Past Event Recordings

Past Event Recordings

"See Her Be Her" Intelligence Community Podcast

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Date Aired: Tuesday, Sept. 17th, 2024
 
The UCCS Cybersecurity Programs Office brought Iron Butterfly Media to our campus! They host the See Her Be Her Podcast featuring untold stories of women across the intelligence community. This special “Beyond the Beltway” episode features IC leaders from across Colorado. The podcast encourages women to explore what it's like to work in intelligence and gives proof that if you can see her, you can be her. This panel of incredible women in the Colorado area have various roles in intelligence including cryptography, geospatial intelligence and national defense. This is Iron Butterfly's 1st remote podcast filming (they’re based in DC), and it's on UCCS’s campus!

UCCS EPNC K-12 Cyber Educators Event

Date of event: Monday, April 29th, 2024

UCCS hosted ~100 Colorado K-12 educators interested in bringing cybersecurity education to their classrooms, school, and district. In this recording, you will hear from the Colorado Dept. of Education (CDE), the NSA, other educators, and students, who are raising the bar in cybersecurity education across Colorado and providing great resources that will grow the presence of cybersecurity K-12 education.

UCCS EPNC K-12 Cyber Educators Event - Student Recording

Date of event: Monday, April 29th, 2024

UCCS hosted ~100 Colorado K-12 educators interested in bringing cybersecurity education to their classrooms, school, and district. In this recording, you will hear the students -- middle school, high school, and university students -- speak about their cybersecurity education, leveraging resources from across Colorado and the nation.

Cybersecurity Programs at UCCS: Overview for High School Counselors (CA & TX)

Date aired: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

Gretchen Bliss, Director of Cybersecurity Programs at UCCS, addresses high school counselors in the states of Texas and California. Gretchen shares how UCCS has built a cybersecurity program that now graduates over 200 students per year who are educated in cybersecurity.  She also shares the importance of hands-on real-world education in cybersecurity -- the best way to prepare for the workforce -- and the resources and programs at UCCS that fill this need.

NPR Interview - A Conversation with Gretchen Bliss, UCCS Dir. of Cyber Programs

Date aired: November 14, 2023

Gretchen Bliss, UCCS Director of Cybersecurity Programs, talks to NPR's Tom Wilmer about the criticality of responding to today's cybersecurity epidemic through education, partnerships.

National Cyber Awareness Month: Cautionary Tales in Cyber

Date Aired: Mon., 16 October 2023

UCCS hosts 4 scions of cyber (see what I did there?) from the Information Security field to discuss 4 things you can do to protect yourself and the organizations you work for online. Great examples are given of recent hacks, attacks, and phishing expeditions to bring home the point: online security is up to you.

Cybersecurity Career Panel - Sept. 2023

Date Aired: Tuesday, Sept. 26th, 2023

Representatives from Booz Allen Hamilton, John Deere, Lockheed Martin and Jacobs Engineering talk about their path to cyber careers, the amazing variety of jobs you can pursue, and what their day to day jobs look like, what the challenges are, and many tips on how to get there.

Cybersecurity Across the Federal Government Panel

Date Aired: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

UCCS hosted 8 Federal agencies (as follows), plus the National Cyber Director and Advisor to President Biden, Chris Inglis, in a 2-hour panel discussion. Representatives discussed the role of cybersecurity in their respective agencies and the potential for employment.

  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
  • Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)
  • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • National Cyber Director & Advisor to the President
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Unites States Space Command (SPACECOM)

UCCS Cyber Career Panel - Spring 2023

Date Aired: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023

Four representatives from the cybersecurity industry, representing government contractors, education, and the private sector, met with UCCS students to discuss careers in cybersecurity. Panelists included:

  • Chris Ellis, Sr. Principal Cybersecurity Engineer and Cyber Offense/Defense Lead, Raytheon
  • Ajith Puthan, Solutions Architect Leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Danielle Rourke, Sr. Strategist, Higher Ed, Dell Technologies
  • David Capps, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Colorado