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Cybersecurity & Compliance Department

The Cybersecurity & Compliance Department trains security specialists able to take responsibility for data security and regulatory compliance across research infrastructure. Students complete projects in zero-trust network architecture (ZTNA) design, PKI/certificate management, SIEM-based threat detection with ELK and Wazuh, and applying ISO 27001/GDPR compliance frameworks. Graduates head into the workforce having already lived through the full security cycle as project work — access-control policy design, threat detection and response, and regulatory audit readiness.

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⭐ Diffie

Chair

💡 Public-Key Cryptography & Network Security

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 14

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1915–1990

Horst Feistel

Researcher

💡 Invented the Feistel network (1970s at IBM), the block-cipher structure underlying DES and dozens of later ciphers

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1890–1960

Gilbert Vernam

Researcher

💡 Invented the Vernam cipher (1917), an additive stream cipher that, combined with a truly random non-reused key, is the one-time pad — the only cipher proven to have perfect secrecy

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1952–2006

Hans Dobbertin

Researcher

💡 Broke the compression function of MD4/MD5 and co-designed the strengthened RIPEMD-160 hash function, foundational work for certificate fingerprinting and message-integrity checking

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1924–1997

James H. Ellis

Researcher

💡 Originated the concept of 'non-secret encryption' at GCHQ in 1970 — the theoretical seed that grew into public-key cryptography and modern certificate-based PKI trust systems

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1905–1980

Marian Rejewski

Researcher

💡 Reconstructed the wiring of the German military Enigma cipher machine using permutation-group mathematics (1932), founding modern systematic cryptanalysis

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Norman Hardy

Researcher

💡 Co-created the GNOSIS/KeyKOS capability-based operating systems and identified/named the 'confused deputy problem' (1988), a foundational access-control vulnerability class

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1944–2016

Stephen T. Walker

Researcher

💡 Led the DoD Computer Security Initiative that produced the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria ('Orange Book'), and founded Trusted Information Systems, developer of one of the earliest commercial firewall toolkits

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Paul A. Karger

Researcher

💡 Co-authored the 1974 Multics Security Evaluation (with Roger Schell), one of the first formal penetration tests of an operating system, cataloguing trap doors, covert channels, and kernel design flaws

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1930–2007

James P. Anderson

Researcher

💡 Introduced the reference monitor concept (1972) and formulated audit-trail-based statistical intrusion detection (1980), foundational to modern SIEM and IDS platforms

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1920–2013

Willis H. Ware

Researcher

💡 Chaired the 1970 RAND 'Ware Report' establishing systematic computer-security risk assessment and organized 'tiger team' adversarial testing methodology

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1929–2013

Alan F. Westin

Researcher

💡 Authored 'Privacy and Freedom' (1967) and helped formulate the Fair Information Practice Principles that directly shaped the US Privacy Act of 1974 and, decades later, the EU GDPR

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1929–2021

Donn B. Parker

Researcher

💡 Pioneered empirical computer-crime research (Crime by Computer, 1976) and developed the information-security governance framework in Fighting Computer Crime (1998), foundational to modern ISMS/ISO 27001 practice

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1970–2013

Peter Szor

Researcher

💡 Authored 'The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense' (2005), the standard reference on malware reverse-engineering and antivirus detection methodology

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1979–2021

Dan Kaminsky

Researcher

💡 Discovery of the 2008 DNS cache-poisoning flaw and coordinated global patch; DNSSEC advocacy