Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026) HammerCon 2026 Edition
Cover and Front Matter
Letter from the Director: Mastery in Practice
Joseph Schafer
Articles
LLM-Generated Countermeasures for IoT Cyberattacks
James Alger and Michael Tu
Closing the Interpretability Gap: Explainable ML-Based Malware Detection for Defensive Cyberspace Operations
Tashi Stirewalt, Sean Hodgson, Puumaaya Tahiru, and Assefaw Gebremedhin
Semantic Shields: Automating Critical Infrastructure Defense via NLP-Driven Ransomware Profiling
Henry Trowbridge, Ian Zalcberg, Ryan Schley, Carter Yagemann, Natasha Phan, Srikar Maduposu, and Vimal Buck
Characterizing Advanced Persistent Threats with Cyber Attack Flow Metrics
Tyler Miller, Caleb Chang, and Shouhuai Xu
Are Large Language Models Safe? A Vulnerability Analysis of Generated Source Code
James Richards-Perhatch, Mitchell Milander, James M. Halvorsen, and Assefaw Gebremedhin
Hybrid Deep (CNN-BiLSTM) Intrusion Detection for Defense and Mission-Critical Networks
Corey A Cheng, Jermaine Anim-Addo, Asma Jakir Hussain, Zion O Smith-Fox, Sanjay Goel, and Yuksel Celik
From Framework to Toolchain: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture in Cloud-Native Environments for DoW Compliance
Shelby C. Snyder
Mitigating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures in COBOL-Based Critical Systems Using the Strangler-Fig Pattern
Lauren E. Caruso, Vincent J. Compeau, and Assefaw H. Gebremedhin
Breaking the Build: Detecting Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in CI/CD Pipelines
Mercedes R. Wahl and Dr. Benjamin Yankson
Hands-On Ransomware: An Experiential WannaCry Case Study for Undergraduate Cybersecurity Education
Eli Creek Richmond and Thomas R. Devine
Cognitive Resilience at the Edge: Hyperdimensional Computing versus Deep Learning for Hardware-Degraded RF Classification
Adrian B. Cisneros and Jeong Yang
