22
Apr

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

21
Apr

Tonight at the Student Government Annual Banquet, our very own Academic Advisor, Peter Rosenthal, was recognized with the Advisor of the Year Award! Be sure to congratulate him when you see him.

In addition to a certificate and plaque for Peter, our club is being awarded with a $100 bonus for a pizza party celebration. More details to follow, so stay tuned.

Attached is the Advisor of the Year Application I submitted, which also links to his extensive biography on the SCB website.

Advisor of the Year Application

16
Apr

Jerry H. Curnutt
Assistant Dean for Administration
E. Philip Saunders College of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology
(585) 475-4713;
—–Original Message—–
From: Ashok Rao [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:44 AM
To:
Subject: BLT BARBECUE - SUNDAY, APRIL 20 AT 4:00 P.M.

To the Saunders College Faculty & Staff:

All Saunders College faculty & staff [and, surely, SIFE]are cordially
invited to attend the Business Leaders of Tomorrow (BLT) annual barbecue,
this Sunday, April 20, starting at 4:00 p.m. in the plaza in front of the
Lowenthal Building.

The BLT Barbecue is free-of-charge for all faculty & staff, and will feature
lots of great picnic food, and will be followed by a guest lecture featuring
David Mammano, president and founder of NextStep Publishing.

Be sure and stop by  -  it promises to be a great time!

Ash

16
Apr

Attached is the MediSked Presentation from March 26th. Tom Hogan also wanted me to let everyone know the Rochester Regional Business Plan Competition is back on. Here’s more information:
Business briefs - Contest seeks entrepreneurs
Lucrative business plan contest under way

Please be aware that the submission deadline is April 21, 2008.

MediSked RIT Presentation 2008