Marilu Duque

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor —— School of Information

Online Learning

• Cybersecurity Practices for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) - 100W (2020)
• ICS Cybersecurity Consequences 210W-08 (2020)
• ICS Cybersecurity Risk 210W-05 (2020)
• Difference in Deployments of ICS 210W-01 (2020)

Technical (IT/Security) Intern

• Worked on the Information Security and SOC team within the Office of the President to ensure security protections of products for customers and vendors.
• Identified currently unprocessed data coming from company email traffic which could be used to identify threat actors.
• Used various data science packages to analyze this data to identify and evaluate potential streams of malicious data.
• Designed the summer 2021 intern t-shirt that was sent out to 600+ interns across the globe.

Graduate Student Instructor

• Assisting Professor Sarita Schoenebeck in SI 431 which examines the ways algorithms impact individuals and communities by investigating concepts of bias, discrimination, fairness, ethics, justice, and potential harms of emerging technologies.
• Hosting office hours, assisting with instructional preparation, assessment, and leading discussions in critical areas of this field such as AI, Data Science & Cybersecurity.

Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst Intern (ICS)

• On the Cyber-Physical team advancing threat intelligence reporting software and writing reports on Industrial Control System incidents, under the direction of senior analysts.
• Updated relevant databases, identified and recommended solutions relevant to Cyber-Physical systems that could be implemented to increase value to Intelligence customers and deliver comprehensive, contextually rich, actionable intelligence.
• Researched and wrote reports focused on cyber threats in various countries, industry challenges in managing operational/information technology (OT/IT) networks, and educational training within the ICS field.
• Completed documentation which enables accessibility for less-technical users to utilize in-house software.

System Security Researcher

• Working on the“System Security: Preventing Automotive Cyber Attacks” for Aptiv, the automotive parts technology company. Using the following tools: Zeek/Bro, Snort, Suricata, Wireshark, and VirtualBox.
• Leading the Zeek/Bro Intrusion Detection System (IDS) team to research active threat detection methods and develop mitigation solutions on Aptiv’s Connected Secure Gateway Platform.
• Writing documentation and reports for installation, configuration, and analysis of tools for stakeholder use and operations.

iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) Research Fellow

• Selected to be 1 of 24 fellows chosen for this nationally competitive fellowship to participate in research that prepares underrepresented students for careers in information and computing through funded research, academic workshops, and professional development.
• Expanded skillset within Research Methodology, Data Visualization, Data Scraping/Analysis using tools such as Tableau, NVivo, and R.
• Leading a team of students from across the country on this 20-month-long research project, where we use research methods such as Social Network Analysis, OSINT, New Media, and Thematic Analysis to understand the growing trends of domestic terrorism by those categorized as hate groups in the U.S.
• Preliminary studies published at iConference 2020 in Borås, Sweden & iConference 2021.