This fall UNLV once again hosted Sandia National Laboratories signature Capture the Flag (CTF) event – TracerFIRE. This year’s event welcomed nearly 140 participants, including 27 UNLV students, the majority of whom had no prior TracerFIRE experience. Engaging new participants in the exercise is of key importance as TracerFIRE and other CTF events help students hone their technical skills and…

Applications are now being accepted for the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at UNLV for the 2025/2026 academic year. A highly competitive scholarship for students pursuing degrees in the cybersecurity field, the program provides for full tuition and academic fees, in addition to an annual stipend for living expenses and a professional allowance. In return for the financial…

Engaging the next generation of cybersecurity professionals is of utmost importance as the U.S. works to fill the nation’s cybersecurity workforce gap. In addition to hosting GenCyber Camps for middle and high school students, UNLV’s Cyber Clinic works towards this goal by meeting with area high school cyber clubs to offer guidance and mentorship, and recruit Junior Cyber Clinic Members. One…

This year UNLV was invited to not only attend the 2024 National Cybersecurity Education Colloquium (NCEC), but also to exhibit the University’s unique, student-led Cyber Clinic.  The University was one of only a few National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CD) designees invited to showcase their Cyber Clinic to other colleges interested in starting their own,…

UNLV's Master of Science in Cybersecurity program has been ranked #2 in the nation by Fortune for 2025. This recognition highlights the university's commitment to providing a top-tier education that prepares students for the rapidly growing cybersecurity field. Developed in partnership between the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering and the Lee Business School, the program offers students a…

  At the beginning of October, UNLV Cyber Clinic members were honored to host California Congressman Ro Khanna whose district includes much of Silicon Valley.  Invited by Clark County District D Commissioner William McCurdy II, who also stopped by, Congressman Khanna shared his vision on the future of tech careers and how to connect students to companies & industries needing their…

Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the UNLV College of Engineering hosted the "Cyber Resiliency in American Elections" panel discussion featuring UNLV Computer Science Professor and cybersecurity expert Yoohwan Kim. He was joined by five-time CIO and Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), Practice Leader Kathy Cruz, and Executive Director for the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities Jill…

  In September, the UNLV Cyber Clinic was invited to the Datasec Cybersecurity CISO Innovation Summit, where members presented the Clinic's mission, emphasizing its student-led approach to addressing cybersecurity challenges. Hosted at the International Innovation Center of Las Vegas, the event gathered experts from leading companies such as  Orrick and representatives from…

In August, UNLV was honored to host the 2024 MSIPP CONCISE Annual Technical Symposium. The Consortium on National Critical Infrastructure Security (CONCISE) is a consortium of four Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) that includes UNLV, the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), North Carolina A&T (NCAT) and Savannah State University (SSU). The project is supported by the U.S. Department of…

This year more than 35 UNLV cybersecurity students and Cyber Clinic members had the opportunity to attend the world’s largest hacker conference – DEFCON. Drawing 30,000 attendees annually to Las Vegas, DEFCON includes speaker sessions, specialized onsite “villages” focused around individual hacker/security issues, competitions, and more. Students were able to take part in a variety of workshops…

The Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering was thrilled to be asked to host Google’s init.g(vegas) event, bringing together some of the top cybersecurity experts and Google-employed hackers in the industry on the campus of UNLV. init.g is Google’s young talent outreach and development program aimed at showing how exciting the field of cybersecurity can be, and helping with the…

  This year’s DOE Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conference in Dallas welcomed nearly 20 UNLV computer science students studying cybersecurity to participate in conversations and workshops with top thought leaders from across the DOE enterprise, federal interagencies, academia, and private industry on topics ranging from critical infrastructure protection, to workforce development…