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Our annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition (CBIC) is quickly approaching, and with almost a month to go before the application deadline, we'd like to urge you to start applying as soon as possible.

The deadline for applications is March 8, 2017 at 5 pm sharp. 

The CBIC is designed for entrepreneurial students attending UMBC who know they want to start a company, or perhaps already have, and are seeking funding. This competition was designed for you! If you’re ready to start living your dream, click below to start applying today! 

Register Here 

What is the CBIC?
The CBIC is an opportunity for UMBC students who are serious about starting a business.

Who Should Participate?
Any UMBC student (full or part time, graduate or undergraduate) with a dream of launching their own business soon.

Why Participate?
The CIBC will give you "real world" experience.  You'll be paired with a business mentor and you'll get helpful feedback and guidance.  You'll also get connected to the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Winners also get: 

·         Free legal services

·         Accounting advice

·         Membership at the award winning Betamore campus in Federal Hill

·         Fundraising advice and Pitch practice with members of Betamore Angels. 

1ST PRIZE = $3,000

2ND PRIZE = $2,000

3RD PRIZE = $1,000 

Additional $2,000 available after 6 months. 

Our annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition (CBIC) is quickly approaching, and with almost a month to go before the application deadline, we'd like to urge you to start applying as soon as possible.

The deadline for applications is March 8, 2017 at 5 pm sharp.

The CBIC is designed for entrepreneurial students attending UMBC who know they want to start a company, or perhaps already have and are seeking funding. This competition was designed for you! If you’re ready to start living your dream, click below to start applying today!

Register Here 

What is the CBIC?
The CBIC is an opportunity for UMBC students who are serious about starting a business.

Who Should Participate?
Any UMBC student (full or part time, graduate or undergraduate) with a dream of launching their own business soon.

Why Participate?
The CIBC will give you "real world" experience.  You'll be paired with a business mentor and you'll get helpful feedback and guidance.  You'll also get connected to the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Winners also get:

·         Free legal services

·         Accounting advice

·         Membership at the award winning Betamore campus in Federal Hill

·         Fundraising advice and Pitch practice with members of Betamore Angels.

1ST PRIZE = $3,000

2ND PRIZE = $2,000

3RD PRIZE = $1,000

Additional $2,000 available after 6 months. 

Professor Anupam Joshi, chair of the CSEE Department and director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity

With a new administration in the White House, securing the president’s smartphone is a national security priority, but exactly what steps are taken to secure the phone are not made public. In a new article in The Conversation, Anupam Joshi, professor and chair of computer science and electrical engineering, and director of the Center for Cybersecurity at UMBC, discusses several likely ways President Trump’s security team is building protections into his phone, through everything from hardware to settings to app restrictions.

Limiting the number of people who have the president’s new phone number and keeping the unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number guarded can prevent potential attackers from accessing confidential information stored on the phone. This method is called “security by obscurity,” says Joshi.

Joshi also says the device Trump will use was likely made by a trusted manufacturer with carefully created and checked parts, explaining that this minimizes the “risk that the hardware would have any vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit.”

Customizing the operating system, and allowing the phone to connect only with predetermined networks that are regularly monitored can also help protect against attacks, says Joshi. “Limiting its contact with the internet would, of course, by key,” he notes, “though that would also significantly limit the phone’s usefulness to a president whose routine involves constant connection.” Joshi says that limiting the number of apps on the phone, reducing the ability for additional apps to be downloaded and installed, and disabling automatic updates to the phone could keep the device even more secure.

While it is not certain which methods have been employed to secure the presidential smartphone, Joshi says that Trump trading in his commercial-grade phone for a government-secured device is an important first step in protecting the U.S. from hacks and attacks.

In another article in The Conversation, Rick Forno, assistant director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and director of the Cybersecurity Graduate Program at UMBC, addresses the importance of addressing both short-term and long-term cybersecurity issues. He explains that ignoring underlying problems and only addressing small, attention-grabbing issues does not lead to lasting progress. “Cyber-fatigue,” explains Forno, is an “inability to think critically about what needs to happen for meaningful, lasting cybersecurity improvements while focusing only on near-term problems.”

He says that while it is important to evaluate the benefits, conveniences and savings that new products and services may offer, the potential risks and problems should be considered, too. “So instead of repeating the same guidelines and recommendations of the past, it’s time to take a new and unconventional look at our approach to technology and how we secure it,” Forno explains. “Unless we’re willing to go beyond our traditional cybersecurity ‘comfort zone’ and explore new solutions, our cyber-fatigue will worsen.”

Read “How to secure a smartphone for the tweeter-in-chief” and “Overcoming ‘cyber-fatigue’ requires users to step up for security” in The Conversation. Joshi’s piece also appeared in Mashable and Channel Newsasia, and together the articles have already been read over 36,000 times.

Adapted from UMBC News, photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

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Description:
This session will review the changes Microsoft is making in the FAST TRACK services from a single customer success service for Office 365, to the addition of new products and onboarding services, including INTUNE. We are here to help you Envision, On-Board and gain value through your MEEC License Agreement.”

Why INTUNE?
“Educators expect to be productive across a variety of device types with consistent access to the applications they need.
IT, wants to empower employees by providing flexibility, but also needs a scalable way to keep institution information secure across both personal and school – owned devices.

Simplify management of applications and devices with Microsoft INTUNE – a part of your MEEC license bundle.
Provide access to applications, data and resources from virtually anywhere on almost any device, while helping to keep institution information secure.

Benefits include: Device choice, management of Office mobile apps, protect data, manage from the cloud or extend your existing System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure.
**Targeted Audience… Staff responsible for deployment of technology.

Presenters:
Terrell Hadden – Escalation Engineer
Thomas C. Finney – Sr. Relationship Manager
Scott Walker – Technical Account Manager

Description:
If you’re moving to a cloud for your HR, Finance, or Student system, should you bother to document your current business processes? When is the right time to develop future state business processes? We will describe what, why, and how to use business analysis to accelerate your Cloud ERP implementation.

**Targeted Audience.. Organizations planning to adopt new cloud ERP solutions (HR, Finance, Student)

Presenters:
Adam Kutcher, Senior Consultant, Navigator Management Partners

Psalm 86:1-7 (NIV) - “Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; have mercy on me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you. You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. Hear my prayer, Lord; listen to my cry for mercy. When I am in distress, I call to you, because you answer me.”

“This is a psalm of King David, and he is surrounded by enemies attacking him. Again the psalms provide a clinic on how to face life when it seems out of control. David feels solitary, defenseless. He responds by reminding himself over and over who God is. He most often calls God ‘Lord,’ the Hebrew word, ‘adonai,’ meaning ’sovereign.’ David is drilling his own heart to remember that God is in control” (Timothy Keller, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms, p. 210).

As we devote our lives to Christ, we recognize more and more that we live in an out-of-control world, but God has always been in sovereign control. His “You are mine” love orchestrated nations, events, circumstances - all things to save us. He will hear the cries of our hearts today and answer us from His mercy, abounding in love. God’s “You are mine” love transforms and empowers us to believe and trust Him as “You are my God…” Let’s believe this by calling up on the Lord. Whatever may seem out of control, “adonai,” the sovereign Lord, is in complete control. So call upon the Lord. Do you feel defenseless? Do you feel distressed? Call upon the Lord! Are you concerned for a loved one? Call upon the Lord! Do you desire to faithfully submit to God? Call upon the Lord! “…Hear my prayer, Lord; listen to my cry for mercy…I call to you, because you answer me.”

-CH