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Cluster Lead:

Yan Solihin, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science Yan.Solihin@ucf.edu

UCF’s Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster is on the cutting edge of data protection by not only understanding and exploring existing ways to stay secure but also inventing new ones. The cluster also focuses on understanding the social implications new technology and the Internet of Things have on our daily lives.

This research provides the modern world with much needed solutions to both the human and the technological causes of security and privacy problems. This aids people, businesses and the government and enhances faculty expertise for teaching students.

Security and privacy problems can involve human users, physical facilities, hardware, software, communication protocols and potential attackers.

The cluster spans many disciplines – computer science, computer engineering, industrial engineering and management systems, legal studies, mathematics, optics and photonics, philosophy, political science, psychology and statistics – to meet these security and privacy challenges head on.

In The News


Colleges & Campus
UCF Students Host Live Cyberattack Simulation Contest
Horse Plinko, created by Hack@UCF and the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team, gives students the opportunity to defend a fictional company against an active cyberattack.
Science & Technology
2 Promising UCF Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards
Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.
Science & Technology
Cybersecurity Dynasty: UCF Wins Sixth ‘Super Bowl’ of Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions
When corporations and government agencies want to hire the nation’s best cybersecurity talent, they recruit at UCF.

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Cyber Security and Privacy Research

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Cyber Security and Privacy Degree Programs

UCF offers multiple certificates for students interested in cybersecurity and privacy. For more programs, search UCF programs below.

Cyber Security and Privacy Faculty