MITRE’s Zach Furness, Acting Technical Director at the National Cybersecurity FFRDC, which operates the NCCoE, will be participating in a panel at this year’s Cyber Maryland at the Baltimore Convention Center. The panel is entitled, Academic Catalysts in the Local, National, and International Cybersecurity Ecosystems and Agendas and begins at 11:00 am.

NCCoE Senior Engineer Harry Perper will present "Ransomware Recovery and Privileged Account Management Improve Resilience" on October 4 from 1:45pm to 2:30pm at the FS-ISAC Fall Summit in Baltimore, Md. Malware and insider threat actors often make use of privileged accounts to enable their activities. Recovery from ransomware is complicated by the lack of consistent and protected file and system back-ups. And access rights policies are difficult to enforce using manual processes.

NIST and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are co-hosting the 10th annual conference, Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security, at the Hyatt Regency, Washington, D.C. The conference will explore the current healthcare cybersecurity landscape and the (HIPAA) Security Rule. The NCCoE will provide updates on its Healthcare sector projects in two presentations. 

NCCoE Security Engineer Joshua Franklin will participate in a panel discussion titled "A Defense-in-Depth Approach to Mobile Security" from 11:30am to 12:10pm. This session will explore the different dimensions of mobile security and how they must be managed in a comprehensive approach. Topics include mobile device management, authentication strategies, and the mobile threat landscape. The Mobility Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. and will provide federal IT leaders with insights into the foundations of the mobile ecosystem: Productivity tools, apps, devices, management strategies, and defense-in-depth cybersecurity.