Join AppITP for its fourth and final guest speaker meeting, featuring representatives from Grant Thornton!
📅 Wednesday, October 21st
⏰ 5:00 PM - 5:55 PM
📍 Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, PSU 137
Learn about cybersecurity and audit-related internships and full-time positions, including one of our AppITP officer's experiences (Jack Banagan) as an intern there this summer.
RSVP using the QR Code posted on the flyer or [Here].
Join AppITP for a Training & Evaluating Mid-Weight LLMs for Blue Team Op Tech Talk presented by Jim Webb, Appalachian State Chief Information Security Officer!
📅 Tuesday, October 20th
⏰ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
📍 Peacock Hall, Room 2012 (Cyber Lab)
Attackers are increasingly using AI/LLMs to help move offensive operations toward wire-speed to write the malware, hack the sites, and exfiltrate data. For the past few months, our CISO has been researching the less explored other side: can we train mid-size AI models to also help human operators after a break-in by speeding up response efforts by reading the logs to reconstruct what happened, in what order, and who did it? This talk will cover a high-level view of the state of the art in AI cyber model training, including open-weight models, model ablation, post-training methods, and cost/benefits, with special considerations for AI/LLMs in blue team operations. If time and resources permit, students will have the chance to safely simulate adversarial activity against a host and determine if the blue team model is able to spot, report, and respond to simulated hacking attempts.
RSVP using the QR Code posted on the flyer or [Here].
Join AppITP for a Tech Talk with Nordic IT Solutions!
📅 Tuesday, October 13th
⏰ 5:00 PM
📍 Peacock Hall, Room 2021
Nordic IT Solutions is based out of Boone, supporting small businesses, local governments, and nonprofits throughout the High Country and empowering them with reliable and affordable solutions. They have hired multiple App State graduates, including AppITP officer Hana Howard, who interned with them last summer. Nate Solberg, Owner and CEO, will share some of his experiences working with local small businesses and their unique challenges revolving around cybersecurity.
RSVP using the QR Code posted on the flyer or [Here].
Join AppITP for our third Guest Speaker!
📅 Wednesday, October 7th
⏰ 5:00 PM - 5:55 PM
📍 Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, PSU 137
Several summer interns will present about their experiences in the internship program made possible by a Google grant. Hear directly from some of the key folks who keep App State safe from cybersecurity threats on a daily basis and find out about upcoming employment opportunities.
Join AppITP for a fall movie night social!
📅 Tuesday, September 29th
⏰ 5:00 PM
📍 Peacock Hall, Room 2021
RSVP using the QR Code posted on the flyer or [Here].
Join AppITP for our second Guest Speaker!
📅 Wednesday, September 23rd
⏰ 5:00 PM - 5:55 PM
📍 Grandfather Mountain Ballroom, PSU 137
Appalachian Information Technology Professionals will be hosting speakers from ECRS, who will share their experience in the field and give insight into the different jobs in technology.
