CyAD 2026: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit: Full Schedule

Welcome to the fourth annual Cybersecurity Across Disciplines (CyAD) Summit hosted by the National Cybersecurity Training & Education Center (NCyTE)!

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8:45am CDT

Building a Virtual SOC with AI: Free, Web-Based Cyber Labs for Everyone

Thursday June 25, 2026 8:45am - 9:30am CDT

BLDG T-924

As cybersecurity threats grow, access to realistic, hands-on training environments remains limited—especially for students outside traditional technical programs. This session demonstrates how an AI-assisted design process was used to create a fully web-based, virtual Security Operations Center (SOC) that is free and accessible to any student with a browser.

The virtual SOC replicates real-world analyst workflows through four monitoring screens and an integrated activity dashboard that guides learners through incident investigation and response. Students gain practical experience with the tools, processes, and decision-making used by SOC analysts.

Beyond cybersecurity, the environment functions as an interdisciplinary laboratory. Students engage from multiple perspectives—evaluating business risk and continuity, analyzing digital evidence, examining social engineering and human factors, and building detection logic, automation, and AI-assisted analysis. This reflects modern incident response, where technical, organizational, and human factors intersect.

A key innovation is the use of AI to generate realistic, customizable scenarios and continuously refine them through rapid iteration—enabling instructors to quickly adapt exercises to different disciplines, skill levels, and emerging threats. Attendees will tour the live environment and see how AI accelerates scenario design and evolution. Participants will leave with practical methods, sample prompts, and implementation strategies to build, adapt, and scale their own AI-driven, scenario-based learning experiences across disciplines.

Speakers

Michael Qaissaunee

Professor, Engineering and Technlogy, Brookdale Community College

Professor Mike Qaissaunee is Chair of the Engineering and Technology Department and Director of the Cyber Center at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey. He has led multiple National Science Foundation grants advancing interactive teaching, technician education, and... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 8:45am - 9:30am CDT
BLDG T-924

AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

11:00am CDT

From Classroom to Career: Cybersecurity in the Real World

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am CDT

BLDG T-924

Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping how organizations operate, secure data, and manage risk. This presentation examines the expanding role of AI, automation, and advanced digital systems in modern cybersecurity and governance environments. Emphasis is placed on understanding how emerging technologies introduce new threat vectors, ethical concerns, and compliance challenges alongside their benefits.

Drawing from experience in cybersecurity education and technology governance, the session explores practical examples of AI-driven systems, cloud platforms, and automated decision-making tools, highlighting associated risks such as data privacy, model bias, system misuse, and overreliance on automation. Attendees will gain insight into how foundational cybersecurity principles, risk assessment, and policy awareness can be applied to emerging technologies to support responsible and secure adoption. The presentation encourages a balanced approach that integrates technical understanding with governance, ethics, and risk management to better prepare students and professionals for an evolving digital landscape.

Speakers

Michael Trammell

Program Chair, Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence, Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Michael Trammell is a cybersecurity and information technology professional with over a decade of experience spanning legal support, technology operations, and information security. He serves as Program Chair and Cybersecurity Instructor and Advisor for the Computer Information ... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am CDT
BLDG T-924

AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

1:45pm CDT

Impact of GenAI in the Classroom - Case Study from a Capstone Course!

Thursday June 25, 2026 1:45pm - 2:30pm CDT

BLDG T-924

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which uses Large Language Models (LLMs), has existed for a few years and has significantly influenced higher education. Although educators understand what GenAI is, they find it challenging to implement it effectively in the classroom. While some disruptions have impacted student learning and assessment, they have also notably affected faculty teaching STEM, Business, and other disciplines.

This session will examine the impact on curriculum development, assessment strategies, and teaching methods for a business course, including a case study from a Business Capstone course in the ABIT BAS program at UH Maui College. Session learning outcomes will include designing an adaptive curriculum, project-based assessments, and oral student presentations that showcase creativity in solving new and unique problems.

This session will cover general topics of interest to faculty, staff, and administrators, including hands-on activities to actively engage a diverse audience.

Speakers

Debasis Bhattacharya

Professor, University of Hawaii Maui College

Dr. Debasis Bhattacharya (Debāśiṣ Bhaṭṭāchārya, দেবাশীষ ভট্টাচার্য, देवाशीष भट्टाचार्य) is a tenured Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College and serves as Program Coordinator for the Applied... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 1:45pm - 2:30pm CDT
BLDG T-924

AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

2:45pm CDT

AI Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: A Backdoor Attack Demonstration Using Real Data

Thursday June 25, 2026 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT

BLDG T-924

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly depend on complex supply chains that include externally sourced datasets, pretrained model checkpoints, fine-tuning pipelines, and automated feedback mechanisms. This layered dependency structure exposes AI systems to supply chain vulnerabilities that differ fundamentally from those in traditional software engineering. This work demonstrates that AI is not an exception to supply chain risk; rather, it amplifies such vulnerabilities through its reliance on data-driven learning. Using a backdoor poisoning attack on the EMNIST dataset—an expanded 2017 successor to the original MNIST benchmark—the study shows how a small, automated manipulation of upstream training data can implant persistent, targeted misbehavior in a downstream model without altering code, architecture, or infrastructure. Empirical evaluation, including clean versus triggered confusion matrices and visual inspection, reveals the stealth, effectiveness, and reproducibility of the attack. The findings underscore the need for rigorous provenance tracking, auditing, and adversarial evaluation frameworks to secure AI supply chains, particularly as AI becomes embedded in emerging technologies and autonomous systems.

Speakers

George Meghabghab

Professor/Director of IT Cyber Security, Roane State CC

Computer Science/Computer Information Technology Educator with over 30 years of teaching and training in IT, Cyber defense, information assurance, and digital forensics. He taught as a tenured professor until 1999 at Valdosta State University in the Math and Computer Science Department... Read More →

Thursday June 25, 2026 2:45pm - 3:30pm CDT
BLDG T-924

AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

CyAD 2026: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit

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CyAD 2026: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit

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Michael Qaissaunee

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Michael Trammell

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Debasis Bhattacharya

2:45pm CDT

George Meghabghab

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