February 27, 2020 Vol. 20, No. 40
In This Issue FOUR SEASONS
Four Seasons, by Kevin Box, in real life is located in front of the Center for Transformative Learning on the UCO campus, but this week is hidden somewhere in our paper. Email contest@edmondpaper.com with the correct location to be entered in the weekly drawing. For more information, see page 4.
Globetrotter star brightens day of patients Page 8
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Mostly Sunny High 62 Low 36°
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 Sunny High 63° Low 44°
SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Partly Cloudy High 66° Low 51°
The OSU Spears School of Business Management Science and Information Systems department and the Center for Executive and Professional Development are presenting the fifth annual Cyber Security Conference April 7 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Edmond. A pre-conference networking breakfast will be from 8-9 a.m. and the conference will follow from 9:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m. The conference is designed for senior-level leaders, human resource and information technology management professionals, operational technology specialists, systems and data administrators, and other business leaders involved in the decision-making process for cyber security strategy, implementation, and management. “Cyber security breaches increase yearly,” said Rick Wilson, department head of management science and information systems in Spears
Business. “The Cyber Security Conference offers professionals the opportunity to glean useful knowledge from national and regional experts that they can take back to their company to be more prepared and proactive in approaching cyber security threats.” Speakers and topics include: • Real Stories from the Dark/Cyber Side by Sundeep Kapur, educator and founder, Digital Credence, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky; • Successful CISO Leaders Excel at these 7 Factors by Todd Fitzgerald, chief security information officer and cybersecurity leadership author, CISO Spotlight, Chicago; • Hacking Exposed - A Look Inside the Techniques of OceanLotus/APT32 by Brian Robison, Chief Evangelist, Blackberry Cylance, Irvine, California; • Cybercrime Finds a Way by continued on Page 5
There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds A Clark School study at the University of Maryland is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker attacks of computers with Internet access affecting one in three Americans every year 43% of cyber attacks target small business 64% of companies have experienced web-based attacks. 62% experienced phishing & social engineering attacks. 59% of companies experienced malicious code and botnets and 51% experienced denial of service attacks. The average cost of a data breach in 2020 will exceed $150 million As more business infrastructure gets connected, Juniper Research data suggests that cybercrime will cost businesses over $2 trillion total in 2019. In 2018 hackers stole half a billion personal records This was a 126% jump from 2017. Since 2013 there are approximately 3,809,448 records stolen from breaches every day.. 158,727 per hour, 2,645 per minute and 44 every second of every day reports Cybersecurity Ventures.