The Biden-Harris Administration, the ruling body of the United States government from 2021 to 2025, influenced government officials and agencies alike to take a stance aimed at uniting our country, and other countries, through cyberspace. In fact, their plans for doing so were detailed in recent documents released by The White House following the counsel of The Office of the National Cyber Director. The attached paper will attempt to analyze these documents, explain their con

This semester, Old Dominion University’s (ODU’s) CS 463 Cryptography for Cybersecurity course required students to submit a final paper or project on cryptography. As a way to study cryptography and supplement modern resources, I decided to create a small desktop application that would use different ciphers to encode and decrypt messages. CSuite , my proposed application, would follow a more user-centered design while still efficiently and accurately performing tasks. The pa

The article in question was published in 2025 within Volume 11, issue 1 of the Journal of Cybersecurity. Authored by Syed Yaqoob and Aasif Sheikh , the article is titled “Unmasking the Silent Threat: Understanding Cybercrimes Targeting Female Students of Kashmir University- a Mixed-Method Analysis”. The attached review will attempt to evaluate the article, identify connections to course material, and consider its effect at scale.

The article in question was published in 2025 within volume 19, issue 1 of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology. Authored by Mohanad Ghaleb and Jamshid Pardaev , the article is titled "Controlling Cyber Crime through Information Security Compliance Behavior: Role of Cybersecurity Awareness, Organizational Culture and Trust in Management”. The attached review will attempt to evaluate the article, identify connections to course material, and consider its effects at s

SolarWinds , an Information Technology management company, experienced severe consequences after a complex cyber attack in 2020 . The breach highlighted the company's design flaws, emphasized the importance of secure supply chains, and later influenced engineers to consider changes. The attached paper will provide an overview of the attack and discuss its impact on today’s cyberspace.

It may seem challenging to understand the role humans play in keeping sensitive information confidential, whole, and accessible. Modern organizations consider this often as they must devote time and resources to creating a safe environment for their clients. The attached article will discuss professional motives and techniques to secure private data from the point of view of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) .