Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering and Sciences Program Chair, Cybersecurity, College of Engineering and Science , Computer Engineering and Sciences
Ph.D., Computer Science, NC State University, 2019
M.S., Computer Science, NC State University, 2008
B.S., Computer Science, US Military Academy at West Point, 1999
Dr. O’Connor’s research has centered on computer security with an emphasis on information security education, wireless security, software-defined networking, internet-of-things security, and machine learning approaches for security. He has authored a book in the area and published his research in the proceedings of several academic conferences. His latest work investigated sensor blinding and state confusion attacks against smart-home internet-of-things devices. Dr. O’Connor served 20 years as an Army Officer, retiring in 2019 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His service included an academic appointment to the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the US Military Academy and four assignments in support of the Special Forces, from the tactical level in Afghanistan and culminated as the Chief Information Officer for the 1st Special Forces Command Headquarters. Dr. O’Connor is active in cyber security competitions, winning the National Defense University Cyber Competition, setting the high score for the SANS Netwars tournament, co-coaching two winning teams at the NSA’s Cyber Defense Competition, and leading the Red Team efforts for the Southeast Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
The Caesar Cipher is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques.
North Korea is one of the most restrictive countries in the world.
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Keylogging is, as the name suggests, the action of recording the keys entered on the keyboard on a computer.
North Korea is one of the most restrictive countries in the world.
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Security monitoring is the foundation of cyber defense. It’s continual process of watching for anomalous activity on a network.
Jackson, MS, USA
https://www.contextsecurity.com/
Seth Misenar is the principal of Context Cyber LLC, an indpendent cyber security consultancy. He’s also a fellow at the SANS institute and teaches their SEC511 course, Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations. He’s also the co-author of two CISSP study guides:
He specializes in security architecture, network and web app penetration testing, detection engineering, and incident response. Reach out to Seth’s His company,
Enjoy spending time in the cyber security, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and GCP) migration and implementation worlds using Terraform, Ansible, and various other automation frameworks with a AGILE/SCRUM based DevSecOps focus building and managing teams as a senior level technical implementer, advisor and evangelist. As a Sr. Cloud/Cyber Architect, I have helped various organizations in the private and public sectors foray into the Cloud world in a Cyber-Secure manner as an evangelist, guide and builder. I look forward to continuing to spread the good word about the Cloud and Cyber Security worlds throughout these tough times. My most engagement with AAA was a success and am proud to say I have helped them establish a Hybrid-Multi-Cloud architecture where they will soon be capable of migrating some of their mainframe based workloads into the Cloud.
My new journey begins with Onna and I'm very excited to help them grow in a cyber-secure manner!
Training/Certified: CISSP, CCNA, MCSE/MCSA, MSDBA, MCSD, GSEC, GCIH, GCWN, GCUX, GICSP, GCCC, GCNA, GCFA, GCIA, GPEN, , GMON, GREM, A+
