Emerald Down III:
2014 Cyber Security Workshop
 
Emerald Downs 
2300 Emerald Downs Dr. 
Auburn, WA 98001
 
 

We invite emergency managers and affiliated IT support staff, business continuity professionals, control systems technicians, and all other private and public sector cyber security stakeholders from throughout the region to join us for two-days of discussion on current cyber threats and common challenges with managing complex data and access.

 

There is no cost to attend this event.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
Continuing Education Credits will be available for the Emerald Down III: Puget Sound Cyber Security Workshop through Washington Certification Services. Participants must sign-in and complete the full two days of the workshop to obtain the assigned 1.3 CEU. If you have any questions on this, please contact Megan Levy at megan.levy@pnwer.org.

 Agenda: April 1 
 
8:00 a.m. - Registration

9:00 a.m. - Welcome and opening remarks - PNWER and King County

Megan Levy, Program Manager, PNWER

Walt Hubbard, Director, King County Office of Emergency Management

9:10 a.m. -  Keynote Address "Government IT Security in the Big Washington"

Michael Hamilton, Office of the CIO, State of Washington

10:00 a.m. - Networking Break

10:30 a.m. - SCADA/ICS control systems training

Billy Rios, Director of Vulnerability Research and Threat Intelligence, Qualys 
 
12:00 p.m. - Lunch keynote: "From the Perspective of a Hacker"

Russ McRee, Director, Threat Intelligence & Engineering, Online Services Security &

Compliance, Microsoft  
 
1:00 p.m. - Panel: Cyber Forensics, Legal Requirements, and Business Continuity

What records are you required to keep? Why is cyber forensics important and what will your  organization get from your investment? How can business get up and running again post attack and how does response impact business continuity?
 
Moderated by David Matthews, Expedia

Vishant Patel, Forensics, Microsoft

Josh Michaels, Seattle FBI

Sean Malone, Principal Security Consultant, FusionX

David Mills, U.S. Secret Service

2:15 p.m. - Networking Break

2:45 p.m. - Cyber Risk Insurance - How Prepared Are You?

Anne Hasenstab, Private & Non-Profit Management Liability, Travelers

3:30 p.m. - Panel: Processes, Policies, and Resources for Working with Law Enforcement  
When your systems are breached, how do you work with law enforcement? How and to who 
would you escalate issues? What can you do to work with law enforcement, and what resources
are available to your organization to help make response smoother? 
 
Moderated by Russ McRee, Microsoft

Cory Pritchard, Seattle FBI

LTC Thomas Muehleisen, Commander, 156th Information Operations Battalion (IOB)

Lance Fuhrman, Cyber Intelligence Analyst, Washington State Fusion Center

Mike Germain, U.S. Secret Service

4:45 p.m. - Next Steps for the Region

Brandon Hardenbrook, Deputy Director, PNWER

5:00 p.m. - Adjourn

Agenda: April 2


8:00 a.m. - Registration

9:00 a.m. - Welcome and opening remarks
 
Alisha Griswold, Emergency Management, Port of Seattle

Walt Hubbard, Director, King County Office of Emergency Management

9:10 a.m. - Policies and Processes for Managing Risk: Supporting employee buy-in, 
 
creating resilient policy, and managing personal mobile devices
 
Bruce Christofferson, Risk Manager, a Fortune 500 telecommunications company

David Matthews, Director Incident Response, Expedia

10:00 a.m. - Networking Break

10:30 a.m. - Digital Rights

Brian Rowe, National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator, Northwest Justice

Project

11:15 a.m. - Luncheon introduction of exercise scenario

Jerry Koenig, Seattle City Light

11:45 p.m. - All disciplines tabletop exercise

Facilitated by David Matthews, Director Incident Response, Expedia

4:45 p.m. - Next Steps for the Region

Brandon Hardenbrook, Deputy Director, PNWER

5:00 p.m. - Adjourn

 


For additional information:


Please contact Megan Levy with Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) for more info:

Megan.Levy@pnwer.org | 206-443-7723

 

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