U.S. Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) paid a visit on Oct. 9 to the Cybersecurity Center at Cal State San Bernardino and met with students and faculty to discuss their work, as well as meeting with university President Tomás D. Morales.
 
Torres’s visit included a tour of the CSUSB Cybersecurity Center in Jack H. Brown Hall, where she met the students and Tony Coulson, director of the center and professor of information and decision sciences, and Vincent Nestler, associate professor of information and decision sciences.
 
She also met with the university’s cybersecurity team: Shari McMahan, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; Robert Nava, vice president for University Advancement; Ya (Anna) Ni, interim associate dean, Jack H. Brown College of Business & Public Administration; Javad (Jay) Varzandeh, chair, Department of Information & Decision Sciences; Pam Langford, assistant vice president, Alumni, Government & Community Relations; and Coulson and Nestler.
 
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the CSUSB Cybersecurity Center will host an open house on Friday, Oct. 18, at the center in Jack H. Brown Hall, room JB 102. The open house is free and will take place from 6-8 p.m. 
 
Visit the CSUSB Cybersecurity Center website for more information on the open house and on the center’s work.