THE ELECTED OFFICIALS GUIDE TO CYBERSECURITY AS RISK MANAGEMENT

State and local government technologists consistently identify cybersecurity as their top concern. But good cybersecurity strategy and planning requires involvement from more than technologists. Elected officials also must know and understand their unique fiduciary responsibilities and actively participate in risk mitigation. The challenge has been getting past the technical details and jargon in order to fully understand when and how to act.The Governing Institute invites you to join the states of Ohio and Minnesota and technology industry leader CGI, for a special webinar discussion of the recently published Guide to Cybersecurity as Risk Management: The Role of Elected Officials. (co-authored by CGI and Governing Institute). The benefits of easy to use checklists of the top cybersecurity action items for elected officials, agency executives and lawmakers.
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Prioritizing Active Directory Security to Disrupt Ransomware Attack

Attackers are targeting Active Directory in nearly every type of attack, especially ransomware attacks. Unfortunately, organizations struggle with where to begin to secure AD, as well as what should be emphasized. The end result is a weak AD security posture that is easily attacked and exploited by attackers. There is a solution to securing AD to disrupt attackers. By prioritizing the most exploited settings, the attack surface of AD can be dramatically reduced. This approach of securing AD gives every organization a clear starting and ending point to get through a first wave of securing their AD environment.
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How to Build and Implement your Company’s Information Security Program 2021

Data is one of your business’s most valuable assets and requires protection like any other asset. How can you protect your data from unauthorized access or inadvertent disclosure? An information security program is designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your company’s data and information technology assets. Federal, state, or international law may also require your business to have an information security program in place.
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2022 SANS Survey: State of Cloud Security in the Enterprise

More and more enterprises have moved their infrastructure and operations to the cloud than ever before. Along with these changes, we have also seen a significant change in enterprise security posture and use of technology. However, what does that change look like? How have security teams kept up with the change? Just what is the state of cloud security in the enterprise?
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Introduction to Kubernetes Security

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Kubernetes is fundamentally a complex system with lots of different potential attack vectors aimed at data theft, currency mining and other threats. Liz Rice, a renowned technology evangelist, will take us through an overview of the current state of security-related features in Kubernetes, and offer directional starting points on how to secure Kubernetes components and the applications that run on top of these Kubernetes components. Brice Fernandes, software engineer and entrepreneur at Weaveworks, will then demonstrate how you can build a secure and reliable Kubernetes deployment pipeline with GitOps best practices, separating the responsibility between packaging software and releasing it to a production environment.
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