Webinars

Cybersecurity awareness for your business — a two-part series

In 2021, cybersecurity is as important as ever. With ever-growing threats to businesses, having a robust security solution and plan is absolutely necessary.

We’ve all heard the stories of enterprises paying huge fines or even going out of business because of a simple hack to their systems. There are simply far too many threats out there to ignore the risks — from ransomware to phishing, it could cost you your livelihood. We invite you to join this two-part webinar series, where we will discuss ways to prevent cyberattacks, how to safeguard your business effectively and how to respond to a cyberattack and recover.

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Part 1: How to Prevent a Cyberattack
October 21st at 10 a.m. MT

Part 2: Respond and Recover from a Cyberattack
October 26th at 10 a.m. MT

MODERATOR

Edward Vasko
Boise State University’s Institute of Pervasive Cybersecurity

Edward Vasko, CISSP, is the Director of Boise State University’s Institute of Pervasive Cybersecurity where he is currently helping Boise State establish itself as a top-tier University known for solving the complex cybersecurity problems facing all businesses, industries, and critical infrastructure. In doing so, his goal is to establish Boise State as a national leader of cybersecurity research and workforce development. He is a successive entrepreneur with over 30-years of experience in the cybersecurity industry. Prior to joining Boise State University, Edward established and was a Senior Vice President at Avertium, a leading national managed security and consulting provider. Before establishing Avertium, he was the co-Founder and CEO of Terra Verde, based in Phoenix, Arizona. Edward grew Terra Verde into Arizona’s largest provider of cybersecurity advisory and managed security services, with over 2,000 active clients around the world. Through his career, he started, successfully ran, and exited five businesses, all in the cybersecurity industry. His extensive experience in cybersecurity provides him deep expertise to help organizations of all sizes in securing their critical assets.

Edward is also an active member on university advisory councils, working with universities to develop curriculum that more quickly enable our highly needed Cybersecurity workforce ready to help defend the nation’s critical data and assets. Appointed by Arizona’s Governor, Edward held a Commissioner role in Arizona’s Commission for Post-Secondary Education from 2015-2019. He was also appointed as the co-Chair of Arizona’s Cyber Team (ACT) Workforce Development Committee. He is a graduate of Arizona State University and multi-year recipient of ASU’s Sun Devil 100 business leadership award. Most importantly though, Edward is a proud father and husband.

PANELISTS

MacKenzie Brown
Incident Response and Security Crisis Consultant (DART Team at Microsoft)

MacKenzie Brown brings both technical and research experience to her position as an Incident Response and Security Crisis Consultant for Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART). There, she works with worldwide customers, taking a deeper dive into their security operations and environment, using the current threat intelligence of adversary techniques and tools, Microsoft’s cloud security stack, and current data metrics, for either proactive or reactive service support. In her previous role at Optiv, Brown focused on providing clients with incident response services, in addition to R&D experience, developing enterprise security program frameworks and strategic deliverables which provide model, direction, and development for implementing security solutions against emerging threats. Brown leverages her program development skills with her expertise and charismatic disposition for developing business, partner, and client relationships.

Adam Guyton
PayneWest Insurance

Adam Guyton is an Insurance Agent with 15 years’ experience working alongside business owners and executives. Adam is a technician when it comes to commercial insurance and creating risk management strategies for his clients. Adam is a leader in cyber insurance placement and his positive attitude and tireless energy encourage others to work hard and succeed. Adam and his wife live in Boise Idaho with their black lab Hank. In his free time he likes to ski, fish and mountain bike.

Clark Harshbarger
CrowdStrike

Clark Harshbarger is a Director of Incident Response at CrowdStrike, Inc leading Incident Response, Digital Forensics, and complex civil, criminal, and Advanced Persistent Threat access into protected networks. He served 17 years as a Special Agent (SA) with the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he investigated computer intrusions covering simple criminal misuse to complex National Security intrusions. His field experience was centered on Critical Infrastructure and Fortune 500 organization’s threat identification and mitigation. Clark has worked in Information Security, intelligence and research fields for approximately 20 years. SA Harshbarger holds a Masters of Computer Science, a Masters of Information Security, as well as Certificates in Computer Security and Digital Forensics. Clark is even less interesting in person.

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Join us for a discussion around creating a stable, respectful working environment with opportunities for all and help establish your company as an organization with strong values within the community.