The Fall 2023 ITM Undergraduate Advising Notes are now available. You can access them at https://www.itm.iit.edu/data/Fall-Summer2023ITMUndergraduateAdvisingNotes.pdf
and at https://blogs.iit.edu/itm_loopback/files/2023/03/Fall-Summer2023ITMUndergraduateAdvisingNotes.pdf

Please read the notes carefully and completely before making your advising appointment for Fall & Summer 2023. Instructions on how to make your advising appointment are in the notes.

Advising details for each undergraduate adviser are in the Advising Notes, which includes how to meet with them for your appointment and when your adviser will be available.

PLEASE READ THESE! It will make your life and your adviser’s life SO much easier.

Upcoming Co-Terminal Degree information sessions:

• Co-Terminal Information Session: November 4, 2020 at 12 noon C.S.T. (Online) Register
• Co-Terminal Information Session: November 5, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. C.S.T. (Online) Register

Illinois Tech ACM-W members at the Anita Borg Conference.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the oldest and broadest professional society for those of us in the computing professions. We just concluded the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (ACM SIGITE 2020) where ITM faculty and students presented nine papers and posters. Participation in ACM “offers critical benefits that empower computing students who are committed to self-improvement and success in their chosen fields” as well as opportunities to network, learn, and grow. For a limited time, ACM is offering FREE one-year student memberships! (Student membership is usually $19.) Benefits of membership include:

• Communications of the ACM – the trusted source for computing professionals, features emerging technologies, IT trends, news, opinion, research and practical applications
• XRDS – published by and for students – featuring research highlights, opinions, upcoming events, and grant/funding opportunities
• Custom collection of online books, videos and courses by SkillSoft covering the most in-demand skills, software, and technologies for computing professionals
• ACM TechTalks – webinars featuring the most sought-after speakers on today’s hottest computing topics
• ACM ByteCast – podcast conversations with researchers, practitioners, and innovators who are at the intersection of computing research and practice
• And many more

So do it! Join today at https://www.acm.org/studentjoin. It’s free for a year. And while you’re at it, interact with your fellow Illinois Tech ACM members through one of our ACM student chapters: Illinois Tech ACM and Illinois Tech Association for Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W). For more information on ACM student membership, see their brochure at https://itm.iit.edu/data/ACM-brochure-student.pdf.

Competing with others to solve a challenge is a fun way to get your foot in the door in cybersecurity and learn how to protect yourself online. The first CNSP challenge is about password security and multi-factor authentication. The 2 best submissions will be rewarded with a $25 gift card and optionally recognized on CNSP social media. At least one of the winners selected will be an aspiring professional or student. https://www.csnp.org/challenge.

The President and Co-Founder of Chicago’s CNSP (CyberSecurity NonProfit) is ITM Alumnus Abdel Sy Fane. Abdel earned his Bachelor of Information Technology and Management and Master of Cyber Forensics and Security as a co-terminal student in May of 2014; he is a Senior Manager for Security & Privacy at Protiviti. BITM alumnus Oluseyi Akinlolu serves as Director of Africa for CNSP.

• Fall 2019 ITM Undergraduate Student Handbook
  ——–Alternate Site: http://www.itm.iit.edu/data/ITMUndergraduateStudentHandbookFall2019.pdf
• Fall 2019 ITM Graduate Student Handbook
  ——–Alternate Site: http://www.itm.iit.edu/data/ITMGraduateStudentHandbookFall2019.pdf

ITM is happy to be in Boston! In the photo at right, Master of Cyber Forensics and Security alumnus Anthony Ramirez receives the Best Paper Award for the 2016 ACM Research in Information Technology (RIIT) conference in Boston. Anthony and Alfedo Fernandez earned this award for their paper MP3 Stegonography: Analyzing and Detecting TCSteg. This is the third time in five years that Illinois Tech Information Technology and Management researchers have received this award. The School of Applied Technology and the ITM Department are Silver Sponsors for the RIIT conference and the concurrent ACM Special Interest Group in Information Technology Education (SIGITE) conference. ITM Associate Chair Ray Trygstad serves on the SIGITE Executive Committee.

More than 220 cyber security professionals participated in ForenSecure ’15: Cyber Forensics and Security Conference and Expo at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Rice Campus in Wheaton. In its 13th year, this industry-focused technical conference attracted representatives from Google, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Exelon, Cisco, Verizon, Comcast, Allstate Insurance, Argonne National Laboratory, Booz Allen Hamilton, CDW, Chicago Public Schools, CNA Insurance, Fermilab, Ford Motor Company, Motorola Solutions, Navistar, U.S. Marines, and Alcatel-Lucent. Universities such as Boston University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University, Lewis University, Northern Illinois University, Wheaton College, University of Wisconsin, University of Dubuque (Iowa) and several community colleges, and other organizations were also represented.

This multi-tracked conference included discussion and debate by local, regional, national, and international organizations and universities over cyber security, forensics, data/information governance, cyber crime, cyber security legislation and legal issues, ethical hacking, eDiscovery, cloud forensics, steganography, policy and compliance, privacy, wireless security, cloud computing, credit card fraud, drones, identity theft, and more.

William Lidinsky, director, School of Applied Technology Computer Security and Forensics Laboratory; interim director, Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education; and industry professor of Information Technology and Management headed up the conference with co-chairs, Ben Khodja (ITM ’12, M.S. CYF ’15) and Yalinne Castelan Guzman (ITM, M.S. CYF ’16).

Several IIT faculty presented at conference sessions including Mohammad Shahidehpour, Bodine Chair professor of electrical and computer engineering; Henry Perritt Jr, professor of law; Ray Trygstad, director of information technology at IIT School of Applied Technology; and Adam Rouse, legal fellow for the Institute of Science, Law, and Technology at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law; Bonnie Goins and William Slater III, adjunct industry professors of information technology and management;.

Student presentations from Lidinsky’s ITMS 448/548-Cyber Security Technologies, ITMS 539-Steganography, and ITMS 549-Cyber Security Technologies: Projects & Advanced Methods courses were featured both days. Presentations included various forms of steganography, how to defend Android apps, RADISH (Remotely-Accessible Dynamic Infrastructure for Students to Hack) developed at IIT, and more.

More information about ForenSecure: Cyber Forensics & Security Conference & Expo

More Information about Cyber Forensics and Securiey Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology School of Applied Technology

School of Applied Technology Associate Professor Jeremy Hajek is interviewed on FOX 32 Chicago News about the possible causes of a key fob dead zone in Chicago.

See the video

Ray Trygstad, ITM Associate Chair and Industry Professor, was interviewed for a CBS Chicago article titled “Communication Will Give Chicago IT Professionals An Edge In Hiring”.

See the article

ITMD 545 Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC)
Details at – http://appliedtech.iit.edu/news/2014/dec/11/new-course-announcement