Presented by Curtis Coleman • Director of Cybersecurity Program, Oklahoma Christian University
Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape for small to medium-sized businesses, as well as non-profit organizations. Many data owners are showing strong interest in outsourced Cloud offerings that can help them reduce costs and increase enterprise agility. The Cloud services offer enormous economic benefits, but they also may pose significant potential risks in safeguarding information assets, and in complying with a myriad of regulations.
The audience take away from this talk is to provide CIOs, Directors, and Managers of businesses and organizations an ability to make pragmatic decisions about where and when to use Cloud solutions by outlining specific issues and security challenges that should be raised with hosting providers before selecting a vendor, or after the fact of selecting a provider, as well as highlight the ways the vendor might respond in any service RFP so that data owners might conduct business in the Cloud with confidence. This talk will provide a questionnaire and security assessment resources based on Cloud Security Alliance recommendations and industry standards.
Presented by: / Director of Cybersecurity Program, Oklahoma Christian University
For over fifteen years, Coleman led the cybersecurity department at Seagate, a large multi-national digital storage manufacturing company. In that role he managed the efforts to implement cybersecurity policies, practices, and technology to insure the protection of Seagates data and systems. He also has served on advisory boards for major corporations including Intel, Oracle, and Salesforce. Coleman holds multiple cybersecurity certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Information Security Manager. He speaks at cybersecurity conferences all across the country and was listed among the Top 150 Security Executive Rankings for 2012 through 2017.
