Current IT modernization plans create opportunities for tremendous gains in effectiveness and efficiency. However, if poorly implemented, they can also increase risk. Successful leaders know that while it’s impossible to eliminate risk, it can be managed. Attendees will come away with a good understanding of the basics of the Risk Management Framework (prescribed by NIST Standards) and how to begin to apply it.

Session participants will earn 1 CEU for the following CompTIA certifications: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CSA+, or CASP.

The Target breach exposed the credit card information of 40 million customers and made huge international headlines. But, the entry point should have been the real story. No matter how solid a company’s cyber defense, they have to be concerned with their entire cybersecurity exposure, including supply, partner and support chains. In the Target case, there were errors throughout. It was a breach waiting to happen.