Cyber Lecture Series

The LSU Cyber Center, the LSU Center for Computation and Technology, and the LSU Ethics Institute are happy to present our joint "Cyber Lecture Series"!

The field of cybersecurity is heavily interdisciplinary and spans multiple industries such as tech, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and others, across different sectors. We started this series with the goal of highlighting what "cyber" looks like from all these different perspectives by inviting professionals from academia, private industry, and law enforcement to lecture on the latest research and trends. By bringing in world-class researchers to help educate our LSU community on cybersecurity issues and research from multiple perspectives, we aim to start meaningful discussions around the topic and help inspire the next generation of cybersecurity researchers.

Our talks are hosted at the LSU Digital Media Center theater and are open to the general public. Talks are not streamed and may be recorded if the speaker consents. Recorded talks may be made available on our YouTube channel when possible after the events, but we highly recommend attending in person in case the given lecture won't be uploaded.

 

Talks

Upcoming

• Fall 2026 talks coming soon!

Past

• Apr 20th, 2026 - David McDonald: "Detecting & Deobfuscating Malicious Powershell with Tree-Sitter"
• Apr 1st, 2026 - Karen Nershi: "Three Models of State Control Over Cybercriminal Proxies: Evidence From Ransomware Operations"
• Mar 23rd, 2026 - Mike Holcomb: "Creating AI Offensive & Defensive Tools for OT/ICS Cybersecurity"
• Mar 23rd, 2026 - Irfan Ahmed: "From Reliability to Risk: Security Debt in Modern Industrial Control Systems"
• Oct 20th, 2025 - Philipp Bleek: "The Low Arts of High Politics: Unpacking State-Sponsored Poisoning"
• Nov 11th, 2025 - Jimmy Wylie: "Hunting OT Pythons and Gophers: Playbooks for Binary Triage"
• Nov 12th, 2024 - Jimmy Wylie: "Growing Pains: Dragos Intel's Evolving Definition of ICS Malware"
• Sep 24th, 2024 - Andrew Case: "Defeating EDR-Evading Malware with Memory Forensics"
• Nov 15th, 2023 - Dr. William Bradley Glisson: "Impact of Residual Data"
• Nov 14th, 2023 - Jimmy Wylie: "Reversing Rockwell: Preparing for the next TRISIS"
• Nov 9th, 2023 - Dr. Chris Hoofnagle: "The Quantum Age"
• May 15th, 2023 - Andrew Case: "Ghost in the Kernel: Using Memory Forensics and Reverse Engineering to Defeat an Obfuscated Rootkit"
• Feb 27th, 2023 - Travis Goodspeed: "A Tool for Reverse Engineering Mask ROM Firmware"
• ...and more!