Registration is open for Cyber:Secured Forum, a cybersecurity educational summit focusing on integrated systems, in Denver, Colorado, on June 4-6, 2018. The event is being produced in partnership by PSA Security Network, the world’s largest systems integrator cooperative, ISC Security Events (Reed Exhibitions, the world’s leading event organiser) and the Security Industry Association (SIA), a trade association for global security solution providers.
Key discussion topics
In addition, the organisations revealed the agenda for Cyber:Secured Forum, indicating conference discussions will center around topics including:
We have tapped some of the nation’s top cybersecurity advisors, strategists, and technical experts to be part of Cyber:Secured Forum"
- Cyber-Physical Framework by U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Global Cybercrime Trends
- How to Make Your Business Cyber Resilient
- New Tools and Technologies for Better Cybersecurity of Physical Security Systems
- New Standards for Cybersecurity Assurance
- Right-Sizing Your Company’s Cyber Strategy
- Cutting-edge Strategies for Cyber-Hardening of Security Systems
“The educational program at this event will be unlike anything else the industry has experienced so far regarding cybersecurity,” said Bill Bozeman, president and CEO of PSA Security Network. “We have tapped some of the nation’s top cybersecurity advisors, strategists, and technical experts to be part of Cyber:Secured Forum. They are poised to help physical security and IT professionals navigate the quickly changing cybersecurity environment and understand how best to work together in the face of new threats to evolve response tactics and build new business opportunities.”
Confirmed speakers to date include
- Bob Troyer, U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado
- Judy Smith, Cybercrime and National Security Section Chief, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado
- Patti Chrzan, Senior Director, Strategic Programs, Microsoft
- Chris Greer, Director, Cyber-Physical Systems, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
- Ed Griffor, Smart Grid Program Office, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
- Randall Frietzsche, Chief Information Security Officer, Denver Health
- Pamela Passman, President and CEO, Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe)
- John Savarese, Senior Cybersecurity Advisor, Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
- Terry Gold, Founder, D6 Research
- Ray Coulombe, Founder and Managing Director, SecuritySpecifiers
Cyber:Secured Forum’s event format facilitates a learning and peer-to-peer connections environment"
Risk mitigation strategies
“The inaugural Cyber:Secured Forum will provide actionable information to all attendees that that can become part of their risk mitigation strategies immediately,” said SIA CEO Don Erickson. “Attendees will come away from this unique event with new insights and practical guidance that will help their clients and customers to adopt enhanced cyber-readiness programs.”
“Technology convergence and the complexity of security threats and incidents are stimulating a mandate to create new norms for collaboration,” said Will Wise, Group Vice President, Reed Exhibitions Security Portfolio. “Integrators, enterprise and government physical and IT security decision makers, and security manufacturers all know the time is now to move from reaction mode to substantive cyber-physical action plans and the establishment of ecosystem best practices. Cyber:Secured Forum’s event format facilitates a learning and peer-to-peer connections environment that will start in Denver and continue via year-round SIA, PSA and ISC education and community-building initiatives.”