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Dr. Kembley Lingelbach, PhD. - CISSP

Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
Phone: 478-471-2077
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Office Hours: | Location: Macon - Professional Sciences and Conference Center - 328 Office Hours: Spring 2023 (Macon Campus) Tuesday 12:00 pm until 2:00 pm Wednesday 10:00 am until 2:00 pm Thursday 12:00 pm until 2:00 pm Contact: kembley.lingelbach@mga.edu |
Biography: | Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Computer Forensics Examiner (CCFE), Security +, Metasploit Pro, CFSA |
Courses: | Spring 2023 Undergraduate Full Session ITEC 3300 - Section 01 Project Management (Tuesday/Thursday- 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm, Room PSC 256) ITEC 4750 - Section 02 Online Senior Capstone ITEC 4750 - Section 03 Online Senior Capstone Graduate - Doctoral 2nd Session ITEC 8120 - Section 01 ONLINE IT Policy, Compliance & Legal Issues |
Education: | Georgia College & State University Bachelor of Science in Logistics Systems; Minor Computer Science (2000) Georgia College & State University Masters, Management Information Systems (2005) Nova Southeastern University, Ph.D., Information Systems (Information Security/Cyber Security Concentration) (2014 - 2018) Palo Alto Networks - Cybersecurity Certificate (2020) |
CV: | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA / Aug 2017 – Present • Prepare and deliver lectures (face-to-face and virtual) to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as cybersecurity, ethical hacking, ethics and legal issues in information technology • Act as an adviser to student organizations CGISSA (Central Georgia Information Systems Security Association), ACWITSC and WIT Campus • Experiential Learning/Service Learning Project for Students & Community Committees Served • Executive Committee Middle Ga State University • Recruitment and Marketing Committee for the Department of IT • Scholarship Committee for Department of IT • University Library Committee • Academic Cybersecurity Seminar • MGA Dept of IT Team on NSA CAE Grant Courses Taught Undergraduate Courses: • Intro to Information Technology ITEC 2215 • Project Management ITEC 3300 • Human-Computer Interaction- ITEC 3325 • Database Principles ITEC 3245 • Foundations of Information Assurance ITEC 4200 • Legal & Ethical Issues ITEC 4205 • Business Driven Technology ITEC 4254 • Network Forensics/Incident Response ITEC 4341 • Ethical Hacking ITEC 4344 • Special Projects in IT ITEC 4501 • Internship in IT ITEC 4701 Graduate Courses: • Project Management ITEC 5120 • Network & Cybersecurity ITEC 6210 • Ethical Hacking ITEC 6220 • Security Ethics and Legal Environment ITEC 6240 • Disaster Recovery ITEC 6250 Doctoral ITEC 8120 ONLINE IT Policy, Compliance, and Legal Service to the Community • Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia • Armed Services Communications & Engineering Association (AFCEA) o Serves as the Vice President of Academic Outreach in the AFCEA organization. o Cybersecurity Forum, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia o Penetration Testing Experiential Learning Project, Macon, Georgia o CyberPatriot I Technical Mentor Rutland High School, Macon, Ga Technical Skills Programming Languages: C, C# and C++, HTML, VB.NET Other: SPSS, Quirkos, Linux, Ubuntu, Mac OS, Windows, Wireshark, Kali, Metasploit, Splunk |
Professional Experience: | Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology (Cybersecurity) - Middle Ga State University (2017 - present) Adjunct Professor, School of Information Technology - Middle Ga State University (2010 - 2017) Cybersecurity Information System Security Manager, COMSEC Manager (ISSM)(Dept. of Defense - USAF - 2014 - 2017) Wing Information Assurance Manager (Dept. of Defense - USAF - 2012 - 2014) Chief Information Officer Liaison (DoD, USAF - 2008 - 2012) IT Zone Helpdesk Supervisor/InfoSec (DoD, USAF - 2006 - 2008) Programmer Analyst/Project Manager/Database/Server Administrator (DoD, USAF - 2001 - 2006) Information System Security Officer (DoD, USAF 1998 - 2001, 2001 - 2006) Technical Computer Training Instructor/Server Administrator/IT Support (DoD, USAF, 1994 - 1998) |
Professional Affiliations: | WyCyS - Women in Cybersecurity ISC2 CISSP Vice President, Affiliate Organizations, AFCEA IEEE Peer Reviewer |
Organizations: | AFCEA ISC2 Membership WyCys Membership Upsilon Pi Epsilon IEEE-ETA Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society WIT (Women in Technology) |
Awards and Honors: | DoD Long Term Full-time Scholarship Undergraduate(1999-2000) DoD Long Term Full-time Scholarship Graduate(2004-2005) Emerging Supervisory Development Program (2015-2016) Upsilon Pi Epsilon (2015-current) Honor Society for Computing and Information Discipline IEEE-ETA Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society |
Publications: | Lingelbach, K. (2018). Perceptions of female cybersecurity professionals toward factors that encourage females to the cybersecurity field [Dissertation]. Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Floyd, K. and Lingelbach, K. (2019). Perceptions of cloud storage privacy among university students. Issues in Information Systems, 20(4). Hueca, A., Westney, Z., & Lingelbach, K. (2021, June). Security Breach? Do I care enough to share information [Research-In-Progress] Proceedings of International Institute of Applied Knowledge Management, p. 28. https://www.iiakm.org/conference/proceedings/KM2021_RefereedProceedingsAbstracts.pdf Lingelbach, K. (2021). Student perceptions of a cybersecurity service-learning project. Issues in Information Systems. 22(1). Lingelbach, K (2021). A Study of female cybersecurity professionals. Research in progress. Presentations Lingelbach, K. (2018). Perceptions of female cybersecurity professionals toward factors that encourage females to the cybersecurity field [Poster Session Presentation]. Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Floyd, K. and Lingelbach, K. (2019). Perceptions of cloud storage privacy among university students. [Presentation]. 59th International Association for Computer Information Systems C2021 Refereed Proceedings & Conference Presentation Hueca, A., Westney, Z., & Lingelbach, K. (2021, July 2). Security Breach? Do I care enough to share information [Conference presentation] KM conference 2021, Leipzig, Germany. Lingelbach, K. (2021, June). Factors of Engaging Females in Cybersecurity. [Speaker, Presentation] ISC2 Middle Georgia Chapter. Warner Robins, GA. Upcoming Conference Presentation (October 2021) Lingelbach, K. (2021). Student perceptions of a cybersecurity service-learning project [Presentation]. Proceedings of 61st IACIS Annual Conference. IEEE Research peer reviewer (2017-2018) IACIS Peer reviewer (2019 - present) IIAKM Peer Reviewer (2020 - present) NSA CAE Cyber Defense Peer Reviewer (2021 - present) NSA CAE Cyber Defense Mentor (2022- present) |
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