February ICN News and Updates

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February 2021

News & Updates

ICN Names Chief Technology Officer

Scott Pappan was recently named ICN’s new Chief Technology Officer, who will oversee the newly created Network Services Division. He brings over 20 years of experience in management, engineering, operations, and sales. Pappan has been with ICN since 2015 as the Engineering Bureau Chief.

Read about his new role and ICN’s direction.

SYBAC Completes Cybersecurity Training

Congratulations to our Statewide Youth Broadband Advisory Council (SYBAC) students that have completed their online cybersecurity training from Fortinet. In April 2020, Fortinet addressed a need to further build security expertise by making all its self-paced courses from the Network Security Expert (NSE) Training Institute available for free. Throughout the school year, our SYBAC students worked through the NSE 1 certificate.

We think it is great that the SYBAC students below are making cybersecurity a priority!

Justin Wells, Fremont-Mills High School
Chase McAndrews, Clarinda High School
Sam Doud, Earlham High School
Henry Shires, Valley High School, West Des Moines
Connor Fogarty, Valley High School, West Des Moines
JoAnn Hacker, Abraham Lincoln High School, Council Bluffs

Read SYBAC blog post

Iowa Class Selected for Distance Learning Scholarship

Congratulations to Ms. Seaba’s Kindergarten class at Jefferson Elementary in Muscatine CSD for being selected by Internet2 to receive a Distance Learning Scholarship. Muscatine CSD connects to the Internet2 network via the ICN.

Learn more about the Internet2 Distance Learning Scholarship program

ICN Participates in CISO Panel Discussion

ICN’s CIO, Ryan Mulhall, provided his cybersecurity expertise during the CISO panel discussion at the Ohio Data Connectors Virtual Cybersecurity Summit.

Ohio Data Connectors Virtual Cybersecurity Summit

ICN Signs Statement of Support for the Guard & Reserve

ICN continues to support our military employees.

In addition, Scott Pappan was presented the Patriotic Employer award by the Iowa Committee of Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. He was nominated by his Citizen Warrior employee, LTC Andrew Ryan.