A two-part, free cybersecurity awareness event for businesses is being put on Tuesday by the Hawaii Executive Collaborative's TRUE initiative, the Hawaii Technology Development Corp., and the Entrepreneurs Sandbox.
The virtual seminar featuring Google Cloud, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, has been broken up into two sessions — an overview, panel, and case study discussion from 8:30 to 10 a.m., and a workshop from 10:30 to noon.
Part 1 is meant to provide will provide businesses with big-picture knowledge about cybersecurity, both from Google and local security experts. Then, the Google Cloud speakers will share a case study on New York City Cyber Command, an organization created to protect the city from cyber threats of all kinds.
Featured speakers for that session are Phil Venables, chief information security officer and vice president at Google Cloud; Chris Hein, head of customer engineering at Google Cloud; Vincent Hoang, the state's chief information security officer; Kelly Ueoka, president of Pacxa; and Manny Edmonson, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Central Pacific Bank.
Part 2 provides attendees with hands-on experience and personalized guidance as they learn how to actively protect their applications and website using Google Cloud Armor.
Featured speakers for the workshop are Aaron Quadros, infrastructure modernization engineer of Google Cloud; and Shujaat Ali and Daniel Liu, Google Cloud customer engineers.
