Calm vs. Chaos

The Case for Managed Cybersecurity Operations and Its Impact on Your Role as an IT Manager

Wednesday, Oct. 25 @ 2:00 pm ET

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In today’s advanced cyber threat environment, IT Managers face a huge challenge: Cyber attacks can no longer be prevented.

Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 2:00 pm ET as we update you on the current state of cyber threats facing local government agencies and how to best protect your agency from the unthinkable:

Greg Scasny, CTO of Blueshift Cybersecurity will share why:

Prevention Isn’t possible: Zero Day attacks, Supply Chain Attacks, Social Engineering attacks require a different approach.

Shift To Defensive Cyber – Why agencies should adopt a paradigm shift that anticipates the inevitable compromise, focusing more resources on early detection and response

Why Defensive Cybersecurity is a Big Data Challenge: demanding a platform that combines maximum visibility, SOAR automation, and a highly skilled team of cyber analysts to detect threats and deliver rapid response.

How to make Defensive Cyber affordable: Maintaining in-house cybersecurity analysts is costly and complex. The right managed cybersecurity partner combines an affordable platform with world-class threat hunters for a fraction of the cost of an in-house solution..

Guest Speaker Sanford Hess, IT Manager of the City of Urbana will share some first hand experience with:

The Changing Role of IT Managers: As everything moves to the cloud, how the role of IT Managers has evolved
How to Add Value with Managed Services: As critical systems are increasingly delivered as-a-service, why IT Managers need to think more like a business analyst and less like a technician.

95%

increase in ransomware attacks against Local governments in 2022

106

State / Local governments suffered a ransomware attack in 2022

72%

of attacks against Local / State governments resulted in data being encrypted

68%

of attacks against Local / State governments resulted in data exfiltration

Presenters

Greg Scasny

Chief Technology Officer

Blueshift Cybersecurity

Greg Scasny has over 20 years of experience in IT and Information Security. He is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Technology, focusing on networking, security, and communications. Greg has a passion for taking complex business and security problems and creating innovative, scalable solutions that can be deployed quickly and operated efficiently.

Sanford Hess

IT Manager

City of Urbana, Illinois

Sanford Hess is the IT Director of the City of Urbana, overseeing all technology purchased and used by its Departments. Before that he spent 20 years working for a software company on ERP projects for State & Local government. He started as a Business Analyst, and then moved on to every role he could: Functional Expert, Team Lead, Project Manager, Software Demonstrator, and Product Manager… before ultimately reverting back to just being a Business Analyst at the very end. As an IT Director, he continues to primarily be a business analyst, guiding his clients (City Departments) through a dizzying array of new technology problems.

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