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Cyber First Responders Conference

Cybersecurity—Cyber First Responders Conference—On April 14-15, 2015, the Business Information Solutions Department sponsored a Cybersecurity conference. The following is of the Cyber First Responders Conference:

The Cyber First Responders Conference had 265 participants and 95 companies from Community Organizations, Government, Industry, Public Education, Students and Universities. The Following establishments provided invaluable insight on the importance of Cyber Security.

Federal, Bureau of Investigation
National Security Agency
White Cloud Security
Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS)
City of San Antonio
Code.org
Rackspace

The Cyber First Responders Conference provided our community with 8 leading Cybersecurity guest speakers:

Keynote Speaker Jon Ford, MCJ, FBI Supervisory Special Agent, San Antonio Division Cyber and Computer Analysis Response Teams
Steve Shanklin, CEO, Founder and Architect

White Cloud Security Presentation: An Ounce of Malware Prevention is worth a Ton of Remediation

Gregory White, PhD., Director, Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS)
Patsy Boozer, M.S., Chief Information Security Officer City of San Antonio
Jim Brazell, San Antonio: America’s # 1 City for First Responders Cyber Security
Phillip G. Eaglin, PhD., CEO of Changing Expectations, Code.org
Luke Huckaba, Virtualization Architect at Rackspace, Hardening a Virtual Environment Using VMware vSphere