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Cybersecurity Career Week Event

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Cybersecurity Awareness Event

Location type: In-person and Virtual

10/23/2024 - 10:00 AM CST (America/Chicago)
to 10/23/2024 - 12:00 PM CST (America/Chicago)

Virtual event link: https://events.harpercollege.edu/event/cybersecurity-awareness-event

Location(s)
Harper College- Building W, Wojcik Conference Center

1200 West Algonquin Road
Palatine, IL 60067
United States

Location contact:

Martha Karavitis
mkaravit@harpercollege.edu
847-925-6708

Description

Learn about the landscape of Cybersecurity from experts in the field! We will be sharing resources through social media leading up to our big event. This event will offer general cybersecurity measures you can take to ensure safety in a digitized world and will also cover recent breakthroughs in using generative AI for transparently making sound decisions in security and in a cybersecurity environment across all industries. Guest Speakers Wei Chen Lin serves as a Cybersecurity Advisor (CSA) with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where he supports CISA’s mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. As a CSA, Wei Chen conducts various cyber preparedness, risk mitigation, incident response coordination, and outreach activities. Mr. Lin is a licensed attorney in Illinois and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Martin Holste is the CTO for Cloud and AI at Trellix where he is responsible for shaping cloud security and AI strategy and passionately working with customers to improve their security outcomes. Prior to serving as CTO for Cloud and AI, Martin led teams working on machine learning and founded the cloud-native Helix XDR Platform at Trellix. Before Trellix, Martin spent nearly a decade in penetration testing, incident response, and threat hunting while serving as the Incident Response Team Lead for the State of Wisconsin.