Geosaurus Unleashed - Culture of Cybersecurity

Bad actors in cyberspace pose a significant risk to national security by threatening critical infrastructure, financial assets, and intellectual property. Geospatial, precision agriculture, biotech, and advanced manufacturing represent sectors of economic opportunity for St. Louis, but secure networks underpin them all. As we grow our geospatial ecosystem, we will increasingly become the target of cybercrime and cyber warfare. While all face persistent threats in cyber space, startups, small businesses, and academic institutions can be particularly vulnerable. State-backed cyber criminals want to steal nascent technology vital to modernizing defense and intelligence organizations. America’s entrepreneurs, tech workers, and national security professionals are critical assets to our regional and national success, but protecting personal information is a challenge with more interactions and transactions performed online behind the scenes. A culture of cyber security is necessary not only to ensure individual freedom and safety, but to protect the entire nation from the most pervasive threat.

In this session of the T-Rex Innovation Center’s Geosaurus Unleashed, Joshua White dives deep in discussion with Chris Ashabranner of NGA and Mark Dargis of the FBI St Louis Division on Cyber Security. Tune in to find out more.