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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Stranger in a Changed Land\n   When: Friday\, Aug 9\
 , 17:30 - 17:50 PDT\n   Where: LVCC West/Floor 3/W322-W327 - [1]Map\n\n   
 Description:\n\n   What's it like to spend a career as a cyberdefender for
  the DoD and\n   the nation\, but homed inside of an intelligence agency? 
 In this talk\,\n   I'll offer a historical and personal perspective based 
 on 35 years at\n   the National Security Agency as a vulnerability analyst
  for the\n   defense\, from junior analyst to executive manager. The commo
 n element\n   across my career was the search for vulnerabilities in the n
 ame of\n   defense - finding them\, making sense of them\, leading organiz
 ations to\n   find them\, and then translating that knowledge into action 
 to prevent\n   or manage them. I'll share lessons learned as cyberdefense 
 evolved\n   from a focus on mathematics and cryptography to systems and so
 ftware\;\n   and from government security to a global internet. And we'll 
 focus on\n   the mission\, technical\, and cultural interplay of cyberdefe
 nse and\n   offense/intelligence as it played out at NSA. War stories\, cu
 lture\n   clashes\, bureaucratic mazes? Of course! But in the end\, better
 \n   security for all.\n\n   Communications Security\, Computer Security\,
  Information Security\,\n   Information Assurance\, Defensive Information 
 Operations\, and several\n   more - I'm very lucky to have ridden the Worl
 d-Wide Wave we now call\n   cybersecurity.\n\n   And I am very proud to ha
 ve spent 35 years in Federal Service at the\n   National Security Agency a
 s part of the Information Assurance mission.\n   The common element across
  my career was the search for vulnerabilities\n   in the name of defense -
  finding vulnerabilities\, making sense of\n   them\, leading organization
 s to find them\, and then translating that\n   knowledge into action to pr
 event or manage them.\n\n   That final challenge consumed the last third o
 f my government career.\n   How can we translate what we learn through pro
 duct testing\, Red Teams\,\n   Blue Teams\, systems analysis\, etc. into o
 perational guidance\, best\n   practices\, requirements\, training\, and s
 ecurity improvements? How can\n   we bridge the gap between telling people
  what they are doing wrong\,\n   and helping them do what's right? This le
 d to projects like the\n   release of NSA Security Guides to the public (w
 ww.nsa.gov)\,\n   involvement in open standards for security automation an
 d information\n   sharing\, and an activity now known as the Critical Secu
 rity Controls.\n\n   Since retirement in 2012\, I have been able to contin
 ue to serve the\n   cause of cyber defense through our work at the non-pro
 fit Center for\n   Internet Security\, and the Council on CyberSecurity be
 fore that. And I\n   am very active in more volunteer cybersecurity causes
  than I can\n   recall.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Tony Sager\, Senior VP & Chief 
 Evangelist at Center for\n   Internet Security (CIS)\n\n   Tony is current
 ly Senior VP & Chief Evangelist for the Center for\n   Internet Security (
 CIS)\, leading a wide variety of strategic\,\n   partnership\, and outreac
 h activities. He led the work which later\n   became known as the CIS Crit
 ical Security Controls – an independent\,\n   volunteer-developed\, cybe
 r defense best practices program which is\n   used throughout the industry
 . Tony has led numerous other activities\n   to develop\, share\, scale\, 
 and sustain effective defensive cyber\n   practices for worldwide adoption
 .\n\n   In addition to his duties at CIS\, Tony is a volunteer in numerous
 \n   cyber community service activities: inaugural member of the DHS/CISA\
 n   Cyber Safety Review Board\; Advisor to the Minnesota Cyber Security\n 
   Summit\; Advisory Boards for several local schools and colleges\;\n   fo
 rmerly a member of the National Academy of Sciences Cyber Resilience\n   F
 orum\; and service on numerous national-level study groups and\n   advisor
 y panels.\n\n   Tony retired from the National Security Agency in 2012 aft
 er 34 years\n   as a mathematician\, computer scientist\, and executive ma
 nager. As one\n   of the Agency’s first Software Vulnerability Analysts\
 , he helped\n   create and led two premier NSA cyber defense organizations
  (the System\n   and Network Attack Center\, and the Vulnerability Analysi
 s and\n   Operations Group). In 2001\, he led the release of NSA security\
 n   guidance to the public and expanded NSA’s role in the development of
 \n   open standards for security.\n\n   In 2023\, Tony was inducted into t
 he Cybersecurity Hall of Fame.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level3_North\n\n\n
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LOCATION:DC - LVCC West/Floor 3/W322-W327
SUMMARY:Stranger in a Changed Land
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