Contractors to Promote Cyber Careers at STEM Forum

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Several of the country’s largest cybersecurity contractors will promote careers in that field at an event scheduled for Oct. 8 in Baltimore to promote science, technology, engineering and math education.

Executives from those companies will attend Cyber Ideation Day, where students get to see careers in digital forensic analysis, threat management, data science, technology management and other areas, General Dynamics said Tuesday.

Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will kick off the web-based interactive sessions with a keynote at the two-day CyberMaryland 2013 conference.

Participating companies include:

  • AMP Tech Solutions
  • BAE Systems
  • Convergence Technologies
  • COPT
  • CyberPoint
  • Damballa
  • General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
  • Hexis Cyber Solutions
  • Kaspersky Lab
  • KEYW
  • KoolSpan
  • Lockheed Martin
  • RSA
  • SafeNet
  • Sourcefire
  • Symantec
  • TechGuard Security
  • Tripwire