Cybersecurity Awareness Week 2023

9:00 a.m. Doors Open – Wood Campus Center, Dining Room

9:30 a.m. Speaker: Kevin Blankenship, Dean, Business & Technology, Vol State

9:45 a.m. Speaker: Jonathan Maynard, Chair, Computer Information Technology (CIT), Vol State

10:15 a.m. Speaker: Jonathan Pinkerton, Instructor, CIT Networking, Vol State

10:45 a.m. Speaker: Joshua Bond, Instructor, CIT Programming, Vol State

11:15 a.m. Speaker: Mitchell Frogge, Instructor, CIT Programming, Vol State

11:45 a.m. Speaker: Martin Bell, Instructor, CIT Programming & Applications, Vol State

12:15 p.m. Speaker: Abbas Imam, Instructor, CIT Cyberdefense, Vol State

12:45 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Speaker: Duane Berry, Director of Dual Enrollment and Off-Campus Sites, DSO, Vol State

9:00 a.m. Doors Open – Thigpen Library, Rochelle Conference Room

9:30 a.m. Speaker: Waseem Akhtar, Amazon Web Services. How cybersecurity is practiced within the Cloud and AWS and cybersecurity and their various Cloud training offerings

10:30 a.m. Speaker: Christopher Montini, VP of System Design and Technology, M3 Technology Services, and Vol State Alumnus

11:30 a.m. Lunch and Learn (Wood Campus Center, Dining Room): Dr. James Stanger, PhD, CompTIA Chief Technology Evangelist. Cybersecurity, a Global View

1:00 p.m. Speakers: Nita Brooks and Michael Erskine, Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University. Social Engineering and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence

2:00 p.m. Speaker: Eric L. Brown, PhD, Associate Director for Workforce Development and Outreach, Cybersecurity Education, Research, and Outreach Center, Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science, Tennessee Tech University

***Open to All***

9:00 a.m. Doors Open – Thigpen Library, room 226

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Capture the Flag Cybersecurity Competition

9:00 a.m. Doors Open – Wood Campus Center, Dining Room

9:30 a.m. Speaker: Kevin Blankenship, Dean, Business & Technology, Vol State

10:00 a.m. Speaker: Special Agent Kevin Varpness, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) What is happening with Cyber-security today and how the FBI is monitoring and protecting against current attacks

11:00 a.m. Speaker: Giovanni Williams, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Speakers: Nicholas Christian and Ernie Ricketts, Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (TBI) Cybersecurity from the perspective of law enforcement

2:00 p.m. Conference Wrap-up: Kevin Blankenship, Dean, Business & Technology, Vol State