University at Albany. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. Among the classes Dr. Giboney teaches are Network and Mobile Forensics (BFOR304), Introduction to Information Systems (BFOR100), and Databases for Digital Forensics (BFOR 300). He is the author of six journal publications, in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) as well as in cyber security, management and psychology journals, and sixteen conference publications. His research focuses on behavioral information security, deception detection, expert systems, and meta-analytic processes. Dr. Giboney’s research is at the intersection of technical and behavioral science, with an emphasis on design science research and system building to solve real-world problems with technology. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/945626/Vita%20JSG%20-%20Current.pdf Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research/expertise: Cyber Investigations, Digital Forensics, Security Administration, Secure Software Development Dr. Victoria Kisekka is an Assistant Professor in the Information Security and Digital Forensics department. She received her doctoral degree from the University at Buffalo’s School of management, where she received the “PhD Student Achievement Award,” and the “Pacesetter Award” in 2014 from Argonne National Lab, for her research contributions in Information Security. Dr. Kisekka is a member of AIS, Infragard and Women in CyberSecurity. She teaches courses in Forensic Accounting, Security Policies, and Information Security Risk Assessment. Dr. Kisekka’s research areas are: Information Assurance, Emergency Response and Preparedness in healthcare organizations, and Healthcare Information Technologies. She currently has two peer-reviewed publications under review. http://www.albany.edu/business/73534.php Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research/expertise: Digital Forensics, Health Care Security, Security Administration Dr. Liyue Fan joined SUNY Albany in Fall 2016 as an Assistant Professor in Information Security and Digital Forensics. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Emory University, and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southern California. Dr. Fan has a track record of mentoring graduate and undergraduate students on in-depth research projects including: a study of onion routing and Tor performed to understand the cost of privacy; a study using GIS to Geographic Information Systems to understand spatial patterns of the diabetes-vulnerable population in Los Angeles; and work on early detection of traffic incidents with loop sensor data. Dr. Fan's primary research interests are sequential data analysis and information assurance. Her paper on "Privacy-preserving Inference of Social Relationships" won CCC Blue Sky Ideas award at ACM GIS'15. She was named one of the "Rising Stars in EECS" by MIT in 2015. http://www.albany.edu/faculty/lfan/fan_cv.pdf Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research/expertise: Data Security Analysis, Digital Forensics Fabio Auffant II Has taught in the Digital Forensics department since 2012, when he retired from the New York State Police after a career as a road trooper and as a leader of the New York State Police Laboratory’s cybercrime division. Fabio Auffant II has extensive experience in testing forensics tools and developing training programs for forensic analysts and examiners. Auffant has extensive technical certifications, professional training experience, and memberships in digital crime investigation associations. He received his Masters Master of Science degree in Digital Forensic Management from Champlain College. https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-r-auffant-ii-6913042b Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research/expertise: Digital Forensics DIGITAL FORENSICS Part-Time Faculty Deb Snyder serves as Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for New York State, in the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS). She directs the Enterprise Information Security Office’s comprehensive governance, risk management and compliance program. She serves on the NYS Forum Board of Directors, NY CISO Executive Summit Governing Board, is a State Academy for Public Administration Fellow, and member of the Project Management Institute, InfraGard, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). She teaches graduate-level courses, has published numerous articles, and co-authored “SECURE – Insights From The People Who Keep Information Safe,” which offers industry leadership insights and perspective. Joe Donohue brings to the classroom over 29 years of law enforcement experience, as a trooper, lieutenant, and crime investigator, with 18 years dedicated to the investigation of technology crime investigation including computer forensics, training law enforcement in computer crime investigation, and supervising the personnel who perform these duties. Vladimir Kuperman has an Honor Diploma of Electrical Engineer (1985), and a Doctor of Science awarded in Russia in 2000. His book, Business in the Environment of Emerging Global Informational Space was one of the very first scientific books in Russia devoted to dramatic changes in informational transparency. His more than 60 published works cover reasoning and decision making in uncertainty, networked economy, and pedagogy. Recently relocated from Russia to the United States, his principal research interests are in the field of networked economy. Kevin Salhoff is a 10-year civilian employee of the New York State Police, who has been in the computer forensics field since 2002. In his capacity as a Computer Forensic Analyst IV, he performs forensic analysis on computers and mobile devices, mentors and trains new employees, and develops software for use by the Computer Crime Unit. He is a graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, with a dual bachelor of science in computer and systems engineering and psychology. Kevin has courtroom experience providing expert testimony in grand jury and trials ranging from homicides, terrorism, and child exploitation cases. Sean Smith has been an attorney with the New York Prosecutors Training Institute in Albany, New York since 1997, where he assists prosecutors with issues arising in felony cases, and by providing them with valuable information on expert witnesses. As the Technical Resource Attorney Mr. Smith has provided technical trial assistance in numerous high profile cases; Mr. Smith regularly consults with prosecutors from across New York on the use of technology in presenting cases to juries. COMPUTER SCIENCE Full Time Faculty Paliath Narendran is professor in the Department of Computer Science, whose area of research is automated reasoning, and its applications to formal verification of hardware, software and cryptographic protocols. http://www.cs.albany.edu/~dran/myvita.pdf Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research: Cryptography, Data Security Analysis
http://www.cs.albany.edu/~patrey/atrey_cv.pdf Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research: Secure Cloud Computing, Cryptography, Data Security Analysis Petko Bogdanov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science whose research interests include data mining and management with a focus on graph data and applications to bioinformatics, neuroscience, material informatics and sociology. He received his PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012 and his Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Technical University of Sofia in 2005. Dr. Bogdanov is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. http://www.cs.albany.edu/∼petko/ Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research: Data Security Analysis Siwei Lyu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science whose research interests include digital image forensics, computer vision and machine learning. http://cs.albany.edu/˜lsw/ Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research: Digital Forensics, Fraud Feng Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science whose research is focused on the detection of emerging events and other relevant patterns in the mobile context, and data mining of spatial temporal, textual, or social media data. Cyber defense applications include detection and prediction of crime events using historical crime records and streaming twitter data, and crowdsourcing human mobility and social media data. http://www.cs.albany.edu/~fchen/ Full time instructor Primary areas of cd research: Cyber Investigations, Social Media, Security Incident Analysis FACULTY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
4. Publications and Research Peer-reviewed cd-publications This publications file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/publications/df.docx contains a master list of the published peer-reviewed publications to date of UAlbany Digital Forensics faculty, graduate students, as well as two sample undergraduate papers. Papers currently in process or under review have not been included. This publication file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/publications/cs.docx contains a list of selected Computer Science faculty publications in the cyber defense field. CD Research Expertise/Impact The Digital Forensics faculty has identified four areas of research expertise: Behavioral Security, Privacy, CyberPhysical Systems, and Cyber Education. This Area of Expertise file http://www.albany.edu/cyber/publications/expertise.docx categorizes the Publications Master list into these four research areas, to show the record of impact within the cyber defense field. Behavioral Security: 27 Privacy: 56 CyberPhysical Systems: 42 Cyber Education: 3 The Computer Science Department has identified three areas of cyber defense research expertise: Cryptography, Image Forensics, and Social Network Analysis. The same Area of Expertise file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/publications/expertise.docx also categorizes the Computer Science Faculty publications list into these three research areas, to show the record of impact within the cyber defense field. Cryptography: 13 Image Forensics: 4 Social Network Analysis: 8 Relevant Papers From the complete list of publications, a representative sampling of 25 representative (relevant) Digital Forensics faculty publications are presented in this file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/publications/relevant.docx and categorized by CAE CD Focus Areas. 5. Graduate Level Production Number of Students To date, thirteen students at UAlbany, regardless of department, have completed a CD-focused thesis/dissertation (PhD). Presented in this file is a list of these cyber defense graduate theses, as well as the student/authors’ names and dates of graduation: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/graduate/theses.pdf Student Enrollment Currently (2016/2017) the following students are pursuing cyber defense PhDs in the Digital Forensics Department: Damira Pon Ersin Dincelli William Augustine James McGaughan Ethan Sprissler All five of the above doctoral candidates are expected to graduate within the next five years. Documentation of student enrollment is provided: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/graduate/registrar.pdf Relevant Student Papers This link provides a folder with a list and copies of Digital Forensics graduate student publications: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/graduate/dfstudent 6. Research Funding This research projects file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/research/projects.docx describes funded research projects (with funding agency, award amounts, and project durations), as well as other significant ongoing research streams. This funding documentation folder; http://www.albany.edu/cyber/research/documentation includes documentation of funding sources for projects funded within the past five years. 7. Subject Matter Preparation The UAlbany doctoral program is structured to provide--through course work, research, and experiential learning--a basis in fundamental domain knowledge, including statistics, research methodologies, and a broad domain knowledgebase in the information systems area. A list and descriptions of 600-level courses are found in this graduate level course file: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/subject/list.docx Syllabi for 600-level graduate course can be found in this folder: http://www.albany.edu/cyber/subject/syllabi Subsequently, students are required to do a concentration in a specific area, such as information assurance, and take specified domain-related classes based on their chosen sub-field of interest in cybersecurity. As a part of the subject matter preparation evaluation, students are expected to write a publishable literature review paper, and a public research paper that is either presented at a conference or accepted in a peer-reviewed journal in the field. Alternatively, three expert faculty members in the program can evaluate the paper. Degree candidates must appear in an examination before they are permitted to pursue their dissertation. The qualifying exam has three evaluators, and based on the results, the candidate is either passed or failed; each candidate has two chances to pass their qualifying exam. At the end of the second year of study, the students must present their thesis proposal at a public defense, where they are evaluated based on preparation and the quality of the proposal. At the proposal stage, students should have a complete literature review, a clearly articulate hypothesis, and a research methodology. Examples of dissertation topics include one that explores the differences between online privacy and security behaviors: “Modeling the Effects of Multi-level Determinants from a Cultural Value Perspective (Dincelli), one (not yet proposed) in the use of memory forensics for intrusion detection (Augustine), and “Investigating Influence and Social Normative Approaches in Improving Information Security--Turning Words into Action,” (Pon). Once finished with their dissertation, students are expected to present it at a public defense. It is generally accepted practice that once students have concluded their dissertation work they will have at least two high-quality papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the field. List of CAE CD-R Documents (uploaded on www.albany.edu/cyber) 1: CD Area of Study (area) 1.a. List of Digital Forensics Courses 1.b. Digital Forensics Course Syllabi
All Digital Forensics Faculty C.V.s Selected Computer Science Faculty C.V.s with cd-focus
4.a. Digital Forensics Faculty, Student Publications 4.a. Computer Science Faculty Publications 4.b. Publications, Research Area of Expertise File 4.c. Relevant Publications (Digital Forensics), by Focus Area
5.a. Cyber Defense Graduate Theses 5.b. Documentation of Student Enrollment 5.c. Digital Forensics Graduate Student Publications 6. Research Funding (research) List of Recent Research Projects Funding Documentation
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