Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity research is a core focus at SoC. The School has earned redesignation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance / Cyber Defense through 2021. Cybersecurity researchers Dr. Todd Andel and Dr. Todd McDonald won an NSF Scholarships for Service grant in 2013 and been renewed through 2021, designed to increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of Information Assurance and Cybersecurity. SoC students can elect to do an Information Assurance concentration in any major.

Our faculty’s research includes work on software protection and exploitation, moving target defense, secure software engineering, digital forensics, cloud security, side-channel analysis, critical infrastructure protection including aviation and automotive system security and the security of additive manufacturing, SCADA, medical device security, cybersecurity technology transfer to practice (TTP), voting systems, and more.

Centers and Research Groups

Center for Forensics, Information Technology, and Security (CFITS)

Center for Advanced Forensic Science Research site in Digital Forensics Information Intelligence

Software Protection and Exploitation Research Group (SPERG)

TTP Ecosystem

Faculty 

Contact Us
	Dr. Todd Andel Dean, Professor	tandel@southalabama.edu
	Dr. Michael Black Assistant Professor	mblack@southalabama.edu
	Ms. Angela Clark IST Chair, IT Coordinator, Senior Instructor	amclark@southalabama.edu
	Dr. Jeff Landry IS Coordinator, Professor	jlandry@southalabama.edu
	Dr. Todd McDonald CFITS Director & Professor	jtmcdonald@southalabama.edu
	Dr. Harold Pardue Associate Vice-President of Academic Affairs,  Dean of Graduate School, Professor	hpardue@southalabama.edu
	Dr. Jordan Shropshire Lawrence Minto Sylvestre Endowed Chair in Computing, Professor	jshropshire@southalabama.edu
Staff
	Mr. Les Barnett CFITS Director	hlbarnett@southalabama.edu