October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – ComArtSci faculty and staff are committed to spreading the importance of protecting your digital data.
New in Cybersecurity from ComArtSci
Evaluating progress in building secure systems at the national level is crucial to cybersecurity for all of us. Below is a research project that looks deeply at a methodology to improve these assessments.
- Structured Field Coding and its Applications to National Risk and Cybersecurity Assessments.
Dutton, Shillair, Axon & Weisser, 2024. Applied Cybersecurity & Internet Governance.
CHECK IT OUT - Do you ever think about how safe your data is, and if it is kept private? One of our master’s students explored this topic and presented her findings at the TPRC conference in Washington, DC.
Rector & Shillair (2024). Incentives for Industry and benefits for Users: Post-Roe Data Privacy. SSRN
CHECK IT OUT - Megan Knittel was contracted as a research consultant with the Trust and Safety Foundation, and in July 2024 she presented her work creating the History of Trust & Safety Archive at the organization's Annual TrustCon in San Francisco.
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Faculty Experts in Cybersecurity and Information Policy
ComArtSci’s Department of Media and Information is home to faculty who specialize in teaching and researching cybersecurity every day. Explore the profile links below to learn more about their research, awards and grants.
Johannes Bauer
Quello Chair in Media and Information Policy
Ruth Shillair
Assistant Professor, Director of Media + Information Master's Program
Megh Marathe
Assistant Professor
Anna Argyris
Associate Professor
Megan Knittel
Assistant Professor
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MSU IT has launched a new training course for this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
MSU IT has also released a new cybersecurity mascot as well. Along with different tips to protect your digital data.
Protecting the MSU community is all about increasing knowledge and decreasing cybersecurity risk. You might not think your data is worth protecting, but your MSU credentials can be used as a gateway to important institutional data. Better awareness = better security.
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2023 CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH