The following IA projects, research papers, and thesis prove that there is recent work being performed by students at PUPR on information assurance and security related topics.

Final Projects

• Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology by Hector Lopez. November, 2008.

Research Papers/Projects

• Database Security Project: SQL Injection by Raquel Forester, Jeniffer Sanchez, and Eddalis Batista. October 2008

• Encryption in Database Systems: Demonstration Using a Medical Insurance Database. October, 2008

• Multilevel Security Database. October 2008.

• Approximate Matching of Foremost File Carving Software by Jose Mayoral. October, 2008.

• Data Extraction from Social Networks by Leonardo Perez, Victor Serrano. May, 2008.

• Electronic Voting System by Raquel Bonilla, Milton Morales, and Jorge Salgado. October 2008.

• Introduction to Information Security. August 2008

• Introduction to Database Security. August 2008

• Statistical Database Security. September 2008

• Cryptography in Data Base. October 2008

• Object-Oriented Database Security. October 2008.

• Database Cryptography: Applied to Electronic Medical Records by Osvaldo Fraticelli, Tito Fuentes, Jose Medina, and Jose Pagan. October, 2008.

Master Thesis in IA

• Combining Phones, Syllable and Phonological Features in Speech recognition using Neural Networks by Arturo Geigel. December, 2008.

• Performance Enhancement for Linux Netfilter-Based Firewalls by Víctor Jiménez Ramos. November 2008 (ongoing research).

• Radio Frequency Identification Architecture for Automated Checkout by Eduardo Méndez García. November 2008 (ongoing research).

• Website Hardening Against SQL Injection and Other Attacks by Juan C. Moreno. November 2008 (ongoing research).

• Fostering Research and Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by Sandra Bonilla. November 2008 (ongoing research).

• Periphery Phonemes as Discriminant Features in Speaker Recognition by Luis Vega. November 2008 (ongoing research).