Coworking Company, Enigma Networkz, shares $75,000 software gift with Penn State.
Cybersecurity students across the University will soon have access to a state-of-the-art tool to help prepare them for their future careers, thanks to a donation from a Penn State alumnus.
Mark Viglione, a 2015 graduate and founder of Enigma Networkz, a Berks LaunchBox coworking company, has finalized a software licensing agreement with the University to make his company’s security information and event management (SIEM) platform, Enigma Glass, available to students at all Penn State campuses. The value of the software donation is $75,000. In addition to the software, Viglione will be providing consulting for the development of the labs in four Penn State courses.
SIEM tools, which analyze real-time data to monitor threats while collecting and reporting on log information, are critical for cybersecurity professionals to recognize suspicious activity on their network.
“When students graduate and start their careers in cybersecurity or data analytics, they’re going to be using a lot of different tools,” said Viglione. “And they’ll be logging into tools like this, looking at events and data to try to correlate different activities. These tools help them give bigger picture reports to executives and metrics that matter to some of the higher-ups.”
This summer, students at Penn State Berks had the opportunity to test Enigma Glass during their labs in several courses taught by Mike Bartolacci, professor of information sciences and technology. With the software, students could apply terms and concepts they learned in the classroom into a real-world environment.
For more information about Engima Networkz or to inquire about testing their product: https://enigmanetworkz.com/
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