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Culminating Projects in Information Assurance

Culminating Projects from 2026 2026

SECURE DATA INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN EXTENDED REALITY (XR) SYSTEMS AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (LMS), Nadika Bandara
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Utilizing Large Language Models (LLM) To Enhance Quality and Security in Software Development, Nagapriyanka M. Bellamkonda
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Designing a Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with AI and Deception Techniques for Enhanced Cyber Defense, shanmukh chintalapati
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Unlocking Cybersecurity Skills through Educational Escape Rooms: A Game-Based Learning Approach, Akhila Krapa and Akhila krapa
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Comparing and Contrasting Chaos Engineering and Quantitative Risk Management (FAIR Framework) at Netflix, Shreshna Manandhar
Starred Paper

Application of the NIST Privacy Framework For Connected Vehicles, Samyak Tamrakar
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Investigating AI-Driven Methods for Ransomware Detection: Current Approaches and Research Trends, SATIAH THEOPHILUS TUGBE
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2025 2025

IoT in the Automotive Industry: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, Anita Adhikari
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Investigating the Impact of Data Privacy Concerns on Online Shopping Behavior and Trust in E-commerce, JINGYI BAI
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Cybersecurity Threats in Aviation: Encryption and Vulnerabilities of Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast for Aircraft Tracking in Connection with Software-Defined Radio and similar Transmitters to identify possible Risk Mitigation Strategies, Smilla Bendgens
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Systematic Review of VPN Technologies: Security, Performance, Automation, Abdulla Ellafy
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

User Perceptions of Trust, Credibility, Security, and Privacy in ChatGPT Interactions: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Task-Dependent Attitudes, Raunak Kuikel
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Developing a Theoretical Methodology for Assessing Phishing Susceptibility in an Academic Context, Bert Noble
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Novel Business Email Compromise Detection Model Using Supervised Machine Learning, Salome Jerry Pantuvo
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Ensuring Reliability & Resiliency in Data Pipeline Through Chaos Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach, Yash H. Shrivastav
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Digital Forensics Enhanced: Incorporating Behavioral Insights into Investigation Workflows, Simran Thapa
Starred Paper

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure: The Role of Forensic Intelligence in Mitigating Cyber Threats to Cyber- Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems, Smridhi Vanka Sadanand
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2024 2024

Designing Personality-Based Chatbots Analyzing User Interaction Patterns and Evaluating User Experience, chuchu chen
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Enhancing Data Breach Prevention Measures in Corporate Setting, Larissa Marques
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Cybersecurity Risks for Professional Services Firms: Assessing Vulnerabilities, Proposing Innovations, and Safeguarding Client Trust, Asad Ali Unar
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2023 2023

IOT Devices in Healthcare: Vulnerabilities, Threats and Mitigations, Isse Abdi
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Need To Know Before Utopian Balloon Is Popped: Security Perspective Analysis of Nun-Fungible Tokens, Kenneth Amoah
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Software Engineering Tools For Secure Application Development, Divya Bellamkonda
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Comparing a Hybrid Multi-layered Machine Learning Intrusion Detection System to Single-layered and Deep Learning Models, Samantha Collen
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Attacks On Near Field Communication Devices, Enow Ehabe
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Cyber Risk Impact Assessment Assessing the Risk From The IoT to the Digital Economy, Mohan kumar gajula
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Tool to Detect Spam Websites, Durga Venkata Kaja and Susantha Herath
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

HANDLING WORK FROM HOME SECURITY ISSUES IN SALESFORCE, Shanthi Sharanya Kode
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Implications of Deepfake Technology on Individual Privacy and Security, Shalini Mahashreshty Vishweshwar
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

The Applications of Blockchain To Cybersecurity, Anna Ndri
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Study on Security Attributes of Software-Defined Wide Area Network, Siva Naga Lakshmi Keerthi Swamy
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2022 2022

¬¬Challenges and Solutions in the Implementation of DevOps Tools & Security (DevSecOps): A Systematic Review, Gautam Bollieddula
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

GUIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF INSTRUSION DATA FOR MALWARE ANALYSIS AND DETECTION IN THE BUILD AND DEPLOYMENT PHASE, Musa Gassama
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Evaluation of Email Spam Detection Techniques, Seshi Reddy Guda
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

The Future of Digital Forensics, A Gamified Approach for Education., CHUKWUEMEKA IHEKWEAZU
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

A Survey on Security and Privacy issues of IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), Anoosha kathi
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Protecting Computing Assets Against Visual Hacking: An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Object Recognition, Choolwe Luya
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

FERPA Self-Compliant Cloud Storage for Institutions and Professionals in Higher Education, David McCandless
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

TAXONOMY OF SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES IN SERVERLESS COMPUTING, Vasanta Swarna Ratnam Pusuluri
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2021 2021

College Students Perception of Privacy in Smart Wearable Medical Devices, Elizabeth Adelowo
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Information Security and Privacy in the Cloud of Healthcare Sector, and The Use of Miter Att&ck Framework to Keep the Healthcare Secure, Fawaz Alabdulhadi
Information Assurance: M.S. - 5 year track for SCSU Undergraduates Starred Paper

SLA NEGOTIATION TOOL FOR BETTER TRANSPARENCY AMONG THE CLOUD STAKEHOLDERS, Sapana Bista
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

QUANTIFYING SECURITY IN PLATFORM AS A SERVICE USING MEAN FAILURE COST: A STAKEHOLDER’S PERSPECTIVE, Anuradha Chauhan
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Social Commerce Security, Privacy and Trust – A Taxonomy, yasmin fatima
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Network Intrusion Detection on CICIDS-2017 Dataset, Pankaj Jairu
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Evaluating Security in Cryptocurrency Wallets, Judith N'Gumah
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Working from home in the age of COVID-19 and beyond: The Risks, and Benefits to Corporate Information Technology Infrastructure, Jon Nordos
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Lateral Movement in Windows Systems and Detecting the Undetected ShadowMove, Kyle Rozendaal
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Analysis of Cloud Security Controls in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Vyshnavi Sailakshmi
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Towards a Scalable Security Framework for Enterprise Software-Defined Networks, bhumika sapkota
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Privacy and Security Implications in COVID-19 Tracking/Tracing Apps, Sajjan Shrestha
Information Assurance: M.S. - 5 year track for SCSU Undergraduates Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2020 2020

A Comparison of Kernel Memory Protection for Docker Containers Across Host Operating Systems, Li Dai
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Assessing the vulnerabilities and securing MongoDB and Cassandra databases, sindhu gadhiraju
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Investigating and Validating Scam Triggers: A Case Study of a Craigslist Website, Hassan Mohamed Hirei
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Kernel Memory Leakage Detection for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Lee Ho
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Machine Learning Algorithms in Network Security, Sasidhar Jakka
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Taxonomy for Anti-Forensics Techniques & Countermeasures, Ziada Katamara
Starred Paper

Lightweight Deep Learning Framework to Detect Botnets in IoT Sensor Networks by using Hybrid Self-Organizing Map, Saad Khan
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Autoencoder-Based Representation Learning to Predict Anomalies in Computer Networks, Shehram Khan
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Comparing SSD Forensics with HDD Forensics, Varun Reddy Kondam
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Forensic Research on Solid State Drives using Trim Analysis, Rusvika Reddy Nimmala
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Digital Privacy: Personal Data Collection Methods and the Myth of Online Privacy, Ryan Salner
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

DETECTING APPLICATION ANOMALIES: MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH, Lakshmipriya Thaduri
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Performance Analysis of NIST Round 2 Post-Quantum Cryptography Public-key Encryption and Key-establishment Algorithms on ARMv8 IoT Devices using SUPERCOP, Sean Zakrajsek
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Culminating Projects from 2019 2019

Comparison of Forensic Acquisition and Analysis on an iPhone over an Android Mobile Through multiple forensic methods, Vikas Avancha
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Developing a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan: Kenya State Organizations, Manas Byadigera
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Comparison of Forensic Analysis Results Obtained by Various Types of Acquisitions, Sandeep Chinthapatla
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Application of an Artificial Neural Network as a Third-Party Database Auditing System, Amirali Daghighi
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Performance Evaluation of Structured and Unstructured Data in PIG/HADOOP and MONGO-DB Environments, Sri Rama Chandra Charan Tej Dasari and Sri Ram
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Study of Blockchain Framework–Hyperledger Fabric and Implementation as Educational Network, Venkata Ayyappa Devarasetty
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Using Graph Databases to Address Network Complexity Problems that can Hinder Security Incident Response, Andrew Erickson
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Overcoming Forensic Implications with Enhancing Security in iOS, Mounika Reddy Gangula
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Analyzing the Trimming Activity of Solid-State Drives in Digital Forensics, Shoban Kandala
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Evaluating Security Aspects for Building a Secure Virtual Machine, sudip kandel
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Applets vs JavaScript, Smitha Katta
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Comparative Analysis Based on Survey of DDOS Attacks’ Detection Techniques at Transport, Network, and Application Layers, Mustafa Khambatta
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Building Security Aware E-Commerce Web Applications, Sai Teja Reddy Kommuri
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Insufficient Due Diligence as a Security and Privacy Issue, Cynthia Konan
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Taxonomy-based Analysis of Attacks on Industrial Control Systems, Kahawalage Kanchana Tikirikumari Lankatilake
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

The Apple of the World: Extracting Evidential Data through IPhone, Rakesh mangalamapalli
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Attacks on the Android Platform, Ranajit Singh Mehroke
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Architectures v/s Microservices, Abhilash Nomula
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Analysis of The Typical Performance Routines for Recovering Data from Solid State Drive During a Forensic Acquisition, Bhargav Rajammagari
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Forensic Aspects of Various Flash Memory Devices, Shivendran Divakar Tiruchanpalli
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Automated Teller Machine Ethernet Traffic Identification to Target Forensics Detection of IP Packets, Brian Volkmuth
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Culminating Projects from 2018 2018

Virtual Election Booth, Manohar Adepu
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Privacy Regulations in the Context of Finance: Comparison Between Developing and Developed Countries, Dimuthu Candauda Arachchige Sarathchandra
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Distributed Analysis of SSH Brute Force and Dictionary Based Attacks, Joshua Faust
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Long Term Assessment of Object Strength in a Web Service as Managed by the Garbage Collection in Java Based Services, Patrick Jackson
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

Testing the Security Onion, Kayla Jansen
Information Assurance: M.S. - 5 year track for SCSU Undergraduates Thesis

Different Forensic Tools on a Single SSD and HDD, Their Differences and Drawbacks, Yashwanth Reddy Kambalapalli
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Analysis of SSD’s Performance in Database Servers, Venkatesh Kandula
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks using AWS WAF, Mohammed Kareem
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

SQL Injection Prevention Technique Using Cryptography, Jayakrishnan S. Karunanithi
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Steganography A Data Hiding Technique, Naga Ranijth Kumar Kesa
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

A Comparative Analysis of HIPAA Security Risk Assessments for Two Small Dental Clinics, Scott Lisbon
Information Assurance: M.S. Thesis

EMV Chip and PIN : A Feeble Upgrade, Naga Suraj Maddi
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Implementation of Captcha as Graphical Passwords For Multi Security, Babu Rajeev Maddipati
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Virtualization Using Docker Containers: For Reproducible Environments and Containerized Applications, Srinath Reddy Meadusani
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper

Using Shared Memory as a Means to Provide Data Concurrency Across Vm’s in a Cloud Architecture, Shravani Meneni
Information Assurance: M.S. Starred Paper