With hundreds of thousands of millennials expected to enter the federal workforce over the next few years, agencies must quickly develop strategies which balance demands for anytime / anywhere access with concerns about millennial apathy towards cybersecurity and good cyber hygiene. In this edition of ICIT Fellow Insights, we hear from Michael Crouse, an ICIT Contributor from Forcepoint, and Parham Eftekhari, a Sr. Fellow at ICIT, who explore this topic and make recommendations for federal agencies to reduce their risk exposure.

In ICIT's 2016 report entitled "Combatting the Ransomware Blitzkrieg", the institute shed light on what later became one of the most talked about cybersecurity phenomenon of the year. During this discussion, ICIT Sr. Fellow Parham Eftekhari and ICIT Fellow Cindy Cullen discuss the key takeaways from the report to give listeners an overview of how ransomware works, who is a target, and how organizations can protect themselves.

As security professionals focus increasingly on predictive technologies, user behavior analytics has emerged as powerful tool which can bolster an organization's security strategy. Join Rick Caccia from Exabeam, an ICIT Fellow organization, and Parham Eftekhari (Sr. Fellow, ICIT)as they explore the adoption of UBA in various sectors and discuss case studies where UBA has helped to prevent a breach.

Despite years of discussion on the importance of identity management, the majority of organizations still grapple with this basic component of cyber hygiene and fail to adequately secure user credentials. ICIT Sr. Fellow Parham Eftekhari speaks with Greg Cranely from Centrify (an ICIT Fellow) on the challenges facing the public and private sector and how multi-factor authentication and cutting edge credential management tools can improve the resiliency of an organization.

ICIT Fellow HPE has recently published its "State of Cybersecurity Operations" report which found that SOC security has declined over 2015. Join ICIT Fellow Stan Wisseman and Sr. Fellow Parham Eftekhari as they dig deeper into these findings to uncover what this means for SOC owners and what needs to be done to reverse this trend.

You can download HPEs full report here: https://ssl.www8.hp.com/ww/en/secure/pdf/4aa6-3593enw.pdf

Public and private sector leaders are slowly accepting the reality that the weakest link - and greatest asset - in their cybersecurity strategy is the human element. The question which now must be answered is how to best train, motivate and inspire the next generation of leaders and change agents who can help improve an organization's cybersecurity hygine. Join ICIT Fellow Dan Waddell (ISC2) and Sr. Fellow Parham Eftekhari as they discuss one of the most important cybersecurity issues of our day.