Cyber Security

Cyber Threats: It’s not if, but when?! A cyber threat is a malicious attempt by an individual or organization to gain access to your computing systems. Will your personal data be compromised? Will your company be infiltrated? What will it cost you in dollars, lost productivity, stress, and sense of well-being?

• Cyber breaches are projected to cost the global economy $2.1 trillion by 2019, more than quadrupling the cost since 2015.

• Attacks continue to grow at a staggering rate, with industry predictions that one new organization will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019.

This eye-opening discussion explores serious cyber threats and outlines steps that can be taken to minimize risks as individuals, businesses of any size, governments and organizations.

Speakers: Rao Mikkilineni: Deep Learning & Global Corporate Technologies expert and author of “Designing a New Class of Distributed Systems”; Sheweet Yohannes: Golden Gate University Academic Program manager for the Information Technology Management, Project Management, & Business Analytics programs and adjunct professor; Ross Millerick Golden Gate University Director of the Information Technology Management program and lecturer