Lunch Keynote: A Different Type of State Emergency: Cyber!
Presented by the State of Colorado:
Governor's Office of Information Technology, Chief Information Security Officer
Deborah Blyth, CISSP, CISM
Director, CO Office of Emergency Management
Michael J. Willis
In 2018 the State of Colorado was the first state in the nation to ever declare a state emergency, based on a cybersecurity event. The Colorado Department of Transportation experienced a SamSam ransomware attack, which crippled its business operations for an entire month. Colorado's State CISO & Director of the Office of Emergency Management will talk about the event, the partnership that restored operations, and lessons learned.