Available on Demand | May 19, 2026 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE

Cybersecurity consistently ranks as state CIOs’ top priority in IT. But resilience – the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks and disruptions, ensuring critical services continue despite adversity, and moving beyond prevention to focus on rapid response and continuity of operations when breaches inevitably occur – has not received the same kind of attention.

A report in November 2024 focusing on states’ efforts on resilience found that 69% of respondents in the state/local/education (SLED) sector acknowledged that cyber resilience is not a whole-organization priority and a majority of IT governance teams didn’t understand what cyber resilience is.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their insights for building resilience into any agency’s IT systems, from using Zero Trust architectures to establishing cyber platforms that give security operations centers (SOCs) the base for security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR).

We’ll Discuss:

  • Establish a working definition of resilience for your organization
  • Understand the complementary roles of cybersecurity and resilience in keeping agency systems operational in the event of a cyber attack
  • Evaluate ways to use SIEM and SOAR to strengthen your SOC’s performance

Accreditation:

Participants can earn 1 CPE credit in Business Management & Organization.*

* To receive CPE credit you must arrive on time and participate in the surveys throughout the webinar. Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE. By providing your contact information to us, you agree: (i) to receive promotional and/or news alerts from Federal News Network and our third party partners, (ii) that we may share your information with our third party partners who provide products and services that may be of interest to you and (iii) that you are not located within the European Economic Area.

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Featured Speakers:

Jason Bowen, Statewide Chief Information Security Officer, Information Security Division, Illinois Dept. of Innovation & Information Technology

Jason Bowen
Statewide CISO, Information Security Division, Illinois Dept. of Innovation & Information Technology
John Israel, Assistant Commissioner, CISO, State of Minnesota

John Israel
Assistant Commissioner, CISO,
State of Minnesota
Gene Meltser, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Connecticut

Gene Meltser
Chief Information Security Officer,
State of Connecticut
Benjamin Scott, Director, Critical Infrastructure & OT Strategy & Programs, U.S. Public Sector, Fortinet

Benjamin Scott
Director, Critical Infrastructure & OT Strategy
& Programs, U.S. Public Sector, Fortinet
John Breeden II, Moderator & Contributing Editor, FedInsider

John Breeden II
Contributing Editor,
FedInsider

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