The Cybersecurity Summit offers something for everyone.
Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just starting your journey, a technical expert, or a non-technical professional – this event is designed with you in mind. Explore diverse sessions, connect with industry leaders, and gain insights tailored to tribal operations across all sectors.
- General Technology
- Cybersecurity
- AI
- Leadership/Executive
- Tribal Gaming/Hospitality
- Tribal Government/Member Services
- Tribal Health Info Management
Sessions
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| Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | |||||
| 9:15am to 9:20am EST |
Shuttle to Tribal-ISAC Golf Outing
Don't miss the bus, literally! Join in on the fun on our way to Miccosukee Golf & Country Club. |
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Golf Outing | Miccosukee Resort Main Entrance | |
| 9:30am to 10:30am EST |
Player Check-In - Kick things off with a warm welcome and chance to win some fun prizes!
The fun starts early- be there for a chance to win! |
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Golf Outing | Miccosukee Golf & Country Club | |
| 11:00am to 11:05am EST |
Shotgun Start - Tribal-ISAC Golf Outing - 4-person scramble, club rentals available for purchase, lunch at the turn on behalf of SHI Public Sector!
Start your Cybersecurity experience off right! Thank you to our sponsor for keeping us going on the course! |
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Golf Outing | Miccosukee Golf & Country Club | |
| 4:00pm to 4:30pm EST |
Awards & Prizes
Don't miss your chance- must be present to win! |
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Golf Outing | Miccosukee Golf & Country Club | |
| 4:30pm to 4:35pm EST |
Shuttle Back to Hotel
Catch a ride back to Miccosukee Casino & Resort! |
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Golf Outing | Course Main Entrance | |
| Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | |||||
| 7:30am to 4:00pm EST |
Registration/Check-In/Badge Pickup
Come see the TribalHub team to pick up your badge and all materials to get you set for the week! |
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2nd floor- Ballroom Foyer | All | |
| 7:30am to 9:00am EST |
Breakfast on Behalf of Abnormal Security
Thank you to our sponsor for helping us start the day off right! |
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Ballroom B/C | All | |
| 9:00am to 10:00am EST |
Opening Keynote: Defining and Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Practical Steps to Get Started with AI
Everybody seems to want AI, every vendor seems to say they have AI, and yet very few people or organizations feel like they fully understand AI or feel they are prepared for it. This session is designed to give you a more complete understanding of what AI is, what it is NOT, and what it is all about. We will also spend some time discussing the foundational policies and practical guidelines that you should have in place now as your organization and your employees look to leverage the many opportunities that AI presents. |
Keynote | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 10:15am to 11:15am EST |
Introduction to Tabletop Exercises and Cyber Games - Why they Matter
What is a "tabletop exercise" or "cyber game", and why are they important and something that we should support and implement at our tribe or tribal enterprise? In this session, we will cover the tremendous benefits that can be achieved through executive-level tabletop exercises as well as more technical cyber game scenarios. Actually testing your cyber policies, processes, controls, and communications is absolutely critical to chances of improving your threat prevention and your ability to respond and recover to any and all threats that are presented to you. Everyone will leave this session understanding more about this subject and how it might be successfully (or more successfully) used in your own organization, and anyone wanting to take an even deeper and more hands-on technical dive can move right into our Capture The Flag (CTF) cyber game in our "Let's Get Technical" educational track immediately following this session. |
Ballroom B/C | ALL | ||
| 11:00am to 5:00pm EST |
Get Your Shirt
Check your badge for your ticket for a complimentary shirt! TODAY ONLY! |
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Ballroom Foyer | ALL | |
| 11:15am to 11:30am EST |
AM Break on Behalf of Bulletproof
Thanks to our sponsor for helping us re-fuel! |
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Ballroom Foyer | ALL | |
| 11:30am to 12:30pm EST |
The Cybersecurity Program
Every tribe or tribal enterprise requires a solid cybersecurity program and foundation. Whether you are just establishing a cyber program or well on your way, this session is going to discuss the important functions and elements that are required to truly have a best practice cyber program. This includes adopting an industry framework along with implementation of secure policies, procedures and core cyber functions. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 11:30am to 3:45pm EST |
Capture The Flag (CTF) Workshop/Exercise - Responding to real cyber problems (ATTENDEES ONLY- CLOSED TO VENDORS)
Ready to get your hands on some real cyber tools, have fun and work hand-in-hand with some of your technology and cyber peers from tribes across the nation? If so, this "by registration only" workshop is for you! Get ready as our CTF workshop leaders at World Wide Technology open up their CTF environment and resources to a curated afternoon of hands-on cyber challenges designed to help you learn, apply knowledge, and solve real world cyber challenges. This workshop includes a proctored environment, labs, and hands-on access to Red Team and Blue Team tools. Bring your own team or join a team of peers from other tribes to learn, and perhaps hoist a trophy of sorts, at the conclusion as the most effective cyber team. Pre-registration when completing your conference registration form is required to attend this session. |
Let’s Get Technical | Cafe Hammocks | ATTENDEES ONLY | |
| 12:30pm to 1:30pm EST |
Lunch on Behalf of Dell Technologies
Eat, chat, and mingle while enjoying a delicious lunch thanks to our sponsor! |
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Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm EST |
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
The unthinkable has happened and your operations have been compromised or damaged to the point that operations across the board are brought to a complete standstill. Now what? What happens to your employees, your customers, your data and your reputation? This session is all about discussing the importance of well prepared and tested business continuity and DR plans. Attendees will also leave with research, insights, and considerations to help them improve their own business continuity planning as well as disaster recovery. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 2:30pm to 2:45pm EST |
PM Break on Behalf of Minburn
Thanks to our sponsor for helping us re-fuel! |
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Ballroom Foyer | ALL | |
| 2:45pm to 3:45pm EST |
Digital Impersonations - Get ahead of this in 2025 and beyond
What do you get when you mix social media platforms, AI tools, virtual reality, and deep fake technology together? A growing BIG headache for people, businesses, and cybersecurity teams. Fake digital images and phishing emails have become much harder to identify when they look and feel like they are coming from you or some other reputable source. Are you prepared to respond if someone steals your identity, your organization's identity, your image, or your logo? What if they post misinformation that appears to be coming directly from you or your organization? What can you do? What should you be prepared to do? Join this session to be part of the discussion about how to prepare yourself, your team, your employees, and your tribe or tribal enterprise for this growing issue. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 2:45pm to 3:15pm EST |
Vendor Meeting
All vendors at the Cybersecurity Summit are invited to participate in a conversation about optimizing your time at the event and addressing any questions you may have. We will also explore TribalHub’s initiatives and discuss how vendors can further engage with our various TribalHub divisions. |
Facilitated by TribalHub
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Sponsors Only | Ballroom A | Sponsors Only |
| 3:45pm to 5:45pm EST |
Vendor Expo OPEN- with Cocktails Sponsored by Tribal-ISAC
Come meet these technology focused exhibitors! Grab a drink and enjoy engaging conversation! |
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Ballroom A | ALL | |
| 5:45pm to 7:45pm EST |
Opening Reception - On-site, sponsored by Armis
Join us for a special opening reception on day one; you won't want to miss this! Thank you to our sponsor! |
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Patio | ALL | |
| Thursday, February 27, 2025 | |||||
| 7:15am to 12:30pm EST |
Registration/Check-In/Badge Pickup
Come see the TribalHub team to pick up your badge and all materials to get you set for the week! |
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2nd floor- Ballroom Foyer | ALL | |
| 7:15am to 8:15am EST |
Breakfast on Behalf of ThreatLocker
Thank you to our sponsor for helping us start the day off right! |
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Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 8:15am to 9:00am EST |
The State of Cybersecurity for Tribes in 2025 and Beyond
As this year kicks off with some disruption and uncertainties all across the United States, checking the pulse on entities and agencies that impact tribes is critical. Attend this session to be more informed. |
Ballroom B/C | ALL | ||
| 9:00am to 11:30am EST |
Vendor Expo OPEN for One on One Meetings
Take the time to connect on a smaller, more personal, level. |
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Ballroom A | ALL | |
| 9:00am to 9:30am EST |
Tech Tour with Miccosukee IT Department
Join us on a "Tech Tour" guided by the Miccosukee IT Department. The tour will offer a look at the technologies, systems, and infrastructure in place at the site. The IT department will provide insights into their operations by highlighting key technologies, challenges, and innovations they are utilizing. |
Ballroom B/C | ALL | ||
| 9:30am to 11:30am EST |
Tribal-ISAC Roundtable - Uniting a nationwide cybersecurity community (ATTENDEES ONLY- CLOSED TO VENDORS)
Led by the Steering Committee of the Tribal-ISAC (the not-for-profit national (cyber)security community that is by tribes and for tribes). This engaging and interactive session is designed to introduce you to your peers from other tribes across the nation, and learn about how other tribes and tribal enterprises are tackling cybersecurity challenges. Understand the value and importance of all tribes working together to protect government, gaming and hospitality, health and member services, and tribal sovereignty from cybersecurity threats. Isolation and working on your own is NOT the answer to better cybersecurity practices and it makes your tribe and all tribes LESS safe. In this session, you will learn about your peers, cyber resources available to you, and why collaborating and sharing cyber information with other tribes and the Tribal-ISAC is a best practice. |
Ballroom B/C | ATTENDEES ONLY | ||
| 11:30am to 12:30pm EST |
Lunch on Behalf of Kudelski Security
Eat, chat, and mingle while enjoying a delicious lunch thanks to our sponsor! |
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Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 12:30pm to 2:00pm EST |
Vendor Expo Open with Random Prize Announcements
More chances to connect with vendors providing cybersecurity solutions to tribes and tribal enterprises. Don't miss out! |
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Ballroom A | ALL | |
| 1:30pm to 2:00pm EST |
Booth Prizes & Bingo Run, $500 Prize- Sponsored by Wildflower International
You won't want to miss this! Come visit, collect swag, and win prizes! Must be present to win. |
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Ballroom A | ALL | |
| 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST |
Third Party Risk and Security Management
You rely on third party providers which often include their products, services, software, and own company partnerships and cyber infrastructure. As tribes push further into cloud system providers for services like igaming, cloud based Electronic Health Records (EHR), Human Resources (HR), and ERP systems, the need to better understand and manage third party security grows. How do you properly and thoroughly assess if a vendor, their product, their services, or their own internal practices present a risk to your tribe or tribal enterprise? You are only as secure as your weakest link. How can you be certain that weak link is not one of your many third party providers? Join us in this session to learn more. Each attendee can expect to leave with some great guidance as well as access to some great third party assessment tools. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST |
Incident Response & Threat Hunting
In this session we will mix a bit of proactive threat hunting best practices, tools, and techniques with some first response reactive best practices for incident response. Designed to be more technical in nature, this session will cover logs, user and network patterns, vulnerability scanning, and tools and techniques that tribes can and should utilize to better protect their networks and respond quickly to threats and anomalies. |
Let’s Get Technical | Cafe Hammocks | ALL | |
| 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST |
The Most Effective Cyber Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
It can be extremely difficult to articulate or explain the successes, failures, needs, accomplishments, and overall health of your cybersecurity team, programs and initiatives. This is where the development, use and communication of key cyber KPI's can be a game changer. The effective use of easy to understand KPI's can make it easier for your executive team to understand the organization's cyber situation, gaps, cyber funding needs, threat level, size and nature of current threats, and the behind the scenes accomplishments of the cybersecurity team. In this session, you will learn about the types of KPI's that any tribal organization can use to communicate important cyber facts about the organization. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST |
Adding Some Offense to Your Cyber Defense
Threat actors are not the only ones that can create deception. Sometimes the best defense is adding a bit of offense. In this session, we will take a look at methods that you can implement that are designed to protect your network, data, and resources while increasing the speed of visibility of any potential threats or intrusions into your organization. Learn more about the creation and implementation of honeypot decoy systems, networks, and other methods that can effectively lure, trap, and identify malicious actors before they can cause you any harm. |
Let’s Get Technical | Cafe Hammocks | ALL | |
| Friday, February 28, 2025 | |||||
| 8:00am to 9:30am EST |
Breakfast on Behalf of Novawatch
Thank you to our sponsors for helping us start the day off right! |
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Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 9:30am to 10:30am EST |
Your Data and AI
AI wants your data - and in order to fully benefit from AI, your employees WANT AI to have access to your data. So, what does that mean when it comes to data security, data sovereignty, personal data security, and protecting the crown jewels of your tribe or tribal enterprise? Is your data ready for AI and are you prepared to trust providing access to AI with that data? How can you safely use AI to let your tribe and employees succeed when it comes to your sensitive data? |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 9:30am to 10:30am EST |
What Exactly Is on MY Network?
How confident are you that you understand everything that is attached to your network when something new attaches? Both active and passive scanning are core components of cybersecurity programs, and this session will look into best practices when it comes to gaining more visibility to what is attaching (or attempting to attach) and/or communicate across your network. |
Let’s Get Technical | Cafe Hammocks | ALL | |
| 10:30am to 10:45am EST |
AM Break
A quick break to help you re-fuel! |
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Ballroom Foyer | ALL | |
| 10:45am to 11:45am EST |
Data Governance and Classification
"Know thy data" - the 11th commandment when it comes to cybersecurity. You can't effectively secure what is undefined, poorly understood, or unknown. Without clearly understanding the most important assets, processes, and data crown jewels of the organization - your limited cyber resources cannot be utilized as effectively as possible. Learn about effective methods of implementing reasonable data governance and data classification that can make it easier for your cyber resources to improve their cyber program with the right focus on what really matters to your tribe or tribal enterprise. |
Main Cyber | Ballroom B/C | ALL | |
| 10:45am to 11:45am EST |
Cloud and Container Security
How do you REALLY know if your cloud systems or data are secure? How can you monitor your security in the cloud? In this session, you can expect to hear about tools, techniques, and best practices when it comes to securing your cloud hardware, cloud data, and the instances or containers of your data and applications deployed to the cloud. |
Let’s Get Technical | Cafe Hammocks | ALL | |