The San Antonio Converge Summit today at UTSA drew a standing room only crowd of local businesses seeking to bring their cybersecurity expertise to the National Security Agency and Defense Department installations, such as the nearby 24th and 25th Air Force Cyber commands.
The daylong event was sponsored by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s Cybersecurity San Antonio along with UTSA and the University of Texas.
Will Garrett, who heads Cybersecurity San Antonio, said the purpose of Converge was twofold – to showcase San Antonio’s cybersecurity ecosystem of defense missions, a private sector cybersecurity cluster, and UTSA’s top-rated cybersecurity program and to educate that ecosystem on ways they could support the NSA.
“The entire Department of Defense and intelligence community … they have aggressive goals to engage the small business community, the startup community,” Garrett said.
The Paris attacks came up as just one recent example of security threats playing out globally, Garrett said. For the full article click here
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