Originally posted on PRNewswire-USNewswire BETHESDA, Md., SANS Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the SANS 2014 Difference Makers awards. While the headlines focus on security breaches, there are thousands of security practitioners out there who are quietly succeeding and keeping their companies and customers safe from attacks. The SANS Difference Makers award celebrates those […]
Originally printed in the Ledger-Enquirer BY MARK RICE Trang Nguyen has a pastel-colored laptop cover emblazoned with woodland animals to distinguish her computer. But she doesn’t need any gimmick to distinguish her work on that machine. The Columbus High School and Georgia Tech graduate, now a Columbus State University graduate student, is among the 11 national recipients […]
Originally posted on Market Wired “Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security” Receives Grant From HP to Support a New Generation of IT Security Talent WASHINGTON, DC– Responding to a shortage of cybersecurity professionals across the United States and a dearth of women in the field, Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) and the Computing Research Association’s […]
Originally Posted on Fast Company By: ELIZABETH SEGRAN “Do you even know how to code?” Jessie Pease, a rising senior at Cal Poly, gets asked this question by male colleagues all the time. She’s spent years in advanced coding classes and interned at both Cisco and Apple, so the question slightly offends her. But she’s begun […]
Originally posted on HPC Wire By: Trish Baker Visualization expert Dr. Vetria Byrd closed out the XSEDE14 conference in Atlanta with a passionate talk about the value of visualization across all areas of research and scholarship, as well as a snapshot of some of her recent effort to bring more people into the visualization fold. […]
Originally Posted on Technical.ly Baltimore By: Tyler Waldman Rising senior Victoria Lentz was one of 11 winners of a scholarship aimed at supporting women interested in cybersecurity. Only 10-15 percent of the cybersecurity workforce is female, according to a recent study. Victoria Lentz sometimes looks around her classes to find she’s the only woman around. “I’ve had […]
Originally Printed in Northeastern News By Northeastern News Northeastern University has appointed Dr. Carla E. Brodley as dean of the College of Computer and Information Science, effective Aug. 1, 2014. Brodley comes to Northeastern from Tufts University, where she is currently professor of computer science with a secondary appointment in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute […]
Originally printed in WPI News By WPI News WPI announced today that Susan Landau, PhD, former senior staff privacy analyst at Google and a widely respected authority on cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy, will join the WPI faculty as a professor of cybersecurity policy. Landau’s position, which includes a joint appointment in the departments of Social […]
Originally posted on Market Wired HP Grants $250,000 to the Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) WASHINGTON, DC— Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA), the non-profit sponsor of major cybersecurity research conferences, announced the expansion of the “Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security” (SWSIS) through relationships with HP, and the Computing Research Association’s Committee on […]
Company pushes to close skills gap by partnering with academic institutions worldwide SAN FRANCISCO — HP today announced that it will grant $250,000 to the Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) program, and will work closely with academic institutions worldwide to develop course content to help students learn the fundamentals of IT security. The […]
