On September 27-29, CSND's Jim Basney and John Zage participated in SFSCon 2019, the third annual cybersecurity training and professional development event at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) for the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) students and alumni nationwide. 105 student attendees traveled to California from 42 universities across the country for this event organized by CPP Professor Mohammad Husain.
CSND participated in the workshop both as representatives of NCSA and Trusted CI (formerly CTSC), the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. In 2017, members of CSND helped organize the CPP-CTSC SFS Cyberinfrastructure Security Workshop, the first event in this SFSCon series.
This year Jim and John provided an Identity and Access Management training, using materials developed by Trusted CI. Jim also served on a cybersecurity career panel to discuss job opportunities with NCSA Security. And, NCSA Security was a sponsor of SFSCon 2019.
From 45 student attendees in 2017 to 105 student attendees in 2019, SFSCon is a growing success. It’s great to see the SFS program supporting the development of the next generation cybersecurity workforce. Trusted CI is proud to have the Cal Poly Pomona Scholarship for Service project as one of our partners.