Marshall University Partners With Intuit for Cyber Center

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(TNS) — As part of Marshall University’s growing investment in cybersecurity education, the university announced Thursday its partnership with Intuit to launch a student-led Security Operations Center, giving students hands-on experience defending real-world systems.

The announcement came during the second day of Marshall’s annual CyberCon conference, a three-day event centered on the cybersecurity community with presentations and workshops for industry experts, students, educators and curious minds to collaborate on current developments in the cyber world.

CyberCon originally began as the Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence Conference several years ago but — mirroring the technological advancements it’s focused on — the conference has evolved to focus on modern cyber threats and workforce development.

The university’s recent multi-million-dollar investment toward developing a state-of-the-art cybersecurity facility has included plans for a centralized Security Operations Center for students to simulate real-world scenarios to problem solve, monitor and rectify invisible threats that are evolving just as fast — if not faster — than the technologies that made them possible.

PANELISTS: IT’S IMPERATIVE TO BE PREPARED FOR CYBER ATTACKS

Following the announcement from Intuit that will make the student-led center possible, industry experts led a panel-style discussion on what cybersecurity actually looks like in the real world.Tammy Hawkins, vice president of business information security information for Intuit, outlined some of the modern-day threats experts and students should prepare for, from her experience.

When acting in cybersecurity, or in security operations centers, Hawkins said it’s imperative a security team understands the infrastructure of their company or business, their network and the information most vital to protect.

In addition to rectifying or minimizing cyber…

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