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Can we make basic cyber hygiene go viral?

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Speaker: Sidd Chopra – We are in a $2 TRILLION war with cybercriminals.
Yet, “nobody seems to realize that we are at war & we have been at war for a long time” admits former Deputy Commanding General of US Army’s Cyber Command, MG (retired) Patricia Frost.
While we may dismiss small attacks, Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. CyberCom & NSA Director warns “the cumulative effect could be devastating”

You, me, our family and friends, are on the front lines of a technology war with very sophisticated, well funded adversaries.  And we are losing.

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) was created in response to a presidential directive to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. Its Workforce Workgroup published their “Cybersecurity is Everyone’s Job” booklet last year as a guide to organizations.
This session will test a new approach that enlists the arts in a friendly competition.
Bring your instruments, costumes & art supplies, tap into your creative side & have fun helping to save society.

Sidd Chopra
Sidd Chopra is an entrepreneur, veteran IT professional, author, award-winning speaker and the CIO of a medical practice. In his career, he developed critical systems for the Neurotoxicology Department of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, SAS Institute, the U.S. Army, and several Fortune 100 companies. He was a finalist in a national public speaking contest and, in 1999, Toastmasters International awarded him the Distinguished Toastmaster Award, its highest award. In 2010, the Project Management Institute (PMI) Global declared him a Subject Matter Expert. He is a founding member of the Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) Carolinas. He served 6 years on a Strategic Advisory Board at N.C. State University and currently serves as the project lead for the National Initiative for Cybersecurity's Workforce Working Group. He is also on an advisory board at Wake Technical Community College. In his quest to understand and reinvent the science of presentations, he has worked with over 150 leading scientists, inventors, investors, professional public speakers, top military generals, thought leaders and government officials to develop cutting edge systems to make presentations more efficient, effective and reliable. He has traveled to over 37 countries on six continents.

Cyber Risk Management

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Speaker: Rob Arnold – Small organizations, including nonprofits, have become the latest target for hackers, hacktivists, and adversarial nation-states. These bad actors see small organizations as easy targets and pathways through which they can breach larger organizations. Learn how board members and executive directors can make organizations more resilient through the lens of cyber risk management.

Rob Arnold
Rob Arnold is the CEO of Threat Sketch, a strategic cyber risk management firm helping small organizations manage cybersecurity at the executive level. Mr. Arnold completed his graduate studies in information security at East Carolina University and is ISACA certified in risk and information systems control. He is the author of Cybersecurity: A Business Solution, and has testified before Congress on the subject of cybersecurity. Nationally, he is a member of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, BENS, Infragard, and two National Small Business Association councils. Active in his local community, Mr. Arnold is a founding member of the Piedmont Triad Cyber Round Table and serves on the board of the Forsyth Technology Community College’s cybersecurity program, which is a certified NSA Center of Academic Excellence.

CyberSecurity for the Nonprofit Sector

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Are you a non-profit manager who lays awake at night worrying that your organization will be the next data-breach headline story on the 6 o’clock news? Do you worry that you or one of your associates will click on “the wrong thing” and your client’s data will be siphoned out of your database? Have you heard that charities are becoming a big target for hackers? Are you thinking about moving to “The Cloud” but have concerns about data safety? Would you like to know what to say to your Board about IT security? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the “CyberSecurity for the Non-Profit Sector” session is for you. In this session you will jump-start your security knowledge by receiving insight on topics that are fundamental to securing your organizational and client data. We will review case studies that show how real-world organizations have missed the mark in the area of cyber security and how your organization can get it right using some baseline best practices and solutions.

Denise Tawwab, Twitter: @dtawwab
B23 Secure Solutions
Concurrent Session

Speaker Bio
Denise Tawwab is the Principal Consultant for B23 Secure Solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in information technology as a technical trainer, consultant, and programmer. Until 2011 she served as the CEO of Raleigh-based non-profit, NC Connected, Inc., teaching web design and internet programming to at-risk girls. For the past 3 years she has focused on cyber security and risk management consulting, and IT Security Awareness training. Using defense-in-depth, cyber security frameworks, and industry best practices, Denise works with organizations to help identify and manage cyber risk, develop IT security policies and procedures, and build security awareness training programs. She is an active member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC), and the Cloud Security Alliance. Denise holds a number of certifications including Network+, Security+, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK).

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