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I believe that sharing knowledge is empowering, and as a way of giving back to my community, I am thrilled to raise awareness among the students who represent the future of our world. I would like to express my gratitude to Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology Galgotias University for providing me with this wonderful opportunity, and give a special thanks to Saravanan Pitchai for making it happen. #CyberSecurity #cybersecurityawareness #giving back #passionatespeaker #volunteering #cybersecurityawareness ##cyberawareness #cybersafety #speaker #keynote

Sexting and extortion are becoming alarmingly common in our schools. It’s an issue we can no longer afford to ignore. We recently produced a short video to shed light on this growing problem As parents, we often think, “It won’t happen to my child,” but the reality is it’s happening far too often, and the scammers behind it are incredibly cunning and manipulative. To combat this rising threat, we need proactive measures—systems, procedures, and education—put in place. I’m proud to support Cybernetic Shield, an organisation doing outstanding work in this space, offering solutions that schools can adopt to protect their students. It’s crucial for school leadership to get on board and implement these safeguards. #CyberSafety #SchoolSafety #ProtectOurKids

The confetti makes it official! 🎉 Like many other WGU grads, my journey has been anything but typical. After high school, I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to play college softball. Unfortunately, an injury ended my softball career after just one year. With my scholarship gone, I left college, and as life moved on, there never seemed to be a right time to return to school. Years later, discovering WGU's self-paced, competency-based program reignited my dream. Today, I proudly hold both my bachelor's and master's degrees from WGU, turning what once seemed impossible into reality. #WGU #WGUGrad #SuccessStory #EducationJourney #Cybersecurity

Mike Mullady, Vice President of Protective Services for Arrow Elite, a service of Arrow Security, Inc., shares his thoughts on when to consider protection services in schools, colleges and universities. Click here to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02vZcKd0 #ArrowSecurity #ExpertService #SecurityExperts #WeCare #SecurityGuards #PrivateSecurity #SecurityPrograms #SchoolSecurity

Welcome to the Ask McConnell Converged Security Academy Our first class “I Want to Get Into Security” is one that I think I have done live a couple hundred times to our military and law enforcement heroes through various organizations like Veterati, Hire Heroes USA and American Corporate Partners (ACP), as part of their transition training. The Academy will allow me to scale this class to more heroes and people outside the military and law enforcement community, including high school and college youngin's. This is 101 stuff, far from the deeper work that folks like Scot W. Carlos Francisco, CPP, CSSP Charles "CHUCK" Andrews - MSME, CPP Eric Vento, CPP do for our law enforcement and military heroes!!!! If you have a high schooler, college age person, new security employee, or someone else, including yourself that is interested in what are the paths of/in/to/through a security career, then my first course is for you/them. For launch, I am offering a 20% discount code (AMCSALAUNCH) to make the cost just $20. If you or they are active military or active law enforcement, I am launching with a Hero price of just $5, contact me for their discount code. Hey you can even buy the course as a gift for someone. Summary of the course in the video below. #security #convergedsecurity #askmcconnell #ciso #cso #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #physicalsecurity #executiveprotection #fraud #audit #supplychainsecurity #securitymetrics #insiderthreat #academy #training #courses #csa

The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire is genuinely one of the most beautiful places to visit, enjoy and work. It is steeped in a rich and varied history whilst surrounded by some of the most beautiful vegetation and fauna in the UK 🐇🦌🌲 Today as the UK's Leading Science and Innovation Campus with thousands of visitors to Campus weekly, there are potentially hiding amongst the visiting population some individuals with malicious intent such as hostile reconnaissance, attempted theft, rural crime etc. So the various Security Teams onsite work tirelessly to protect the Campus from these threats and as criminals adapt, so must we. So it is always a real privilege to learn and work alongside The Civil Nuclear Constabulary OPU and their #ProjectServator teams based here in detecting and disrupting crime before it happens. In my teams case, we've seen considerable increases in detecting potential issues before they happen and honestly for me, Preventative Security is always as crucial, if not more so than Responsive Security. 👮♂️ Have a wonderful week ahead all 👋🏻 - - #TogetherWeGotItCovered #Security #FrontlineSecurity

The Launch - Ask McConnell Converged Security Academy. Thank you all for your patience and input. Today, I launch, with some operational rawness, the Ask McConnell Converged Security Academy. I will be offering low-cost classes for various audiences and surprise, across the full spectrum of converged security. Huge shout out to the Teachable team My first class “I Want to Get Into Security” is one that I think I have done live a couple hundred times to our military and law enforcement heroes through various organizations like Veterati, Hire Heroes USA and American Corporate Partners (ACP), as part of their transition training. Many of my students are part of my LinkedIn Network. I still plan to do this class live for our heroes but the Academy will allow me to scale this class to more heroes and people outside the military and law enforcement community, including high school and college youngin's. This is 101 stuff, far from the deeper work that the amazing folks like Scot W. Carlos Francisco, CPP, CSSP Charles "CHUCK" Andrews - MSME, CPP Eric Vento, CPP do for our law enforcement and military heroes!!!! If you have a high schooler, college age person, new security employee, or someone else, including yourself that is interested in what are the paths of/in/to/through a security career, then my first course is for you/them. For launch, I am offering a 20% discount code (AMCSALAUNCH) to make the cost just $20. If you or they are active military or active law enforcement, I am launching with a Hero price of just $5, contact me for their discount code. Two other courses are already in the works. Thanks for your support, please share this with you network and communities. https://lnkd.in/gmqKE45B #security #convergedsecurity #askmcconnell #ciso #cso #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #physicalsecurity #executiveprotection #fraud #audit #supplychainsecurity #securitymetrics #insiderthreat #academy #training #courses #csa

As the need to upgrade physical security measures expands, technology is becoming a crucial part of threat mitigation, target hardening, and access control. However, because every individual school building has unique safety requirements, many administrators are not sure where to start. Join our Education Strategists in a discussion on ways school districts can bolster their safety and security policies, practices and procedures. https://lnkd.in/dc5G_s2m

Thanks for allowing my group and I the chance to learn more about the corporate IT environment and their network topology! I learned a lot about security analysis tools and SIEMs. I know this will be invaluable experience to advance my career in cybersecurity and IT.