Overview

September 21

Cybersecurity awareness training aims to help reduce the most significant risk to your organization – your employees. Ultimately, over 90% of incidents involve user behavior rather than a lack of IT measures.

Empowering your workforce to identify threats and take action can turn an organizational weakness into your greatest line of defense, an especially important achievement for governments that have become prime targets for cyber attacks – Research indicates that over half of state and local governments were compromised by at least one successful attack from 2021-2022.

Explore the ins and outs of successful cyber awareness training during a webinar hosted by Government Technology and Proofpoint on September 21, 2023, at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET.

Our panel of experts will cover:

The role of cyber negligence in cyber attacks
Best practices for effective cybersecurity education
Tips for maintaining a culture of cybersecurity

Speakers

William Cole

Chief Technology Officer, Executive Office of Technology Services and Security, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

With almost 30 years in the technology sector, more than 20 years with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 11 of which were with UMass Medical School, Bill brings a broad knowledge and depth of experience in large scale IT management, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and organizational change management. Serving as the Commonwealth’s Chief Technology Officer for the past 3 plus years, Bill and his team have led the Commonwealth through transformational change, including the migration of hundreds of government business applications to a cloud hosting environment and in leveraging technology to modernize how state agencies deliver services to the residents, businesses, and visitors of the Commonwealth. Bill has served in several capacities at the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and its predecessor agencies, playing a leading role in engineering and enterprise architecture initiatives.

Bryan Langley

Senior Executive Advisor, Cyber Florida

Bryan J. Langley serves as the senior vice president of defense development at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, where he is responsible for developing a strategic plan for long-term state investment in the defense marketspace, with the goal of tripling federal defense investments by December 2024. Bryan served as executive director of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Advisory (HSA) for US DHS. He previously served as global security manager at Columbus-based Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) and as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting. He also worked in the White House as the U.S. assistant chief of protocol under the George W. Bush administration.

Ryan Witt

VP, Industry Solutions

Ryan Witt is a recognized Healthcare Cyber Security Executive and a regular speaker at HIMSS, CHIME, AEHIS, etc. Currently, Ryan is Proofpoint's VP, Industry Solutions and responsible for the strategy and solutions for the company's healthcare and public sector business. Ryan is also the Chair of Proofpoint's Healthcare Advisory Board and an appointed member of HIMSS Cybersecurity, Privacy and Security Committee. Previously, Ryan was the healthcare leader for Fortinet and Juniper Networks where he also was the Chair for their respective Healthcare Customer Advisory Boards. Ryan was a contributor to the 2013 WEDI Report, a former Co-Chair of WEDI's Privacy & Security Workgroup and has been elected to the WEDI Board of Directors. Ryan was also elected to the Association for Executives in Health Information Security (AEHIS) Advisory Board. A graduate of San Jose State University, Ryan has spent much of his professional life in Europe, but he and his family now live in Silicon Valley.

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 with a Cyber-Aware WorkforceÂ