The University of Texas at San Antonio has created a new degree program that combines...
Graduate students listen during a class taught by Anthony Rios, assistant professor of information systems and cybersecurity at the University of Texas at San Antonio.Jacob Rahimi, a junior computer science major at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is sitting at a lab table trying to hack into an Amazon Fire Stick.
The federal government wants to know about vulnerabilities like this. Three years ago, UTSA signed a contract with a certain federal law enforcement agency to create a course that would teach its agents how to hack into and extract forensic evidence from what has become known as the “internet of things” — the web of smart devices, ranging from TVs to doorbells, that have proliferated in American homes, businesses and public buildings over the last decade.
“They want it to be as easy to set up as possible,” he said. “That means that they often have default user IDs and passwords. Well, hackers have figured that out.” Nicole Beebe is chair of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security.“We’re smart enough to deal with the sophistication of the bad guys. The problem is the rate of the attacks, the automation of the attacks, the volume of the attacks,” Beebe said. “The amount of attack surface area that we’re trying to protect — it’s just too much too fast for the human to keep up with.
By combining those skills, students will be able to design and operate computer programs that can sift through data to identify anomalies, which people can then look at to decide whether they present threats. “A lot of us in the department spent many years in industry, in the government, and what we see is they just keep throwing more people at it. The more data you get, the bigger the security operation centers get, the more computers, the more people. But it’s really just more people chugging away, not doing things smart,” she said. “So we here on the research side are working on AI algorithms and machine learning algorithms to let people work smarter, not harder.
Anthony Rios, assistant professor of information systems and cybersecurity at the University of Texas at San Antonio, teaches students on Aug. 30.Teams of students use it to conduct attacks that could take down such a system and to observe their effects. The tank’s sections can be filled with different-colored liquids; when the system is breached, the liquids mix, and it’s all over.
The Air Force deserves much of the credit for growing San Antonio’s cybersecurity sector into what it is today, starting in the late 1940s, when it established operations in the city to perform aerial intelligence. Its Cyber Command, based at Port San Antonio, acts as a hub for the industry, with many defense contractors having offices nearby.
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