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October 22
9AM PT, 12PM ET

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From chatbots to copilots, generative AI tools are already being used inside public sector organizations—often without formal approval or IT visibility. For SLEd IT and security leaders, the challenge is twofold: harnessing the power of AI to innovate and better serve the public, while defending against the significant risks of data exposure, policy violations, and loss of sensitive information.

Join Government Technology and Netskope for a live webinar offering a practical playbook for secure and responsible GenAI adoption. We will provide a clear framework to help your organization navigate the complexities of AI, ensuring every interaction is secure, compliant, and trustworthy no matter where you are in your adoption journey.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Gain Complete Visibility into Your AI Landscape: You can't secure what you can't see. Discover shadow AI and unsanctioned tool usage across your agency to build a foundation for responsible AI governance.
  • Enforce Contextual Protection for Every User, Everywhere: Apply policy-driven controls powered by a Zero Trust Engine to mitigate AI risks, enforce data protections, and block risky actions in real time.
  • Achieve AI Readiness with Proactive Data Intelligence: Proactively understand your data landscape to inform policy and prevent sensitive information from being used to train public or private LLMs.
  • Manage Risk Without Tradeoffs: Implement end-to-end security for your AI adoption to empower safe innovation while maintaining resilient operations.

Speakers

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Melody Nouri

Sr Product Marketing Manager, Netskope

Melody Nouri is a Sr Product Marketing Manager at Netskope, specializing in Cloud and AI Security. With extensive experience in Network Security, she is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to help organizations address modern threats and security risks. Melody brings a wealth of knowledge from her prior roles at Palo Alto Networks owning messaging and positioning for threat protection security subscriptions. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

 

Michael Manrod

CISO, Grand Canyon University

Mike serves as the CISO for GCE, responsible for leading the security team and protecting students, staff, and information assets across the enterprise. He also serves as Adjunct Faculty for GCU, teaching Malware Analysis. Previous experiences include serving as a threat prevention engineer for Check Point and working as a consultant and analyst for other organizations. He is also a co-author/contributor for Understanding New Security Threats published by Routledge in 2019, along with many articles. Community work includes co-founding the Threat Intelligence Support Unit (TISU), volunteer work for ACTRA, and co-creating multiple adversary emulation frameworks including AutoPwnKey, Beaconator, and AutoRMM.

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Dan Lohrmann — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Daniel J. Lohrmann is an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, technologist, keynote speaker and author. He led Michigan government’s cybersecurity and technology infrastructure teams from May 2002 to August 2014, including as enterprise-wide chief security officer (CSO), chief technology officer (CTO) and chief information security officer (CISO). During his distinguished career, he has served both the public and private sectors in a variety of executive leadership capacities including advising senior leaders at the White House, National Governors Association (NGA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Throughout his career he has received numerous national awards including CSO of the Year, Public Official of the Year and Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader.

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