Centers of Excellence

Chairmen’s Roundtable

The Chairmen’s RoundTable (CRT) (http://www.chairmensroundtable.com) is a group of highly accomplished executives who devote their time to helping select San Diego companies navigate their business challenges. Mentors exchange ideas, expertise, and connections to help CEO clients and their companies become more successful.
CEOs of more than 700 companies have turned to the CRT for pro-bono guidance from former CEOs and business unit leaders of companies such as Burger King, Northrup Grumman, 3Com, AT&T, Harley Davidson, SAIC, Seagram, Pepsi-Cola, SeaWorld, BSAF, and Caterpillar.

Members of CRT include Mentors, Partners, and Sponsors who are dedicated to providing their expertise for our client’s success and to the growth of the San Diego area economy.

Secure Smart Office

Secure Smart Office (http://www.soswow.com) Delivers Secure, Stable, and Affordable Solutions to help SMBs survive and Thrive!

SSO’s Secured-Managed Services enable businesses to protect their information assets and processes, leading to significantly reduce corporate risk exposure.

SSO brings together a seamless integration of proven processes, experienced personnel and best-in-class technology to provide information assurance and risk management solutions. Balancing Security and Performance, our solutions help in identifying and managing information risks that impact business reputation, revenue and compliance

National  Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)

The NCCoE relies on public and private sector communities of interest to share business insights, technical expertise, challenges, and perspectives to guide our projects and help us advocate for strong cybersecurity.

Communities of Interest (COIs) are one of the greatest strengths of the NCCoE. We count on our COIs—those experts, innovators, and everyday users of cybersecurity and privacy technologies—to help identify and define the problems to be addressed by the NCCoE. Ultimately, COI members supply insight that supports the cyber resiliency of the U.S. economy.

The NCCoE hosts a number of different communities, and their members come from large and small businesses, government agencies, academia, and the general public.

Viz Center

Eric Frost directs the SDSU Viz Center  (http://vizcenter.sdsu.edu) and the Homeland Security Graduate Program (http://homelandsecurity.sdsu.edu) at SDSU. The focus is on doing real things and teaching our 120+ graduate students from this perspective to help build the leaders and managers of the future. Our end product and joy is in preparing students largely for public service on a global basis. Combining sensors, communication devices, data fusion, cloud computing, and social media provide a pathway to help educate our students in the Internet of Things and the incredible power hat it represents for global humanitarian assistance and disaster relief as well as nearly every other aspect of Homeland Security, business, education, tourism, and life.

IoT Center and Cloud Storage Center

The role of the CIO in today’s world is changing because of cloud computing, IoT and the focus on analytics.  The Cloud Storage and IoT Centers create a unique opportunity for SDSU students to be prepared for the changing business environment. They can gain extremely valuable knowledge with hands-on experience with the rush to cloud computing and how to develop IoT applications that impact business decisions focused on analytics with devices embedded in the workflow