4th Annual Cybersecurity Summit

We open the 2024 Cybersecurity Summit discussing the nationwide cybersecurity landscape and what that looks like across the 574 federally recognized tribes and their tribal enterprises. Although they share similarities, tribes have a diverse range of challenges and are represented in many different sizes. A singular approach to cybersecurity across all tribes is unrealistic and ineffective. In this session our presenter(s) discuss challenges and beneficial strategies for tribes of different sizes, resource availability and at varying cybersecurity maturity levels.

Cybersecurity is critical to minimizing risk and creating a safer digital environment - regardless of the amount of funding or resources you have available. Just as we need to protect our own personal phones, computers, online devices and personal data, every organization must do the same for their employees and infrastructure. In this session we will speak specifically to tactics to do this effectively with a limited budget and resources.

This session is all about aligning and structuring the limited number of cybersecurity human resources you have to best meet the overwhelming cybersecurity needs of the entire tribe or tribal enterprise. What are the job titles, duties and organizational structure that will make the best use of your human resources?

It is great to see that more tribes each year have the financial ability and forward thinking tribal leadership mindset to invest in their cybersecurity and digital security infrastructure. In this session we continue that forward looking preparedness strategy by looking at emerging cyber trends and cyber threats to all tribal organizations and their enterprises

Tribes are diverse organizations that most often span across government, gaming, hospitality, healthcare and a variety of other enterprises. Day-to-day vulnerability management and reaction to any indicators of compromise are a foundational cybersecurity practice. This session is all about strategies and tactics to tighten those practices.

No tribal executive or cyber leader wants to become the next nationwide cyber headline. This session is intended to help you learn from what we know about past cyber breaches and discuss some of the practices you can implement at your own tribe to not be the next cyber headline.

Rather than a slow evolution of a new technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming at all of us like a revolution with the potential to be a very disruptive technology change across our tribal organizations. AI has tribal executives and their cybersecurity teams on edge without a clear path to both harness and govern the use of AI in their organization. This session is all about sharing some practical steps that every tribe can be taking today to get ahead of this AI revolution, protect their tribe and data, and still remain able to harness the potential benefits of AI.

Join this session to better understand and get connected to valuable cyber security resources available to all tribes and tribal enterprises. From the latest on cyber funding through the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program to updates on what you need to know and pay attention to in 2024 from industry resources. Additionally, if your tribe is not already participating in the Tribal-ISAC, you can learn more about this cybersecurity resource and information sharing community that every tribe should be a part of.

Take some time to connect to and learn about a few of the products and solutions that are availabe to your tribe on our virtual tradeshow floor. We all want to work with solution providers that support the tribal community, and all of these exhibitors have done just that by making this virtual event possible.

This is your opportunity to up your knowledge and game while you sit back and quickly learn about multiple cybersecurity solutions available to your tribe. Get informed, aware and more knowledable on a number of vendors and cyber products and services in one short hour.

Are we still talking about and trying to fully implement MFA across our tribe and tribal enterprises? We all know the answer is probably "YES", and in this session we identify many of the challenges any tribe often faces that make full MFA adoption and implementation a challenge to achieve.

We can all be a target of various digital threats, but your organizations executive and key team members are being singled out and targeted at an increasingly higher rate. In this session we discuss what you need to know and strategies to mitigate this growing threat.

All penetration testing is not created equal. Are you really getting what you need out of your planned network, data and infrastructure penetration testing? This session discusses what you should look for and demand in your cyber penetration testing from leaders that have been there and done that.

Our closing keynote will leave you with practical ways to effectively bridge the gap between the tribe, tribal enterprises, executive team and the cybersecurity team resources that prevent you from achieving your cybersecurity goals and needs. Cybersecurity is an organizational challenge that requires everyone's participation, understanding and diligence to be effective. The challenge of creating effective communication and understanding among tribal executives and the organizations cybersecurity resources continues to be problematic and a roadblock to success.