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Help Make a Difference
The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, to be held February 9 - 10, 2008 allows colleges offering an information assurance or computer security curriculum to assess their students' depth of understanding and operational competency.
The students will have the opportunity to satisfy periodic "injects" that simulate business activities IT staff must deal with in the real world.
The competition will include five teams from Minnesota community/technical colleges and universities. Each team will be given identical computer configurations at the start of the competition. The teams must ensure the systems supply the specified services while under attack.
Join the stellar list of businesses that make a difference to Minnesota college students and the future of computer security.
Contact Don Lewis today! 612-659-7226
Sponsorship opportunities include:
$1,500 - Logistics support (in addition to IHCC staff) $1,200 - Team Polo Shirts (7 teams; 8 members each) $1,200 - Conference Dinner/Keynote Speaker $1,000 - Winning Team Travel Expenses for Regional Competition $750 - Awards Luncheon $600 - Each Luncheon (2 lunches) $500 - Support for Team Travel Costs $300 - Each Breakfast (3 continental breakfasts) |
Networking for Results
The Center will be offering two IT Networking Events this February:
Minneapolis Community & Technical College on 5 February 2008 from 10:00am - 12:00noon during Student Success Day.
Inver Hills Community College on 26 February 2008 from 12:00noon - 2:00pm during Student Success Day.
Students will discover what networking really means, practice their skills, and meet IT professionals and employers in a no pressure situation.
Workshops include IT Networking: Get Started! where students will discover the what, why, & how of networking. Small Group Networking in which students will meet IT professionals and gain confidence in a structured networking environment. And, the Networking Social where they will practice new networking skills in a typical situation. |
Bruce Schneier Presents to Full House
The Center for Strategic Information Technology and Security and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) hosted a presentation by Bruce Schneier, internationally recognized security technologist and author, in Minneapolis 14 January, 2008.
Even after moving the venue to a more capacious hall, the room was packed with over 200 people who came to hear security guru Schneier discuss "The Economics of Information Security - Ten Trends."
Schneier enthralled the audience with his insights and in-depth discussion of identified trends, including the economic impact of security breaches, and philosophical wisdom that revealed who really suffers when breaches occur. |
2008 Center Roundtables: Product
Product Development Dialogues
The Center for strategic IT & Security invites you to participate in the second of two important dialogues that will establish future direction for select Center projects. Your participation will help maintain the Center's success and focus. We look forward to seeing you there.
The session will be held at MCTC, and breakfast will be served. Please RSVP to Strategic.IT@metrostate.edu
Session Two: Helping Organizations Deploy IT Solutions
31 January 2008, 7:30-9:30 AM
Topics
Applied Research & Consulting
Continuing Education
Session One: Preparing Students for IT Careers, held on 10 January 2008, covered the topics MnITcareers.org and the April Symposium on MN IT Workforce. The very productive discussion held between BoA members, faculty, students and business persons will help the Center determine future directions.
For further information about session two visit www.strategicIT.org. |
2008 Spring Symposium
This event will bring together representatives from the IT community and higher education to consider the reported and anticipated shortage of IT workers in Minnesota.
The symposium will consist of four distinct phases:
Review facts (labor force projections, survey findings, expert testimony)
Formulate a problem statement
Generate a wide range of possible solutions
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Identify highest impact strategies/solutions that the Center could help implement
Members of Minnesota's business and government communities, educational faculty and student bodies, are invited to be a part of this important dialogue.
Contact Don Lewis or Bruce Lindberg for more information. |
Secure 360 2008 Conference and Secure Open Source Pre-conference Symposium
The 2008 Conference, "Evolving Threats and Practical Solutions," will take place on May 13 and 14 at the RiverCentre in St. Paul.
In addition, the Center for Strategic Information Technology and Security will sponsor a day-long Secure Open Source Pre-conference Symposium on open source security issues and solutions.
Sign up now for the early bird price of just $199 for this two-day event and $99 for the pre-conference symposium. You'll come away with heightened professional development, join a stronger regional community of security professionals, and find enhanced awareness of new solutions and products offered by industry leading companies.
Conference 2008 offers a "can't miss" opportunity if you are a: |
- Compliance Officer
- Auditor
- Property Manager
- Information Risk Officer
- Corporate Security Officer
- It Security Professional
- Privacy Officer
- Records Management Personnel
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- Data Forensics Personnel
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Human Resources Personnel
- Business Manager
- Business Continuity Planner
- Risk Management Professional
- Physical Security Professional
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Making Learning Fun
Twenty-one 4th grade students from Eastern Heights Elementary devised operational programs on computers, transmitted the data to Lego® robots, and watched them race, whirl, and spin on Friday, November 30.
Laughs, wide-eyes, kids on hands and knees, and exclamations of "Wow, this is cool," and "I want to do this again" were the order of the day. The students worked in teams of two, each team guided by a member of the Center for Strategic Information Technology and Security, which sponsored the event offered through College for Kids.
Andy Chrastek, an instructor for Minneapolis Community & Technical College led the students through the programming and transmitting stages. "Kids love the Lego robots," he said, "and the program inspires a desire to continue to work with robots and programming in most of the kids who attend." |
2008 STEM Summit
Saturday, 12 January 2008 Center staff Don Lewis, Helen Tang, and Michael Musa brought programming to hundreds of high school students attending the Summit at Blaine High School. Lego robots enthralled both parents and students alike.
Attendance at the 2008 STEM Summit is part of the Center's Outreach to K-12 strategy. Hundreds of young high school students were exposed to the world of IT, and parents and students alike went home with Center brochures and found about the Center and its programs. |
IT Fun
Have you cruised through strategicit.org lately?
If not, pay a visit and check out "Professor 00" in IT Fun - then check out our "Secdoku" and other games.
Of course, while you're there, get the lowdown on Center happenings by visiting our Updates, Calendar, MN Employers, TAOSE, MnITcareers, Career Guide, Scholarships and Cyber Defense areas. |
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