Tag: Ashton Webster

Part 2: Exploring Big Data Through the Twitterverse – CF014

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This week Ashton and Christian continue their exploration of Big Data through tweets around the world using Twitter's Streaming API. In particular, Christian walks through improvements to his starter kit, showing how to manipulate and filter tweets, as well as do the classic Word Count example using tweets and hashtags. Ashton walks us through how… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Exploring Big Data Through the Twitterverse – CF013

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This week Ashton and Christian begin an exciting, multi-part series on how to leverage big data technologies to learn new skills in data analytics using one of the world's cheapest and largest value data sources - tweets! We take a look at the Twitter Streaming API, techniques for collecting and storing these data sets, and… Click for more / Podcast Player>

The Future of Cybersecurity Competition and Education with CEO of Cyber Skyline – Franz Payer – CF012

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This week we take an exciting deep dive into innovation in the cybersecurity industry by talking with Franz Payer, one of the industry’s rising start-up CEO’s of Cyber Skyline. Christian, Ashton, and Jim talk with Franz about his new cybersecurity competition and education platform, which takes a unique approach to teaching cybersecurity skills and hosting… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Space Networks & Cybersecurity in Healthcare with Special Guest Jay Ellis – CF011

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This week we are joined by Jay Ellis, Senior Information Security Engineer and Program Manager at Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), to talk about space networks, healthcare IT, and the networks and cybersecurity methodologies that run them. Jim, Christian, and Ashton keep the questions rolling in what promises to be a packed hour of content based… Click for more / Podcast Player>

The Evolution of Cloud Computing and Security – CF010

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This week the conversation is all around the cloud computing and how today's modern architecture continues to evolve. Christian, Ashton, and Jim talk about the ways cloud computing is being adopted in the enterprise and discuss the security and scalability implications of government agencies trusting their data to a third party cloud infrastructure. While we… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Building a Big Data Development Environment on the Cheap, Virtualization Tech & SDN, and the Big Bad ShellShock – CF009

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This week on Cyber Frontiers, Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster, joined by Jim Collison, talk about how to setup a multi-node distributed Hadoop cluster on a single box. The discussion on the technology quickly dives into newer technology in virtualization in SDN, and we even get a little bit of time to talk about the… Click for more / Podcast Player>