Cybersecurity Speakers and Presentations - Coles College of Business

Spring 2026

Please note that all sessions will start at 7 PM Eastern Time and that each speaker after the first will start at the completion of the prior speaker's presentation. Scroll down for links to prior speaker's presentations.

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Cybersecurity Speakers From Prior Sessions

Cybersecurity speakers from prior sessions - Note links to presentations will require authentication with Kennesaw State University credentials:

Date	Speaker	Topic
2026
	Gideon Rasmussen	Prompt Engineering - Produce Breakthrough Results
	Stephen Omorogbe	Cybersecurity and Model-Based Engineering
	Samson Adewale	Detection Engineering in Today's Threat Landscape
April 28	Stephen Omorogbe	Cybersecurity and Model-Based Engineering
	Samson Adewale	Detection Engineering in Today's Threat Landscape
	Gideon Rasmussen	Prompt Engineering - Produce Breakthrough Results
April 15	Areejit Banerjee	Defending the Digital Soul: Data Integrity, Global Bias, and a Three‑Pillar Defense Against AI Scraping
April 15	Lee Pace	Lee Pace, Privacy In A Digital Panopticon
March 31	Ward Pyles	Security that Touches Everything
	Kyle Smith	Phishing Response
	Joseph Leffew	Securing the Engineered Nervous System
March 18	Richard Austin	Cybered War and Cyber Weapons
	Emmanuel Nwajiaku	The Psychology of Phishing: Designing Human Centered Security Awareness Programs
	Maytha Nassor	An Illustrated Introduction to Modern Security Operations
February 24	Samuel Aiello	Governing the Ghost in the Machine: RMF Strategies for the Agentic AI Era
February 24	Stephen Brown	Cybersecurity Incident Response
February 11	Phillip Mahan	Topic TBD
	Ahmed Awad	Preparing for Quantum Computing
	Matthew Larson	Privacy in a Data-Driven AI World
January 27	Juan Villareal	Mitigating the Cyber Risks of Battery Energy Storage Systems Supplied from China
	Jeff Apolis	Security from the Start: Maximizing Business Value Through Secure Software Development Strategies
	Malcolm Harkins	Economic Impact of Securing AI
January 14	Jermaine Green	Keeping The Lights On: Auditing Critical Infrastructure
	Kyle Meyer	I suck at coding. Claude senpai, make me malware
	Nidhi Srivastava	GRC and GRC Engineering - Transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance
2025
December 2	Matt Somerlott	The Psychology of Cyber Risk: How Cyber Insurance Shapes Security Behavior
	Morgan Hague	Cyber Strategy Development”
	Gideon Rasmussen	Crisis Communications - In the Gravest Extreme
November 19	Joy Toney	Ethical Use of AI
	Brian Albertson	Trends and Predictions of Cyber & GRC for 2026
	Phil Plantamura	Enterprise Security Monitoring using Open Security Onion
	Brettina Browder	Building a Cyber Champion Program
November 4	Dusty Thibodeaux	What would you say you do here – closing the gap of class and real-world work
	Nick Corn	Soft skills for information security professionals
	Shannon McKenzie	SIEM/SOAR Overview and Transforming Security Operations
October 22	Sam Aiello	AI in Cybersecurity - The Future of Intelligent Threat Defense
	Stephen Omorogbe	Managing the Secure Systems Development Lice Cycle
	Pete Smith	Preparing Your Cybersecurity Org for M&A
October 20	Herb Mattord	How to Stay Safe Online - Spotting and Avoiding Scams
October 7	Yugandhar Suthari	Shift-Left Security in Action: Automating Cloud Compliance with Open Source Tools
October 7	Mike Mcgannon	Protecting Your Digital Identity"
September 24	Jeff Apolis	Operationalizing AI: A CISO’s Guide to Strategic Adoption and Risk Management
September 24	Richard Austin	Ghosts of Data Past
September 9	Onyekachi Okereke	Building a Cybersecurity Program from Scratch: Real Life Lessons
September 9	Brent Holt	Offensive Security Testing
August 27	Kyle Smith	Wielding the Power of the Tabletop
	James Grisham	AI: Impacts to Cybersecurity and the Future of the CISO
	Ahmed Awad	Data Protection Using NIST CSF 2.0
April 16	Donna Gallaher	Working in your own business - Being your own boss
April 16	Joy Toney	The Power of Policies: Cybersecurity’s Silent Muscle in Defending Organizations
April 1	Michael Barker	Complying with CMMC
	Onyekachi Okereke	Supply Chain Risks & Third-party Risk Management
	Mark Reardon	Use of an Enclave to Support Unique Security Requirements
March 19	Kyle Smith	“Wielding the Power of the Tabletop”
	Keyaan Williams	“Perspectives on Cybersecurity Management”
	Alan Greenber	“Managing an MSPP”
February 25	Nick Mullen	“Human Risk Management”
	Jason Lapene	“Real World Incident Response from a Technical Perspective”
	Larry Holt	“Threat Modeling with CARVER”
February 12	Brian Albertson	“GRC Done Right”
	R. Tombari Sibe	“What, Where, When, Who, and How: Reconstructing Events with Digital Forensics”
	James Baird	“Generative AI: Balancing Business Benefit Against Security Risk”
January 28	Kyle Meyer	“Hacking Is My Job, Bro”
	Arun Mamgai	“Privacy in the Age of AI”
	Pete Smith	“The Power of Partnerships: Cybersecurity is a Team Sport”
January 15	Ahmed Awad	“IT Audit, Governance, Strategy, Data Protection”
	Nia Luckey	“Cybersecurity Management”
	Ariel Robles	“Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) in Corporate America”
2024
November 13	Dusty Thibodeaux	Vulnerability Management
	Greg Schaffer	Security Needs for the Small to Midsized Business
	Joy Toney	Cybersecurity Unit’s Role in Responsible Use of AI in Organizations
October 29	Stephen Omorogbe and Michael MacDonald	Managing Security & Privacy Risks with RMF
	Kyle Smith	Cybersecurity as a Brand
	Stephen Gay	Cybersecurity Program Management and Continuous Improvement
October 16	Tim Cullen	News from the Front Lines: The Crowdstrike Outage
	Chris Silvers	CMMC Who? The Basics of New DoD Cybersecurity Compliance
	James Grisham	Breaking into Cybersecurity: Navigating Post-Degree Paths and Avoiding Common Pitfalls
October 1	Jack Healey	The Role of GRC in Disruptive Technology Adoption- How to keep your AI program on the Road and Out of the Ditch
	Mollie Cavenaugh	Cybersecurity Imposter Syndrome
	Yosef Beck	Business Analysis for Cybersecurity
September 18	Morgan Hague	Fundamentals of AI Security
September 3	Nia Luckey	Building a Multi-Year Strategic Roadmap for Cybersecurity
	Bryan Albertson	GRC Architecture
	Patrick Sullivan	Welcome to ISO42001
August 21	Dustin Sachs	The Importance of Community Building in Cybersecurity
August 21	Fred Roth	After the Breach: What CEOs and Legal Departments Worry About
April 17	Collin Parker	Product Security and PSIRTs
April 17	Kent Bryan	What is Web Cloud Filtering
April 2	Joy Toney	The Value of Security Culture
April 2	Derrick Sturisky	Quantum Cybersecurity
March 20	Philip Plantamura	Security Onion: Peel Back the Layers of Your Enterprise
March 20	Keith Deininger	Developing and Executing an Effective Third-Party Risk Management Program
February 27	Chris Silvers	NIST SP 800-63
	Stephen Omorogbe	Supply Chain Risk Management and National Security
	Shannon Garcia	Elevating Your Application Security Program
February 14	Nia Luckey	Leveraging Federal Compliance Best Practices To Protect AI Data
February 14	Galina Shelest	Art of Threat Modeling
January 30	Phillip Mahan	How is a raven like a writing desk?
January 30	Katherine Fithen	Creating Effective Policy
January 17	Pete Smith	Managing Threat Analysis
January 17	Kyle Smith	Cybersecurity as a Brand
2023
November 15	David Benton	Incident Response Field Practices
November 15	Wes Knight	Effective Communication is Critical to Your Success
November 8	Stephen Omorogbe	Engineering Secure Systems: Cyber and National Defen
November 8	Stephen McCamy	Staying on the Technical Track
October 26	Jake Bulim	New Attack Vector: SIM Swap Attacks
October 24	Chris Silvers	The Long and Winding Alley: Social Engineering Parables
October 18	Yosef Beck	Anatomy of a Breach
October 18	Jake Bulim	SOC Structures, Leading Analysts and Making an Effective Team
October 4	James Venezia	Cyber Insurance – Basics for Cybersecurity Pros
October 4	Phillip Mahan	Privacy and Cybersecurity
September 19	James Baird	Web Application Security Program – Strategies and Tools
August 22	Dustin Sachs	How to Leverage Behavioral Science to Enhance Cybersecurity
August 22	Subramanian	Developing Secure Software
April 18	Greg Aitken	Resume -> Applications -> Interview ->Job
April 18	Chris Silvers	Freelance Cybersecurity Trends and Techniques
April 12	Dave Croasdell & Jim Elste	Cyber Teaching Hospitals and Cyber Clinics: Extending cybersecurity support to the community
April 12	Patrick Sullivan	Importance of Professional Communication
April 4	George Garza	Securing the Cloud: Reports from the Field
March 28	Ward Pyles	Starting your Career in Cyber Security, Not Just a Job
March 28	Sethuraman Srinivas	Enterprise Security Metrics - Relevance and Application
March 15	Kyle Smith	Cybersecurity as a Brand
February 21	Yosef Beck	Vendor Requests for Proposals
February 21	Chris Black	SOAR: Automate All the SecOps Things"
February 8	Brian Albertson	IT Risk Trends and Impact to Cybersecuri
February 8	Ian Kahn	Privileged Access Management – An Introduction
2022
November 15	Asher Andree	Pathway to Being a Pentester
November 15	Jake Bulim	SOC Structures and How to Lead Analysts to Make an Effective Team
November 2	Ryan Basden	Technical Security Career Paths
October 31	Patrick Jenkins	Threat-Based Approaches to Security Risk Assessment and Risk Management
	Amanda Charter, Lyndsey Lieb, and Tobias Simpson	Practicing the Basics of Cybersecurity
	Derrick Sturisky	Proposed SEC Cyber Disclosure Rules
October 30	Marianne Bailey	The State of Cybersecurity
October 30	Herb Mattord	Five Ways to Stay Safe(r) Online
October 18	Charles Herring	Federating Cybersecurity Operations
October 18	Phillip Mahan	It's a Matter of Trust
October 5	Kaustubh Kubde	How to break into Cybersecurity & Essential Tips for a Strong Foundation
October 5	Sam Leonard	Disaster Recovery After Cyberattack
September 20	Jon Anderson	Overview of Changes in PCI DSS 4.0
September 20	Brent Holt	Edge Solutions
September 7	Yosef Beck	Network Security for Smarties
August 23	Jacob Lovell	Denial of Service: Taxonomy and Vocabulary
August 23	Aldo Febro	DDoS against VoIP Services: Threat & Career Opportunities
April 13	Keyaan Williams	Mastering Cybersecurity Metrics
April 13	Anne-Marie Colombo	Zero Trust Without the Hype
March 30	Zola Maswanganye	Who is responsible for Security
March 30	Jade West	Essential API Security
March 28	Betty DuBois	Malware Analysis
March 28	Betty DuBois	Threat Hunting
March 16	Yosef Beck	Cybersecurity as a Competitive Advantage
March 16	Mike Rothman	Evolution of the SOC
March 2	Bernard Barnes	How to Sell Cybersecurity Services
March 2	J. David Quilter	How to Build a Smart Security Program
February 16	Christian Hyatt	The 5 CISO Archetypes
February 10	Betty DuBois	Capturing with Wireshark & its Command Line Friends
		Display Filters
		TCP Vulnerabilities
January 19	Jacob Lovell	Containing the Breach: The Evolution of Microsegmentation
2021
October 27	Brandy Griffin	The Incident Response Lifecycle
October 27	Betty DuBois	Network Reconnaissance with Open Source Tools
October 12	Maryann Douglass & Sherri Collis	Personal Security Awareness for Online Presence
October 12	Ward Pyles	Security Teams are Over Staffed
September 29	Jacob Lovell	MFA is broken: How recent developments in FIDO2 fixes it
September 29	Dan Smith	Recovering from Ransomware and Other Disasters
September 14	Yosef Beck	Designing an effective Security Metrics and Reporting Program
September 14	Christian Hyatt	Results and trends from 1000 security assessments
September 1	Brian Albertson	Define, Drive, Share... Network
June 23	Robert Roberts	Contingency Planning
June 21	Anne Marie Colombo	Risk Management Framework
June 16	Debra Oglesby	Staffing Planning
June 14	Jeff Jones	Security Operations Design
June 9	Yosef Beck	Policy Design
June 7	Taiye Lambo	Governance Design
June 2	Gordon Shenkle	Security Services Master Plan
April 13	Anne Marie Columbo	Risk Management Framework Overview
March 31	Jack Healy	Risk Management: Deep Thoughts and Better Results
March 16	Yosef Beck	Network Security Monitoring: Process & Tools Overview
March 16	Matthew Dobbs	Leveraging Zero Trust Architecture
February 16	Nat Prakongpan	Ox Response, Incident Response Preparedness for Business
February 3	Ward Pyles	Driving security teams to be more effective
February 3	Jacob Lovell	Web Application Security at the Edge
January 19	Brian Albertson	Building Compliance into Business Operations
January 19	Adam Kehler	Cybersecurity in Healthcare
2020
November 17	Joe DiBiase	Things We Learned and Adjusted to Deal with COVID-19
November 4	James Blanton	Security Onion 2.3+
November 4	Nick Corn	Application-level Denial of Service
October 20	Maryann Douglas	You CAN Get There from Here - Women in Cybersecurity
October 20	Jack Healey	Cyber Incident Communication Strategies
October 7	Nick Travis	Defending Against Data Exfiltration via DNS
	Tim Callahan	From Compliance to Resiliency: The Evolution of Information Security
	Anna Marie Colombo	Securing the Cloud
	Chris Silvers	Freelance CyberSecurity Trends and Technologies
September 9	Mike Rothman	Five Security Problems Addressed by Cloud
September 9	Vinton Cerf	Lessons Learned While Creating the Internet
August 25	Jacob Lovell	Securing the Enterprise: Application Access and its Challenges
August 25	Sarah Beck	Behavior Analytics for Security
March 10	Mike Rothman	Advancing Cloud Security: The Next Phase
March 10	Tim Callahan	The Value of Threat Intelligence
February 26	Jeff Jones	Threat Intelligence Brief
	Jacob Lovell	Incident Response
	Mitch Moosbrugger	The Challenges of Remote Vendor Access
February 11	Phillip Mahan	Communicating Risk Appetite and Tolerance
February 11	Sasi Pulipaka	Data Privacy and Corporate Responsibility
January 29	Bob Varnadoe	Techniques for Detecting a Cyber Attack
	Jacob Lovell	Third Party Scripts: Magecart & Other Threats
	Adi Wong	Cloud Security/Akamai 101
January 22	John Traino	What it Takes to Innovate
January 14	David Allen	Managing Cyber Risk for the Enterprise
January 14	David Anderson	Planning and Executing Continuity Plans
2019
November 12	Brian Albertson	Automating IT Compliance
	Jack Healey	Baking Risk into Your Information System Soufflé
	Daniel Williams & Matt Crane	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
October 18	Corey Bingham & Nathan Raymer	A Primer on Georgia Payment Processing Tech Companies
October 1	Rashed Chowdhury	Salesforce as a Platform for Innovation
	Debra Oglesby	Project Management
	Tate Ferguson	Technical Writing
September 17	Jeff Jones	Low Knowledge Authentication
	Moazzam Khan	Next Generation SIEM: Qradar and its Applications
	Jacob Lovell	Fighting Armies of Zombie Robots with a Giant Robot
August 30	Tim Cullen	Incident Response
August 28	Tim O'Neill	Network Forensics
August 28	Joseph DiBiase	The Horse Has Left the Barn and We Have the Saddle!: Our Journey into the Cloud
April 17	Dan Schroeder	The Role of External Attestations
	Bill Morrison	Philosophy from the Security Trenches: The Management Schizophrenia Continues
	Carlos Batista	Building Secure Software
March 19	Tim O'Neill	Attacking the Internet of Things
	Jack Healey	Security and the Role of Risk Assessment
	Danny Wasserman	Defending Crediential from Automated Attack Tools
February 27	Frank Rietta	Applying Agile and Security in Software Development
	Philip Andreae	Payment Card Security
	Dennis Kosmetatos	Business Value of Identity and Access Management
February 5	Jeff Jones	Cyber Threat Brief
February 5	Mitch Moosberger	Cloud-Based Credential Management
January 23	Phillip Mahan	I am the LAW: Statutory Compliance in Corporate Cyber Security
January 23	Tim O'Neill	Managing Criminal CYBER Investigations
2018
November 28	Philip Mahan	Security Privacy and Governance for Business Majors
	Mark German	Kill Chain / Threat Intelligence
	Philip Andreae	FIDO: The Case for Better Authentication
November 1	Jack Healey	Management Role in a CyberSecurity Incident Response Plan
November 1	Philip Mahan	Time Travel, Defense in Width, and CyberSecurity
October 23	Will Alexander	Beyond the Classroom: What Students Need to Know
	Tim O'Neill	Why Networks Still Matter
	Brian Albertson	Six Things I Wish New Employees Knew
	Keith Deininger	Why Managing 3rd Party Cybersecurity Risk is a Matter of National Security
	Philipe Andreae	Four Words and Three Concerns as We Think About the Issue of Digital Identity
	Jeff Jones	Integrating SecDevOps into Developer Agile Deployments
October 18	Chris Farris	Hacking the Cloud
October 18	Alex Kirk	A Day in the Life of an InfoSec Pro
October 8	Jeff Jones	The State of Insecurity in the World Today
	Mitch Moosbrugger	Emerging Threats to Privileged Account Security and Privileged Access Management
	Mike Rothman	DevSecOps
September 13	Tim O'Neill	Being an Expert Witness
September 13	Tim O'Neill	Why the Physical Layer Still Matters
September 6	Ward Pyles	Career Tracks in ISA Management
	Brian Albertson	REAL IT Controls
	Sherron Burgess	Launching an ISA Career
	Walter Tong	Incident Management
March 27	Benjamin McInnis	Compliance and Incident Response... How it is Connected
March 26	Brian Albertson	Staying Current in the Field... Connecting the Dots
March 23	Scott Baker	Data Loss Prevention: What It Is and Why I Should Care?
March 12	Shekesa McLaurin	How to Survive Corporate and Become an Entrepreneur
	Katie Greenfield	Navigating the Recruiting Process
	Tim Cullen	The Rise of the BlockChain
February 16	Jeff Jones	2018 Threat Intelligence Briefing
	Preeti Ravinda	How Watson for Cyber Security Thinks
	Tim O'Neill	Defending WiFi Hacks
February 7	Jeff Jones	General Threat Briefing
February 7	Dan Streuber	Threat Analysis on Encrypted Network Activity
January 12	Phillip Mahan	Creating Effective Policy
	Tim O'Neill	Managing Security Compliance
	Damien Suggs	Application Security
January 11	Herb Mattord	Study Abroad with EC London 2018
January 11	Herb Mattord	Security Careers and You
2017
November 29	Ward Pyles	ISA Careers and Advancement
	Kevin Beaver	Planning a Consulting Career in ISA
	Robert Roberts	Business Resiliency
November 15	Walter Tong	Cyber Incident Management
November 15	Nat Prakongan	IBM Security Cyber Range: Driving Innovation Through Immersive Experience
October 27	Cybersecurity Speaker Series	Informal Roundtable Discussion
October 26	Phillip Mahan	Communications in Information Security & Business: A Study in Love, Hate, and Apathy
	Tim Cullen	The Current State of the Union for IoT
	Panel Discussion	Higher Education and the Cybersecurity Workforce Imperative
October 25	Bryan Sheppard	Don't Be Responsible for an ID10T Issue: Cybersecurity is not a Technical Problem
	Keith Deininger	Updating Enterprise IT Governance, Compliance, and Risk
	Mike Rothman	Tidal Forces: The Changes Ripping Apart Security as We Know It
October 4	Jeff Jones	Threat Intelligence for the New Security Professional
	Eric Meadows	A Safe Journey to the Cloud
	Dan Mares	Expert Witness
September 7	Phillip Mahan	GDPR & Data Protection
September 7	Tim Cullen	Ransomware: Dealing with the Attack and Afterwards
August 31	Johathan Steenland	Cyber Security Speaker Series
April 19	Walter Tong	Starting Your Cyber Career
April 19	Jeff Jones	Threat Intelligence and Open Source Information
March 31	Tim O'Neill	IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities
March 31	Keith Deininger	Firewall Configuration and Testing with Open Source Tools
March 16	Blake Penn	Information Security Policy
	Walter Tong	Incident Response
	Ward Pyles	Value Based Security via Big Data
March 6	Keith Deininger	Governance and Risk Compliance: The Four Major Areas of Risk
February 17	Frank Rietta	Breach Prevention for Developers
	Taiye Lambo	Cloud Security Technologies
	Nick Corn	Social Engineering Healthcare
February 3	Taiye Lambo	Managing Cloud Security
	Phillip Mahan	Real-world Business Continuity
	Bob Long	Governance, Change Management & Project Management Office
January 20	Michael Carroll	Securing a Data Lake
January 20	Dan Schroeder	Defining the Information Assurance Mindset
2016
December 11	Ward Pyles	International Hotel Group
December 11	Walter Tong	Georgia Technology Authority
November 29	Carlos Batista	Building Security in Software Security 101
	Alex Kirkland	Incident Response Forensics
	Jeremiah Warren	Cyber Security Analyst, SunTrust
April 29	Phillip Mahan	Vendor Security Programs - Open Access Version
April 25	Phillip Mahan	Vendor Security Programs
2015
November 19	Mike Rothman	Inflection: Security's Next 10 Years
November 19	Charles Hoff	PCI Compliance
November 2	Dan Streuber	Cisco
November 2	Michael Fabian	Embedded Systems
October 7	James Blanton	Digital Forensics
October 7	Ward Pyles	Event Response
September 17	Mark Ray	Cyber Division, FBI
September 17	TEKsystem	Recruiting Tips for ISA Job Seekers
April 29	Tim O'Neill	IPv6
April 25	Jon Anderson & Zack Tisher	Third Party Information Security Risk
April 24	Jarra Keskessa	First Data
April 16	Walter Tong	Georgia Technology Authority
March 30	Jeff Jones	Cyber Attack Trends
March 20	Keith Deininger	Social Engineering: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
March 18	Ward Pyles	Report form the Front Lines
March 14	James Blanton	Lessons on Incident Response
February 18	Trent Reeves	Software Security in the Enterprise
February 9	Michael Fabian	Introduction to Embedded Systems Security