Trending Threats in Federal Government
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With millions of employees, the federal government is an attractive target for malicious attackers. From state-sponsored actors to hacktivists and insider threats, people have become the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.
As threats focused on the federal government increase – including ransomware, phishing, social engineering, and identity theft – you need a people-centric approach to cyber defense to protect the individuals most likely to be targeted and defend against attacks.
Join us for Proofpoint Spotlight as our panelists discuss:
Brian Reed is our Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint. He comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics - cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness. Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP. Prior to Gartner, he spent over 15 years in a variety of business development, product management, sales and system engineering roles, at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events, as well as other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
David Dalling is the Cyber Chief Technology Officer at Accenture Federal Services (AFS) for the cybersecurity practice across the US Federal Department of Defense, Intelligence community, Public Safety, Civilian and Health sectors. He leads the development, design, delivery, and operations of innovative cybersecurity solutions for clients with wide-ranging missions. David leads a dedicated team of advanced cybersecurity professionals who work to apply automation, cloud and AI to help agencies defend systems, be responsive to changing mission demands, and be more resilient in the face of persistent threats. David brings more than 15 years of experience as a versatile subject matter expert in Information Technology (IT) Security and IT Operations. His expertise with government and the public sector runs the gamut – from performing security risk assessments and building complex security programs to architecting new solutions and developing exceptional security operations centers. Prior to joining Accenture Federal Services, David served as the Vice President of IT and acting Chief Information Officer for Defense Point Security, Inc., a company that was acquired by Accenture in 2016. In this role, David achieved; the Splunk Partner of the year award, developed and deployed the first common control package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for HP’s Data Center 2 General Support System (GSS). He assisted in the DHS HQ achieving the highest related security score in the department and developed a Metrics program that has now evolved in the Accenture Security Metrics called “detection and Response Confidence” (DR-C) rating. His work at DHS HQ earned him the Security Engineer of the year award for DHS HQ. For the past few years David was the Visionary and Technology lead for Accenture’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) service, which is the first of its kind to achieve FedRAMP authorization. David is a certified PMP and CISSP professional and has his MBA from the University of Phoenix. In his free time, David stays active by running or mountain biking across all types of terrain and coach’s baseball/softball for his kids.
Christopher Dawson is the Threat Intelligence Lead for Proofpoint's Threat Intelligence offering, PTIS. Chris started his career in healthcare and bioanalytics, moving into educational technology, and has spent the last decade focused on security. As a published author, educator, and analyst, Chris works with security teams to understand and act on a range of threat intelligence, making data and intelligence accessible and actionable for broad audiences from the c-suite to the SOC to end users.
Garrett Guinivan is a Sr. Federal Solutions Engineer with Proofpoint. In addition, Mr. Guinivan also has multiple years of expertise as a Cyber Threat Analyst regarding People Centric Security best practices at Proofpoint. Mr. Guinivan’s knowledge, expertise, and demonstrations on the subject of People Centric Security have been invaluable to multiple organizations in the Federal and Private sectors. Furthermore, the approaches and protection recommendations stated by Garrett Guinivan during Proofpoint’s presentation, go beyond simply network or email security, MFA or Identity and Access Management; but rather into the new threat landscape, which challenges least privileged access and ZTA as we know it. In addition, Mr. Guinivan continues to provide both strategic and detailed Threat Analysis discussions to multiple Federal agencies, the DOD and commercial organizations regarding threat actors and the impact they present; and viable examples, strategies and recommendations to mitigate these attacks. In addition, Mr. Guinivan’s in-depth knowledge and experience regarding People Centric Security has enabled multiple organization to increase their visibility regarding new threat actors, their tactics; enhanced situational awareness, who are the very attacked people within your organization, and how to protect your people, and the data they have access to.
This event is approved and endorsed by (ISC)2 and CPE credits will automatically be credited to your member account within four to six weeks.
