Students, faculty, and Middle Georgia cybersecurity professionals met on Tuesday, Feb. 19, to interact and learn from Andrew Goodman, MGA alumnus and Georgia Tech Research Institute Programmer and Researcher. Goodman shared his experience as a programmer and project leader as part of the Association of Information Technology Students (AITS) and Middle Georgia chapter of ISC2's Coffeehouse Speaker Series.
About the Speaker:
Andrew Goodman is an MGA alumnus who is a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in Atlanta. He began his research endeavors at GTRI by joining the Quantum Systems Division (QSD) within the Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research (CIPHER) Lab. His work revolved around developing and maintaining the software tool used for reading, storing, and analyzing the data generated by the lab’s ion-trapping system. He also had the opportunity to make contributions to an autonomous network intrusion detection system that used a library of known intrusion patterns to predict new attacks. He now plays a pivotal role in ensuring software quality, software security, and information assurance in the Information and Communications Lab (ICL).
In more than six years at GTRI, Goodman has contributed to over 30 internal research documents, overseen release testing efforts, provided direction and development for multiple system software components, and spearheaded the creation of API’s and automated software testing suites.