• Introducción a la Ciberseguridad a Través de Amenazas Cibernéticas 

      Vaccaro, Ricardo Raúl (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      La ciberseguridad se ha convertido en uno de los conceptos más importantes de estos tiempos. Esto se debe al avance exponencial tecnológico que ha ocurrido en el siglo XXI. Debido a este avance tecnológico, los estudiantes ...
    • Introduction into Cybersecurity through Cryptographic Algorithms 

      Alexander Cruz, Alfredo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      Cybersecurity has become one of the most crucial national security concerns facing the U.S.A. and the rest of the world. This is due to society’s ever-growing dependency on technology, which has made it extremely vulnerable ...
    • IoT Vulnerabilities in SCADA Systems 

      Rivera Barbosa, Jose (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)
      The emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) is an infrastructure of interconnected objects, people, systems and information resources together with intelligent services to allow them to process information ...
    • Is Your Wi-Fi Really Protected? 

      Santiago Laguna, Johnathan R. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
      The purpose of thisproject will be testing a tool called ‘aircrack-ng suite’and perfomed a penetration test to a private network. This suite is a collection of tools that allows you to assess the strength ...
    • IT Disaster Recovery Plan for “X” Company 

      Fernández, Enrique (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      The Company “X” is a small business with 25 employees located in Old San Juan area, specifically in the “Z” building; the company is dedicated to providing retirement plan services and administration thereof. It is ...
    • IT Governance and Internal Controls to Comply with Laws and Regulations 

      Rojas Acevedo, Milton (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      Laws and Regulations affect how Organizations conduct their day to day operations. Before implementing any type of procedures, organizations must be aware of these regulations. In those cases were procedures are ...
    • 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 ...