By Eileen Manning, Executive Producer, Cyber Security Summit April 15, 2020 As the Summit enters its 10th year connecting cyber security leaders to drive change and protect our global infrastructure, we do so in precarious times. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world as we know it, and as we collectively work to “flatten the curve,” this […]
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March 11, 2020
For ten years we’ve been building the Cyber Security Summit into a successful platform to network thought leaders and those involved in the everyday defense of our cyber infrastructure. In light of coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on public gatherings, we understand you may be evaluating your decision to attend this year’s Summit later this […]
Read moreBuilding and retaining your security team If you are a cybersecurity leader/hiring manager, you are probably getting tired of being reminded that there aren’t enough skilled cybersecurity staff to fill your open positions. We know already, can we stop complaining about it? Yes, there are currently 500K open cyber positions in the US and nearly 3 […]
Read moreTarget’s Tim Crothers and Catharine Trebnick of Dougherty & Company to lead the Ninth Annual Cyber Security Summit Oct. 28-30 in Minneapolis MEDIA CONTACTS Lynn Nelson | LIN Public Relations, Inc. 612.990.0126 lnelson.linpr@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Target’s Tim Crothers and Catharine Trebnick of Dougherty & Company to lead the Ninth Annual Cyber Security Summit Oct. […]
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January 30, 2019
“If you’re in cyber security, you’ve got a problem,” said Scott Borg, CEO of Cyber Consequences Unit. C-level cyber security people may be topped out career-wise in their organizations because management may not understand what they do and security terminology is alien to businesspeople. Speaking on the “Economics of Cybersecurity,” Borg advocated that his security […]
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January 23, 2019
Average dwell time, where a hacker inhabits a breached system, is 200 days, said Bob Stasio of DreamIt Ventures, a cybersecurity company that hunts for intruders on organization systems. He has worked in security positions for IBM, NSA, FAA and NASA. Addressing Cyber Security Summit 2018, Stasio said that 80 percent of hacks are stopped […]
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January 16, 2019
“Everything today is a computer,” declared Cyber Security Summit 2018 keynoter Bruce Schneier, CTO, IBM Resilient. IoT is the “computerization” of the whole world, making exponentially complex the safeguarding of most of our devices. Schneier, author of many security-related books and the popular Schneier on Security blog, presented “Click Here to Kill Everybody,” the name […]
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January 9, 2019
Based on their behavior, cyber attackers seem to agree that old, proven tools are hard to beat. Email remains a cost-effective go-to tool for launching a cyber assault, relying on a little help from the human element. Brandon Reid, Enterprise Sales Manager at Mimecast, an email security company, presented Anatomy of an Email-Borne Attack at […]
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January 2, 2019
David Tyson, the CEO of CISO Insights, spoke to attendees of Cyber Security Summit 2018 about the top measures to take to protect security systems from cyber attacks. He began by visiting old challenges related to patches, viruses and denial of service attacks that persist as they have for the past 20 years. Out of […]
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December 21, 2018
Public policy trends drive what will happen with future cybersecurity regulation. Matthew Rhoades, Managing Director of the Cybersecurity and Technology Program at the Aspen Institute, reviewed four current top-line trends to attendees at Cyber Security Summit 2018. Rhoades’ list and comments: Data security and sensitivity is a driver in current discussions and legislation, domestically and […]
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November 14, 2018
For the past eight years, the Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis has brought people with different viewpoints on cybersecurity issues together to hear from experts, learn about trends and discuss actionable solutions. Our 2018 Summit was no different and we’d like to thank you once again for joining us! In addition to the annual 2-day […]
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