Accomplishments

Cyber Security—Cyber First Responders Conference—On April 14-15, 2015, the Business Information Solutions Department sponsored a Cyber Security 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 Cyber Security 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