Cyber Security

Two CEC faculty members are developing new approaches to protect AI data centers from threats ranging from insiders stealing valuable AI models to cyberattacks against the systems controlling a facility’s power and cooling.  

When a manufacturing machine is cutting, drilling, or shaping metal, it is following a precise set of digital instructions, with every motor turn intentional. But what happens when there’s a subtle change along the way?

Jianli Pan is working at the leading edge of emerging technologies, analyzing cybersecurity metadata traffic; improving automated and intelligent security for internet of things edge systems; and using deep reinforcement learning techniques for cloud resource allocation for future IoT applications.

Sanchari Das in George Mason's Information Sciences and Technology Department is working to help seniors avoid falling for Cupid's arrow...when it's actually AI's sting.

George Mason faculty and students identified an important vulnerability in anonymization of health data. They recently presented a paper on the findings at one of the world's most prestigious computer security conferences.

George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing faculty members made a significant impact at the 2025 USENIX Security Conference, in Seattle, including winning the Distinguished Artifact Award.

George Mason researchers discovered a way that a hacker can make scary changes to an AI system with a change to just one of billions of bits.

Jamie Wheeler brings years of real-world experience to the George Mason Cyber Security capstone course.

George Mason researchers discovered that Apple's "Find My" service can be used for malicious purposes.

Evgenios Kornaropoulos received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for $648,811 for work on privacy and data security under the title “Encrypted Systems with Fine-Grained Leakage.”