Cybersecurity researchers and IST faculty David Loper and Jenny Nehring had a productive research year in 2025.

Cybersecurity researchers and IST faculty David Loper and Jenny Nehring had a productive research year in 2025.

David Loper and Jenny Nehring have published Cybersecurity research papers that focus on automatically creating different cybersecurity computing infrastructure that can be used to help teach students using hands-on experiential methods.

CCSC Presentation and Publication

Both co-authored a paper (along with P Ranganathan) titled "Vast, Low-Cost Honeypot Architecture" that was presented at the annual CCSC conference and published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 41 (2), 195-210. First Region

In this paper, the authors presented "a low-cost honeypot architecture designed to assist cybersecurity researchers and practitioners in collecting high-quality threat data using legacy equipment and open-source tools".

Resarch at CARS

David Loper also authored a paper titled "Cybersecurity Bootcamp Automation and Orchestration Approaches" along with co-authors AR Ramchandra and P Ranganathan. Portions of the paper were presented at the 2025 Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium (CARS) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In the paper, the authors present an approach using automation and orchestration to create "a robust bootcamp to teach advanced topics in on-premises
and cloud environments" that is low cost and repeatable.

Finally, David Loper co-authored a paper titled "Towards Intent Based Network Management: Evaluation of YANG-Based Protocols for Intent Translation" along with co-authors AR Ramchandra, B Blakely, L Viviani, and SJ Plathottam. This paper reviewed "intent and model-driven execution protocols that automate cyber defenses in heterogeneous networks".