Highlights of Graduate Student Research

In addition to pursuing class and lab exercises, SANS master's program candidates conduct faculty-guided research, write and publish their work, and present their findings in webcasts. Here are some highlights of their recent findings. You can follow the links in each of the sections below to find a complete copy of their papers, and you can visit the SANS Reading room to view these and other students' research results.

A Year in Review: Distinguished Student Publications of 2019

Throughout 2019, research by SANS Technology Institute master's degree students was accepted and published in some of the leading cybersecurity academic journals. Notable accomplishments include:

Balaji Balakrishnan's research, "Cloud Security Monitoring with AI-ML Infused Technologies," was accepted in CSIAC's Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems and published in the April 2019 issue, Artificial Intelligence the Next "Nuclear Arms Race" - "Space Race To The Edge" Read it here

Sean Goodwin's white paper, "Attackers Inside the Walls: Detecting Malicious Activity," was featured in The ISSA Journal's August 2019 Issue, The ToolBox: Tools of the Infosec Pro Read it here [Note: ISSA membership is required for access to the full journal issue]

Michael Hoffman's work, "Gaining Endpoint Log Visibility in ICS Environments," was published in CSIAC's Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems issue, Resilient Industrial Control Systems (ICS) & Cyber Physical Systems (CPS): The Growing Cyber-Kinetic Threats in August 2019 Read it here

Jon-Michael Lacek's white paper, "Changing the DevOps Culture One Security Scan at a Time" was published in the November 2019 issue of The ISSA Journal, on DevOps Security Read it here [Note: ISSA membership is required for access to the full journal issue]

You can also find these, and other student white papers in the SANS Reading Room, indicated in red with the "SANS.edu Graduate Student Research" tag. Papers published here have earned the distinction of an "A" grade in the graduate-level Technical Research & Communication Practicum, a course required in the M.S. in Information Security Engineering (MSISE) curriculum.