By Christopher Buse May 19, 2021 If you ask my wife Beth, what is love? She would say that love is like the two of us walking down a quiet beach at night under the moonlight. But to me, love is all about sitting on a northern Minnesota lake with my friends catching walleyes and […]
Read moreBy Jerrod Montoya April 14, 2021 Recent events related to the cybersecurity of the supply chain have raised our awareness of the many shortcomings we face. Yet, there is another dark storm brewing in the distance, and the supply chain still has a blind spot – The buyer. Supply Chain Cybersecurity became a hot topic […]
Read moreBy Stefanie Horvath April 12, 2021 Supply chain attacks signal who is synchronized and holds a dominant knowledge of technology – and it is not us. Each day brings another attack – each attack more insidious and obfuscated than the last. Accellion’s Legacy File Transfer Application exploitation attacks automated data transfers, taking down organizations with […]
Read moreBy Sam Curry April 12, 2021 December 13, 2020, the world learned about the alleged attack by APT29, Cozy Bear, on SolarWinds and the downstream implications with potential victims stretching into the thousands. Later in early 2021, a similar style of attack leveraging Microsoft to infect still thousands more, this time with an alleged Chinese […]
Read more360 days ago, Gov Walz ordered all MN schools to close beginning March 18, 2020. Our school district started a couple days earlier, canceling classes starting on the 16th. My kids were excited; that meant Spring break started a week early for them. Since my wife works in healthcare, that meant I was working from […]
Read moreBy Idrissa DavisMarch 10, 2021 Fortunately, our strategic planning put our District in a good position when the pandemic hit. We had previously deployed iPads to student’s grades K – 12. For those students that didn’t take devices home we scheduled family pickups at elementary sites and implemented home deliveries. We quickly found out that […]
Read moreBy Tyler Olson and Tim Herman March 15, 2021 One year ago, the world turned upside down. If anyone would have told us that everything around us was going to pivot and become 100 percent work from home overnight, we would never have believed it. People are resilient though. History has shown us that in […]
Read moreBy Loren Dealy Mahler Conversations around incident response tend to start and stop with tips for pursuing the perfect blend of skills, technology and resource allocation to detect and mitigate any event. Rarely is enough attention paid to the external factors that traditionally contribute significantly to the long-term costs of an event. Communication is chief […]
Read moreBy Phil Schenkenberg and Zenus Franklin February 9, 2021 Privacy and cyber lawyers say “Incident Response” rather than “Breach Response” for a reason. Consider training your organization to use the word “incident” until legal counsel calls something a “breach.” Is it really that big of a deal? Maybe, and maybe not. You may know someone […]
Read moreBy Cyber Security Summit Think Tank January 21, 2021 Last year, the pandemic dealt our industry an immense upheaval that forced many to pivot wildly to secure critical infrastructure and data. With the lessons learned and challenges that remain – how will 2021 shake out? Members of the Cyber Security Summit Think Tank weighed in, […]
Read moreWhile the 11th Annual Cyber Security Summit (Oct 25-27) is still months away, we’ve already kicked off 2021 with big plans. Co-Chairs Jennifer Czaplewski (Target) and Wade Van Guilder (World Wide Technology) share a passion and a unique vision for this year’s Summit. Read on to learn how their predictions for the new year are […]
Read moreBy Rohit Tandon, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Minnesota January 19, 2021 After a challenging year of responding to unprecedented cyber activities related to the global pandemic, racial injustice, and election security, the 2020 Holiday Season was finally in sight. Then, on December 13th, news broke that the year had one more surprise for […]
Read morePodcasts of Cyber Security Summit’s monthly webinars are online and free to listen to. Go to https://anchor.fm/cyber-security-summit. The full webinar can we watched for free at https://vimeo.com/showcase/7413472. Contact registrations@eventshows.com if you have trouble accessing. Webinar details can be found on our website at https://www.cybersecuritysummit.org/webinar-series.
Read moreBy Jeremy Swenson December 16, 2020 Every year we like to review the most impactful security, technology and business happenings from the prior year. This year is unique as the pandemic is a major catalyst for the five trends we identify, and all are likely to continue having a significant impact in the coming year.1) […]
Read moreBy Eileen Manning, Executive Producer, Cyber Security Summit November 19, 2020 The 10th Annual Cyber Security Summit took place October 26-28, 2020, with over 125 speakers presenting more than 50 sessions to nearly 1,000 cyber security leaders from across the U.S. and 21 foreign countries. As has become standard during this pandemic year, the Summit […]
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