CHICAGO - The Secure World Expo Chicago program details are nearly complete, and Secure World Expo spokeswoman Amy Einstein talks about what will be seen and heard during the two-day exhibition May 21-22. She also announces that MITechNews.Com subscribers get big discounts, so you’re doing to want to listen to this New Maker Interview.
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KALAMAZOO - Information Technology and eCommerce attorney Vincent Polley of KnowConnect PLLC will give an attorney’s perspective on how to both prevent and respond to information security breaches April 1 at the Kalamazoo M-TEC. The event is co sponsored by ConnecTech Kalamazoo and Michigan InfraGard. It is free to the public.
SOUTHFIELD - Data Center Solutions is offering a new Michigan-made network security appliance that can perform up to 14 functions, protection from hackers, spammers, the lot. The company’s Steve Beers describes the new product as enterprise security for a small business price. To learn more, listen to this Security channel edition of News Maker Interview.
GRAND RAPIDS - Reid Gough, Dean School of Technology and Davenport University Online, discusses the schools new Master’s Degree in Information Assurance. The degree work helps train the next generation of security professionals and is offered both at the Grand Rapids campus and online. Soon it will be offered at Davenport’s Livonia campus.
DEABORN - Greg Garcia, Assistant Secretary of Cyber Security and Communications for the Department of Homeland Security, discusses the threats facing the United States from hacktivsts, terrorists, state-sponsored terrorism and more in this News Maker interview from the Detroit SecureWorld Expo. Garcia is the nation’s first cyber czar.
KALAMAZOO - Dan Lohrmann, Michigan’s Chief Information Security Officer, talks about the 10 cyber security threats that keep him awake at night as Michigan’s cyber czar. Lohrmann gave a longer version of this presentation at the GLIMA Southwest Security Conference on Oct. 4. His power point presentation can be found at GLIMASouthwest.Com
DEABORN - Jason Witty, a Security experts with LaSalle Bank, talks about the state of the Internet in this News Maker Interview. And the state, he said, is growing troublesome by the growing proliferation of organized crime from countries like Russia, North Korea, China - some say state-sponsored cyber terrorism - leading phishing attacks that bedevil the Internet every day.
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan InfraGard, an FBI-backed group that helps business protect itself from cyber and physical attack, hosted a tabletop Avian flu pandemic exercise on Sept. 27 to see how prepared its members were to deal with a catastrophic disaster that could kill upwards of 5 percent of the people infected and depress worldwide growth by a staggering 6 percent in just 90 days. The drill, done as a video conference with InfraGard members in Grand Rapids, Warren and Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, opened a lot of eyes and started the attendees thinking about “what if.”
NOVI - RazorThreat, which develops security information and threat management software that protects computer networks from bots and malware, won the 2007 Emerging Technology company of the year award from Automation Alley. The Royal Oak company, still in its development stage, hopes to someday protect the Michigan government computer network from constant attacks. More in this News Maker interview.
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan InfraGard is looking for volunteers to staff centers in four Michigan cities that will be participating on Sept. 27 in a Flu Pandemic Exercise. Larry Shattuck, Midwest Region Representative for InfraGard, talks about the exercise in this Newsmaker Interview.
KALAMAZOO - GLIMASouthwest.Com is hosting a Security seminar at the Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University’s campus on Oct. 4 called Shedding New Light On IT Security. In this Newsmaker Interview, Faith Heikkila of PivotGroup, the conference organizer, talks about what attendees can learn about at the Tech Expo 2007.
Dan Shoemaker, who is in charge of the University of Detroit Mercy’s Information Assurance Center, talks about the new Security IAC Centers that have been certified in Michigan to provide security training, in this Newsmaker Interview.
Larry Shattuck, a Midwest region board member for InfraGard, talks about the FBI-backed Security organization, its mandate and the help InfraGard can provide companies trying to protest their computer networks and physical assets from potential terrorist attacks, in this Newsmaker Interview.
Skip Lawver, who heads up Eastern Michigan University’s Security Information Assurance Center, talks about the security training offered from IAC Center, include EMU, which works closely with law enforcement officials to make the cyber savvy. Listen to Lawver’s comments in this Newsmaker Interview.
William Kowalski, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI for the state of Michigan, talks about terrorist threats and the Michigan ties to those terrorists in the Newsmaker Interview from the ITEC Detroit 2007 trade show at Cobo Center in Detroit.
Interview with Tom Hines, co chairman of the Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, who talks about how the security group has appointed Michigan Sen. Valde Garcia as the head of its new Roundtable, a combination lobby-public opinion-industry insider collaboration.
Interview with Dan Lohrmann, Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Michigan, who talks in detail about the cyberattack against the state’s computer network on March 27. Some 700 computers, mostly older models, were hit, slowing the entire state computer network and forcing some Secretary of State offices to temporarily close.
Interview with Dan Lohrmann, president of Michigan InfraGard, and the state of Michigan’s Chief Information Security Officer. Lohrmann talks about what Michigan InfraGard is, what it can do to protect the physical and cybersecurity of state businesses, and about its link to the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security.
Interview with Skip Lawver, head of Eastern Michigan University’s Information Assurance Program. Lawver was a judge in the Cyberdefense competition hosted by EMU in mid February that pitted a red team of hackers against seven community college teams of security students from Michigan and Ohio to test security networks.
Interview with Tom Hines, co founder of the Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, who talks about the Select awards to acknowledge Homeland Security segment leaders in Michigan.
Interview with Keith Brophy, co founder of the Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, who provides details on a new pre seed fund for Michigan companies that develop or manufacture security-related technologies and products. Some $500,000 is available for about a dozen start ups. Also provided will be services from NuSoft Solutions, Secure Matrix, Clark Hill and other sponsors.
