With speakers including Rick Howard, CSO, Palo Alto Networks and Mike Watson, CISO, Commonwealth of Virginia, the Mason Cybersecurity Leadership and Smart City Conference brought together 200 participants and speakers on March 13th in Arlington to discuss smart city innovation and associated cybersecurity challenges and strategies. The conference, part of Mason’s NSF project to further […]

  This article was written by Jennifer Anzaldi on June 22nd, 2017. For the past three years, Mason has partnered with IBM and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research and develop recommendations for cyber security leadership core competencies and governance best practices for securing the smart grid. “Electric companies and regulators have a changing […]

One of the hottest job markets today is cyber security with the global cyber security market expecting growth to reach $80 billion by 2017. The demand for cyber security professionals, including CISO, has been 3.5 times greater than that for other IT positions and 12 times greater than other jobs. There is expected to be […]

A group of Chinese professors visited the School of Business last week to learn how our technology management program and cyber security degree program prepare executive students for CIO and CISO positions. The 25 educators, mostly computer science and ICT professors, were specifically interested in the MS in Technology Management and MS in Management of Secure Information Systems programs, which offer hybrid curriculums […]

Helping governments and organizations defend themselves from online threats has become a popular topic in the past decade. “There are quite a fewcyber-security programs, but they are highly technically orientated,” says J.P. Auffert, who leads a similar program at George Mason University, also brand-new this year. “There are hardly any that are focused on cybersecurity […]