A Different Type of State Emergency: Cyber!

In 2018 the State of Colorado was the first state in the nation to ever declare a state emergency, based on a cybersecurity event.  The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) experienced a SamSam ransomware attack, which crippled its business operations for an entire month.  Colorado's state CISO will talk about the event, the partnerships that helped to restore CDOT, communications challenges, and lessons learned.

Deborah Blyth, CISSP, CISM

Chief Information Security Officer, Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology