2023 Great Lakes Cybersecurity Capabilities and Careers Symposium (3CS) Cybersecurity Skills Development Workshop (CSDW): Understanding and Managing Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Cybersecurity
Saturday, August 5, 2023, 1-5pm Central
In this 1/2 day workshop, attendees will learn potential risks and opportunities of using Artificial Intelligence for cybersecurity. This workshop will show what professionals in this field know and do, including hands-on exercises that bridge the theory with the real-world. The most important particular technologies will be highlighted, with a focus on how using them can enhance defensive capabilities, but also potentially introducing new vulnerabilities as well.
Target Audiences
Cybersecurity or IT practitioners seeking to upskill by studying artificial intelligence; risk management professionals seeking to move into cybersecurity or artificial intelligence, and students and educators interested in these domains.
Instructor Bio
Owen is a professor, researcher, and technology analyst in Austin, Texas. He is also the Director of Collaborations and Events with the National CyberWatch Center. An enduring theme in his work over recent decades is an evaluation of technologies for usability, quality, and ethics based on humanistic principles. He joined a series of software development teams as a usability and quality assurance analyst, and subsequently earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, with a program of work in Medical Cognitive Science. He has taught college-level software design, cognitive studies, psychology, research methods, and statistics for the behavioral sciences. In recent years his work has been in cybersecurity readiness, hospital software, modeling of COVID dynamics in populations, software design and usability, risk analysis, and researching investment opportunities in AI, neurotechnology, logistics and other sectors.
Check out Owen’s webcast, “Challenges for Medical Cybersecurity: Understanding the Current Crisis, Emergent Technologies, and Developing Risk Management Strategies that Reward Getting it Right.“
