2024 Government Cybersecurity Roadshow - Massachusetts

Agenda

Boston, 12 June 2024

All times in EDT

8:15 am

Registration and Networking Coffee

9:00 am

Welcome from Public Sector Network

9:10 am

Welcome from Immix Group

Richard Nordberg, Sales Manager, immixGroup, Inc.
Richard Nordberg, Sales Manager, immixGroup, Inc.

9:15 am

Welcome from Chair

John Rademacher, Regional Sales Manager, Palo Alto Networks
John Rademacher, Regional Sales Manager, Palo Alto Networks

9:30 am

Driving Incident Response Planning for Cyber Incidents

Paul Clark, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Cannabis Control Commission
  • Next steps to enhance detection capabilities
  • Best practices for response efforts
  • Limiting the effects of cyber intrusions

Paul Clark, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Cannabis Control Commission

9:50 am

Platinum Partner

Accelerating the Evolution of Security Using a Converged Approach

Chris Cruz, Public Sector CIO, Tanium
Chris Cruz, Public Sector CIO, Tanium

10:10 am

Government Keynote

Creating Risk Management Frameworks to Evaluate, Mitigate, and Monitor State Cyber Threats

Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Meeting emerging cybersecurity threats through internal controls and cyber awareness
  • Balancing innovation and enterprise risk management: I.E. Generative AI
  • Best practices in cyber governance and meeting emerging threats

Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

10:30 am

Gold Partner

Why is critical data being compromised?

Matt Keefe, Cloud Protection & Licensing Manager, Solutions Architect, Thales Group
Matt Keefe, Cloud Protection & Licensing Manager, Solutions Architect, Thales Group

10:50 am

Morning Coffee and Networking Break

11:00 am

Roundtables

An interactive opportunity to collaborate

  1. Transforming the SOC
  2.  Advancing Cyber Incident Preparedness and Response
  3. Ransomware Planning: Response, Mitigation, and Recovery
  4. Improving Cyber Resilience and Recovery with Automation

12:00 pm

Panel Discussion

The 2024 Threat Landscape and Beyond in Local Governments; Threats, Resiliency, Strategic Defense

  • Local vs. State – How are your needs differing from State-wide cyber challenges?
  • Cyber risk management strategies moving forward – Where to Focus?
  • Intrusion and breach lessons learned – How are threats and training evolving?
  • What is needed from the industry moving forward?

Moderator: John Rademacher, Regional Sales Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Christopher McClure, CIO, City of Watertown, Massachusetts
Bob O’Keefe, Director of IT, City of Gardner, Massachusetts
Mike Dugas, Deputy Director of IT and Security, City of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Matt Smith, Director, North America Field CTO Organization, Red Hat

12:40 pm

Closing Remarks from Chair

12:50 pm

Networking Lunch