Research

CyPsy Institute conducts scientific experiments in the areas of phenomenology and ethnography. From our research, we provide evidence-based results for publishing papers in academic journals and summaries to the public. In addition, CyPsy Institute develops products and services from its research for solving existing problems.

Research Projects

Virtual Research Lab - Corey Leong

Due to the current pandemic, the ability to conduct face-to-face experiments with potential participants is a challenge for researchers. Since there is a high risk for possibly compromising individuals' health and safety when meeting in person, an alternative for conducting experiments is needed.

Therefore, researching the development of a virtual research lab (VRL) may help to resolve the current research problem while creating a new pipline for streamlining new research studies and eventual publications. This research project investigates the feasibility of developing and deploying a VRL implementing a commercial cloud computing platform.

Cyber Alerts - Corey Leong

Most organizations in the United States conduct their business over the Internet for selling their products and services to consumers, other organizations, and government agencies (Singleton, 2013). Because more business transactions occur online, businesses must contend with potential bad actors or hackers (Kim et al., 2011). Businesses attempt to defend against these hackers every day using their human and financial resources. In defending their operations, businesses must correctly defend against hackers every single time an attack occurs or else become comprised. Whereas, bad actors only need to succeed once to compromise a machine, device, or system.

Cyber alerts provided by cybersecurity organizations attempt to bring attention and awareness to cyber threats and attacks. Unfortunately, the content of these cyber alerts can be difficult to interpret and understand by the average computer layperson. Linguistic complexity is a phenomenon under investigation for better understanding when dealing with cybersecurity. In particular, a method for transforming complexity to simplicity for cyber alerts is the goal of this research project.