News & Announcements

 
 
Gail Harris, Senior Fellow George Washington Center for Cyber and Homeland Security was our speaker last week.  Upon her retirement from the Navy, Gail was the highest ranking female African American to ever serve. Gail was fascinating as a speaker and the National Security 'Hot Topics' she covered were certainly timely. She was recruited to National Security to lead a 'Ninja Warrior' type of intelligence agency.  In the cyber world, one unsettling point, and there were many, was that in 2014 forensics study of 1,000 organizations reveal 84% had computer systems infected with malware and few were even aware.  Even the leading anti-virus vendors now that "anti-virus approach is dead".  The average daily cyber events targeting US Northern Command: 48 million.
 
In other News:
  • We welcomed Mike Vanover and Sam Pittmon back from their extended travels as well as Phil Swingen, a guest of Art Benzel.  Phil and his wife are relatively new to Pagosa and his background is in broadcasting
  • Jo Bridges shared some of the good and the unknown facing the Feed Our Children Program. Sherpa Real Estate donates 15% of their profits to those in need.  The good news, they selected Rotary's Feed Our Children to receive $1,980! The unknown part is that the building where the magic of FOC happens is under contract for sale. That space has been generously donated for years and it is uncertain what the future might hold in that regard.  Be thinking of a fall-back location
  • Remember that Roberta Tolan's retirement celebration is May 10th! at the extension office