Tuesday, October 27, 2015

JPMorgan Chase summer internships


The JPMorgan Chase Technology Analyst Program has extended the Application Deadline for Technology Summer Internships to Friday, October 30th at 11:59PM. Please pass this information along with the attached job description to your student members.

Students need to apply to our careers page in order to be considered for an interview with us.  The link to our careers page is below. 


Let me know if you have any questions. Please send emails from your psu.edu accounts, I am unable to respond to personal email accounts such as gmail.

Thank you!

Lauren Kuhne  |  JPMorgan Chase & Co.  |  Chase Loyalty Solutions BSA  |  Work: 302-516-3535  |   lauren.kuhne@jpmchase.com

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Vincent D’Agostino talk on Oct 30




You are invited to a special lecture:
"Investigating Cyber Crime in the 21st Century"
U.S. Cyber Crime Expert Vincent D'Agostino ’99 Lib
Supervisory Special Agent (FBI-NY) Jay Kramer ’89 Lib
Friday, October 30, 2015
Sutliff Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building
4:30-6:00 p.m.

Free and Open to the Public
For additional information, email scholars@psu.edu or call 814.863.4542


Vincent D’Agostino is an Associate Managing Director in the U.S. Cyber Investigations and Incident Response practice at K2 Intelligence. Vincent brings a deep investigative background in traditional and cyber investigations to the firm. He has extensive federal and civil trial experience.

Before joining K2 Intelligenc , Vincent served as one of the most senior Special Agents within the Cyber Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) New York Office. He established himself as one of the U.S. Government’s foremost authorities on identify theft, DARK/DEEP web, crypto-currency and international botnet investigations. In addition to his work as the FBI’s Trial Agent for Silk Road 1, United States v. Ross W. Ulbricht, he also served as the Case Agent for Silk Road 2, Operation Onymous, United States v. Blake Benthall, which led to the seizure of hundreds of TOR hidden services and servers. Vincent directed the international take down of infrastructure which hosted TOR illegal hidden services operating in over 17 European countries in coordination with Europol/European Cybercrime Center 3 and Eurojust based out of The Hague.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Upcoming events:

Some upcoming events courtesy of the Cyber-Competition Club, the SRA Club and the IST Interest House:

- Oct 14 - 6-7:30 pm IBM security speaker 208 IST
- Oct 27 - 6-7:30 pm Fireeye/Mandiant speaker (room 110)
- Nov 12 - 6-7:30 pm Federal Security Clearance workshop (room 208)

more info will be posted as I have it.

Monday, October 12, 2015

IBM Security speaker - SRA Club

The SRA Club will meet this week in room 208 on Tuesday, Oct 14.

Our guest speaker will be Chris Derobertis, from IBM security.

He will talk about what IBM is doing for information security and will also be talking about job and internship opportunities with IBM.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Free online tech classes

Udemy.com has a number of free online tutorials covering a number of technical subjects.  They also have some tutorials for a fee.

Here is a link to the free tutorials related to SQL - you can use it as a starting point to find other relevant tutorials.

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?ref=home&q=sql&price=price-free

The Web is the post powerful learning environment available - learn how to use it by being aware of online learning modules that you can access as needed.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

IBM speaker Christopher Derobertis at SRA Club Oct 14

The SRA club will have a special meeting on October 14, replacing the regular meeting that would have taken place on October 15.

Our guest speaker will be Christopher Derobertis, from IBM.

Christopher V. DeRobertis is Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Secure Engineering in Test/cybersecurity subject matter expert for the Server & Storage System Test organization, IBM Systems. STSM is a prestigious position within IBM and represents one of the highest technical roles within the company.

As an STSM and security specialist, he has the opportunity to work with different teams on security and data privacy across a broad spectrum of IBM server, storage, cloud, mobile, and application products and solutions.

This is a great way to network and learn about security at one of the largest IT organizations in the world.

I-schools video contest - win $5000 !!!

The iSchools organization announces a video contest that seeks to foster interest in the field of information and promote study at an Information School. Prizes of $5,000, $2,500 and $1,000 will be given for the top-three most innovative and impactful videos, respectively. The top five finishers will also be offered up to $1,000 in travel support to attend iConference 2016 in Philadelphia.

For more information please visit:

http://ischools.org/news/ischools-promotional-video-contest-you-could-win-up-to-5000/

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Third national women in cybersecurity conference

March 31 to April 2, 2016.  Travel scholarships are available!  For more info see this PDF:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/temp/WiCyS%20General%20Flyer.pdf


SRA Club

The SRA club will meet tonight (October 1), and every other Thursday unless otherwise notified, at 6 pm in room 215 IST.


Jobs and internships with NSA

It's job hunting season!

As your partner in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense, NSA believes your students are well suited for many of our Cyber related student programs and full time positions throughout the National Security Agency (NSA). Please encourage your students to consider a career with NSA and help us spread the word about these opportunities to Department Heads and Career Service organizations on your campus.

Thank you for helping build a cadre of top talent to protect and defend information and cyber systems for the Nation.

"Defending Our Nation. Securing The Future"
"Confidence in Cyberspace"

The National Security Agency (NSA) currently has a number of openings for full-time positions in all our mission areas. Students receiving degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or other Information Security and Cyber-related disciplines are encouraged to apply at: https://www.nsa.gov/careers/index.shtml 

NSA's Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) believes students from the NSA/DHS National Centers of Academic Excellence may be particularly interested in the positions identified below but may apply to multiple positions. 

          . 1063184 - IAD Information Assurance/Security Professionals
          . 1063504 - IAD IA Doctrine Policy Officer
          . 1063508 - IAD Interagency OPSEC Support Staff (IOSS) Instructional Designer
          . 1063522 - IAD Business Technologist Support to Investment Analysis
          . 1063526 - IAD Information System Security Designer Support to Investment Analysis
          . 1063410 - Computer Network Operations Development Program (CNODP)
          . 1063155 - Summer Internship Program for Information Assurance (SIP/IA)

************  Student Internship, CO-OP, & Scholarship Opportunities  ***************
The NSA has many different summer Internship Programs in addition to our CO-OP and Scholarship programs that, like our full-time positions, support all our mission areas and offer exciting opportunities in a wide array of disciplines. Descriptions and requirements for each of these programs can be viewed by visiting www.nsa.gov/careers and selecting "Student Programs" on the pull-down menu.

IMPORTANT - The application deadline for most of the summer internships is 31 October; however, some of the math related internship deadlines are as early as 15 October.  Also, students may apply to multiple internships as these are each reviewed and selections made independently.

Students may apply for these full-time positions by visiting www.nsa.gov/careers and looking for the position numbers listed above. Student Program opportunities can be located by using the key word search and entering "internship". "CO-OP", or "scholarship."
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 PLEASE ENTER EVENT CODE 485-1 WHEN APPLYING TO ANY JOB OPENINGS

Please Note:
          - U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants
          - Reasonable accommodations will be provided to applicants with disabilities during the application and hiring process where appropriate.
          - NSA is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.

For questions concerning the application process, please contact NSA Recruitment & Staffing at:
1-866-NSA-HIRE (1-866-672-4473) or e-mail customercare@NSA.gov