Turner Business

Mary Gowan, Chair of the Board of Governors for Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS), the international honor society for AACSB accredited business programs, recently congratulated the Turner College’s Beta Gamma Sigma chapter for earning  High Honors  status for the 2020-2021 academic year, which is   the second-highest distinction possible  for BGS chapters.   By earning High Honors status, the Turner College’s BGS chapter becomes eligible to nominate candidates for some of the honor society’s prestigious global awards, including Outstanding Chapter of the Year and the Business Achievement and Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards, which recognize community business leaders, alumni, or donors.   Gowan, Dean of the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia, congratulated the Turner College for achieving this outstanding distinction.   “We appreciate your team’s diligent work and your continuing support of Beta Gamma Sigma.   We look for...

  The Turner College’s TSYS School of Computer Science hosted the  ISACA - Atlanta  Chapter’s “Cybersecurity in Action” training workshop in October.  The workshop was held at CSU’s TSYS Cybersecurity Center as part of the university’s  National Cybersecurity Month  lineup of events.  Workshop attendees benefited from four facilitated sessions that included demonstrations of the TSYS School’s new Cyber Range and Security Operations Center (SOC).  Presenters included Fort Benning Garrison Commander Col. Alexis Rivera, W.C. Bradley Director of Information Security Mark Bradford, Global Payments Director of SIEM Engineering Ben Watson, Global Payments Director of Security Incident Response Robert Yager and Synovus Senior Director of Cyber Threat Management and Security Lee Himes.  CSU, one of the first universities in the state to be recognized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Security Agency (NSA) as a Center of Academi...