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Webinar

Improving Cyber Resilience Against the Rising Tide of Cyber Threats - FREE Webinar, Sponsored and Presented by Fortinet

June 5, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online

(Times listed in Mountain time zone)

Fee per person: Complimentary, Exclusively Sponsored by Fortinet.

Can’t attend? Register now so you can watch later, on demand!

Objectives

  • Understand the importance of visibility to the connected assets and devices and assess vulnerabilities open to attack.
  • Evaluate the cybersecurity needs to support modern and legacy SCADA platforms across water plants, wastewater facilities, and distribution facilities.
  • Learn best practices for utility leaders when taking the first steps to start or restart a cybersecurity program.

Expert Panel

Sam Paul, Section Manager - Process Automation / SCADA Systems & Projects, Dept. of Water Resources - Gwinnett County

Matt McDermott, Chief Technology Officer, 43Tc

Mike Lauer, Senior Director and Chief of Staff - US Public Sector, Fortinet

Description

Recent headlines are a clear indicator that the bad actor sees utilities as a target for sophisticated cyberattacks. This has elevated the importance of cyber readiness for water and wastewater utilities. During this panel discussion, experts will discuss strategies for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from cyberattacks as a part of any business continuity plan. Leveraging insight from peers and a leading cybersecurity supplier to water and wastewater entities, attendees will gain advice and best practices for building a readiness plan in case of a cyber attack.


Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network—today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

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Certificates of Completion

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