EDA Revitalization Grant

Lithoz

Contact: Shawn Allan
Phone: 518-244-3490
Description: Interns will conduct a cybersecurity assessment. They will research compliance and security issues with export control data and special information from customers as well as audit compliance with government contract clauses regarding security. Interns will build upon previous assessments and coordinate with the external IT contractor. Interns will then recommend and implement solutions.

Aclectic

Contact: Pradeep Haldar
Phone: 518-416-5624
Description: The goal of the project is to assist the management team by working on various strategic projects that help the organization identify and optimize new market segment opportunities and business trends and support functional marketing and sales operations. The team will assist in administration and analysis of proposed marketing and sales campaigns. Specific duties include but are not limited to: Perform market research and analysis, record leads, opportunities, and accounts in database; industry interviews, surveys, competitive analysis, partnership analysis. The team is assisting in managing the sales cycle; prospecting to close and establish new business and is assisting in qualifying and researching leads from a variety of sources, including self-developed leads, to develop a quality pipeline of potential customers. The team will also work to develop marketing/sales materials in print or electronic forms to market corporate services, prepare campaigns, and perform necessary preparation for negotiation conversation (e.g. notes, strategies, etc.).

Data Spotlite / CYRISMA

Contact: Liam Downward
Phone: 585-200-7117
Description: CYRISMA is a cyber security SAAS solution to manage cyber risk. The project entails CYRISMA application tests for bugs and process flow and reviewing the manual for accuracy during testing and updating documentation as necessary. The goal of the project is to get CYRISMA to market quicker.

Steam Garden / Central Albany BID

Contact: Anthony Capece
Phone: 518-462-4300
Description: Project I assists with the setup of an Internet of Things (IOT) network in the incubator to support client companies. Work would include building a network, connecting devices, and setting up the server for supporting IOT devices. Additionally, students are expected to research solutions, make recommendations and implement solutions.
Project II creates a short and concise slide desk or multimedia presentation and corresponding promotional materials for social media that can be used to promote better cyber hygiene for small business owners. The presentation should outline risks and provide examples of real-life small business cyber security failures from media reports and site the examples on how that could have been avoided with simple cyber hygiene. Define basic cyber security policy or practices for small business technology. This will include information on protecting data from retail transactions and other sensitive information, protecting employee data and records, business profile page hacking, social media hacking, profile piracy, POS hacking and skimming, fake profiles and small business identity theft, using better password protection and creation and password managers, how to use two-step authentication and other safety protocols for business owners and data backup and recovery policies (e.g. ransomware attacks).

Ten 80 Education

Phone: 855-836-8033
Description: Design an innovative solution to help students around the US (and China) collaborate and compete remotely has been proposed. The proposal draws from the principles behind IoT, including local sensors sharing data through the cloud. How can this proposed system be implemented safely with respect to localized data and personal privacy? How do the cybersecurity solutions for this system apply generally to IoT innovations that are increasingly simple to conceptualize and implement? The proposed system uses inexpensive sensors that are securely attached to 1/10 scale electric RC cars and the track they are driven on. These sensors detect the position of the car on the track. That data is sent to a cloud sharing site, downloaded to a central computer, and displayed on a virtual track. Students driving cars in different locations will be able to view their car and their competitors’ cars simultaneously racing on the same virtual track, broadcast online.

NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets

Contact: Emily Cook
Email: [email protected]
Description: The project entails support of the business community involved in processing and distribution of local New York food. Specifically, there is a current government initiative for a farm-to-school program. The goal on this project is to work on identifying process chokepoint in execution of the program and identity solutions to make that process streamlined and efficient. Also, involved is evaluating security and privacy issues through the supply chain. For more information, please visit Farm to Institution.