CyAD 2025: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit

In the spirit of economic development, cities often compete for the attention of large corporate brands, especially “Big Tech”, to settle in their communities creating attractive incentives like tax-breaks and favorable construction terms. Residents in the affected communities get excited about the prospect of new jobs or career growth. With the recent explosion of the everyday use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) changing work and life as we know it in society, cities want to be known as technology leaders or at least early adopters. And in today’s evolving world, one of Cybersecurity’s main functions is to not only enable the business but also just as importantly managing risk for the business.  As professionals, we have an obligation to ensure that solutions our organizations develop, especially those involving AI, promote benefits to not only the organization but also society and do not cause harm to the environment. 
In this session, we will explore Cybersecurity’s role to understand potential and realized risks of accommodations to secure and implement “Big Tech” initiatives in communities with respect to energy, water, and waste systems. Attendees will be exposed to the use of risk management frameworks to identify and mitigate these risks and drive sustainable outcomes as well as the situational applicability of ethics in the cybersecurity profession. Case studies and statistics   will be citied from various real-world communities. While some case discussed will be resolved with implemented remediations, others will be on-going with the opportunity to explore potential solutions.