Facilities & Resources
Cybersecurity & Privacy Center (CyPC) at Sacred Heart University offers many opportunities for students, faculty and staff to be involved, including through our cybersecurity programs, research, clubs and events.
Cybersecurity Lab
SHU’s 1,300-square-foot Cybersecurity Lab is located on the West Campus and provides a collaborative and hands-on learning environment to simulate cyber threats, design responses and defense strategies. The lab is used to support education, research, training and community outreach in cybersecurity and privacy. The lab environment is equipped with 40 workstations that leverage state-of-the-art technologies such as Virtualization (VirtualBox, VMware) and security software’s such as Forensic Toolkit (FTK), Fortigate-60D UTM and Splunk. The facility comprises of a dedicated server room supporting a floor-to-ceiling technology rack including network attached storage (NAS), domain servers, network switches and firewalls to run and operate the lab environment. The cybersecurity lab has a security operations center (SOC) analyst workspace to monitor for cyber threats, vulnerabilities and other technology risks that exist on the Internet and possesses capabilities to isolate the entire lab space from the SHU network and the Internet for defensive and offensive exercises such as malware analysis and penetration testing.
Cybersecurity Journals & Conference Proceedings
Students and Faculty at Sacred Heart University have full access to the following cybersecurity journals and conference proceedings.
Journals
- ACM Transactions on Privacy & Security
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable & Secure Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Computing
- International Journal of Information Security & Cybercrime
- International Journal of Security
- Journal of Cybersecurity
- IET Information Security
- Journal of Computer Security
- Information & Computer Security
Conference Proceedings
- CCS: Computer & Communications Security
- IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
- USENIX Security Symposium (Open Access)
- Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (Open Access)
- ACM Symposium on Information, Computer & Communications Security
National Resources & Events
- NIST Cybersecurity
- CyberSEEK
- U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Command
- TITANS – Technical Internships to Advance National Security
- CAE Community
- National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education
- Department of Homeland Security
- National Security Agency
- National CyberWatch Center
- National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers & Studies (NICCS)
- CyberPatriot
- National Vulnerability Database
- MITRE CVE
Professional Organizations
- ISACA
- (ISC)² - International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc.
- ISSA - The Information Systems Security Association
Hacking Competitions & Capture the Flag (CTF) Events
- CTF Time
- CSAW
- Global Cyberolympics
- National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
- Insomni’hack
- Google CTF
- DEF CON
Capture the Flag (CTF) Resources
SHU IT Security
Sacred Heart University's IT Security Office provides tools, services, awareness and guidance necessary for all users to work toward a safe and secure IT environment for teaching, research, outreach and the conduct of University business.
SHU Cybersecurity Club
- SHU Cybersecurity Club is an independent, student-driven club that regularly meets for self-study and tutoring sessions, participating in hacking competitions, preparing for professional certifications and working on faculty-led research projects.
- Meeting: Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. in the Cybersecurity Lab (W-243)
- Cybersecurity Club eBoard
- President: Thai Nguyen
- Vice President: Felicia Hellems
- Secretary: Nicholas Sims
- Treasurer: Brandon Lacy
- Faculty Advisers: Igor Khokhlov, Sajal Bhatia
- Cybersecurity Club SharePoint Site: By invitation only, the Cybersecurity Club SharePoint site contains a plethora of information pertaining to security and awareness training material, professional certifications such as CompTIA Security+ and CEH and news on recent cyber-attacks and defense techniques. It also serves as a platform for different communication channels used by the Cybersecurity Club members to share information.