If interested, please contact Dr. Karen Paullet. If you are not able to attend the marathon but would like to support the cause, you can use the following GoFundMe page to donate:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tsc-24-hour-gaming-marathon-for-ukraine
The Top Secret Colonials will be hosting a fundraiser from Monday, April 4th through Saturday, March 9th from 4:00 pm to close at the All-Star Sports Bar & Grill in Robinson located at 6302 Robinson Centre Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15205. Funds will be used to support the club. The owner of the All-Star Sports Bar is being very generous to the club. The owner of the All Star Sports Bar and Grill has agreed to give TSC 10% of all sales from now until April 30th with receipt. If you stop during the fundraising week please remember to drop off your itemized receipt to the club members at the table before you leave. There will also be a variety of raffle items including baskets, signed Steelers and Penguins items, and gift card raffles.
If you are well-versed in Assembly Language Programming and are available to serve as a private tutor, there may be a paid opportunity for this work. Please contact Dr. Pinchot for additional details if interested (pinchot@rmu.edu).
Cloud Support Associate career path at AWS. Support Associates are passionate about cloud computing, and believe world-class support is critical to customer success. Associates will provide customer support across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools and tactics to get the most out of their product and support investment.
This role offers the flexibility to choose an in-person, hybrid or fully virtual work model!
Eligibility requirements:
• Students must have taken the AWS Academy Cloud Architecting course and obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate level certification
• Students must be eligible to work in the United States without immigration support
• Networking, Linux, Kubernetes, and Big Data/Analytics knowledge are valued but not required
• An Associate degree is required for consideration for a full-time role; candidates must have a graduation date between August 2021-August 2022
o The job posting shows a BS is required to apply, but students connected through this outreach holding an AS degree will be eligible. Students can enter their latest degree type when filling out the application.
What happens next?
• Interested students should click the link below to view the role and apply to be a Cloud Support Associate today
• All eligible candidates will be invited to participate in a 90-minute online assessment
• Candidates who pass the online assessment will be moved to the first of two interviews
Questions? Please email Chandni Patel at chandp@amazon.com
Join the Top Secret Colonials (TSC) as we present Proofpoint‘s team with 3 TSC alumni, for a presentation on Security Awareness on Wednesday, March 2nd at 4:30pm in the Wheatley Atrium.
Colleen Gaffney, Corey Beynon, Sarah Pfabe, and Jake Pacari will be here to provide tips on security and discuss internships and full-time job opportunities with Proofpoint. Information on their presentation is listed below. Students who attend will receive 1-hour of SET credit. Pizza will be provided.
TODAY’S CYBER ATTACKS TARGET PEOPLE, NOT JUST TECHNOLOGY. And people are busy. They’re distracted. Sometimes they click the wrong things. Even your best people can open the wrong email, fall victim to fraud, and make the same digital mistakes we all make. People are your greatest business asset—and your weakest security and compliance link.
Join us in exploring the human centric side of cybersecurity! Phishing and social engineering are the starting point for 93% of all data breaches. Proofpoint’s Security Awareness Platform, combined with Managed Services, helps companies train users to be the first and last line of defense when it comes to cyber security. Learn from the leaders in email security on how to protect yourself in today’s threat landscape. Get a taste for the real-world threats that organizations face every day, and the different job opportunities around them.
Hope to see you all there.
The Top Secret Colonials (TSC) student organization won 2nd Place in the 2022 Student Government Association (SGA) Shark Tank Competition! TSC won $1,500 that will be used to raise funds and promote a community event for the Batch Foundation in the fall semester.
The Batch Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 by former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch. The foundation works to provide choices, motivation, and education to create communities where all kids and families are equipped with the tools they need to build their own best futures.
Congratulations, TSC!
The following nationwide job vacancy is posted on www.FBIjobs.gov:
Position: IT Specialist (System Admin/Customer Support)
ID number: 41683
Closing date: 2/4/2022
Location: Nationwide
Open to all U.S. Citizens.
Questions regarding this opening should be directed to FBI_FOStaffing@fbi.gov
The Top Secret Colonials and CIS Department wish students, faculty, and staff a happy holiday season!
Dr. Sushma Mishra, Professor of Computer and Information Systems, gave a presentation titled “Organizational Security Governance Practices: A Convergence of Frameworks” at the ISACA Pittsburgh Information Security Awareness Day Conference.
This is the premier educational event for information systems audit and information security professionals in the Pittsburgh region. With a chapter membership of more than 600 professionals, the ISACA Pittsburgh Chapter is represented by employees of more than 150 companies, academic institutions, and government entities throughout the region.
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Wu, Professor and the Chair of the Computer and Information Systems Department, who was inducted as a ISCAP-EDSIG Fellow of the Information Systems Computing Academic Professional’s (ISCAP) organization at the EDSIG Conference on Computing Education held November 3-6, 2021 in Washington D.C. Each year Fellows are inducted in honor of their sustained, long-term, meaningful and effective support of EDSIG in its ongoing mission to improve Information Systems, mentor IS students, and foster the careers of IS faculty.
Dr. Wu served on the ISCAP-EDSIG board as an at-large director from 2013 to 2018 and as treasurer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Wu also served in the roles of Assistant Papers Chair, Papers Co-chair and eventually Paper Chair for the Conference in Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR). Dr. Wu continues to serve on the editorial board for both the Information Systems Education Journal (ISEDJ) and the Journal of Information Systems Applied Research (JISAR).
More information can be found here:
http://iscap-edsig.org/fellows.html
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