Simmons University Cybersecurity Center

4/15/22 - Simmons University submits Information Technology degree as pathway for NSA Center for Academic Excellence

6/5/22 - Professor Aspen Olmsted has paper accepted to 2022 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'22). - Physical Memory Attacks and a Memory Safe Management System for Memory Defense

6/7/22 Professor Aspen Olmsted has two cybersecurity papers accepted to IKE'22 - The 21st Int'l Conf on Information & Knowledge Engineering

• Database Intrusion Detection and Prevention using Query Rewrites and Execution Plans

• Multitenant Database Security with Shared Data Policy

7/1/22 - Simmons University has added Information Technology and Cybersecurity degree to available Complete Degree programs - https://online.simmons.edu/bachelors/online-it-cybersecurity/curriculum/

7/1/22 - Professor Kwamie Dunbar publishes paper: Cryptocurrency returns under empirical asset pricing.

8/30/22 - 1st Fall ’22 Cybersecurity Speaker Series Presents Speaker Announced for September 26th - Denise Carrol - The Evolution of Hacking

9/13/22 - Simmons's University Launches Women in Cybersecurity Local Student Chapter

9/23/22 - Simmons University has joined the Massachusetts Cybersecurity Training and Education Working Group. There are two programs you can leverage immediately:

10/1/22 - Massachusetts Cybersecurity Mentorship Program - Students are paired with a professional mentor. The student works on a project for and you present your work at the end to a community of cybersecurity professionals. You can express interest here: https://masscybercenter.org/massachusetts-cybersecurity-ecosystem/massachusetts-cybersecurity-mentorship-program

10/1/22 - Massachusetts Cybersecurity Job Listing - https://jobs.masscybercenter.org/jobs.

10/1/22 - 2nd Fall ’22 Cybersecurity Speaker Series Presents Speaker Announced for October 24th - Xenia Mountrouidou - IoT Spy: Watching your IoTs instead of them watching you!

10/17/22 - Simmons University Women in Cybersecurity Local Student Chapter Chooses Officers

• President - Anisha Srivastava

• Vice President - Amelia Fordyce

• Secretary - Cressida Sasnah Michaloski

10/28/22 - Guest Speaker Xenia Mountrouidou gives talk on IoT Spy: Watching your IoTs instead of them watching you!

11/9/22 - Simmons University Degree Completion Students Anisha Srivastava has been awarded a 2022-2023 Faculty-Student Collaborative (FSC) Fellowship. She will be working with Professor Olmsted developing security guarantees for workflow transaction engines.

11/28 /22- Guest Speaker Paola Garcia Cardenas gives talk on Transitioning to Cybersecurity Careers

11/29/22 - Simmons University Women in Cybersecurity Local Student Chapter Recognized By National

12/1/22 Professor Aspen Olmsted has two cybersecurity papers accepted to WorldCIS-2022 - World Congress on Internet Security

• Relationship Analysis: Phishing Email Success Rates and User Experience Modification

• A Simple Way to Reduce the Impact of Buffer Overreads

12/1/22 Professor Aspen Olmsted has two cybersecurity papers accepted to 17th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions

• Method to mitigate coerced fraud on A2A transfer

12/2/22 - Simmons Women in Cybersecurity participate on Panel at Fenway Highschool to discuss Cybersecurity careers

1/6/23 - Simmons University's Student Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) received the Student Chapter of the Year award from ASIS&T.

1/7/23 - Anisha Srivastava work on code generation that abates cybersecurity risks identified in a STRIDE model is acceptancedto the WICYS (Women in Cybersecurity) 2023 Conference.