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TSYS School Chair and Rothschild Distinguished Professor Rania Hodhod is hosting a seminar aimed at elevating student engagement and fostering meaningful connections in the online learning space. The event is scheduled for September 10 from 12:30 pm until 1:15 pm, and will be held in room 407 of the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus. According to Hodhod, " I believe th[is] topic will be of great interest to CSU faculty. Please note that th[is] topic [is] also . . . relevant to faculty who do not teach fully online classes.  In addition, we will have a special seminar where participants can share unconventional activities and innovative teaching methods they've implemented in their classes. This will be a great opportunity to learn from each other's experiences and gain new insights."

CSU's annual First-Year Convocation offered the university’s newest students first-hand accounts of the ins and outs of college life. During the recent event, a panel of juniors and seniors shared their insights on everything from academic success to building their network.  The four-student panel represented college majors from physical and health sciences to business and communication.  Jiane Rabara , a Turner College major and member of the Butler Center staff, said that, as an international student from the Philippines, being a member of several student organizations and attending campus activities helped her adjust culturally and academically.  “Finding your place is as simple as choosing your right circle,” she added. “Here in college, you’re going to meet many people—maybe from a group project, an organization, or maybe from the cafeteria or anywhere. But it’s important to choose the right people who will inspire you to be the best version of yourself.”

Turner Business took the opportunity recently to tour the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, which is undergoing a major renovation and expansion. Although some minor construction is still ongoing, technology is being installed in classroom spaces, which are already being used by the current cybersecurity Nexus program student cohort. The Center is set to host an information session for prospective cybersecurity Nexus students in a little more than three weeks. By then, much more progress will have been made. In the meantime, enjoy the accompanying images of the progress to date.

The next cybersecurity Nexus program information session is scheduled for  Tuesday, September 24th, from  5:30–6:30 p.m. EST. The session will be held in Room 125 of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, which is located on the first floor of the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus. For prospective students who are unable to attend in person, a virtual option is planned. The Zoom link for the virtual option is  https://lnkd.in/e-6RHK_B . The meeting ID for this option is  ** 269 583 6035, while the passcode is GoCougars. W e hope to see you there!

An "incredibly supportive partner,"  Jonathan White , Information Security Manager at  Global Payments,  recently visited students in the TSYS School's cybersecurity Nexus program . "Jonathan volunteers to visit the first week of every semester and shares his honesty and insights with students about the cybersecurity  industry. This semester, Jonathan brought current and former interns Gabrielle Holmes-Hodge , Jonathan King , Peyton Lockhart , Joel Nienaber, and Jett Robinson  with him. Thanks to these incredible people for pouring into the healthy cybersecurity community in the Columbus, GA area," stated Patrick Aiken , Director of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity. White, Holmes-Hodge, King, Lockhart and Robinson are either current or former TSYS School students, while Nienaber is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University and Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

CSU's central administration officially welcomed 19 new CSU faculty today. Five new faculty members, including two Columbus State University alumni, join the Turner College this fall. They are among the 19 new full-time faculty joining the university for the 2024-25 academic year.  “These educators bring their expertise to some of the college’s fastest-growing majors and our region’s highest-demand career fields,” said Deborah Kidder ,  Dean & Bill Heard Endowed Chair of Business Administration. “Each demonstrates how business and technology intersect both in the classroom and in professional practice.”      Janice Canedo joins the TSYS School this fall as a lecturer. As a practitioner, she focused on business analytics, data science, computer security and site reliability engineering. Through her past teaching and research assistant roles, she worked within multiple frameworks, languages and protocols from Python development to Docker and Kubernetes orches...

A new study by TSYS School computer scientists Jianhua Yang and Lixin Wang explores the use of network traffic distribution to detect stepping-stone intrusion. Appearing in the latest issue of Electronics , the study acknowledges that over  the past three decades, stepping-stone intrusion has become a professional and primary way used by intruders to launch their attacks given that it offers protection via a long transmission control protocol connection chain. According to Yang, " Many different algorithms have been proposed to detect stepping-stone intrusion since 1995. But most algorithms cannot resist intruders’ session manipulation. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using the distribution of round-trip time (RTT) of network traffic to detect stepping-stone intrusion."  Among the advantages of the approach developed by Yang and Wang are (1) its ability to bring down false-positive detection errors since it belongs to a network-based detection method, (2) its abi...