Presented by Dr. Bryson Payne • Director, Center for Cyber Operations Education, University of North Georgia Interactive Cyber Attack Simulation Exercises (ICASEs) prepare both government-level and business-focused leaders to better handle incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery by simulating a coordinated, multi-stage cyber-physical attack on critical infrastructure and traditional computing resources. By simulating multiple attacks at the same time, organizations can prepare to survive so-called "black swan" or "perfect storm" scenarios that would otherwise be devastating. After this session, participants will be able to apply cyber table-top planning and simulation exercises to their work environment to plan for and effectively respond to advanced cyber and cyber-physical attacks.
Presented by: Dr. Bryson Payne / Director, Center for Cyber Operations Education, University of North Georgia
Dr. Bryson Payne is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author of Teach Your Kids to Code (2015, No Starch Press), and the founding Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at the University of North Georgia, an NSA-DHS Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. He is a tenured professor of computer science at UNG, where he has taught aspiring coders and cyber professionals since 1998. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and he holds the SANS|GIAC GPEN certification, among other industry certifications. He was also the first Department Head of Computer Science at UNG and enjoys working with K-12 schools worldwide to promote computer science education.
Featured in CIO magazine and the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Payne's first two books have been published in six languages, and his third book on hacking comes out in the second half of 2019. He's also a popular online instructor with over 36,000 students from more than 160 countries, known for his top-rated Udemy course, Real-World Ethical Hacking (2017).
He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia State University and has published articles in scholarly and trade journals, in addition to speaking regularly at national and international conferences on computer science and cybersecurity education.
