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What does the CMMC mean for your program?

The National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) recently hosted a special webinar for faculty members of the Convergence College Network (CCN) community. Kyle Jones from Sinclair Community College and Rajiv Malkan from Lone Star College jointly delivered the presentation entitled “CMMC and Secure Software Development.” You can watch a recording of their talk here. The presentation…

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Security Skills Gap Continues

The National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) National Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) has long emphasized the need for IT students to learn security skills.  Indeed, the BILT urges that every class include instruction on security.  Specifically, since 2015, the BILT has asked instructors to find relevant moments in IT curriculum to ask students “Is…

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Four Things We Learned at the 2015 “HoNeST” Conference

We recently spent a day on the Ericsson campus in Plano, Texas attending the “Hot Topics in Networking and Security” conference, cleverly shortened to the acronym “HoNeST.”  This event was coordinated by the University of North Texas’ Department of Computer Science and Engineering and featured both academic perspectives on networking and security as well as…

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PHOTOS: HoNeST Conference

Recently, I attended the HoNeST Conference at Ericsson in Plano, TX. Short for “Hot Topics in Networks and Security, security was definitely the topic of the day, with speaking on everything from security as the “internet of things” develops to figuring out the best security methods for voting. This was my first conference to attend with…

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Will “V2V” be the next IT buzzterm?

Image Credit: Wikipedia   Self-driving cars may still seem like the stuff of science fiction (or maybe exotic Google R&D tests on the faraway streets of San Francisco), but a conference entitled the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems was recently held in Detroit.  It’s the 21st year of the conference. That means while we…

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Tech Trends from the Fall 2014 BILT Call

Security One of the biggest concerns we heard from many members of the BILT was about security. The booming trend of BYOD and the expansion of the Internet of Things increases the risk to business networks. How can we bring the topic of security into every IT course we teach? Security practices cross the spectrum of…

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Top Ten IT Skills for 2014

Global Knowledge’s Paul Simoneau projects a list of major IT skills he suspects will be in demand in 2014, taking into account a number of different surveys and reports.  Below is the skills list, along with a few words of explanation from Paul. 1. Programming and Application Development – “Major organizations are planning to transition…

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Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and malware

Network security remains an important element of IT/convergence training, as this article from Infosecurity magazine’s website proves.   The United States is now the world leader (a whopping 44%) in hosting malware, according to a report by Solutionary.   Part of the reason seems to be the boom of domestic cloud providers like Google and Amazon which…

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