Jim McConnell
Chief Security Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Ciera Bank
Jim has had the privilege of working in Corporate Security in multiple critical infrastructure industries for over 30 years. Jim is the Information Security Officer at Texas based Ciera Bank and was a Fellow at Verizon and Principal Owner of a converged security consulting and training organization. Jim has been involved in Information Sharing between government and industry formally for over 20 years involving multiple countries. Jim has 15 US Patents and published two books on Converged Security Metrics and another on Converged Safety Metrics. Jim is also a volunteer first responder and adjunct at Texas A&M-TEEX AND HAS provide pro bono converged security support of over 450 churches.
All Sessions by Jim McConnell
Use Case 5: Fraud Detection and Security
Could it be true that 18% of installed software needs security attention? So what do you do with you need to develop metrics around the level of security of your deployed software, turn to the AI tool of the day to help you develop a solution, right. But what about the security of the software that AI Tool creates. This talk is about the journey to solve a significant industry problem of EOL/EOS/Unpatched/CVE software using AI, but still being equally concerned about the software AI built. This will include a demo of the open source tool that came out in the end.
Information Sharing and Awareness in Banking
Security information sharing has a long history of value, whether in law enforcement with confidential informants to military intelligence to information sharing between government and the private sector across all critical infrastructures and industries that we see today. Jim will talk about some history of modern day security information sharing from before “ISAC / ISAO” was even considered through to today where there is a wide variety of formal, informal, ad-hoc information sharing programs. Jim will discuss the trust factor, Chatham House Rules vs. NDAs, Paid vs. Free, Converged Security vs. Focused forums.
