Nadia Petrov

Strong cryptography fails in practice when people can't use it correctly under normal conditions. This project redesigns encryption prompts and key-management flows for ordinary applications, then tests the redesigns against the defaults most software ships with.

Cybersecurity: Systems & Network Defense moves from the fundamentals covered at 300 level into full defensive practice: hardening systems, monitoring for intrusion, and running an incident response from detection to recovery, all inside the department's isolated security range.