Presents
Improving Federal Cybersecurity with Event Data
In partnership with 
November 2, 2021, 1:30-2:30 PM ET
1 CPE Credit Available for this Event***
Panel: Improving Federal Cybersecurity with Event Data
The President’s Executive Order (EO) on “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (14028)” issued on May 12, 2021 has aggressively outlined an action plan for protecting our nation against the increasing volume and danger of cyber attacks. The order, and follow on guidance from OMB, is unquestionably setting the right direction but its execution brings with it several challenges that will confront all agencies.
Amongst the largest of those challenges is how to collect, harness, and store the massive amounts of event data required to be effective and comply with OMB requirements
- The data rates from app logs, system logs, security logs, network devices, services events, network traffic, and other required sources can be technically challenging to handle and do so cost effectively.
OMB guidelines require long term data retention of 30 months in all but a few cases. Coupled with the data rates, the amount of persisted data will be massive.
Since most agencies have distributed and hybrid compute environments, collecting event data from all of these disparate locations and sending it over the network to central locations can have a huge impact on network capacity and cost.
Any of this data must be readily and easily available to share FBI, CISA, and other partner agencies.
This session features a panel of government and industry experts who will share their approaches and considerations in tackling the important demands of leveraging event data in cyber defense.
Allison McCall
Chief Information Officer, National Technical Information Service
Ralph Mosios
Chief Information Security Officer, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Joe Ramsey
Chief Information Security Officer, International Trade Administration (pending agency approval)
Paul Blahusch
Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Department of Labor
Will LaForest
Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Confluent
Moderator: Tom Suder
CEO, ATARC
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