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Billy Brumley has been named the Kevin O’Sullivan Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity at RIT. As part of RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Brumley will contribute to the university’s growing cybersecurity research profile and lead expertise in side-channel attack analysis.

RIT is receiving $500,000 from the Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to train new cybersecurity professionals, while providing services for public good at the same time. The funding from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, is part of a $20 million collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics that Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced in June.

RIT and Alstom are coming together to help advance cybersecurity education, development, and research in the transportation industry. Through a new collaboration, the French mobility technology company will provide RIT students with educational, research, and career opportunities. Alstom has also been named theme-sponsor for RIT’s next Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) in 2023-2024.

WXXI talks to Ersin Uzun, the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the RIT ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

WHEC-TV reports on ESL Federal Credit Union's $3 million commitment to name the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

Spectrum News reports on ESL Federal Credit Union's $3 million commitment to name the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

WHAM-TV talks to Ersin Uzun, the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the RIT ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, and Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, about cyber hygiene and what RIT students are learning about cybersecurity.

RIT’s world-class home for cybersecurity has a new name. On March 8, RIT and ESL Federal Credit Union jointly announced an exclusive naming rights partnership for the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT.

Ersin Uzun, former vice president and head of Global Internet of Things (IoT) Business at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Xerox, has been named the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute.