• Jailbreak Vulnerability & Mobile Security Updates 

      Maldonado Burgos, Zedrick A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      In these modern times mobile devices are part of the everyday life of each individual. These devices contain a major part of each user information in comparison to their personal computers. On a mobile device people ...
    • Journey to becoming a hacker: from zero to cybersecurity ninja 

      Alicea Casillas, Yoshuam A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Time to time technology changes and the need for cyber security experts increases. While is true that lots of universities prepare students on this career, somehow students face trouble understanding how to acquire the ...
    • La importancia de conocer la seguridad de nuestros sistemas “closed-circuit television” (CCTV) 

      Camareno Mendrell, Gil V. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      Este documento explora cómo las compañías manufactureras de cámaras y programas de seguridad aplican el concepto seguridad en sus programas y dispositivos. Se exploró cuáles son las normativas existentes que ...
    • La Importancia de la Inteligencia Artificial en la Seguridad Cibernética 

      Rosario Martinez, Yamil (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)
      El mundo se está digitalizando a un ritmo sin precedente. Los sistemas de información y la tecnología están cambiando o evolucionando muy rápido. Con los adelantos en la tecnología, la velocidad de los procesos y la ...
    • Meeting the CAE IA/CD Knowledge Units Requirements for the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico 

      Darabi, Diana M. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2014)
      The current information security field has gone through tremendous growth over the years and is continuously changing. Today the threats on information security systems are sophisticated, prevalent, have the potential ...
    • Minyx’s Dinner Food Ordering App 

      Mendoza Navarro, Michael J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      Smartphone applications are now a massive and valid field for exposure for companies, expansion of consumers’ needs, and convenience for quick and easy access to multiple activities, including gaming, sales, ...
    • Mobile Digital Forensic Tool using Santoku Linux 

      Acevedo Rivera, Pedro J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2017)
      Santoku 0.5 is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution dedicated to mobile forensics, mobile security, and mobile malware analysis. Santoku provides tools for; analyzing and acquiring data including free versions of ...
    • National Cyber League challenges as a way to teach Cybersecurity 

      Agosto Quiñones, André (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Cybersecurity education is a relative new topic in most educational organizations today. This presents a problem to most educational institutions like universities who confront the challenge of teaching cybersecurity topics ...
    • Network Security Assessment using Bettercap: DNS Spoofing and How to Mitigate 

      Santiago Solivan, Rafael (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the demand for effective tools and techniques to safeguard networks from malicious actors is paramount. This master's degree final project proposes an investigation into the ...
    • Network Security Assessment – Work from Home 

      Correa Meléndez, Arturo E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
      In the past two years, we have seen an increase in employees working from home. This is mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of this a study was conducted on a home network that were being used to work from home. ...
    • Nutri-Fitness Tracker Web Application 

      Negrón Santiago, Josué J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      There are several health programs that intend to help people to drop weight in a natural manner. Novovida Health & Fitness is such a program, which promotes a better eating habit and physical activities in order to ...
    • Off Site Database Management 

      Venegas Ríos, Jesús J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2012)
      Abstract― In today’s database systems there is a rise in security needs and Database redundancy procedures in order to keep information readily available and secure in the event of a catastrophe. There are different ways ...
    • Offensive Security Using Burp Suite 

      Torres, José (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)
      Burp Suite is a tool used by most professional web page pen tester. It has many features to help the pen tester do his job. The tool help students learn about different type of vulnerabilities like web cache poisoning, ...
    • An Overview of Web Scraping: Technical Aspects and Exercises 

      Pérez Molano, Gustavo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      Researchers and organizations conducting different types of research can benefit from studying and using Web Scraping in a correct manner to further their research goals. This study serves as a review on some of the web ...
    • Performance Evaluation in SQL Server 

      Hidalgo Lorenzo, Simonely (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
      Adatabase table with millionsof rowscould take a long time to retrieve, insert, update,and delete data. The evaluationin thispaperconsists of create indexes, apply normalization process, and create surrogate key to improve ...
    • Physical and Infrastructure Security IT 

      Ramos Santa, Carlos H. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2014)
      This article summarizes all of the important aspects to consider when managing physical security and IT infrastructure issues. To include natural disasters, environmental, technical and threats caused by human interaction ...
    • Portable HoneyPot & HoneyNet: Within a Closed Network 

      Concepción Rivera, Héctor D. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
      At any given time a business network could be or has been compromised by a hacker or its information been exposed or breach. This is why building a honeypot and understanding how to use it can help network security ...
    • Predicting the Housing Market with Machine Learning 

      Díaz Martínez, José E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      The aim of this project is to build a machine learning model for predicting housing market prices using a dataset that includes information about MSSubClass, MSZoning, LotArea, LotConfig, BldgType, OverallCond, YearBuilt, ...
    • Project Management Implementation by Administrative Assistant Management Help 

      Duntley Reyes, George (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      Administration Assistant Management System is a web based solution to manage tasks. With the purpose to be easy to use, require minimal training and for the use of any office tasks. Utilizing concepts from the project ...
    • The Psychology of Information Security 

      Vélez, Luis I. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      The Information Technology field is constantly concern with security and the impact this has on a progressive business. The field has had an ever growing expansion of technology from cryptography to advance security ...