(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Cybersecurity Seminar Series at Ocean County College will continue on Friday, February 26 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm via WebEx. “Security Orchestration, Automation and Response” will be presented by Karl Siil, chief engineer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Cyber Warfare Systems Group.
There is no fee or pre-registration required to attend this presentation. Log in via WebEx here.
Siil has extensive experience in network security, vulnerability and risk assessment, public-key infrastructures and secure software development. He started his security career at Bell Labs, developing NSA-rated trusted UNIX systems. During his 10 years there, Siil also worked on secure networks for U.S. and international telephone carriers. After Bell Labs, Siil was a founding member and chief architect at Lumeta Corporation, a Lucent spinout to map enterprise networks that included a patented "leak detection" technology to discover perimeter vulnerabilities. He has written book on IPv6, and numerous journal articles and papers over the last 30 years, and has four patents in computer telephony, network access controls and caching, and random-number generators. Siil earned a bachelor’s degree from Cooper Union and a master’s degree from Manhattan College — both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Siil will discuss how the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are teaming up to help state and local governments enhance their online defenses. Under a pilot program, Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Texas, as well as the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), are applying Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) to this effort. SOAR tools enable organizations to collect security-threat data through multiple sources and perform triage response actions significantly faster than with manual processes. This initiative will enable state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments to quickly and broadly share information — in near real time — and leverage automation to prevent or respond to cyberattacks.
Upcoming talks to be presented in the OCC Cybersecurity Seminar Series include:
* Dr. Edward Amoroso (April 4) – CEO and Founder of TAG Cyber and former CISO of AT&T, presenting “A Random Walk Through Cyber Security,” covering a variety of modern cyber threat topics ranging from nation state threats to election security.
* Julian Cohen (April 30) – CISO of Tagomi (which acquired Coinbase), a cryptocurrency company, and principal for cybersecurity across numerous enterprise and Department of Defense cybersecurity initiatives, presenting a “History of Vulnerability Disclosure.”
