George Mason Technology & Cyber Security Blog

USA Today’s Jim Michaels explores the government’s demand for talent in the Cybersecurity field. This demand may have contributed, Michaels offers, to how Edward Snowden acquired a six figure salary with limited experience and without even earning a high school degree. GMU’s Executive Degree Program Director J.P. Auffret offers his opinion on the matter.   [...]

The George Mason University MS in Management of Secure Information systems sponsored its 3rd quarterly Cybersecurity Innovation Forum on April 18th 2013. View the presentations from this event using the links below: Kevin Sapp – Chief Technology Officer, SpydrSafe Mobile Security, Inc. Angelos Stavrou –  Associate Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems, George [...]

December 5, 2013 Eddie Schwartz, Master of Science in Technology Management Class of 2006, has been honored by Computerworld magazine as a Top 100 Premiere IT Leader for 2013.  Schwartz is Chief Information Security Officer at RSA, The Security Division of EMC® Corporation (EMC). “The Premier 100 awards program showcases the exceptional work of a [...]

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 [...]