SEPTEMBER 19TH 2026 @ COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY

Using real-world (anonymized) case studies, Martin Jensen from CommWest will walk us through what a Business Email Compromise attack actually looks like from the inside, the emails, the red flags, the moments where it could've been caught. 

It is not too soon to prepare for the "post-quantum apocalypse!" In this session, Sneha Patil, Software Engineer, delivers a focused technical overview of threats to today's encryption and strategies to future-proof security infrastructure. 

 In this session, Hayden Covington of Black Hills Infosec will walk through how to design custom agents for real security operations work: triage support, detection engineering, enrichment workflows, reporting, research, and review-heavy operational tasks. 

 In this session, Ram Basnet, CMU Professor, will share about CMU's journey to become a Cybersecurity "Center of Excellence," requirements and process. 

  Modern systems increasingly rely on isolation mechanisms—especially with the rise of AI agents and sandboxed execution—but there are many different approaches and they each have different strengths and tradeoffs. 

~Sam Currie, Founder, Heyo Computer

Presenting Cybersecurity concepts can be a challenge. In 2022 CMU was funded by NSA to work with K-12 educators to design lesson plans approachable to K-12 students. If you struggle to communicate about hashes, signed documents, or pattern analysis we have some demonstrations that will help. 

~Karl Castleton, CMU Assoc. Professor