Senior managers representing the FBI, government, health care and international business gathered at Penn State Abington for a public forum on current cybersecurity issues.
The panelists agreed businesses and individuals must prepare to mitigate threats, which are growing exponentially, and avoid the hype surrounding the most recent hacks.
“Priorities are response and education, people,” James Carty, chief security officer for the FBI Philadelphia Division, told the crowd in the Lares Union Building. “And response is much more important than trying to prevent every possible situation.”
Cathy Beech, the chief information security officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, explained hackers are constantly trolling networks in low-level areas searching for vulnerabilities they can exploit to eventually access more critical data.