William serves as the leader of AAA Washington’s information security and compliance efforts. He is responsible to establish a responsive, dynamic, and flexible program to meet continually changing information security, regulatory, and compliance needs in the organization. William serves on the advisory board that establishes required security standards across all of AAA’s federated clubs. William has 25 years of experience in this field, serving in similar roles for Puget Sound Energy, Providence Health and Services, Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, and the State of Alaska’s Department of Public Safety.
William has a Computer Science degree from the US Military Academy at West Point, a Masters in IT and an MBA from University of Maryland, and a PhD in Information Security and Assurance from Capella University.
Outside of his work at AAA, William is a part-time adjunct professor at the University of Washington and Penn State University teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in cybersecurity and enterprise architecture.
Seattle Cybersecurity Conference
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Live In Person @ The Westin Bellevue
In Person | Virtual | Hybrid
Earn up to 10 CPE credits
About the Event
FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce.
Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks.
Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizations.
“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”
Gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from advanced Cyber Threats. Demo the newest technology, and interact with the world’s security leaders and gain other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.
The FutureCon community will keep you updated on the future of the Cyberworld and allow you to interact with your peers and the world’s security leaders.
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Keynote Speaker
William Lidster, Ph.D.
CISO, Senior Manager of Information Security and Compliance AAA Washington
William serves as the leader of AAA Washington’s information security and compliance efforts. He is responsible to establish a responsive, dynamic, and flexible program to meet continually changing information security, regulatory, and compliance needs in the organization. William serves on the advisory board that establishes required security standards across all of AAA’s federated clubs. William has 25 years of experience in this field, serving in similar roles for Puget Sound Energy, Providence Health and Services, Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, and the State of Alaska’s Department of Public Safety.
William has a Computer Science degree from the US Military Academy at West Point, a Masters in IT and an MBA from University of Maryland, and a PhD in Information Security and Assurance from Capella University.
Outside of his work at AAA, William is a part-time adjunct professor at the University of Washington and Penn State University teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in cybersecurity and enterprise architecture.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Gold Sponsors
Cloudflare, Inc (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the world’s 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, London, and Singapore.
Novacoast, Inc. is a group of trusted cybersecurity experts who provide advisory, integration, development and managed services to promote a posture of prevention, detection and responsiveness in our clients. We study emerging threats and hacker strategies to provide agile, evolving strategic advice. We combine a big picture approach with the ability to help select, perfect, improve and manage tools.
Gradient Cyber is a trusted cybersecurity partner specializing in small businesses and mid-market enterprises concerned about cybersecurity but lacking the staff to give it the attention it deserves. Our goal is to help companies address the challenge of having too much cybersecurity and log data for IT personnel to keep up with – by eliminating the noise and providing cybersecurity clarity. For a fraction of the cost of hiring one cyber analyst, the Gradient Cyber security team can be on the job 24/7 to improve your security.
With our proprietary extended detection and response (XDR) platform and expert cybersecurity team we help customers:
- Understand and improve their current risk and threat posture.
- Continuously monitor for and respond to advanced cyber threats 24/7.
- Prepare employees to recognize and deal with social engineering attacks.
Our goal is to provide cybersecurity clarity and eliminate the noise.
Silver Sponsors
Datalink Networks is your trusted managed service provider We are a leader in managed IT services, with over 30 years of experience serving small to medium-sized organizations in both the private and public sectors throughout the United States. Datalink Networks can plan, design, build, deploy, support, and monitor IT solutions for your organization. Our team is available to meet your requirements and provide customized solutions to meet your business objectives and reporting needs. Our people are passionate about solving IT problems and delivering unrivaled support to your organization. When you call us you’re reaching someone who is experienced, who cares about delivering great service and great value, and who is dedicated to helping you out. Datalink Networks can be your IT staff (Managed Service Provider) or fill in a specific role: network security, cloud security, system administration, engineering, support, etc.
trackd.com is a modern patch management platform with a unique twist. Our solution records the experience of vulnerability remediation practitioners after they’ve applied a given patch (i.e. did it break something?), anonymizes that data, and then shares it in real-time with all other trackd platform users. The data enables remediation teams to identify the small percentage of patches that are likely to break something, as well as those with little or no history of disruption that can be considered strong candidates for auto-patching.
Ask any CIO about corporate data and they’ll happily share all the work they’ve done to make their databases secure and compliant. Ask them about other sensitive information, like contracts, financial documents, and source code, and you’ll probably get a much less confident response. Few organizations have any insight into business-critical information stored in unstructured data. There was a time when that didn’t matter. Those days are gone. Data is now accessible, copious, and dispersed, and it includes an alarming amount of business-critical information. It’s a target for both cybercriminals and regulators but securing it is incredibly difficult. It’s the data challenge of our generation. Existing approaches aren’t doing the job. Keyword searches produce a bewildering array of possibly relevant documents that may or may not be business critical. Asking users to categorize documents requires extensive training and constant vigilance to make sure users are doing their part. What’s needed is an autonomous solution that can find and assess risk so you can secure your unstructured data wherever it lives. That’s our mission. Concentric’s semantic intelligence solution reveals the meaning in your structured and unstructured data so you can fight off data loss and meet compliance and privacy mandates.
Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions. Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure. Automox dramatically reduces corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver best-in-class security outcomes, faster and with fewer resources.
Partners
ISSA is the community of choice for international cybersecurity professionals dedicated to advancing individual growth, managing technology risk and protecting critical information and infrastructure.
The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications, and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill, and professional growth of its members. Join today.
(ISC)² is an international nonprofit membership association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world. Best known for the acclaimed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) certification, (ISC)² offers a portfolio of credentials that are part of a holistic, pragmatic approach to security. Our membership, more than 168,000 strong, is made up of certified cyber, information, software and infrastructure security professionals who are making a difference and helping to advance the industry.
Founded in 2012, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) is a National 501(c)3 non-profit community, focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. WSC’s mission is to advance women in cybersecurity careers by providing programs and partnerships that promote hands-on training, networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing and other professional opportunities.
WSC serves thousands of women across the globe by bringing awareness to, and advancing careers in, cybersecurity. The WSC community includes information security professionals, IT professionals, programmers, computer scientists and engineers, as well as women wanting to explore and join the field. Recognizing the importance of encouraging girls to embrace a future in STEM-related professions through its Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, WSC provides a unique hands-on curriculum focused on securing information technology. For more information, visit http://www.womenscyberjutsu.org.
We put our heart and soul into this Cybersecurity Conference directory.
Way back in 2013 we had another website called “Concise Courses” which used to market and sell InfoSec training courses. We published a blog post listing all the upcoming InfoSec Conferences of that year, and Google loved the resource and put us right to the top of the search engines. That ‘accidental’ occurrence spawned this directory which is maintained by a small team comprising of Henry Dalziel and Charles Villaneuva and a bunch of freelance programmers.
What We Do:
We list, literally, every single Information Security conference, event and seminar within every niche in Cybersecurity.
We have a dedicated team that maintains our in-house tech stack, directory, and data curation.
The Pan Asian American Business Council (“PAABC”) is a non-profit organization consisting of Asian American businesses that would like to promote and grow their own and other Asian American businesses.
To enable Asian American owned businesses to develop and grow.
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