10-14-22
12th Annual Cyber Security Summit Announces 2022 Visionary Leadership Awards hosted by Virsec
In its 7th year the Visionary Leadership Awards honors 10 visionary cyber security leaders
Minneapolis (October 14, 2022) – Today, the Cyber Security Summit announced its annual Visionary Leadership Awards (VLA) honoring cyber security leaders is being hosted by Virsec. Learn more about the VLAs at https://virtual.cybersecuritysummit.org.
The Visionary Leadership Awards at the 12th Annual Cyber Security Summit will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at the Doubletree Hilton MSP South.
With a continual flow of increasingly sophisticated threats, cyber security programs now rely on an ecosystem that includes visionary leadership on many fronts. Over the years, the Cyber Security Summit has given awards to top leaders in industry, government, and academia for several years. We are excited to celebrate our 2022 Visionary Leadership Award Honorees and recognize the award recipients at a Visionary Leadership Awards Dinner and Celebration, hosted on the second evening of our 12th Annual Summit, October 25th, 2022. Along with recognition for their accomplishments, award recipients will get a brief opportunity to share their innovative strategies with other visionaries and then sit back and enjoy the show.
“I can still remember the amazing feeling when I won a Visionary Leadership Award in 2016. At that time, the Cybersecurity Summit only gave out two awards: one to a private sector leader and another to a leader in the public sector. Serving as the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Minnesota, I won the public sector award. Over the years we made the recognition event more fun for the award winners; this year we’re even bringing in Domenick Allen, a rock and roll legend from the band Foreigner.”
— Chris Buse, CISO, Old Republic National Title Insurance Company / VLA Committee Chair
This Year Back in Person with a Rock Star Celebration
The 12th Annual Cyber Security Summit will once again celebrate the Cyber Security industry’s Best and Brightest in our Annual Visionary Leadership Awards on October 25, 2022 during the summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This fall the evening will shine brighter as we have added legendary rocker, Domenick Allen (from Foreigner, Broadway and more) to headline an evening that honors the efforts of our industry colleagues who are truly leading the way through their visionary approaches across the discipline of cyber security.
The Annual Awards Celebration
5: 30 pm > Visionary Leadership Awards > VIP Reception
7: 00 pm > Visionary Leadership Awards Dinner
8:00 pm > Visionary Leadership Awards Ceremony
10:00 pm > Cyber Warrior Tribute Program at the Visionary Leadership Awards featuring Legendary Rock Star Domenick Allen
This Year’s Honorees
VISIONARY ACADEMIC LEADER > Chip Laingen > Executive Director, Defense Alliance
This award recognizes the leader of a pioneering cyber security academic program.
Chip Laingen is Executive Director of Defense Alliance, an SBA-funded technology cluster, Corporate VP, LSI, and graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Technological Leadership Institute. He has a master’s in Public Affairs from the Humphrey Institute and was a U.S. Navy Moreau Scholar in the National Security Ph.D. program of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. Commander Laingen is a 21-year Navy Veteran as an aviator and speechwriter to the Secretary of the Navy. He finished his career in 2004 as a squadron commander. He is the author of “Laingen on Leadership,” available on Amazon.
VISIONARY APPLICATION SECURITY LEADER > Terry Seiple > Senior Enterprise Information Security and Cloud Architect, State of Minnesota
This award recognizes a security practitioner or team that demonstrates innovation and outstanding oversight of an application security program.
Experienced Information Security and Cloud Architect with a history of working with several large public and private sector employers. Skilled in many compliancy and Framework areas including NIST, ISO 27001 with a solid background in IT Strategy, Data Center, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Additional extensive background doing secure design architecture with many cloud-based platforms and technologies.
VISIONARY GLOBAL SECURITY LEADER > Prasenjit Saha > Executive Vice President and Global Cyber Security Business Head, L&T Infotech (LTI)
This award recognizes a person who has advanced the cause of cybersecurity on a global scale.
Prasenjit Saha is the Executive Vice President and Global Cyber Security Business Head for L&T Infotech (LTI). In his role, Prasenjit is responsible for defining and driving LTI’s global vision and strategy for LTI’s Cyber Defense Resiliency Services. Prasenjit is an industry-recognized and respected leader in the Cybersecurity Services space. In the last 31+ years, he is highly respected for building profitable and fastest-growing global businesses in Cybersecurity, Digital Security, Cloud and Infrastructure Management and E-Commerce offerings. He is also an entrepreneur at heart as is known to establish the business as a founder for Cyber Security services in his last 3 organizations serving clients across all the continents.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE CHAMPION > William Rankin > Director of Governance and Compliance, ECS
This award recognizes a C-suite leader, board member, or elected official who recognizes the cyber security value proposition and serves as a champion for the information security program.
William Rankin is the Director of Governance and Compliance at ECS. In this position, he has helped numerous companies establish information security programs that align with their business and industry needs. This work not only helps ensure industry compliance with applicable regulations and frameworks, but also helps protect the future of information security and cybersecurity on a broader scale.
William has held previous leadership roles at American Technology Services, Symantec Corporation, and Gannett/USA Today. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems from George Mason University, as well as numerous cybersecurity and compliance certifications.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE, RISK, AND COMPLIANCE LEADER > Natascha Shawver > Information Security Architect, University of Minnesota
This award recognizes a security practitioner or team that demonstrates innovation and outstanding oversight of GRC areas, such as risk assessments, policies and standards, vendor oversight, and maintaining compliance.
Natascha Shawver is an Information Technology Security Professional with a demonstrated strong history of working in a variety of industries, most recently as a Security Architect in Higher Education. She has extensive experience in Enterprise Information Risk Management and the development of Information Security Governance, an area she considers not only important because of various compliance requirements, but also because clearly ARTICULATED security requirements empower organizations to let them confidently improve their security posture. She particularly enjoys the educational opportunities that hide within an area of security too commonly viewed as a chore.
VISIONARY IT AUDIT LEADER > Nadia Rizk > Director of Technology Audit & Data Analytics, Target Corporation
This award recognizes a technology audit practitioner or team that provides outstanding cyber security assessment services.
Nadia Rizk is the Director of Technology Audit & Data Analytics for Target Corporation. Her responsibilities include leading internal audit and risk coverage of technology across Target and driving digital change through solution delivery that enhances the insights provided by data analytics throughout Internal Audit. Nadia has over 14 years of IT and Engineering experience where she led systems and application development and platform implementation in previous roles. She is also an advocate for equality and equity in the corporate sectors, highlighting the experiences people of diverse backgrounds face that can be improved upon through allyship, inclusion, mutuality and belonging.
VISIONARY SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM LEADER > Alyssa Maki > IT/InfoSec Analyst, Kimley-Horn and Associates
This award recognizes a security practitioner or team that demonstrates outstanding oversight of an innovative security awareness program.
Alyssa Maki started her career as an elementary educator but made the jump to cybersecurity in 2018. She has a bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity from Metropolitan State University and is an IT/InfoSec analyst at Kimley-Horn and Associates. In this role she wears many hats, including leading the cybersecurity awareness and training program for the company. As an intern, she inherited the program as a blank slate. Through the last two years, she collaborated with leaders and teammates to understand the company, the users, and the risks they face to build a program that was curated for the audience it served.
VISIONARY SECURITY OPERATIONS LEADER > Laura Johnson > Enterprise Endpoint Manager, Minnesota IT Services
This award recognizes a security practitioner or team that demonstrates innovation and outstanding oversight of security operational areas, such as monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, or access control.
Laura Johnson is an Enterprise Endpoint Manager at Minnesota IT services serving the State of MN Executive branch agencies. She spent most of the past 9 years consolidating service to build efficiencies and provide a consistent service delivery to Executive branch customers. She has created consistent software delivery strategies and monthly Microsoft update processes that has drastically improved the landscape and has increased response time to sev1 vulnerabilities in the environment.
VISIONARY SECURITY PROGRAM AND OVERSIGHT LEADER > Betty Elliott > Senior Vice President, CISO, Freddie Mac
This award recognizes a CISO who uses innovative tools and techniques to continuously improve a complex cyber security program.
Betty is an accomplished information security leader with 18+ years’ experience and a proven track record of building successful security programs across financial, retail, BPO and consulting services industries. Betty joined Freddie Mac in December 2020 as SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Previously, Betty was at Mercer where she served as Partner, CISO. She has served as VP, CISO at MoneyGram International, Convergys and Stream Global Sourcing and has led security teams at Ameriprise Financial, Allianz Life and Best Buy. She was recognized as CISOs Connect C100 top 100 CISO’s in its inaugural year.
VISIONARY STUDENT > Naomi Hospodarsky > Security & Compliance Analyst, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI)
This award is designated to recognize a student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and/or contributions.
As the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute’s Security and Compliance Analyst, Naomi brings over 20 years of Systems Engineering experience together with Information Security to protect and support a variety of research data. Naomi is a strong advocate of security through teamwork to create secure policies, procedures, and solutions to achieve best outcomes in support of high-performance computing
and advanced research. As a student at University of Minnesota’s Technological Leadership Institute, Naomi is combining theory with practice and method to enhance her skills as a security leader.
The Morries™
The Visionary Leadership Awards that we confer are called The Morries™. They are named after Robert Tappan Morris (“Morrie”), originator of the first-known national cyber hacking event on Nov. 2, 1988. That is one year before the formation of the World Wide Web. As a gifted college student programmer, Morris unwittingly unleashed a self-propagating worm into the national system which slowed university and military computers to a crawl. Morris claimed that his worm had been conceived as an experiment. Unfortunately, it accidentally created havoc. Though he could have been imprisoned under then-current law, he was fined and sentenced to perform public service. As the first cyber hacker, Morris becomes the fitting source for the name of our annual award ceremony celebrating visionary innovators in the cyber landscape.
About Virsec
Virsec is on a mission to make security response obsolete. Taking a ‘first principles’ approach to protection, Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP) by Virsec automatically and consistently maps exactly what your software is supposed to do and stops, in milliseconds, any deviations — preventing attackers from leveraging vulnerabilities to execute control and run malicious code. DPP by Virsec is a proven technology that enables leading government and commercial organizations around the world to protect their server workloads, at runtime, against ransomware and other known and unknown threats, reduce operating costs and meet key compliance requirements. Virsec is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices all over the world. For more information, please visit virsec.com.
About the Cyber Security Summit
With 12 years as an industry leader, the Cyber Security Summit is the industry’s original global cyber security event. The Cyber Security Summit is held annually in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Co-founded and Executive Producer by Eileen Manning and her team at the Event Group, this global summit is collaboratively created by the cyber industries top minds who are annually convened as the Think Tank Advisor group. The Cyber Security Summit is more than an annual event, it is likely the most active community of senior level cyber leaders around.
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The 12th Annual Cyber Security Summit will be held at the DoubleTree MSP South 7800 Normandale Road, Minneapolis, MN from October 24-26. 2022. There is also a virtual participation option for those who cannot attend in person. #CSS12 #VLA22
Cyber Security Summit website www.cybersecuritysummit.org
12th Annual Cyber Security Summit/ VLA Tickets https://virtual.cybersecuritysummit.org
Contact > Eileen Manning at Eileen.manning@eventshows.com
LinkedIn Cyber Professional Community https://bit.ly/CyberSecuritySummitLinkedIn
10-19-20
Cyber Security Summit announces the Visionary Leadership Award Winners
Minneapolis (October 19, 2020) – The Cyber Security Summit is pleased to announce the 2020 Visionary Leadership Award winners. The Summit gathers leaders globally to discuss, train and address cyber security problems facing our nation and the world. Programming is driven by the Cyber Security Summit Think Tank, whose members represent industry and government across the 16 critical infrastructures.
The Visionary Founders Award is given to the individuals who over the years have worked to build the Cyber Security Summit and thereby globally heighten the awareness to cyber threats, share solutions and build a global cyber community.
This year’s winners are:
The winners will be recognized during the Opening General Session, Oct. 27, 8 a.m., during the Cyber Security Summit. Tickets for the Summit are available at https://www.cybersecuritysummit.org/register/
Visionary leaders from across the cyber security ecosystem were eligible to receive awards, which are known as “Morrie Awards™.” The awards are named after Robert Tappan Morris, the American computer scientist who notably created the first computer worm on the Internet. He later went on to make significant contributions to computer networking as well as co-found the funding firm Y Combinator and receive tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Details and registration information for the Tenth Annual Cyber Security Summit can be found at https://cybersecuritysummit.org.
About Cyber Security Summit
The virtual Tenth Annual Cyber Security Summit, “The Ripple Effect,” takes place Oct. 26-28, 2020, with production based out of Minneapolis, Minn. The Summit gathers more than 1,000 national and international leaders from the 16 critical infrastructure sectors. The summit provides opportunities to train with top cybersecurity experts on how to combat the constant stream of sophisticated attacks on the nation’s companies, infrastructure and government. Options are available to attend focused half-day events on Healthcare and Med Device, Women in Cyber Security, In-house Legal Counsel, and Cyber Security for Small Businesses. For 2020 over 15 sessions on Monday are free to attend, thanks to the underwriting of some of Minnesota’s top corporations.
The Cyber Security Summit is led by a 49-person Think Tank, composed of the top leaders in business, healthcare, finance, law, transportation, and government, which meets monthly to discuss the issues facing professionals in the field. To stay up-to-date on the Summit and cybersecurity issues, sign-up for the monthly newsletter and follow the Cyber Security Summit on social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. using the hashtag #cybersummitMN. For details, visit https://cybersecuritysummit.org/.
08-26-19
Health care organizations are striking back at cyberattacker
In 2018, throughout the United States, the health care sector saw 15 million patient records compromised in 503 breaches. This was three times the number seen in 2017, according to the Protenus Barometer report, a quarterly snapshot of disclosed breaches impacting the health care industry.
Cyberattacks in health care are similar to attacks on enterprise organizations: publicly available vulnerability exploit kits (or preconfigured hacking tools) combined with misconfiguration and coding errors provide an open door for an aspiring hacker.
In fact, hacking has turned into a lucrative day job with better hours, higher pay and less risk/consequence compared to other illegal activities. It only takes one vulnerability in a single device to shut down an entire network and/or hospital until a ransom is paid. And on the black market, a single patient health record can sell for $1,000.
Hackers probe and scan the state of Minnesota’s computers 3 million times per day. As a major health care hub, Minnesota has a host of high-profile health care insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, and provider networks, all of which face threats against cybersecurity every day.
Recently, we spoke with several health care IT experts in Minnesota, who all said cybersecurity has become a pivotal focus in their day-to-day planning activities. Whether securing protected personal health information (PHI) or safeguarding against targeted device attacks, cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought but, instead, something that is addressed in the early stages of IT development.…
07-25-19
Cover Story-Surviving a cyber attack
Cyber security is a vital topic for small businesses for a couple reasons, she says. First, large companies are requiring small business partners to fill out lengthy security questionnaires to show that their cyber practices are secure before they can ever do business together.
Second, statistics show that many, if not most, businesses affected by an attack don’t survive. The upside for small businesses, Manning says, is there are a lot of steps they can take to protect their businesses and any companies they partner with that don’t cost a ton.
Businesses seem to be noticing the importance of cybersecurity, she says. She’s expecting at least a couple hundred small businesses to attend.
“It’s not like back in the 50s and 60s,” she says. “When the military wanted to protect us they could point a missile at Cuba. Today we are being attacked while we are sitting in our living room with our fuzzy slippers on. We aren’t even aware they are in the door.” …
10-29-18
Why the cybersecurity industry needs regulation
Finance & Commerce
Bruce Schneier, author of “Click Here to Kill Everybody,” argued that government regulation of the cybersecurity industry is necessary on Oct. 24 at the Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis.
10-26-18
Privacy vs. security debate plays out amid data scandals
Finance & Commerce
Matthew Rhoades, managing director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program, discussed the implications of the eternal tug of war between privacy and security considerations for technology policy and corporate governance.
10-15-18
Minneapolis cybersecurity conference isn’t just for geeks
Finance & Commerce
The main summit will take place on Oct. 23 and 24, with optional sessions on Oct. 22 covering health care and medical device security, security best practices for developers and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation framework.
9-23-18
GSX 2018 Continues 63-Year Tradition As An Integrated Trade Show
SecurityInformed.com
The Cyber Security Summit will co-locate with GSX, offering cyber security programming at a time when it is needed the most. Top government, industry and academic thought leaders will engage in a dialog to improve the state of cyber security.
9-18-18
Cyber Security Summit Announces 2018 Visionary Leadership Award Winners
Newswire.com
The Summit has given awards to top leaders in industry, government and academia since 2015. However, this year the awards program was expanded to include a wider array of visionaries.
9-14-18
Former Treasury Official Patrick O’Brien Joins Cyber Security Summit Board
Newswire.com
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Patrick O’Brien has joined the Advisory Board of the Cyber Security Summit.
8-17-18
Cyber Security Summit at the Global Security Exchange (GSX) Announces Agenda
Newswire.com
The security industry’s flagship event GSX is expected to draw 550 exhibitors and more than 20,000 operational and cybersecurity professionals for the five-day program Sept. 23-27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The co-located Cyber Security Summit will be held Sept. 26-27.
4-27-18
Experts gather in Twin Cities to discuss protecting medical targets from hackers
Star Tribune
Cybersecurity experts look for best practices to thwart unauthorized access.
4-6-18
Cybersecurity Series Brings Medical Device, Healthcare Delivery Industries Together
AAMI
When it comes to securing medical devices against cyberattacks and defending patients’ protected health information, medical device manufacturers and health delivery organizations (HDOs) are fighting the same fight—but they might not always be on the same page.
11-3-17
Minnesota puts spotlight on cybersecurity
SCTimes
When industry, government and higher education representatives gathered in late October for a Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis, it was hardly the first time the state had put a focus on the topic.
10-27-17
Cyber threats ‘escalating at a rapid rate’
Finance & Commerce
Threats are darkening the digital landscape at an alarming rate, and the business community is not doing enough to confront the issue. That was the gist of “When the Levee Breaks,” an information-packed talk delivered Wednesday at the Cyber Security Summit 2017 in Minneapolis.
10-25-17
AAMI
The healthcare technology industry has yet to develop a full understanding of the cybersecurity landscape and has a narrow view of its potential vulnerabilities, according to several experts who spoke at the Cyber Security Summit 2017 in Minneapolis, MN.
10-25-17
Daily Digest: Cybersecurity and the state
Minnesota Public Radio
Gov. Mark Dayton told a gathering of cybersecurity experts in Minneapolis Tuesday that he has trouble sleeping when he dwells too long on the possible damage hackers could do to state government. He said the obsolescence of many state computer systems has ironically protected them from attacks. Dayton got only a fraction of the spending he proposed for technology and cybersecurity upgrades last session. He plans to try again next year. But he told reporters after his speech that it’s been a tough concept to sell. “It’s hard when it’s in competition for funding with somebody’s rundown bridge or a needed new college library or even a new snowmobile trail to compete and get that level of priority and funding that it needs.” Some Republican lawmakers say they were willing to spend the money, but Dayton sent it to state employees instead.
10-24-17
Legislators hope ‘Passport’ will help ID theft victims get lives back
Kare 11 News
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and Governor Dayton kicked off an international Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis on Tuesday by arguing for more funding to keep residents and state data safe from future threats.
“In state government we have a lot of work to do to get where we need to be,” Dayton said.
Shortly after Dayton’s remarks, two Republican legislators at the the state capitol unveiled their plans to introduce legislation that will help victims of past cyber security breaches get their lives back.
10-24-17
Cyber Security Summit Aims To Protect Community
5 Eyewitness News
The two-day Cyber Security Summit that takes place every year in the Twin Cities features nationally recognized security experts together in one room attempting to fight against foreign and domestic attacks.
For the average Minnesotan, what’s being discussed in the meeting room impacts personal banking, trade secrets and even the Super Bowl.
10-24-17
Dayton, Lawmakers to Tackle Cybersecurity
5 Eyewitness News
Gov. Mark Dayton told those in attendance at Cyber Security Summit 2017 in Minneapolis that he plans to try to boost spending to protect the state from millions of daily cyber attacks.
“The state of Minnesota is attacked over three million times every day,” Dayton saidr. “The attacks originate from over 150 countries.”
10-24-17
Cyber Security Increasingly Becoming A Concern For Lawmakers
CBS Minnesota
Security breaches at Equifax exposed the private financial data of 150 million consumers.
Stolen bank cards and Social Security numbers make identity theft much more likely for those affected by the breach.
In response, Republican lawmakers in Minnesota are proposing a special state license for consumer who are victims of identity theft.
10-24-17
Fight against hackers continues at the Cyber Security Summit
Fox 9 News
The internet’s not going away–and neither are criminals.
That means the Cyber Security Summit 2017, inside the Minneapolis Convention Center through Wednesday, could be among the best shields against the web’s perpetual menace: hackers.
“This really is more like the defense of a city than like a war,” said Andrew Borene, the Summit’s Chairman Emeritus. “This year we’ve got more than 800 leaders from businesses, the government and academia coming together to discuss best practices and solutions to help make a safer more secure cyber space.”
10-24-17
Dayton Tells Security Conference Minnesota Prone To Cyber Attacks
CBS Minnesota
Governor Mark Dayton today told a national cyber-security conference meeting in Minneapolis that Minnesota’s state computer systems are prone to attack, Pat Kessler reports
10-24-17
Cyber Security Experts Convene In Minneapolis
CBS Minnesota
Mary McGuire reports on the problems under discussion at the Cyber Security Summit
2-24-17
Cyber Security Summit Announces Chairman Emeritus Andrew Borene and 2017 Advisory Board
Newswire.com
Cyber Security Summit is pleased to announce that defense industry executive and national security attorney Andrew Borene has been named as Chairman Emeritus. Borene has served as both Chair and Co-Chair of previous summits in the Twin Cities.
10-11-16
Bloomington Hosts Cyber Security Summit 2016
KSTP TV Channel 5
Cyber Security Summit 2016 is drawing leaders from around the world to Bloomington this week. It brings together people from the private and public sectors, from the Department of Homeland Security to Security tech company Symantec.
10-3-16
MN.IT’s Chris Buse Named Public Sector Visionary Leader of the Year by Cyber Security Summit 2016
prweb.com
Chris Buse, Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Minnesota, has been named this year’s Public Sector Visionary Leader of the Year by the Cyber Security Summit.
10-3-16
Brian Isle named Private Sector Visionary Leader of the Year by Cyber Security Summit 2016
prweb.com
Brian Isle, senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technological Leadership Institute and co-founder and former CEO of Adventium Labs, has been named this year’s Private Sector Visionary Leader of the Year by Cyber Security Summit 2016.
9-28-16
U.S. Cyber Security Experts to Convene in Minneapolis for Cyber Security Summit 2016
prweb.com
The event will feature U.S. Under Secretary Suzanne Spaulding, who is charged with protecting our nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber risk, as well as the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and cyber representatives from Fortune 500 companies including Target, IBM, UnitedHealth Group, AT&T and more.
9-23-16
Cyber Security Summit Returns to Minneapolis
bbb.org
Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota ® (BBB) is once again a supporter of Cyber Security Summit 2016, which will be held October 11-12 at Mall of America in Minneapolis. The purpose of the Summit is to bring business leaders and experts in IT and cyber security together, along with representatives from academia, government and law enforcement, to pool knowledge and resources and provide solutions to a growing range of cyber threats.
4-15-16
Cyber Security Summit Recognized among 2016 Titans of Technology
Minneapolis St.Paul Business Journal
On April 14th, Cyber Security Summit was acknowledged for its contributions towards Minnesota’s innovative ecosystem of business and technology.Eileen Manning, Cyber Security Summit executive producer, was honored for her role in growing the Summit in its six years and keeping this critical subject at the forefront of discussions.
1-11-16
Specialist from NIST shares small business cyber security fundamentals
Cyber Security Business
A computer security specialist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently addressed a gathering of small and mid-sized business people at the 2015 Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis.
10-14-15
U Of M Technological Leadership Institute hosts 2015 Cyber Security Summit
University of Minnesota
Annual two-day conference brings nationally-renowned experts together to improve the state of cyber security.
10-13-15
Former U.S. Counterterrorism Tsar Matthew Olsen to Keynote Cyber Security Summit 2015 in Minneapolis
StreetInsider.com
Mr. Olsen served as General Counsel for the National Security Agency and held key roles at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
6-10-15
OPM Data Hack may Cause Extra Alarm for Troops
Marine Corps Times
The largest data hack in government history could leave some troops at risk of having their personal information exploited or exposed. Cyber Security Chairman Andrew Borene shares his perspective.
3-20-15
Minnesota Public Radio
Cyber Security Summit advisory board member Eran Kahana was one of the featured guests during a recent Friday Roundtable on MPR News. The discussion centered on data security, surveillance and privacy issues. The other guests were Bruce Schneier, security technologist and author of “Data and Goliath,” and J. Brian Atwood, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee for the OECD.
2-11-15
New Cyber Security Intelligence Center
Beta Critical Mention
Cyber Security Summit Chairman, Andrew Borene, talks with Al Jazeera America about the new cyber security intelligence center.
10-21-14
U Of M Hosts 4th Annual Cyber Security Summit
WCCO Channel 4
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Cyber security experts are calling the last twelve months “the year of the large scale breach.” With companies like Target and Home Depot being hacked, leaders in the business and technology communities are teaming up to end cyber security crime. On Tuesday, the University of Minnesota held the 4th annual Cyber Security Summit. More than 350 cyber security leaders from 21 states and seven countries attended. WCCO’s Kate Raddatz was among them at the summit.
10-21-14
Cyber Security Experts in Minneapolis as Data Breach Concerns Rise
Rick Kupchella’s – Bring Me the News
The nation’s top cyber security experts are descending on Minneapolis this week after a year of high-profile data protection failures affecting millions of consumers.
The fourth annual Cyber Security Summit, being held at The Commons Hotel at the University of Minnesota, opened Tuesday as news broke that Staples is investigating a possible data breach in the Northeast, NBC reports.
If a breach occurred, the Massachusetts-based company would become the latest in a growing line of national chains targeted by hackers in the past 12 months, with notable others including Home Depot, JP Morgan Chase and, of course, Twin Cities retail giant Target.
Target was the victim of one of the biggest attacks in November and December last year, as hackers compromised around 40 million customers’ credit and debit cards. Forbes put the total cost of the breach to shareholders at almost $150 million.
It is because of these major breaches that this year’s Cyber Security Summit is considered to be the most important one yet, and a news release for the event says the issue of large-scale breaches will be tackled head on by the 300 government, business and academic experts in attendance.
9-24-14
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton Proclaims October 2014 Cyber Security Awareness Month
The state of Minnesota recognizes that it has a vital role in identifying, protecting, and responding to cyber threats, which may have a significant impact to our individual and collective security and privacy.
9-19-14
Twin Cities Business
With speakers from the nation’s front lines of cyber security, including Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of homeland security. This summit, sponsored by Symantec and law firm Maslon, is for tech professionals, business executives, managers, lawyers and policymakers. Learn how to combat the complex and growing problem of cyber security to ensure your business information is protected. Session topics include password security, cyber resiliency, and liability.
9-19-14
Minneapolis Hosts the 2014 Cyber Security Summit Oct. 21-22
Minnesota Business Magazine
Cyber Security Summit 2014 has announced its lineup of keynote speakers. The two-day Summit, held on October 21-22 at The Commons Hotel in Minneapolis, will bring together business leaders, policymakers and security researchers to learn about the issue of cyber security and collaborate on solutions to the problem.
8-29-14
Cyber Security Summit 2014 Announces Keynote Speakers
PWWeb
Cyber Security Summit 2014 has announced its lineup of keynote speakers. The two-day Summit, held on October 21-22 at The Commons Hotel in Minneapolis, will bring together business leaders, policymakers and security researchers to learn about the issue of cyber security and collaborate on solutions to the problem.
8-28-14
Andrew Borene Appointed to Chair of 2015 Cyber Security Summit
PWWeb
The 2014 Cyber Security Summit is less than two months away and will contain more actionable takeaways for attendees than ever before. However, with cyber threats showing no signs of slowing down, plans are already well underway for the 2015 Summit, beginning with today’s announcement of the 2015 Summit Chair: Andrew Borene.
4-23-14
Internet Security Threat Report 2014
Symantec Corporation
Symantec has established the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 41.5 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight™ Threat Management System, Symantec™ Managed Security Services, Norton™ consumer products, and other third-party data sources.