Colin Ahern, the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer of the City of New York will share the way forward for NYC Cyber Command. NYC Cyber Command has responsibility for cyber threats against nearly 300,000 employees, and over 400,000 workstations/servers and connected devices. Colin will lay out the approach to the complex technical and organizational challenges facing the Greatest City in the World with regards to current and future cyber threats.
Colin Ahern is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer of the City of New York. Before joining the City, he was a security engineer and threat researcher in financial services. Colin also served seven years in the US Army, deploying twice to Afghanistan and commanding a company at US Army Cyber Command. He has degrees from Tulane University and New York University’s Stern School of Business.