In recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, MSU IT is hosting two events for the MSU community. Protecting yourself and the MSU community is all about increasing your knowledge so that you can decrease cybersecurity risk. You might not think your data is worth protecting, but your MSU credentials can be used as a gateway to important institutional data. Learn good cybersecurity pointers at secureit.msu.edu.
10/31 – Michigan State Police: Cyber Threats and Scams Webinar
- Monday, October 31, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. on Zoom
- Register here
- All Spartans are welcome!
Detective Sergeant Sam North, Michigan Cyber Command Center (MC3), will discuss common cyber threats and scams lurking online. North will also present ways to identify phishing e-mails, tips to improve cybersecurity and explore criminal investigations related to network intrusions.
A division of the Michigan State Police, the MC3 is responsible for coordinating combined efforts of cyber emergency response during critical cyber incidents in Michigan. Emphasis is placed upon prevention, response, and recovery from cyber incidents. Detective Sergeant Sam North has been an enlisted member of the Michigan State Police since 2014. North served at the Lansing Post as a trooper and human trafficking subject matter expert, at the Diversion Investigation Unit, and the First District Cold Case Team before his current position with the Michigan Cyber Command Center, where he conducts investigations into cybersecurity-related criminal activity. 
11/15 – MSU IT Research & Security Presentation and Workshop
- Watch Zoom recording
- All Spartans interested in research cybersecurity are welcome!
Special guest Chief Information Security Officer Mike Corn, UC San Diego, and CISO Tom Siu, MSU, discuss cybersecurity trends in the research space. All Spartans who work or are interested in cybersecurity or academic research are welcome to attend. Attendees who RSVP by 5 p.m. Friday, November 11 will receive a boxed lunch.
Join us at the MSU Union Ballroom:
- 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Research & Security Presentation by Mike Corn
- 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Lunch (RSVP by 11/11 for a boxed lunch)
- 12:15 – 1:00 p.m. CMMC Research Workshop
- Workshop is designed for researchers, particularly those affected by security mandates in research contracts/grants.
- Mike and Tom discuss the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) from the perspective of the academic advisory council and where research organizations should prepare and focus their effort.
- Mike will present insight and lessons learned at UCSD.
- Attendee participation during the discussion is encouraged.
Speaker Biographies
Mike Corn is the CISO of the University of California at San Diego, where he manages the Security Office and Identity and Access Management. His areas of interest include privacy, identity management, and cloud services. He has been an active speaker and author on security and privacy and has participated in numerous Educause and Internet2 initiatives.
He is a member of the Internet2 NAOPag, a past co-chair of the Educause HEISC, a member of the REN-ISAC steering committee, and the CMMC AB Academic Advisory Council. Before joining UCSD, he was the CISO & CPO and Deputy CIO of Brandeis University. He was formally the CISO and Chief Privacy and Security Officer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tom Siu leads MSU’s Security Engineering, Security Operations, Incident Response, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams within the Information Security department and is responsible for the university-wide information security strategy. Tom joined MSU in 2020 after having served for 14 years as CISO for Case Western Reserve University, where he oversaw the development of the information security program, helped in the centralization of IT under the University Technology, [U] Tech, brand, and organized the multiple institutional partnerships for the CWRU secure research environment, and the 2020 Presidential Debate in Cleveland.
