INTERFACE Phoenix
Presented by Frank J. Grimmelmann • President & CEO for ACTRA
In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack, the Solarwinds compromise, and the Microsoft Breach, it’s easy to lose focus on the big picture and how our institutions are responding to the increasingly hostile threat landscape and capable adversaries! This session will briefly highlight significant trends in the threat landscape driving response, explore the team put in place by Washington’s new administration to address the threat, reveal the policy foundation and current execution roadmap, and evaluate the balance between Active Defense and Privacy/Cybersecurity considerations. This session will engage you and leave you with several questions to consider in shaping your own priorities in response to our country’s direction in responding to the ‘clear and apparent cyber danger’ that evidences itself daily.
Mr. Frank J. Grimmelmann serves as President & CEO for the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA), a non-profit entity, that was developed collaboratively with the FBI’s Arizona InfraGard Program and independently launched in 2013 to enable its private/public sector members to enable themselves to respond to the escalating national cybersecurity threat.
Mr. Grimmelmann Co-Chairs Governor Ducey’s AZ Cybersecurity Team (‘ACT’) and is a Founding Member of President Obama’s National ISAO Leadership Group at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). As ACTRA’s leader, Mr. Grimmelmann was the first private sector representative in the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) on its Executive Board. He has held C-level positions in Finance, healthcare, and government, focusing on cybersecurity in response to 9/11. He holds an MBA in Finance/International Business from UC Berkeley and a BA in Operations with a Business Law minor from the University of South Florida.