U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) addresses the crowd of military and civic leaders concerned with the ever-present threat of a cyber attack during the Cyber Security Exercise on Monday at Tabby Place in Beaufort. Mace said, “we could see warfare conducted in milliseconds and wouldn’t know what’s coming.” The event was part of the South Coast Cyber Summit. Photos by Bob Sofaly/The Island News

SOUTH COAST CYBER SUMMIT

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Beaufort played host to the South Coast Cyber Summit on Monday and Tuesday, held by the South Coast Cyber Center, an entity “working to establish a world class center of excellence for cybersecurity and cyber defense education, research, innovation, and business” here in the Lowcountry.

Beaufort City Councilmen Mitch Mitchell, left, and Neil Lipsitz discuss cyber security on the local level with Alice Howard of Beaufort County Council prior to the start of Monday’s Cyber Security Exercise. The event was part of the South Coast Cyber Summit.

The Center is promoting the growth of an ecosystem inolving the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Technical College of the Lowcountry, the Beaufort Digital Corridor, the Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation, government, and the private sector. 

Special Agent Taren Little of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, spoke about what kind of cyber attacks are current and how they are dealt with from the Pentagon down to the individual computer owner who gets attacked. The event was part of the South Coast Cyber Summit.

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