Massimiliano Albanese

The Fulcrum — April 23, 2024
America's elections are under unprecedented threat. From foreign interference in the 2016 presidential race to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the integrity of our democratic process has been repeatedly targeted in recent years. Safeguarding it against future attacks requires an often-overlooked resource: Generation Z.

George Mason University — August 28, 2024
Secure elections are the cornerstone of democracy, and the Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP) has equipped students with the skills to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of election infrastructures. As an intern last summer, information technology (IT) major Duong Thuy Nguyen helped secure a rural county's technology for the upcoming presidential election alongside two George Mason University peers.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — May 31, 2024
Several faculty members in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology received a planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on developing effective support mechanisms for low-income students.

United States of Italy — February 23, 2024
Massimiliano Albanese, from a small town in Italy, turned his cybersecurity passion into a global mission after studying at the University of Naples Federico II. As a faculty at George Mason University since 2011, he's made significant research contributions and has inspired generations of students.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — December 05, 2023
George Mason University was recently redesignated by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a National Center of Academic Excellence (NCAE) in Cybersecurity. This recognition continues a designation that has been in place since 1999 and makes Mason’s College of Engineering and Computing eligible for special funding opportunities.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — October 25, 2022
The George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing has launched the Mason Vulnerability Scoring Framework (MVSF), which publishes a continuously updated ranking of the most-common global software weaknesses. The work, in conjunction with PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), relies on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST)—Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures data and other sources of vulnerability information to create an up-to-date database that can be used to identify and mitigate risks.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — October 22, 2020
Mason Engineering cybersecurity researcher Massimiliano (Max) Albanese studies the minds and methods of cybercriminals to develop better ways to defend computer systems. But during his free time this summer, he turned his attention to a different problem—the need for people to know where to locate drop-off boxes for mail-in ballots.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — August 25, 2020
[The contactless fingertip imaging system to quickly identify people with COVID-19] could be deployed at Mason and become an integral part of the Safe Return to Campus Plan. The ability to identify and isolate infected individuals is critical to safety on a university campus.

CIO — August 12, 2020
Lessons learned to date promise to help IT weather a second round of COVID-19 lockdowns this winter. Following a few basic suggestionscould spell the diff erence between a trouble-free transition to remote teams and a viral meltdown.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — February 19, 2020
“Participating in the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge provides students with an incredible learning experience,” says Massimiliano Albanese, an associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology and Mason’s representative in the I3P.

PR Newswire — February 12, 2019
The Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (PARC, a Xerox company) and George Mason University (GMU) have been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Configuration Security program (ConSec). Within ConSec, researchers from PARC and GMU will collaborate on a project christened SCIBORG: Secure Configurations for the Internet of Things (IoT) based on Optimization and Reasoning on Graphs. The goal of SCIBORG is to devise fundamentally new approaches to determine security configurations that protect critical infrastructure and IoT-based systems.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — April 04, 2018
Piuri has been coming to Mason every year since 2005 to work on projects with Mason Engineering professors, including Sushil Jajodia, director of the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), and Massimiliano (Max) Albanese, the center's associate director.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — October 09, 2017
Cybersecurity students who want to protect the world from malicious attacks, like the recent security breaches against Equifax and Yahoo, need to become digital detectives who can think outside the box. They have to be dynamic, responsive to change, and able to adapt to new strategies, says Massimiliano (Max) Albanese, a Mason Engineering cybersecurity professor and researcher.

College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University — April 15, 2015
Engineering students are known for inventing solutions to everyday technical challenges, but sometimes they find it difficult to negotiate the steps from concept to successful product launch. That is why the Laboratory for IT Entrepreneurship (LITE) created the Pitch IT competition where teams of Mason students, can present their IT-related business ideas in a low pressure environment.