Fordham University”™s Westchester campus will be the site of a March 11 launch in the metropolitan area of a White House initiative on cybersecurity.
Fordham, which annually co-hosts the International Conference on Cyber Security with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been selected by the White House as one of three New York City universities to be part of the national rollout of an executive order that calls for a framework to reduce the nation”™s cyber risk.
Titled “Reducing the Nation”™s Cyber Risk: White House Insights on the President”™s Critical Infrastructure Framework,” the breakfast event will feature a panel discussion and keynote address from Samara Moore, White House director for cybersecurity critical infrastructure protection.
The Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies and the computer and information sciences department will host the event from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at 400 Westchester Ave. in the town of Harrison and on the Fordham Lincoln Center campus. Similar events will take place at Columbia and New York universities.
“It fits perfectly with Fordham”™s cybersecurity interests,” Isabelle Frank, dean of the professional and continuing studies school, said in an announcement. “There’s a track record here.”
Among the panelists will be Fordham’s Frank Hsu, professor of computer and information science. Other panelists include:
- Jon Boyens, senior advisor, information security, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.
- Bob Kolasky, director of strategy and policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Doug Wylie, director, Product Security Risk Management, Rockwell Automation.
- David J. Youssef, cyber incident investigator, Citigroup; teaching fellow, Fordham department of computer and information sciences.
The panel will be moderated by Michael Coden, vice president of the New York Section of ISA99 Cyber Security Standard Working Group and vice president at NextNine.
Coden said panelist will address how President Obama’s new cyber security framework will affect nearly all industries, including energy, finance, health care, communications, transportation, water, chemicals, IT, defense, manufacturing, and nuclear weaponry. “And lawyers,” said Coden. “This will be big business for the legal profession.”
Admission is free. For more information or to reserve a seat, contact Bridget Derry at derry@fordham.edu.
