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The Public Infrastructure Security Cyber Education System (PISCES) is a platform which brings together industry, government, and education to deliver a job ready workforce, engage students with real-world experiences, and provide services to small local government entities which they would not otherwise be able to afford. PISCES places collectors on small governmental networks to collect netflow data. The data is stored on an ELK stack, and is monitored by students who perform anomaly analysis and threat hunting on the real data. Issues discovered are reviewed and reported. PISCES, which currently operates in four states, is working with CISA and PNNL to expand into other states and increase its presence. PISCES makes curriculum available to schools participating in the project, and in addition to the basic cybersecurity analyst course has developed a follow-on Security Operations Center (SOC) course.
 

Erik Fretheim, Western Washington University
Thursday Block II
03:00 pm ~ 04:00 pm
Designation Track
Duration
20
Presentators
Speaker Details
Erik Fretheim, Western Washington University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Erik Fretheim is the director of Cybersecurity Programs at Western Washington University. He has previously served in professor positions at City University of Seattle and the United States Military Academy. He retired from the Army after 33 years of active and reserve status, and has held CIO, CTO, and other senior leadership positions in a variety of companies including i5Digital, Grange Insurance Group, MCI, and Siemens. Dr. Fretheim is a Senior Member of IEEE.