Region One hosted a Cybersecurity Summit for 2019 in Edinburg, TX. The event was free and I signed up to attend. It was a great event that had many great presenters. The theme of the summit was Cybersecurity on a regional level. Here are some of the talks I attended and the takeaways I got from them.

Reduce Your Cybersecurity Risk and Get Complaint with SB 820

– Develop Policy: use already established policies as blueprints
– Items to invest in: Malware protection/Endpoint protection, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Spam Filtering, Log Monitoring

Sharpen your Cybersecurity Skills in 1 Hour

– Leverage free courses

– Practice as much as possible (1 hour a day)

– Find and compete in Cybersecurity competitions

Ransomware: How to Detect, Prevent, and Respond

– “Not a matter of If but When”

– Leverage immutable storage

– Develop strategies and policies.