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Democracy Confronts Cyber Insecurity

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Cybersecurity Lecture Nine
Sponsored by AIG

For the 9th lecture in NYU Tandon’s renowned cybersecurity series, join Edward Amoroso as he offers a guided tour through modern cybersecurity risk and its rising impact to modern political campaigns and elections.

Featuring experiences and anecdotes from the last four presidential administrations, Amoroso will illustrate the growing intensity of cyber threat to the applications and systems supporting our national, state, and local elections, including:

  • A current view of national critical infrastructure risk
  • Anecdotes about how major political parties struggle with cybersecurity
  • Advice on how the US can protect its election infrastructure from hacking
  • Architectural illustration on how nation-states break into large networks

Following Amoroso’s keynote talk, a prominent panel of cyber experts will tackle the critical issue: How do businesses and governments mitigate external digital risks to social, mobile, and web services? Security issues increasingly arise outside the enterprise perimeter, often manifesting in social media botnets, malware-laden email payloads, and infected mobile apps. Enterprise teams have developed their skills to protect corporate and enterprise assets, but this requires a rethinking to deal with security issues on the public Internet.

Panelist include:

  • Edward Amoroso - Distinguished Research Professor, NYU Center for Cyber Security CEO, TAG Cyber LLC
  • Austin P. Berglas - Co-Head of Managed Services and Incident Response, BlueteamGlobal
  • Michael R. Higgins - Chief Information Security Officer, NBCUniversal
  • Rick Howard - Chief Security Officer, Palo Alto Networks
  • Tracie Grella - Global Head of Cyber, AIG

A networking reception will follow the panel discussion. We hope you will join us for an engaging discourse around this critical topic.

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