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Cybersecurity Institute at CICS Holding Events for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Massachusetts Cybersecurity Week
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the Cybersecurity Institute at the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) is hosting four guest speakers this month from government, industry and higher education to promote cybersecurity awareness.
On Tuesday, Oct. 1, Arthur House, chief cyber security risk officer for the State of Connecticut, presented his talk, “Cyber Threats: The State Fights Back,” on cyber threats facing individuals and governments, the business community, elections and national security.
On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Markus Hofmann, a researcher at Bell Labs, will present “Reshaping Our Interaction and Communications,” his long-term vision for the future of human collaboration and the implications for security and privacy.
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, as a joint presentation with the CICS Rising Stars lecture series, Carnegie Mellon University doctoral candidate Pardis Naeini will explore consumer concerns and preferences on having personal data collected by the Internet of Things (IoT) in her presentation, “Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in an IoT World.”
Finally, a talk will be given by Reinier Broker from the Center for Communications Research, a non-profit which performs research in support of the National Security Agency’s mission in cryptology, on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
All speaker events will take place in Computer Science room 151.
In addition to the talks, Brian Levine, CICS professor and Cybersecurity Institute director, will bring several students to Washington D.C. on Friday, Oct. 18 during Massachusetts Cyberweek to spend the day with a group of security professionals, including agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as part of their studies through the National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps Scholarships for Service program.
The Cybersecurity Institute is a multi-disciplinary home for security research and education at UMass.