risk management

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.

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).

Cyber Risk Management

CyberSecurity for the Nonprofit Sector