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Stephen Gary
Associate Professor of Instruction
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BIO
"Scuba" Steve Gary, PhD, CISSP, is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida. He has been teaching in the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Studies graduate programs since their launch in Fall 2014. He is also an Internship Coordinator for both programs and hosts the Veterans' Cybersecurity and Intelligence Seminar. His passion is cyber intelligence, analyzing the who, what, when, where, why, how, and the so what of cyber events. His focus is on cyber threat actors, who are responsible for the cyber crmines, including ransomware and cyber espionage, the world experiences every day. Scuba was a highly-decorated career U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer, and has been conducting intelligence since 1997 and cyber intelligence since 2005. He is also the Tampa Chapter President of the Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA).
Education
- Ph. D., University of South Florida
- M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology
Recent Publications & Research
- Gary, S. (2023). Why teaching cyber intelligence is important. [Report]. Cyber Florida. https://cyberflorida.org/teaching-cyber-intelligence/
- Gary, S., Borum, R. & Burney, R. (2023). Florida critical infrastructure cybersecurity intelligence assessment. [Report]. Cyber Florida. https://cyberflorida.org/2023-intelligenceassessment/
- Gary, S. (2021). Internship and job acquisition experiences of veterans in a graduate cybersecurity degree program. (Publication No. 9113 [Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida]. USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9113/
- Haggard, R. & Gary, S. (2020). Cyber intelligence report: Florida ransomware incidents 16-19. [Report]. Cyber Florida. https://cyberflorida.org/florida-ransomware-incidents-2016-2019/
- Gary, S. & Borum R. (2017). US national cybersecurity: International politics, concepts, and organization. In D. Van Puyvelde & A. F. Brantly (Eds.), Evolving cyber intelligence. (pp. 123- 139). New York, NY: Routledge. [Book Chapter].