For information on trainings, presenters and to sign up for DakotaCon, log on to www.dakotacon.org. The 2014 event starts Friday with free presentations from nationally recognized cyber security speakers including Rob Kraus, the director of research for the Solutionary Security Engineering Research Team (SERT), and Jeremy Scott, a senior research analyst with the Security Engineering Research Team at Solutionary. Kraus and Scott are the first speakers scheduled on Friday morning for the presentation, “How Highly Effective CSOs Prepare for DDoS.”
“This is a great opportunity for the students, faculty, and alumni of DSU to sit side-by-side with regional IT professionals and enjoy a full weekend of cutting edge security content. What’s truly amazing about DakotaCON is that the speakers and trainers are known worldwide and will be spending three days at DSU all in the name of cyber security. These guys get pulled in a lot of directions, and their involvement in DakotaCON and our regional CCDC shows their support in what DSU is doing in the cyber security world. The entire weekend is a great chance for people from the area to spend time with the best of the best in the cyber security world; and we’re excited it’s happening at DSU,” states Dr. Josh Pauli, associate professor of cyber security at Dakota State University.
In conjunction with the DakotaCon presentations on Friday, the North Central Region Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) will be held Friday, March 7th, and Saturday, March 8th on the DSU campus. This competition gives students the chance to test their knowledge by building, protecting, and maintaining a realistic network and operations environment. This nationally recognized competition focuses on the operational aspect of managing, securing, and defending a “commercial” network infrastructure. Participating teams will be required to demonstrate their ability to withstand and defend against real-time network security attacks. This is the 6th regional CCDC competition that DSU has hosted. The public is invited to come watch the competition.