MADE AT MASON
CYBERSECURITY
Keeping Our Heads in the Cloud Te Internet, smartphones, and tablets—all cloud-connected tools—increase our productivity and interconnectedness, but they also make us less secure. And it’s not just our personal privacy that is at risk. Intellectual property, fnancial transactions, aviation, energy grids, medical devices, automobiles, and national security face threats as never before. Twenty-fve years ago, before the words cybercrime and cybersecurity existed as part of our everyday vocabulary, before major corporations like Home Depot and Anthem experienced data breaches, George Mason University established the Center for Secure Information Systems with one researcher and a handful of students. Tat began a journey that led cutting-edge research and saw George Mason emerging as a national leader in cybersecurity education and research. “Today, cybersecurity is in our DNA,” says University Professor Sushil Jajodia, the center’s director. “Almost every school or college at Mason has some program that deals with information security. But it wasn’t always that way.” continued
CYBERSECURITY
Making secure systems with new networks, systems, and trained experts.
