Overview

January 28

State and local government agencies struggle to fight today’s advanced cybersecurity threats, constrained by their limited budgets and decentralized technology stacks. The same resource utilization required to marry these disparate sources of data for effective threat detection impedes our human resources to respond.

Join Government Technology on January 28 at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern to learn how your organization can strengthen cybersecurity protection by adopting cloud-delivered solutions that provide the visibility, scale, and automation needed to stop breaches before they happen. Our panel of experts will break down what you should know about this new generation of security products and offer practical advice for getting started on a path to better cyber protection.

Speakers

Michael C. Gregg

Chief Information Security Officer, North Dakota Information Technology

Gregg was acting as interim CISO and prior to that was the director of cyber operations for the State of North Dakota. He brings more than two decades of experience in information security and risk management. In addition to performing security management, audits, and assessments, Michael has authored or coauthored more than 25 books, has testified before the U.S. Congress, and has had articles published on various IT websites.

Josh Zelonis

Field Chief Technology Officer - Americas, Cortex, Palo Alto Networks

Josh Zelonis is a Field CTO and Evangelist for Palo Alto Networks where he works closely with organizations to help them adapt their architecture, policies, and processes to stay ahead of evolving threats and limit the potential impact of incidents. As a former Forrester analyst and cybersecurity tech founder, Josh has spoken at major conferences around the world and published on subjects ranging from security analytics, cyber intelligence, vulnerability management, SOC operations, and incident response. Above all, he prides himself on a mission to secure the data of the people we’re entrusted to protect.

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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