Three Cybersecurity Areas to Keep Top of Mind in 2024

There are three key security areas that state and local government cybersecurity leaders should remember to keep top of mind as they venture into 2024 – generative AI, cyber insurance and election security.

Generative AI will undoubtedly continue to transform the cybersecurity landscape in new ways, and IT teams will need to plan for its integration this year and beyond. With the new capabilities that AI brings also come new threats that have major implications for cyber insurance, the second cybersecurity area that will require a strategized approach to ensure success in 2024. Election security should also be top of mind for state and local cybersecurity leaders in this presidential election year.

Join Government Technology and Arctic Wolf for a live webinar where a panel of experts will dive into the latest trends in generative AI, cyber insurance and election security. The panel will also extract insights from a brand-new survey report on election cybersecurity from the Center for Digital Government.

You’ll Learn:

Key findings from new survey data on election security
How generative AI will impact the next generation of security operations
How cyber insurance coverage is evolving with the current threat

Speaker and Presenter Information

Mike McCleary, Product Marketing Manager, Arctic Wolf

Mike McCleary is a cybersecurity product marketing professional with a background in digital forensics marketing and technology partnerships. More specifically, he has expertise in MDR and security operations, DFIR solutions for law enforcement, and establishing research partnerships between private sector organizations and university researchers in the areas of cryptography, cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence, among others.

Bryan Langley, Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bryan J. Langley serves as the senior vice president of defense development at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, where he is responsible for developing a strategic plan for long-term state investment in the defense marketspace, with the goal of tripling federal defense investments by December 2024. Bryan served as executive director of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Advisory (HSA) for US DHS. He previously served as global security manager at Columbus-based Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) and as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting. He also worked in the White House as the U.S. assistant chief of protocol under the George W. Bush administration.

Deborah A. Snyder — Moderator, Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Deborah is an accomplished C-level influencer, with a broad range of experience in government, policy, cybersecurity, privacy and information technology. An experienced and highly respected thought leader who has held executive roles for over two decades.

She recently retired from her position as New York state’s chief information security officer (CISO) after over 35 years of public service.

In that role, as part of New York state’s information technology transformation and consolidation initiative, she helped redesign how the state protects its data. As state CISO, she directed the state’s comprehensive cybersecurity governance, risk management and compliance program, providing strategic leadership and vision, and assuring business-aligned, risk-based investments that maximized business opportunity and minimized cybersecurity risk. She also directed the NYS Cyber Command Center, hotline, procedures for reporting and response to cyberthreats, and digital forensics.

She holds multiple industry certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC); SANS Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership (GSTRT) Global Information Assurance Certification; and Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professional (PMP).