Casey O'Brien, the new CyberWatch Director, and Dan Callahan from EC-Council are interviewed by James Jones, Executive Director of the Mid-Pacific Information and Communications Technology (MPICT) NSF ATE Center in San Francisco at their 2012 Winter ICT Educator's Conference:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-lNU7af2A

These webinars are courtesy of CypherPath, a CyberWatch Partner. Please click on the links to register.

Computer Security and Privacy Concerns January, 26, 2012; 1:00 p.m. (ET)

A Cyber Situational Report (SitRep) January, 31, 2012; 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Software Assurance - To be or not to be? February 16, 2012; 1:00 p.m. (ET)

http://cisse.info/colloquium/call-for-papers

Deadline for submission is February 20, 2012.

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Where: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Laurel, MD
When: March 14-17, 2012
Theme: Healthcare IT
Highlights:
• Guest Speaker Symposium (March 14)
• Job Fair (March 15)
• Face-to-face competition (March 16-17)
• High School Career Fair & Expo (March 17) Download Information about th High School Career Fair!
• Pre-conference training workshops (March 12-17)
• Team debriefs and awards ceremony (March 17)

While similar to other cyber defense competitions in many aspects, the CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC, as part of the National CCDC, is unique in that it focuses on the operational aspects of managing and protecting an existing computing/network infrastructure. The teams are physically colocated in the same building. Each team is given physically identical computer configurations at the start of the competition. Throughout the competition, the teams have to ensure the systems supply the specified services while under
attack from a volunteer Red Team. In addition, the teams have to satisfy periodic “injects” that simulate business activities IT staff must deal with in the real world. Prior years have challenged students with a private business environment, a local government, and an energy corporation.

For information contact Casey W. O’Brien
www.MidAtlanticCCDC.org