Areas

CIERTA has excellent faculty members who are internationally renowned faculty conducting research almost on all sub-areas of cybersecurity spanning different fields. These sub-areas are listed below along with the covered topics and corresponding faculty names.

Technical Areas:

IoT/CPS Security

Covered Topics: Smart grid, drones, smart homes, vehicles, and smart cities.

Faculty: Raju Rangaswami, Ruimin Sun, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, Amin Kharraz, S. S. Iyengar.

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Network Security

Covered Topics: DoS attacks, protocol security, wireless security, social engineering, APTs, key management, Internet security, and zero-trust networking.
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Faculty: Kemal Akkaya, Jason Liu, Xuyu Wang, Selcuk Uluagac, Niki Pissinou, Jason Liu, Fahrad Shirani, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, S. S. Iyengar, Julio Ibarra

System Security

Covered Topics: Operating systems security, malware analysis, and web security

Faculty: Amin Kharraz, Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, Mark Finlayson, Ruimin Sun, Christian Poellabouer, Raju Rangaswami, S. S. Iyengar

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AI Security.

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Covered Topics: Adversarial machine learning, LLM security, Model Protection, Explainability, Ethics, and regulation.

Faculty: Ruimin Sun, Selcuk Uluagac, Fahrad Shirani, Yanzhao Wu, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer, Kemal Akkaya, Raju Rangaswami, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Taihudur Rahman, Niki Pissinou, S. S. Iyengar

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Hardware Security

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Covered Topics: Tamper Proof Devices, Trojans, and PUFs.
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Faculty: Taihudur Rahman, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman

.Software and Application Security

Covered Topics: Software testing, secure programming, malware/ransomware, and software reverse engineering.

Faculty: Amin Kharraz, Selcuk Uluagac, Ruimin Sun, Christian Poellabauer, S. S. Iyengar

Theory / Cryptography

Covered Topics: Information theory, formal methods, trust models, and post-quantum crypto.
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Faculty: Farhad Shirani, S. S. Iyengar

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Data/Storage Security

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Covered Topics: access control, data anonymization, database security, and cloud security.
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Faculty: Raju Rangaswami, Ruimin Sun, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer.

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Privacy Theory & Technologies

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Covered Topics: Homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation, differential privacy, and zero-knowledge proofs..

Faculty: Kemal Akkaya, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Yanzhao Wu, Fahrad Shirani

Interdisciplinary Areas:

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Usable Security & Privacy

Covered Topics: security and privacy policies, user perspectives, usability, protection against ML, anonymity, privacy-preserving protocols, and privacy-preserving ML.