Johns Hopkins student team places second in Raymond James cybersecurity competition

This year’s results mark Johns Hopkins’ best-ever performance in the competition, surpassing its previous third-place finishes in 2018 and 2023.

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Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
  • MSSI Seminar- Capstone Briefing Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 11:50 am Gilman 132
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Monday, November 4th, 2024
  • MSSI Seminar: "Generative Artificial Intelligence Debates" Monday, November 4th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 11:50 am Gilman 132

    Speaker- Kishen Sridharan is the Associate Director, Technology Partnerships Executive, holistically representing Information Technology in the Office of the CIO at Raymond James. In this strategic role, he focuses on strengthening and growing Raymond James’ network of technology relationships tied to four pillars: industry, government, academia, and community. He determines the level of engagement, assesses ROI to Raymond James, and makes sure Raymond James is a valuable contributing partner in return, particularly in the area of industry working groups and cyber threat intelligence.

    In prior roles at Raymond James, Kishen established and built the Cyber Partnerships &Outreach program, to support the CISO in running a world class information security organization. Kishen also helped establish a Product Management mindset, framework, and governance structure to deliver highly valuable business outcomes, particularly those which support the Strategic Roadmap. This was the stepping stone to formally convert the InfraSec organization to an “as a Service” model. Before that, he stood up a Project Management Office within InfraSec. Kishen has over 20 years of experience in various facets of technology, project implementation and business process improvement. His experience ranges from compliance, risk management and information assurance to strategic information security consulting. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University in Management Science, Information Systems and International Business and an MBA from the University of Maryland. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Scrum Master (CSM).

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Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
  • MSSI Seminar- Evan Blair from Americas for Searchlight Cyber Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 11:50 am Gilman 132

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    Evan Blair is the General Manager, North America for Searchlight Cyber, bringing industry leading dark web intelligence & security capabilities to the commercial and government sectors. Mr. Blair, a seasoned international cyber security executive, previously held the role of Chief Revenue Officer at the secure communications & data management firm HighSide, co-founded, led and exited the cyber security & threat intelligence firm ZeroFox (NASDAQ: ZFOX),  and ran Accuvant’s (now Optiv's) global partner solutions division. An experienced global speaker, Evan has presented at conferences including the RSA Conference, Digital Copenhagen, McAfee FOCUS,SINET and has been featured by the New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes and other major publications. He has been a fixture on Capitol Hill, working to advance legislation and funding for Active Duty military and Veterans cyber protection as well as advanced fraud and cyber protections for the American taxpayer. Blending his cybersecurity expertise with a background in international economics, Mr. Blair helps businesses develop and launch value based cyber initiatives addressing both the concerns of the CISO and the CFO.
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
  • MSSI Seminar- Julie Dhanraj from NSA Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Gilman 132

    Seminar topic: Risk and Management of Risk of Using Large Language Model (LLM) on Corporate and Government Business Networks

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Monday, November 18th, 2024
  • MSSI Seminar- Mike Price of ZeroFox Monday, November 18th, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 11:50 am Gilman 132

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    Mike Price serves as Chief Technology Officer at ZeroFox. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of technology, including: Artificial Intelligence (AI), engineering, intelligence, research and security. In previous roles, he has focused on entrepreneurship in the information security space as well as technical efforts related to vulnerability management and mobile security. In addition, he serves in support of US state and federal information security efforts.

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