CXO Tech Forum: The State of Cyber Recap

With the increased need for data interoperability, how can government agencies and industry work together to ensure continuous point of care privacy for the individuals they serve and the data and systems they maintain?

• Paul Cunningham, Chief Information Security Officer, Veterans Affairs
• Jeff Shilling, Chief Information Officer, National Cancer Institute
• Johnathon Brett, Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture, NewWave
• Moderator: Michael Hoffman, President, GovCIO Media & Research

Stories like critical infrastructure hacks, crossover for privacy and security, and the advent of 5G dominate the news. What are the top information security professionals doing to ensure new and legacy infrastructure as well as supplier ecosystems are also secure?

• Adrian Monza, Cyber Defense Branch Chief, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS
• Wanda Jones-Heath, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Deputy CIO, U.S. Air Force
• Manuel Castillo, Senior IT Security Advisor, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Moderator: Michael Hoffman, President, GovCIO Media & Research

Homeland Security’s newest agency head discusses the importance of partnerships for managing risk.

What can agencies and industry do to more accurately and efficiently manage risk and increase cyber resilience? In the words of our Nation’s risk advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “Defend today, secure tomorrow.”

• Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• Moderator: Amy Kluber, Managing Editor, GovCIO Media & Research

Former FBI cybersecurity expert and Vice President, Office of Cybersecurity and Trust at BlackBerry Cylance John McClurg emphasizes the need to move past a detection-based model to a mathematically predictive model.

Emerging technologies are requiring information security experts to fundamentally rethink how they approach security. As more government agencies shift their data to the cloud, they must also move from a perimeter security model to one that balances security with access. Similarly, with faster-moving threats and a growing number of networked devices, agencies seek to use continuous diagnostics and monitoring tools to protect their assets.

• Beau Houser, Chief Information Security Officer, Small Business Administration
• Paul Beckman, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Homeland Security
• Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Moderator: James Mersol, Research/Staff Writer, GovCIO Media & Research