“As the world’s fifth-largest economy, California’s cities have unique requirements and rules that are different from other municipalities in America,” says a news release from the Municipal Information Systems Association of California (MISAC). “There are currently multiple nation-states, cybercriminals, and hacktivists that actively pursue cyber harm to California.”
Topics to be covered in the free webinar, which runs from 11 a.m. to noon Oct. 7, include: “Current Cyber Threat Landscape,” “Weaponizing End Users,” “Ransomware and Why it Works,” “Why Implement Cyber Policies and Training,” “Protecting the Citizen at Home, Remote Work and Mobile,” “COVID-19 Cyber Scams,” “Election Subversion, Defamation, and Disruption Strategies of Hackers and Nation States,” and “Securing Remote Connections.”
Presenters from the public sector will include Roseville Chief Information Officer Hong Sae, president of MISAC; Fresno CIO Bryon Horn; Fresno’s cybersecurity supervisor, Zach Serrano; and Martin Minnich, program manager for the California Cybersecurity Institute (CCI) at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.
More details and a registration link are available through MISAC’s announcement page. For additional information, contact Jimmy Baker at (805) 756-2948 or jbaker30@calpoly.edu.
