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Cybersecurity Career Professional Paper: Information Security Analyst
Cybersecurity Career Professional Paper: Information Security Analyst Mason Phillips School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University CYSE 201S: Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences Professor Yalpi April 16th, 2026 BLUF BLUF: Information security analysts work to protect a company or organization’s computer systems through monitoring systems and assessing them in order to implement proper security measures…
Article Review 2: Testing human ability to detect ‘deepfake’ images of human faces.
Article Review #2: Testing human ability to detect ‘deepfake’ images of human faces Mason Phillips School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University CYSE 201S: Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences Professor Yalpi April 16th, 2026 BLUF BLUF: AI deepfake technology is a serious AI threat and can be used to fake images and videos, which in…
Article Review 1: How The Big Five Personality Traits Affect Cybersecurity Compliance.
Mason Phillips School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University CYSE 201S: Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences Professor Yalpi February 26th, 2026 BLUF BLUF: The big five personality traits: Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, play a major role in the attitudes of people in the case of cybersecurity behavior. This finding is found through quantitative research…
Human Factor Write-Up 11/16/25
Mason PhillipsCYSE 200TProfessor DuvallNovember 16, 2025 Allocation of Funds regarding cybersecurity BLUF: With a limited budget for cybersecurity and the options to put the funding towardsemployee training or towards cybersecurity technology the funding should go towardsemployee training. Overview With a limited budget for both training and new cybersecurity technologies a decision mustbe made about which…
Lieutenant Commander Terrance Green 11/17/25
Mason PhillipsCYSE200TProfessor DuvallNovember 17, 2025Lieutenant Commander Terrance Green BLUF: Lieutenant Commander Terrance Green came to our CYSE 200Tclass to speak with us. Overview Lieutenant Commander Terrance Green came to our CYSE 200T class tospeak to us. He is the current Executive Officer at the Information WarfareTraining Command in Virginia Beach. Points of interest The first…
Vulnerabilities of Critical infrastructure Systems 11/9/25
Mason PhillipsCYSE 200TProfessor DuvallNovember 9, 2025 Vulnerabilities of Critical infrastructure Systems BLUF: The digitization of critical infrastructure including agriculture, water systems, andwaste management, has opened vulnerabilities for cyber-attacks; however, these attackscan be mitigated through SCADA applications. Overview The digitization of critical infrastructure such as agriculture, water systems, and wastemanagement has brought upon the possibility of…
Guest Speaker, Ms. Doris Locking 10/22/25
Mason PhillipsCYSE 200TProfessor DuvallOctober 22, 2025 Guest Speaker, Ms. Doris LockingBLUF: Ms. Doris Locking was a guest speaker for our CYSE 200T class. Overview Ms. Doris Locking is an IT professional with over 25 years of experience. She specializes ingovernment and healthcare sectors including driving transformation, optimizinginfrastructure, and ensuring industry compliance. 1st Point of Interest…
Possible Concerns Regarding Biocybersecurity 10/19/25
Mason Phillips CYSE200T Professor Duvall 10/19/25 Possible Ethical Concerns Regarding BioCybersecurity BLUF: The rise in BioCybersecurity and the possibilities of its uses raise ethical concerns. Overview With the rise in DNA and genetic testing through the digitization of our DNA also came the possibility of Bio Cybercrime. With your DNA being the greatest personally identifying…
Tour of the ODU Data Center 10/6/25
Mason Phillips CYSE 200T Professor Duvall 10/6/2025 Tour of the ODU Data Center BLUF: Our CYSE 200T class took a trip to the ODU data center. Overview Our CYSE 200T took a tour of the ODU Data Center, in which we got to tour and learnabout both the ITS Operations Center and the ODU server…