Overview

July 27

One approach governments are taking to combat the rise in cybersecurity threats is a ‘whole of state’ cybersecurity strategy – Which means agencies embrace a larger role in collective cybersecurity, creating cross-jurisdictional partnerships to make states, cities and counties more secure by leveraging their combined resources and expertise.

Join Government Technology, Iron Bow and GuardSight for a live webinar on July 27, 2023, as we explore how governments can build resilience through whole-of-state cyber tactics and what this method looks like in practice.

Key takeaways include:

The value of a whole-of-state cybersecurity strategy
Best practices for preventing cyberattacks
What to do after an attack to ensure operations remain ongoing
How to build and maintain a future-ready agency

Speakers

Kevin Finch

Senior Director of Global Security Practice, Iron Bow

Kevin is part of the Iron Bow Global Security Practice serving as the Senior Director of Solution Engineering. Kevin’s primary responsibility is to help Federal Agencies & Fortune 500 clients modernize and mature their cybersecurity program. Kevin Finch joined Iron Bow Technologies in May of 2022. He brings more than 20 years of professional experience in Cybersecurity and Enterprise Technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management & Information Systems. His primary focus is on security engineering, security architecture, and security consulting. Before joining Iron Bow Technologies, Kevin held various security engineering positions. He has served as an Executive Advisor, Security Strategist, Director, Architect, and Engineer in the cybersecurity space. Kevin’s core focus is security architecture (SASE, Zero Trust, & SSE) and security consulting. Kevin currently holds a CISSP with a list of vendor certifications spanning Cisco, Palo Alto, Zscaler &, Netskope He has experience and working knowledge of industry standards such as ISO (27002, 27001) NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800 Series, CMMC & PCI-DSS.

John McGloughlin, CISSP

Founder, GuardSight

John McGloughlin is the Founder of @GuardSight, Inc., an Iron Bow Technologies company and specialized cybersecurity-as-a-service provider. GuardSight supplies managed threat detection and response and other tactical cybersecurity services. GuardSight helps businesses protect their critical assets, data, and reputation against sophisticated and dangerous cyber attacks. John (a.k.a. Johnmac) is the Mission owner at GuardSight with thirty-plus years of experience in many areas of technology and information security, including network engineering, software development, systems administration, vulnerability management, intelligence management, cybersecurity operations, and incident response. Johnmac is a CISSP, co-author of a Cyber Security Analytics Architecture patent, Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary (Cyber Aux) civilian volunteer, member of the Industry Advisory Board for Southern Utah University (SUU), Occupational Advisory Committee member of Southwest Technical College, Made In Southern Utah (MISU) member, National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF) volunteer and Cybersecurity Advisor, Utah volunteer wildland firefighter, InfraGard member, Infrastructure Liaison Officer (ILO), certified Range Safety Officer (RSO), certified in Range Development and Operations (RDO) and starts his day with a 0600 roll at Patriot Jiu-Jitsu in beautiful Parowan, Utah.

Nelson Moe

Sales Strategy Principal for SLED, Iron Bow

Nelson P. Moe is a high energy, results-driven executive with proven track record of success and superior leadership in enterprise IT. Nelson recently served as the chief information officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth and led the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). He was appointed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe effective June 8, 2015 and reappointed by Gov. Ralph Northam on March 28, 2018. As CIO, he led a 220-person organization responsible for oversight on the IT infrastructure services as well as governance of the Commonwealth’s IT procurements, cyber security and enterprise architecture. Nelson is now the Sales Strategy Principal for SLED at Iron Bow.

Deborah A. Snyder — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Deborah is an accomplished C-level executive, influencer and educator who has dedicated her career to improving state and local government services for the citizens of New York state through policy and technology innovation. She has a broad range of experience in government, policy, cybersecurity, privacy and information technology. She recently retired from the position of New York state’s chief information security officer, where she led the state’s cybersecurity programs and directed the NYS Cyber Command Center. She works with organizations and universities to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and preparedness, and to create and inspire the next generation of cyber leaders.

Webinar

Empowering Government Resilience Through Whole-of-State Cyber Tactics