#1150142: The CyberSecurity International Symposium, July 10-11, 2017 in Chicago

Description: According to the British insurance company Lloyd's, cyber attacks cost businesses as much as $400 billion each year, which includes direct damage plus post-attack disruption to the normal course of business. Research firm Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that the global cost of cybercrime will grow from $3 trillion in 2015 to $6 trillion by 2021, which includes damage and destruction of data, stolen money, lost property, intellectual property theft, and other areas. As Ginni Rometty, IBM Corp.'s Chairman, President and CEO recently observed, "Cyber crime is the greatest threat to every profession, every industry, every company in the world." *

The CyberSecurity International Symposium, July 10-11, 2017 in Chicago is a unique, focused Forum in which to network with leading cybersecurity professionals, innovators, enterprise CIOs and regulators who are on the front lines of securing critical business and infrastructure networks. The two-day, in-depth conference will examine the latest technologies for enhancing cybersecurity and reducing risk, as well as best practices and key lessons learned to date in the ever-evolving challenge to ensure end-to-end security for organizations of all varieties. Topics to be addressed include:

IT advances, communications technologies, and the smart energy grid are changing the landscape of the nation's critical infrastrucutre and business networks as we know it. But with rapidly changing technology comes rapidly advancing threats. This international Symposium will examine recent and newly emerging threats and vulnerabilities, as well as discuss effective business and technology strategies for meeting the evolving challenge head on. Join us in Chicago to assess your organization's cyber and physical security risk, and how to effectively safeguard your operations going forward.
More info: http://www.cybersecurity-symposium.com/

Date added May 25, 2017, 8:49 p.m.
Source cybersecurity
Subjects
  • Conferences and Seminars North America
  • .Critical Infrastructure / critical national infrastructure (CNI)
  • IBM - Company
  • Security Management/Strategic Security/ROI/ROSI
Venue Chicago , July 10, 2017, midnight - July 11, 2017, midnight