In the face of escalating attacks spanning broader scope, scale, and attrition, today’s public sector cybersecurity leaders must transition from simple compliance to more comprehensive risk management – while accelerating threat response and mean time to remediation (MTTR). From leveraging artificial intelligence-enabled automation to operationalizing zero trust, from fortifying cloud environments to mitigating supply chain vulnera...

The premise of Moore’s law is that the speed and capability of computers can be expected to double every two years. Unspoken but implied is that new technologies will be introduced at a similar clip – along with new, sometimes unforeseen, challenges. Cybersecurity professionals know all about Moore’s law. For instance, the past 18 months has brought artificial intelligence (AI) into the mainstream, introducing plenty of both...

Defense Strategies Institute is proud to announce our upcoming 9th Annual Counter Insider Threat Symposium to be held at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. on September 4-5, 2024. This Symposium will bring together leaders and experts across government and industry to discuss the current insider threat environment, as well as the technologies and policies necessary to disrupt and dismantle those threats and safeguard sensitive inf...

Thriving Together in a Dynamic World

Together, we have the resources to rise to this challenge. Our 2024 Summits will allow our members to share collective knowledge and experience along the following tracks:

• Intelligence
  
  • Incidents and Campaigns
  • Intel Practices and Methodology
  • Actor TTP Analysis
• Security
  
  • Working Group Topics (Anti-Fraud, Red Teaming, AI Risk, PQC, etc)
  • COIs & Industry Specific Topics (including regulation)
  • Network Defense
  • App and Data Security
  • Emerging Technology
• Resilience
  
  • GRC
  • Board Reporting
  • Exercises
  • Insider Risk
  • Biz Resilience
  • Third-Party Risk Management

Monumental changes and developments across the global geopolitical landscape in recent years have played a key role in shaping the United States’ homeland security strategies and priorities. Protecting our homeland from evolving threats is top of mind for the U.S. government in this particularly complex era of defense and security. As competition intensifies between the world’s major players, new pacing challenges, vulnerabilities...