Seminars

CySER seminars for the Spring 2022 semester are scheduled to take place Mondays  3:10–4pm Pacific, virtually via Teams. In the Fall 2021 semester, four seminars were held – on October 11, October 25, November 8 and November 29. In addition, a special seminar, featuring a Cybersecurity Panel on the occasion of the WSU-SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories) Collaboration Week was held on September 16, 2021 (more information below).

Spring 2022 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Title/Media
May. 2	Cory Baker Cybercore Integration Center Idaho National Laboratory	Cybersecurity for the Operational Technology Environment
Apr. 18	Kevin Brennan FBI – Special Agent	The Cyber Threat Landscape – The FBI’s Perspective
Apr. 4	Karl Scheuerman Crowdstrike – Falcon Complete	Cyber Security Operations on the Front Line Recording Slides
Mar. 21	Elena Peterson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Flexible and Adaptive Malware Identification Using Techniques from Biology Recording Slides
Mar. 7	Charles Carroll Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories	Purposeful Design – Defending Critical Infrastructure Recording
Feb. 7	Bryson Bort Scythe and ICS Village	Can you hack it? Starting your own company Recording Slides
Jan. 10	Deborah Wells Information Technology and Administration Central Washington University	Deepfakes and Cybersecurity Concerns Recording Slides

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Title/Media
Nov. 29	Dr. Clemente Izurieta Gianforte School of Computing Montana State University	Hierarchical Software Quality Assurance Approach to Leveraging Existing Technologies and Building Quality Gates Recording Slides
Nov. 8	Matthew Boehnke Department of Computer Science Columbia Basin College	Cyberhawks and Beyond Recording Slides
Oct. 25	Dr. Jim Alves-Foss Department of Computer Science University of Idaho	Probabilities, Percentages, and Professions of Performance Recording Slides
Oct. 11	Dr. Assefaw H. Gebremedhin School of EECS Washington State University	CySER Overview and Machine Learning Recording Slides

Special Seminar

CySER hosts regular seminars throughout the semester. Its inaugural seminar for Fall 2021 was a cybersecurity panel organized as part of the WSU-SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories) collaboration week.

The Cybersecurity Panel took place on Thursday September 16, 2021 from 3:30 PM — 4:30 PM at the M.G. Carey Senior Ballroom, Compton Union Building, WSU. The event was live streamed and a recording is available at the following link. More information about the panel and the panelists is available in this flier.