The Week Ahead: Cybersecurity awareness month continues with events on women in cyber, vulnerability info-sharing

The Cyber Guild’s Uniting Women in Cyber conference is on Thursday in Tysons, VA. The agenda features Mastercard’s Kiersten Todt speaking about AI governance, Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser discussing cybersecurity and online privacy challenges facing children and former NSA cyber leader Rob Joyce participating in a panel on coordinating cyber defense. Todt was chief of staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, while Kaiser previously worked at the FBI as deputy assistant director for the Cyber Division.

Joyce is a former White House official and spent 34 years in various roles at the National Security Agency. Camille Stewart Gloster, former deputy national cyber director for technology and ecosystem security, and Bryan Ware, former assistant director of CISA’s Cybersecurity Division, are also among the featured speakers. Venable’s Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law hosts a Wednesday webinar to discuss options to strengthen vulnerability information sharing.

Speakers include Mike Epley of Red Hat and Chainguard’s Kim Gajewski and Venable’s Caitlin Clarke as moderator. The webinar will build on a Sept. 24 white paper reviewing policy solutions to vulnerability management coordination.

The white paper was developed through CCPL and the Cybersecurity Coalition. Former U.S. Cyber Command leader Paul Nakasone headlines the ThreatCon1 summit in Reston, VA.

The threat intelligence-focused summit also includes speakers from the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and IBM. The Brookings Institution hosts a virtual event on Tuesday to discuss how the U.S. and China are approaching regulating artificial intelligence models for safety. The agenda features include James Lewis of the Center for European Policy Analysis; Kyle Chan of the John L.

Thornton China Center; Trivium China’s Kendra Schaefer; and Matt Sheehan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The conversation will be moderated by Mark MacCarthy of the Center for Technology Innovation. The Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Association’s AnchorNETS conference runs Wednesday through Friday.

Wednesday’s agenda features a workshop on cybersecurity, including panels on how cybersecurity fits into the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program, and a presentation from CISA School Safety Task Force program specialist Julian Albizo on the agency’s K-12 cybersecurity foundations resource package. The SANS Institute hosts a webinar today on securing operational technology assets against quantum computing threats. GovCIO hosts a cloud forum on Thursday.

Speakers include Kevin Walsh, director of information technology at the Government Accountability Office; Eric Miller, senior advisor for open source intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Nicole Thompson, senior director of FedRAMP at the General Services Administration. The Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is holding a virtual cybersecurity expo Tuesday and Wednesday. Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Mike Duffy will provide a keynote on Tuesday.