Organizations are continuing to migrate essential services and applications to the cloud. While leveraging the cloud has its distinct advantages, embracing a security-first approach to cloud adoption is paramount. No matter what your organization’s approach to cloud infrastructure is, utilizing it for endpoint security can tilt the advantage back in your favor. This panel will highlight ways the cloud enhances the ability to detect, prevent and respond to attacks far beyond existing legacy security architectures.

Elections blend together an array of technical, logistical and governance challenges — and security is foundational to ensuring trust in their outcomes. Nation-state adversaries have long sought to gather intelligence on political candidates, their network of advisers, and election organizations. In recent years, adversaries have also used a variety of methods to attempt to influence election results globally. In this panel, some of the nation’s foremost experts will discuss the evolving threat environment and practices to strengthen security ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections.

Federal agencies are only as secure as the contractors they employ and the software and applications they implement to provide services and safeguard their sensitive information. On top of looking to infiltrate a department’s networks through its end users, adversaries are also becoming savvier by targeting second- and third-tier subcontractors in order to move up the supply chain. To combat this, federal agencies with large supply chains like the Department of Defense are developing new cybersecurity certification standards to ensure the industrial base is secure enough to do business with. Federal officials will discuss the latest efforts to secure the supply chain and share the ongoing challenges they face when introducing a new model to ensure the cybersecurity maturity of their essential industry partners.

Universities across the country switched to distance learning in a matter of days, as the coronavirus pandemic began to sweep across the nation. Now, as schools mull over what the future holds for in-person instruction, university administrators are evaluating how to boost academic freedom and student experience without compromising privacy or security. In this session, higher education tech experts will highlight their wins — and talk about the challenges — of their move to distance learning, as well as look ahead to what’s next.