Governor Tom Ridge & Former Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt to Discuss the National Mission to Secure Cyberspace at RSA 2013

WHERE:

RSA Conference 2013

Moscone Center – Room 134

747 Howard St.

San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN:

Thursday, February 28, 2013

12:00 P.M. – 12:50 P.M. PT

WHO:

Governor Tom Ridge, First Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania; president and CEO, Ridge Global

Howard Schmidt, Former Cybersecurity Advisor for President Bush; former Cybersecurity Coordinator for President Obama

Moderator: Scott Hartz, CEO, TaaSERA; former CEO of PwC Consulting

BACKGROUND:  The United States established the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, and in February of the same year, launched the first National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. A decade later, how far have we come in securing cyberspace? Rogue regimes and nation states continue to target both the public and private sectors in efforts designed to harm our economy, our infrastructure and our citizens. How can we better protect the nation's interdependent systems from these threats? In this 10-year anniversary discussion at RSA 2013, Secretary Tom Ridge and former Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt will be joined by moderator, Scott Hartz, CEO of TaaSERA, to look at the genesis of the national cybersecurity strategy, the growing range and sophistication of cyber attacks over the last ten years, and positive and achievable ways in which industry and government can work together to secure a very complex and dynamic cyber frontier.