RiskSense CEO and Arizona IT Executives to Present Cyber Risk Management Best Practices at NASCIO 2017 Annual Conference
Session will Explain How State has Achieved Comprehensive Visibility and Prioritization of Security Risks that Eludes Many Private Companies with Much Larger IT Budgets
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- RiskSense®, Inc., the pioneer and market leader in pro-active cyber risk management, today announced that State of Arizona CIO Morgan Reed and CISO Mike Lettman along with RiskSense CEO Srinivas Mukkamala, will present a best practices case study at the 2017 National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Conference on October 3 in Austin, Texas.
| WHO: |
Morgan Reed is CIO for the State of Arizona, where he is responsible for driving the state's technology strategy. Reed has nearly 20 years of information technology experience with large enterprises in the private sector. Prior to joining the State of Arizona, Reed was director of data center services for Expedia, and head of IT governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity at GoDaddy. |
| Mike Lettman has more than 28 years of experience in government information security and technology. As CISO for the State of Arizona, he is responsible for information security across 130 public agencies, leads the Security, Privacy, and Risk team for the Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology (ASET) Office, and works with state partners including the Multi State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI. He is an active member of the Arizona Fusion Center and co-chairs the MS-ISAC SCADA work group. Previously, Mike was CISO for the State of Wisconsin and CTO for the State of Wisconsin's Department of Justice. |
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| Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala is co-founder and CEO at RiskSense. He was part of a think tank that collaborated with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community on cyber security best practices. He is an expert on malware analytics, breach exposure management, Web application security, and enterprise risk reduction. Dr. Mukkamala was a lead researcher for CACTUS (Computational Analysis of Cyber Terrorism against the U.S.) and holds a patent on Intelligent Agents for Distributed Intrusion Detection System and Method of Practicing. |
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| WHAT: |
Government organizations at the federal, state and local level are focused on meeting increasingly stringent cyber security directives with shrinking budgets and limited resources. This session will explain how the State of Arizona addressed these challenges by adopting a new cyber risk management model that has enabled them achieve a level of cyber threat operations excellence which many private, better funded Fortune companies have yet to accomplish. The speakers will present repeatable cyber security best practices implemented by the State including attack susceptibility and validation, as well as quantification of risks based on operational data. |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 from 2:00 - 2:45 PM CDT |
| WHERE: |
Lone Star Ballroom A, Level 3 in the JW Marriott, 110 E 2nd St, Austin, Texas |
| HOW: |
To schedule a conversation with Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, contact Marc Gendron at [email protected] or +1 781.237.0341. For more information, visit: http://www.cvent.com/events/nascio-2017-annual-conference/event-summary-91404f4cfeb145d6a945e85ae6888e57.aspx. |
About NASCIO
Founded in 1969, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 association representing state chief information officers and information technology executives and managers from the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. The primary state members are senior officials from state government who have executive-level and statewide responsibility for information technology leadership. State officials who are involved in agency level information technology management may participate as associate members. Representatives from federal, municipal, international government and non-profit organizations may also participate as members. Private-sector firms join as corporate members and participate in the Corporate Leadership Council. NASCIO provides state CIOs and state members with products and services designed to support the challenging role of the state CIO, stimulate the exchange of information and promote the adoption of IT best practices and innovations. From national conferences, peer networking, research and publications, briefings and government affairs, NASCIO is the premier network and resource for state CIOs. For more information, visit https://www.nascio.org.
About RiskSense
RiskSense®, Inc. is the pioneer and market leader in pro-active cyber risk management. The company provides enterprises and governments with clear visibility into their entire attack surface, including attack susceptibility and validation, as well as quantification of risks based on operational data.
The RiskSense Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform unifies and contextualizes internal security intelligence, external threat data and business criticality to transform cyber risk management into a more pro-active, collaborative, and real-time discipline. It embodies hands-on expertise gained from defending critical government and commercial networks from the world's most dangerous cyber adversaries.
By leveraging RiskSense cyber risk management solutions, organizations can significantly shorten time-to-remediation, increase operational efficiency, strengthen their security programs, heighten response readiness, reduce costs, and ultimately minimize cyber risks. For more information, please visit www.risksense.com or follow us on Twitter at @RiskSense.
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