Andrew McClure’s Post

Last week we held our third annual Global Cyber Innovation Forum in Washington, DC. Thank you to our many distinguished guests, panelists, and security leaders for joining us at Forgepoint Capital, along with our co-hosts at Carahsoft, Google Cloud Security, Snowflake, and Forescout Technologies Inc., for this flagship event with leaders across the public and private sector, which we held this year at the Embassy of Canada | Ambassade du Canada. Jeanette Manfra, Director, Risk and Compliance at Google, led a conversation on Securing Critical Infrastructure Against a ‘Typhoon’ of Attacks along with Rich Baich, CISO, AT&T; Chris Leigh, CISO, Eversource Energy; Brian Scott, Deputy Assistant National Cyber Director for Cyber Policy and Programs, ONCD; and Shannon Stafford, Director of Security Operations and Engineering, Entergy. cc Nicholas Panos Michael McLaughlin, Head of Security & Privacy at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, led a panel on Securing Data and Privacy in the Era of AI and at the Edge Frontier with Andrew Hoog, Co-Founder and CTO, NowSecure; Roman J., Chief Privacy Officer, DHS; and Brad Jones, CISO, Snowflake. cc Matthew Rose Chris Finan, CEO at Anitian, led a session on Regulatory Harmonization to Simplify Compliance and Cut Red Tape with Leslie Beavers, Principal Deputy CIO, DoD; Nathan Simington, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; Craig Unger, Founder & CEO, Hyperproof; and Vincent Voci, Director, Global Government Relations & Partnerships, Cloudflare. Alexander Botting, Senior Director, Global Security & Technology Strategy at Venable LLP led a panel on International Collaboration Amid Mounting Transnational Cyber Threats with Nick Andersen, President & CEO, Invictus International Consulting, LLC; Ghislain Chaput, Cyber Attaché, Embassy of Canada; Chris Gower, Minister Counsellor, Australian Home Affairs; and Annie Plews, Head of Cyber Policy, British Embassy. cc Alex Whitworth Keynoting was Congressman John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, reviewing the bipartisan legislative and strategic efforts underway to safeguard America's digital future. cc Alison King Our closing fireside chat with Alexei Bulazel, Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council, highlighted top cyber priorities to defend the nation and advance the national interest. #defendingthedigitalworld