Pack your bags, check your gear, and secure your plans, IOT's Second Annual Cybersecurity Training Base Camp is coming on June 17!

To reach the summit, you need a strong start. Before you submit, begin your cybersecurity journey at IOT's Cybersecurity Training Base Camp. Why "Base Camp"? Because this is where you gather your supplies, review your route, and connect with Digital Mountain Guides. We are developing an exciting program filled with insightful presentations to help you prepare for the challenges ahead.

What can you expect at Base Camp?

You will have the opportunity to attend four out of six engaging presentations, each offering practical and actionable insights. The call for presentations is now open [LINK]. Updates will be provided as our presentations are confirmed.

By popular demand for a second year join the CISA team for "Mission: Incident Response"! It's time to sharpen your skills through a simulated cyber incident that will require your team to activate your incident response plan. 

Sessions:

• Arctic Wolf: Summit Survival Stories: IT Leaders Navigating Security Incidents
  • Join a focused discussion with Indiana IT leaders who've weathered security incidents, moderated by Arctic Wolf. These local government technology experts will candidly share: What they wish they'd known before their incidents, decisions they would make differently today, and how they've strengthened their security posture afterward.
• CISA: Mission Incident Response
  • Using gameboards and playing cards, players divide into as many as six groups that make up the game community— Emergency Management, Local Government, Local Utilities, Hospital, Bank, and Business—and decide how to invest cyber credits to protect essential services. The community weathers multiple cyber incidents, shares information, and negotiates to prioritize cyber response resources needed to sustain the community’s critical functions.
• Cybertrack: Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Cybersecurity
  • Organizations of all shapes and sizes struggle with how to get started and resource cybersecurity. Many suffer from commonly repeated myths and misunderstandings. This session is designed to arm all organizational leaders, decision makers, and technologists with evidence-based fundamentals (like the Transformative Twelve controls and Trusted CI Framework) and actionable guidance on building a cybersecurity program that makes sense
• Indiana National Guard: Overview of the Current Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
  • This presentation from the Indiana National Guard provides local governments with tactical insights into the current cyber threat landscape. It specifically outlines the types of threats they face, common attack vectors, and actionable steps for immediate defense and an improved security posture.
• Insight: Securing Local Government in the Age of AI
  • Dr. Carm Taglienti, EdD, will examine how public agencies can confidently embrace AI while embedding security and governance into every phase of the AI lifecycle. Drawing from real-world public sector use cases, we’ll explore actionable approaches to securing AI systems, including input/output validation, policy-based access control, auditability of inference, and model monitoring. We’ll also address the urgent need for AI-specific security frameworks that align with existing regulatory requirements (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act).
• Rubrik: Zero Trust Approach to Cyber Resiliency
  • In this session, Rubrik experts will outline how organizations can implement Zero Trust data security principles to be cyber resilient and protect data no matter where it resides. Learn how to apply Zero Trust best practices to secure sensitive workloads and what technologies and strategies enable rapid recovery from ransomware or data breaches.
• Udemy: The New Half-life of Skills
  • Dive into the alarming reality of the ever-shortening "half-life" of tech expertise, revealing how quickly once-valuable skills can become outdated. Understand why continuous upskilling is no longer a suggestion but a fundamental necessity for organizations and individuals to remain competitive, innovative, and secure despite constant technological advancement.

Schedule:

10:30 – 11:00 am: Registration

11 – 11:40 am: Session 1.1
11:45 am – 12:30 pm: Session 1.2

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 – 2:15 pm: Session 2.1
2:15 – 3 pm: Session 2.2

3:00 – 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 – 4:15 pm: Session 3.1
4:15 – 5:00 pm: Session 3.2

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. - GMIS Indiana – Top Golf Outing (Not an IOT event): https://gmisindiana.wildapricot.org/event-6150716