Office of CyberSecurity Videos

We invite you to check out our YouTube videos of the speakers at the 2016 National Cyber Security Awareness Month, NCSAM, kickoff held in Bellevue and Spokane., including:

U.S. Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Touhill spoke about plans to make the country more secure from cyber attacks, and also discussed what private citizens can do to protect their personal information.

Emily McReynolds, program director at the University of Washington’s Tech Policy Lab in Seattle, talked about the “internet of things,” and the privacy implications when new devices collect our personal information.

Our panel of privacy experts, who discussed cybersecurity issues around the use of drones and autonomous vehicles. On the panel: McReynolds, Aravind Swaminathan, of Orrick, Steve Marshall, with the Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions, and Alex Alben, Washington State’s chief privacy officer.

College students, educators and industry representatives talked about the rapidly growing cybersecurity job sector. Thousands of high paying jobs go unfilled each year because there are not enough skilled people to fill them. Former students who attended Whatcom Community College’s Cybersecurity Center talked about how that program helped them in their careers. And a workforce panel highlighted the Microsoft Software Systems Academy, which trains military veterans for cybersecurity jobs.