With never-ending cyber attacks on corporate and personal assets, society needs experienced, skilled professionals to protect and defend. According to the bureau of labor statistics, the job growth is 18% and with a 1.5 million predicted global shortfall by 2020, cyber security professionals will continue to be in high demand. Check out the following stats…
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Alexandrea Mellen Talks App Development and Entrepreneurship
By Zachary Elmer April 15, 2013. That was the day Alexandrea Mellen’s life changed. As a spectator at the Boston Marathon, she walked by the finish line shortly before the first bomb went off. She remembered how people ran in to help those who were hurt after the event, and from then on she knew she…
CyberPaths: Broadening the Path to the STEM Profession Through Cybersecurity Learning
By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou The project CyberPaths started from a need and perfect timing of events… or you could call it, a perfect storm! I was in a small teaching school, without sanitized cybersecurity labs, even worse I did not have a way to perform simple computer network experiments for my research and teaching. Receiving my…
What Does “hacker” Really Mean?
By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou What does the word “hacker” really mean? If you search for the definition online, you will find that it is “a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc.: a person who hacks into a computer system” [1]. Today the word hacker…
CS Student Organization: Cybersecurity Club
As the department continues to celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), this week’s blog will feature the Cyber Security Club. Officially sanctioned on November 11th, 2014, the cyber security club is a student-led, student-run group that focuses on the security and privacy within all realms of information technology. With Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou as the…
New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou
Kicking off National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome a new faculty member with a specialization in cyber security, Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou. Dr. X, as she prefers, brings with her a wealth of knowledge and academic experience, along with a $300k NSF grant to integrate cyber security…
We’re Celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October
The Department of Computer Science is gearing up to celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) during the month of October. We will be joining a growing global effort among businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, associations, nonprofit organizations and individuals to promote online safety awareness. Recognized every October, NCSAM was created as a…
Honors ELLC Host Steve Swanson at “Funday Monday”
By Sarah Dinning ’20 Mondays for the College of Charleston’s Honors Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community (ELLC) class are filled with networking, knowledge, and most importantly, pancakes. On Monday, September 19, Steve Swanson joined the Honors ELLC’s “Funday Monday” for pancakes and discussion. Being one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Charleston area, Swanson was…
Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Heads to GSA2016 in Denver, CO
Dr. Jim Bowring, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for CIRDLES, has been invited to the Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 annual meeting in Denver, CO, from September 25-28, 2016. Dr. Bowring will teach a short course, U-Th-Pb Geochronology Using ET_Redux and Geochron, and lead a poster and talk session on Time Matters: Celebrating the…
Alumni Spotlight: Alex Castelli
Programming did not come easy for Alex Castelli ‘15, but that challenge did not hold her back. While at the College, Alex immersed herself into the Charleston tech scene as a member of Women in Tech and interned with the Charleston Digital Corridor (CDC) and Atlatl Software to bridge the gap of academia to real…