- Students: 29,868
- Location: College Park, MD
- Department: Institute for Information Security & Privacy
- Degree Programs: ACES Honors Program, Masters of Engineering in Cybersecurity
- Key Contact: Mihai Pop Interim Director, MC2
- Email: m.pop@acm.org
- Direct: 301-405-7245
- Research Areas: Cryptography, Programming-language and Software Security, Behavioral Aspects of Security, Empirical Security, and Cybersecurity Economics
- Other Work: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grunman, Cisco, Advanced Systems Development, Leidos
- Wikipedia link: University of Maryland-College Park-Wikipedia
- Website: University of Maryland-College Park
Program Overview:
The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2), created in late 2010, is an academic center on the University of Maryland campus that brings together faculty, researchers, and students working in the field of cybersecurity from several schools and departments across campus. Our proximity to the nation’s capital enables close interaction with federal agencies, and our location in the Maryland-DC-Virginia region — one of the leading areas in the country for cybersecurity innovation and job growth — makes MC2 an ideal place for technology development and partnerships with industry.
The center has a three-fold mission focusing on research, education, and outreach.
Research
MC2 is unique in its comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to cybersecurity, in that it brings together not only faculty with expertise in the core areas of computer science and electrical engineering but also those with backgrounds in economics, social sciences, human-computer interaction, and other areas of engineering. The center has particular strengths in cryptography, programming-language and software security, behavioral aspects of security, empirical security, and cybersecurity economics.
UMD ranks among the top 20 public research universities in the nation, with top-ranked departments in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. NSA has designated the University of Maryland as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research, and the university was also named an Intelligence Community “Center of Academic Excellence” by the Department of Homeland Security.
More than 1,000 companies sell cybersecurity products to electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada. This project is designed to organize and evaluate these vendors, and their products and services, to make it easier for utility companies to make informed decisions on products that meet their specific cybersecurity needs.
Explore
Protect Our Power has identified more than 80 topics related to Best Practices for Cybersecurity Solutions. For each topic, we will provide a short overview, a list of the vendors who provide products or solutions that address that topic, and a link to the university or universities evaluating those vendor offerings.
Universities, colleges and research labs are conducting valuable research on vendor product offerings and solutions that address a broad range of cybersecurity issues and challenges. The results of these analyses are published here and will be updated as new information becomes available.
More than 1,000 suppliers and vendors provide hardware and software solutions to the utility industry to address cybersecurity issues and threats. Those vendors are listed here, grouped according to the cybersecurity topic that their product offerings address.