Active Shooter Drill Set for March 15
To prepare for how to handle an active shooter scenario on campus, two Active Shooter Drills are scheduled for Thursday, March 15 from 9:40 to 9:50 a.m. and from 7:10 to 7:20 p.m. While it is difficult to predict how an active shooter situation would transpire, the El Camino College Police Department has recommended best practices for our drill to protect our campus community.
The itinerary for each Active Shooter Drill is as follows:
- Notice will broadcast in rooms and from blue emergency standards on campus.
- Faculty and staff are asked to lock classroom doors or current locations.
- Phones should be silenced at this time.
- Take cover out of view. Discuss how furniture could help secure your location.
- Remain quiet and turn out lights.
- Remain in lockdown until notified.
- During the drill, building captains will make every effort to ask students in hallways to take shelter.
This drill gives us an opportunity to become better prepared by working together. Please discuss these exercises and safety strategies with others on campus. Some suggested discussion items are as follows:
- Review the video of the Ohio State University active shooter training that discusses the "run, hide, fight" strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9zkU--FLQ
- Current active shooter protocol suggests a three-step tactic
- Run if possible; get far away and call 911.
- Hide if running is not a possibility. For example, running may not be possible if the alert has stated that the shooter is near your current location, or if you hear shots that seem to be close. Our drill focuses on practicing the hide part of the protocol.
- Fight using any objects around you. The college is absolutely not advocating that you put yourself in harm's way, but you might find yourself in a situation where fighting is your only choice.
- The ECC Police Department's webpage is filled with more tips.
The purpose of this exercise is about planning a way everyone on campus can safely secure themselves in an emergency. By conducting these exercises, we have an opportunity to become better prepared by working together. Thank you for your participation.
Award-Winning Security Specialist Honored
ECC Information Security Specialist Paul Yoder was recently named a recipient of the 2018 IDG/CIO Executive Council Ones to Watch Award. The award identifies rising stars in information technology (IT) – the senior staff members destined to become the chief information officers (CIOs) of the future. Honorees from across the nation were selected by CIOs of today's leading organizations and will be recognized at the AGENDA18 conference set for March 19-21 in Miami.
More than 180 up-and-coming tech leaders were nominated by their CIO or executive colleagues. As CIOs become increasingly involved in business strategy, new leadership opportunities exist for these rising tech stars. The 2018 winners were specifically identified as strong innovators who have clearly demonstrated passion, vision, and technical prowess. They are leaders of successful critical initiatives from global enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations to comprehensive digital transformation efforts.
At El Camino College, Yoder serves as the head of cybersecurity and is a member of the Technology and AIMS committees. He joined the staff in April 2016 and has since led a thorough transformation of the college's security posture. Yoder's work at ECC has involved developing a comprehensive InfoSec program from the ground up; specific tasks included creating a cybersecurity education program, deploying next-generation firewalls, creating appropriate policies and ensuring compliance at all levels.
Before joining ECC, Yoder worked for 15 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and also at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. He was a member of JPL's Network Computer Security Group, which created an automated system to discover, track and remediate computer vulnerabilities. That system has since been deployed throughout NASA. Yoder also contributed to the recently concluded Cassini-Huygens mission and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) project. In 2017, Yoder was named a recipient of the McAfee/Center for Digital Government Cybersecurity Leadership & Innovation Award.
Yoder is compiling a book on cybersecurity and cyber hygiene best practices for nonexperts who want to protect their digital data. He is also an accomplished jazz recording artist and involved with many animal rights organizations such as WildCare, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) International, Wolf Mountain Sanctuary, and the El Camino College Cat Care Volunteer Group.
