Our next webinar in the Fortify Cybersecurity Education series which covers the topic of improving security by integrating the physical security and cybersecurity functions.
While we study and plan for threats within very clear boundaries and domains, most threat actors don’t bother to follow any rules. To steal our money or information they will employ any technique that is effective, whether it’s an online tool, physical threats or violence, or just old fashioned flim-flam techniques.To protect ourselves and our businesses, we need to be prepared for threats that cross the boundary between the digital and physical worlds. To do this we must understand how physical security meshes with cybersecurity. This convergence of techniques is the subject of this webinar.
According to CISA, “Convergence is formal collaboration between previously disjointed security functions. Organizations with converged cybersecurity and physical security functions are more resilient and better prepared to identify, prevent, mitigate, and respond to threats. Convergence also encourages information sharing and developing unified security policies across security divisions.”
In this webinar you’ll learn:
• How to create a holistic security strategy
• The risks of silo’d security
• The benefits of convergence
Presenter
Gen Tamura currently serves as a Protective Security Advisor (PSA) for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Honolulu District, which includes Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas islands, and American Samoa. As a PSA, Mr. Tamura provides subject matter expertise in critical infrastructure protection and vulnerability mitigation and facilitates local field activities in coordination with other Department of Homeland Security offices. He also advises and assists state, local, territorial, and private sector officials and critical infrastructure facility owners and operators.
Prior to serving as a PSA, Mr. Tamura was a Preparedness Analyst and Planning Specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IX, Pacific Area Office. His duties included National Preparedness, the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR). He is an experienced emergency manager with over twenty-seven years’ experience as well as responding to incidents and working in response, recovery, and mitigation divisions in FEMA and local government.
