Apr 29, 2020
Phil Reitinger has been been a pioneer in cutting edge concepts
for reducing risks in cyberspace for years. He was a special
assistant US Attorney in the late 1990’s, a time when high end
nation state attacks were on the rise and the application of US law
to help counter threats was in a nascent stage. He helped move the
Department of Justice to more vigorous action in cyberspace as
Deputy Chief of the DoJ Computer Crime Section. He was appointed to
lead the DoD Cyber Crime Center, one of the nation’s most highly
regarded computer crime forensics organizations. He would later
serve as an executive at Microsoft and then return to government
service as a Deputy Undersecretary of Homeland Security as that
organization was assuming new roles in defense of the nation’s
cyberspace. He would later direct the security activities of Sony
as SVP and CISO.
For the past four years Phil has been leading a non profit
organization known as the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA). The GCA
works on projects that seek to mitigate risks from the most
prevalent cyber threats that individuals and businesses face. They
develop and deploy practical, real-world solutions that measurably
improve the security of our cyber ecosystem.
Topics discussed include:
- The challenges Phil faced at DHS, including the need to lead
change across a broad stakeholder community. - The nature of the work at GCA
- What executives need to know about DNS and DMARC
- Ways people can get involved with the GCA
- How the GCA moved into action as the world shifted to WFH
- The future of cybersecurity
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