TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Paul Winter who serves as the Vice President of Professional Services at SimSpace Corporation helping customers maximize their investment to understand cyber security risk through use of the SimSpace Cyber Range platform. Prior to joining SimSpace, Paul spent over a decade with Booz Allen Hamilton as a consultant to the Department of Defense conducting analyses of cyber operations, and predicting effectiveness and risk associated with employment of cyber capabilities. While in this role, he became intimately familiar with the need to leverage cyber ranges that represent real-world environments when testing offensive and defensive capabilities. This testing improved leaders’ confidence in their employment decisions.

Paul holds a Masters of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.

Topic: Raising Confidence to Reduce Risk. How do organizations increase confidence in their ability to withstand a severe cyber attack? A great way to understand how they might respond is to exercise their team using their tools in a safe environment that mimics their corporate network and systems. This talk will examine strategies of various organizations and review some lessons learned from their experiences.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Dan Gunter, CEO and founder of Insane Cyber.

Dan Gunter is the founder and CEO of Insane Cyber, a threat hunting-focused company that helps organizations protect against the threats of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Before Insane Forensics, Dan served as director, research and development for Dragos Inc, an industrial control system cybersecurity firm. He established and oversaw detection engineering and reverse engineering efforts focused on protecting oil and gas, energy, and other critical infrastructure sites. As an early employee at Dragos, he also served as one of the original principal threat analysts working with oil and gas and energy companies to expand cybersecurity capabilities. Before Dragos, Dan was an officer in the United States Air Force serving in assignments, including the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT) and operational CYBERCOM teams. Dan was competitively selected for and graduated from the Department of Defense’s elite Computer Network Operations Development Program and the Air Force Research Lab’s Advanced Course in Engineering Cyber Security Bootcamp. Dan earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Baylor University, a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Louisville, and a graduate certificate in incident response from SANS Technology Institute. Dan is also a graduate of MIT Bootcamp’s Innovation Leadership program and pitched on the winning new venture team.

In the community, Dan has spoken at Blackhat, Schmoocon, S4, CS3STHLM and taught at a variety of smaller and private events on the topics of incident response, threat hunting, consequence analysis, and general security operations.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Hazem Refai, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Tulsa.

Professor Refai earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, where he later held the Williams Chair of Telecommunication and Networking. Known as a national leader in his field, he has led research efforts in optical wireless communication, radio frequency wireless coexistence, cognitive networks, and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in transportation and communication. He secured more than $9 million in grants from federal and state agencies to fund innovative projects and published more than 245 papers in top-tier journals and conferences.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Sarah Hamby, director of OK Catalyst.

Sarah Hamby is the Sate Program director, OK FAST & SBRA at OK Catalyst. Sarah and her team offer resources such as training, mentoring, and technical assistance to small businesses pursuing innovation through SBIR/STTR funding. Sarah will discuss how you can pursue SBIR funding to further your research and how OK Catalyst can assist.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs. For more information, email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu.

TU Cyber Fellows are invited to engage with Geoff Wilson, CEO and Founder of Go Security Pro.

Geoff Wilson is CEO and Founder of Go Security Pro and is an innovative cybersecurity thought leader with deep experience in defensive cybersecurity strategies. Having studied at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at the National Security Agency, Geoff has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Geoff has a Master’s of Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s of Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma. He taught a graduate-level Information Security course at the University of Oklahoma for four years. Geoff is a published author, was a federal cybersecurity auditor, and has consulted with the Executive Office of the President.

The Cyber Fellows Speaker Series is open to Cyber Fellows, related faculty, and our external partners. The speaker series is an opportunity for Cyber Fellows to have deep conversations with cyber industry professionals, venture capitalists, founders, and entrepreneurs.

Email randy-roberts@utulsa.edu for more information.