CIAS faculty member Mark Schmidt, along with 15 students and 2 alumni, attended the 25th Annual Security Conference in Las Vegas. Participants from St. Cloud State University delivered 10 presentations at the conference:
- Driving Into the Data Age: What Does Your Vehicle Really Know About You? Mark B. Schmidt
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Administration: Operational Transformation, Economic Impact, and Security Risk Governance Anushka Hewarthna and Thivanka Mohottalalage
- Securing Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Detecting and Mitigating Configuration Drift in Cloud Environments Shagufta Naeem and Danish Mahmood
- Security and Privacy Challenges in Biometric Sensor Data: Risks, Attacks, and Protection Mechanisms Syed Mehdi and Sandesh Raj
- An Automated Phishing Email Detection and Verification System Using Machine Learning Navaraj Poudel and Unique Shrestha
- RoguePromptGuard: A Hybrid Detection Framework for Prompt Injection Attacks in LLM Systems Gobinda Pandey and Karun K. C.
- Deleted Data Persistence in SSDs: Comparing TLC and QLC Across NVMe and SATA Rafaela Prendi and Ashmita Neupane
- Application of the NIST Privacy Framework for Connected Vehicles Samyak Tamrakar
- Ethical and Legal Implications of AI-Generated Evidence in Digital Forensics Anjali Suwal and Kanchan Thakur
- Securing the Conversational Edge: Mitigating Prompt Injection and Enhancing Update Integrity in LLM-Integrated IoT Ecosystems Bikash Katuwal and Abishek Ghimire
These presentations sparked thoughtful discussion among conference attendees, including faculty and students from institutions around the world. SCSU’s participation was made possible through the support and encouragement of the Information Systems Department and the Herberger Business School.

