Why Cybersecurity and Physical Security Belong Together

In this webinar from Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and the Security Industry Association (SIA), cybersecurity consultants Min Kyriannis (Jaros, Baum & Bolles) and Valerie Thomas (Securicon) will explore the important relationship between cybersecurity and physical security. Drawing lessons from real-world threats and attacks, our speakers will look at how cybersecurity vulnerabilities can be used to compromise physical security systems and why cybersecurity of IT systems depends on controlling physical security. We’ll discuss why CSOs, IT leaders, cybersecurity professionals and vendors/service providers all need to be paying attention to the cybersecurity of physical systems, and we’ll discuss what it means to drive security convergence at both strategic and operational levels, and how new technologies like AI factor into today’s converged security models. Key Focuses: •How to evaluate and improve the cybersecurity of cyber-physical systems •How threat actors are targeting cyber weaknesses in physical security systems •Why security convergence matters and what the relationship between cybersecurity and physical security teams can look like •How new technologies like AI are evolving security Key Topics: Cybersecurity, Physical security, Security convergence, Hacking, Hackers, cyber-physical systems, Security management