M114: Better Cybersecurity Through Collaboration For The Accountability Community
- Room: Grand E
- Session Number:M114
Monday, July 18, 2022: 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Description
Cybersecurity impacts every aspect of our personal and professional lives. As accountability professionals, staying abreast of the challenges in our field is never easy. Take this opportunity to learn about emerging threats and trends in cybersecurity and how federal, state and local organizations are collaborating to address them.
Key Take-aways
Key Takeaways:
• Cybersecurity is closely intertwined with the responsibilities of accountability professionals, but the scope is broader than mere controls.
• Accountability professionals must understand how to secure their IT environments, securely share information with business partners, and protect against sophisticated attackers with a variety of motivations.
• Although cyber challenges have never been greate, resources and tools are available to allow practitioners to collaborate with peers and subject matter experts to address threats from insiders, cyber criminals, and even nation states.
Learning Objectives
Understand emerging cybersecurity issues and ways different stakeholder organizations can collaborate in cybersecurity. Review challenges to information sharing and learn sources of best practices in related cybersecurity. Find out what practitioners can do to improve their organization’s cybersecurity posture and the resources needed to improve awareness and apply cybersecurity protections.