Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, will host a roundtable with cybersecurity experts on Friday at 11:30 a.m. CDT in the Straatmeyer Auditorium of Dakota State University (DSU) in Madison.

The roundtable will serve as an opportunity to highlight the cybersecurity challenges facing U.S. companies, as well as relevant academic and research initiatives at DSU. DSU has a nationally-recognized cybersecurity education program and is in the midst of an effort to construct a state-of-the-art-facility designed to foster economic development and expertise in addition to classified cybersecurity research and cybersecurity operations.

Rick Nath, a member of the SDBA Board of Directors and site president of Citibank, N.A. in Sioux Falls, will be among the participants in the roundtable. Other participants include representatives from DSU, Amazon Web Services, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, General Motors, Google, Symantec and Visa.