Speaker Spotlight Q&A: Whitney Phillips, State Privacy Officer, State of Utah

Meet Whitney Phillips, State Privacy Officer, State of Utah Dr. Whitney Phillips was confirmed by the Utah Senate in December 2021 as the first State Privacy Officer. Prior to serving in this role, she spent four years as the Utah State Board of Education’s first Chief Privacy Office, and has held a variety of prior positions in education and government. Dr. Phillips is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional for the U.S. (CIPP). She received her Ph.D. in Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation from Brigham Young University, specializing in longitudinal data analysis.

Australia's Latest Cyber Security Challenges

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Sifting through the Cyber Noise: Macquarie Government's Perspective

As one of the most targeted segments, government agencies IT Security teams are faced with a never-ending battle to keep their environments secure from every new threat. Like the story of the boy and the dyke, there are just too many holes and not enough fingers. Cybersecurity…

The Security Juggling Act

How Does Your Security Stack Up? According to survey respondents from the ANZ Cyber Security Roadshow in 2021 , the majority of Australia and New Zealand's public sector agencies are currently in the strategy development and implementation phases of t…

The Cyber Journey with Okta

The last couple of years since the start of the pandemic have seen an increase in the types and number of cyber security threats, but also in the brazenness of the attacks. According to the survey responses, over half of Australia’s public sector agencies are currently impleme…

Spotlight: Securonix on Consolidation Trends

Consolidation continues to be a positive trend in the User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) industry. SIEM and UEBA were, until relatively recently, separate technology areas, with many technology vendors active in one of those areas, but few active in both. Additionally, Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technology was separate and had its own set of active vendors. These technologies really belong in a single platform, in order to increase the efficiency of the component parts and system as a whole, and to reduce the cost and complexity of those technologies for …

Spotlight: Next Big Thing with Okta

The biggest trend we are seeing is the use of technology to secure and protect access to systems and peoples data. Businesses are really aware of the threat cyber security issues pose to their organizations in both terms of reputational risk and actual commercial loss. Previously this would be handled as a lower lever technology function, but today, from the board through senior management, protecting systems and access is top of mind. We do not see this changing, in fact we see it as becoming even more important as new threats emerge. The next big thing is the evolution of …

Communicating Risk and Mitigating Threats in a Changing Cyber Security Landscape

“There is a direct financial benefit of good security practice at the customer interface, a rapid response program of how to deal with cyber events, and a quick clean-up action. Suddenly it becomes very clear that investment in your cyber security practice becomes financially understood and a viable action.