RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club

ImagineRIT Presentation & Club Finances

May 2nd, 2008

We’re going to be at ImagineRIT tomorrow from 10AM to 4PM in the Gordon Field House (Exhibit 483), so be sure to stop by and show your support!

Speaking of support, for those of you who don’t know we’re currently a Tier 1 SG club, which means we receive no funding through Student Government; we rely solely on fundraising, and after our next speaker comes in we’ll be out of money. This year we’ve been so busy with entrepreneurship related events and community outreach that we haven’t had the time to raise money for our own club. We can get a budget from SG if we’re bumped up to Tier 2 or Tier 3, but for that to happen we have to demonstrate that we’re active enough to warrant a tier increase. I ask that everyone show Student Government that we’re worth your tuition dollars by donating a small $10 or $5 gift to RIT SIFE, as our hard working club officers have already done. Your gift can make a difference, especially considering that all student gifts this year are being matched 1:1 by Dr. Destler. Next school year we plan on having at least 2 entrepreneurship speakers come in every quarter, but that and other great activities can’t happen without your support.

How can you give?
You can fill out a donation form, which we’ll have available at our ImagineRIT table tomorrow, at our entrepreneurship speaker event on Monday, and any other events we have this quarter. Donations are tax deductible and can be made with cash, check, or credit card. If you can’t make it to any of our events, feel free to schedule a time to meet with me and make a donation.

Thanks to the following Members who have donated so far:
Josh Tomaka - Member
Rushana Anglyamova - Secretary
Cleveland Bonner - SG Representative
Megan Soriano - Treasurer
Soham Ghosh - Vice President
Sean Hayes - President

Thank you for supporting our club!

Sean Hayes
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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Entrepreneurship Speaker Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design: Free Food

May 2nd, 2008

Entrepreneurship Speaker Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design
May 5th, 2008
6:00 to 6:30 PM, Then Q&A
SCB Building 12, Room 1115
Free Food (TBD)!
Therese Hannigan from Dumbwaiter Design will be coming to talk about her company and starting a business. You can find our more by visiting their website here: http://www.dumbwaiterdesign.com/. This should be of special interested to anyone who’s an art or design major.

Sean Hayes
President
RIT SIFE/Entrepreneurship Club
http://ritsife.org/

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Business Opportunity: Atomic Security

April 22nd, 2008

Here’s a business opportunity Chris Zeilinski wanted me to announce. Last year he won 2nd place in the RIT Business Plan Competition.

The business name is Atomic Security. Here is the executive summary from the business plan:

“Social engineering” refers to the manipulation of people in order to gain access to confidential information. Atomic Security is a service provider that analyzes the strength of the human element of corporate information security. Through the use of contractually arranged, unique social engineering experiments, Atomic Security will probe an organization’s employees and report on the likelihood of an attacker successfully manipulating them into giving out confidential company information. Atomic will allow clients to see holes in their company’s security beyond those exposed by traditional network penetration tests and offer consultation on how to reduce the risk of an information or physical security breach.

What I’m looking for are maybe 4-5 people who have a background in information security and/or hacking, and they MUST have strong knowledge of social engineering. Knowledge of and/or interest in psychomanipulation, interrogation, and even theater would also be good things to have. I’m not terribly picky as I know this is not a revenue generating venture yet, but I expect that the people who get involved with it will want to stick with it and thus I don’t want to end up being someone’s teacher.

If you could just send out a message telling everyone in this group that I am looking for these things and that those interested should send me a copy of their resume and any background they have in infosec/social engineering, it would be greatly appreciated. You can even copy and paste what I’ve said here if that’s easiest.

Any correspondence can go to atomicsecurity at gmail dot com

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Chris Zielinski