In coordination with Cybersecurity Awareness Month, APRO recently held a webinar – Essential Cybersecurity Practices: Ensuring Your Business is Safe from Attack. The featured speaker was Mark Kirby, a Cybersecurity Advisor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). A retired Air Force veteran, Kirby is CISA’s Cybersecurity State Coordinator for Arkansas, and works with critical infrastructure owners and operators to minimize information risk and measurably improve cybersecurity.
Kirby explained CISA is the federal government’s newest agency, established in 2018 and charged with a mission to lead the national effort to understand and manage risk for critical infrastructure – calling the agency “the nation’s risk advisor.”
“The ‘new normal’ has forced many organizations, large and small, to move toward a remote working environment,” Kirby began. “We’ve all added new technology to do that. Likewise, we’re continually adding ‘smart’ devices and apps to our technology repertoire. And the amount of information and data we store electronically continues to grow. The more we add to our lives digitally and the more we…
