Cybersecurity Career Insights is a new series where we invite professionals in academia, industry and/or government to share their cybersecurity pathway and journey. Each session will start off with a series of questions for the speaker, then open up to a live Q&A with the audience. If you have questions for the speaker ahead of time, send them to info@cyberstudents.org, subject line “Cybersecurity Career Insights.”
Date: March 10th, 2021
Time: 7pm EST | 6pm CST | 5pm MST | 4pm PST
About the Presenter:
Casey W. O'Brien is the Assistant Director for Cyber Defense Education and Training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering's Information Trust Institute.
Casey has more than 25 years of information security and large-scale IT implementation and project management experience in challenging and cutting-edge public and private sector environments.
Casey’s teaching and research interests include: practice-based education and training solutions that combines accelerated learning programs, validated assessments, instruction, practice labs, and challenge scenarios to improve information security talent management in organizations; rapid deployment of customizable and adaptive curriculum that raises learner capability maturity in foundational security concepts, tactics, techniques, and procedures; and formative credentialing solutions that increase the number of capable professionals.
Casey is the Technical Editor of five textbooks: Ethical Hacking & Systems Defense, Linux Server Fundamentals, Information Security Fundamentals, Introduction to Scripting, andNetworking Fundamentals
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