2024 Government Cybersecurity Showcase - Alberta

In this session, Alberta’s CISO will discuss all things Cyber strategy and cyber threats.  How can we get the Public Sector approach to security moving towards proactive and integrated, ensuring our teams understand what business assets and processes are most important to protect, and securing these while preserving business agility

Legacy applications, while foundational to many government agencies, pose significant challenges in today’s cybersecurity landscape. This panel will delve into crucial aspects of managing and securing these legacy systems, considering technical debt, security controls, zero-day attacks, fortification strategies, and most perhaps importantly, the necessity of investing in both human resources and financial resources, whilst prioritizing the business requirement.

World leading COO’s are getting caught out by $28 million dollar scams through terrifyingly realistic AI scams. What does this threat look like for Alberta’s public sector, and how is the Government of Alberta preparing for it?

In today’s digital landscape, the frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate. Despite our best efforts to fortify defenses and prevent breaches, the reality remains that no security measure is foolproof. Organizations must accept that breaches are not a matter of if, but when. The critical question then becomes: how can businesses ensure continuity and recover swiftly in the face of an inevitable attack?

Join us to discover how embracing data resiliency not only fortifies your organization’s defenses but also ensures that your business remains operational, no matter the cyber threat. Learn how to build a resilient infrastructure that can withstand attacks and recover quickly, keeping your business running smoothly in the face of adversity.

Join us for an engaging fireside chat where we explore the intersection of technology, internet culture, and security within the university community. We’ll discuss the critical role of technology in supporting mental health and handling real-world scenarios that students and staff encounter daily. The conversation will also discuss how internet culture influences campus dynamics and interactions. We’ll delve into the importance of research security and address the challenges of incident response and managing deprecated systems in research environments. This chat aims to provide valuable insights and foster a collaborative dialogue on creating a safer and more supportive academic landscape.

As it undergoes mass changes to create an integrated Health model for Alberta, the Health sector is at the forefront. In this session we hear from Alberta’s Health departments as they discuss the impact of leveraging AI and Automation across the Health service to enhance efficiencies and create stronger citizen outcomes and experiences.

This session will discuss Technology and Innovation’s approach to the integration of agile security applications that are compliant and seamless, embedding security into their DevSecOps culture, and the challenges that come along with this. They will share why application teams are too risk averse to trust automated frameworks, and why they’d rather risk taking a few weeks to patch a zero-day vulnerability, rather than chance an outage due to automated deployments.

We’ve all seen the numbers: millions of unfilled cyber roles. The reality is simple – most of those roles require hands-on experience, leading to an obvious Catch-22… how can young people finishing school get the experience they need in cyber if they can’t get the cyber experience they must have to get hired? This problem isn’t going away; we must build a new collaborative path to train security operators with the practical skills they need to become the next generation of defenders.