Saint Rose Students Get Insider Perspective on Cybersecurity

Every so often, a high-level executive speaks to a Saint Rose Computer Science class after responding to a rather significant cyberattack.

“These are top cybersecurity folks from financial institutions such as Citizens, or Verizon, or government,” noted Dr. Ian MacDonald, a Computer Science professor and the College’s Interim Dean of Mathematics and Sciences. “They give students an hour of their time every week. In an hour, they have big impact.”

The class, “Insider Threat,” invites industry experts to talk to students, via video conference, about the causes of large scale computer breaches and how they handle them.

Read more about what our students are learning here.