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SecurityEditor) • May 17, 2021 Elvis Chan, assistant special agent in charge, San Francisco Division, Cyber Branch, FBI FBI agent Elvis Chan dedicated four years to election security, and he doesn’t hesitate to say: The 2020 presidential election was the most secure election of my career. He explains why, and what lessons learned we can apply to future elections.
His wrap-up on election security:
Lessons learned from the four-year effort;
Supply chain risk, ransomware and other urgent priorities. Chan manages an FBI squad responsible for investigating national cybersecurity matters. He is a decorated agent who is recognized within the intelligence community as a cyberterrorism expert. Chan was the lead agent on significant cyber investigations and managed joint counterterrorism operations with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. Before joining the
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Michael Daniel, president and CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance
As former U.S. cybersecurity coordinator in the Obama administration, Michael Daniel is well-versed in critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Now, as president and CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance, he s working to bring the public and private sectors together to improve cybersecurity defenses.
CTA s accomplishments;
The challenge of bringing together the private and public sectors.
Daniel serves as the president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance, a nonprofit organization that enables high-quality cyberthreat information sharing among cybersecurity organizations. He also works with the Aspen Cyber Group, the World Economic Forum and other organizations improving cybersecurity in the digital ecosystem. Prior to CTA, he served from 2012 to 2017 as U.S. cybersecurity coor
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From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
Understand the current cyber threats to all public and private sector organizations;
Irish Department of Health headquarters
Two healthcare agencies in Ireland suffered ransomware attacks last week that appear to be related, not just one as originally reported, authorities say.
Last Thursday, the Irish Department of Health, which is responsible for health policy, spotted an attack and was able to quickly halt it, according to state broadcaster RTE.
That attack came the day before ransomware hit Ireland’s Health Service Executive, the nation s state-run health services provider.
The HSE expects many healthcare services to continue to be disrupted nationwide until at least Wednesday as systems are restored, The Irish Examiner newspaper reports.
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Flavio Aggio, CISO, World Health Organization Flavio Aggio of the World Health Organization says that just like technology, humans also require an OS upgrade. Key to this is understanding what risks you re taking and then using multiple layers of defense to manage them.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group as part of ISMG’s RSA Conference 2021 coverage, Aggio discusses:
Why a “Human Operating System” upgrade is required to use the internet safely, and how to do it; How he uses this technique at the World Health Organization; Technologies and priorities to support the “work from anywhere” model.