“Towards a More Safe and Secure World:
Cooperative Efforts in
Combating Transnational Crime”
Wednesday, May 10: Building Cybersecurity Capacity
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Wednesday, May 10: Building Cybersecurity Capacity
Two Wednesday sessions closed out the program, and gave the visitors insight into research, workforce development models and actionable solutions for cybersecurity professionals, and a deep-dive into information wars and artificial intelligence impact on the transnational security environment. Leading of the morning session, Ms. Kate Whitaker, Assistant Director of Communications & Outreach, CyberFlorida: The Florida Center for Cybersecurity, University of South Florida spoke about Cyber Florida, which was established by the Florida Legislature in 2014 to help position Florida as a national leader in cybersecurity through education, research, and outreach. Hosted by the University of South Florida, Cyber Florida leads a spectrum of initiatives to inspire and educate future and current professionals, support industry-advancing research, and help people and organizations better understand cyber threats and what they can do to stay safer in cyberspace. Mr. Jim Cardoso, Senior Director, Global and National Security Institute, University of South Florida (formed in June 2022) talked about GNSI providing actionable solutions to 21st-century security challenges for decisionmakers at the local, state, national, and global level, focused on the intersection of security policy and technology. He noted that today’s national security environment is increasingly complex and covers whole-of-society problems such as extremism, biothreats, climate change, disinformation, and cybercrime. Advances in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, extended reality, quantum computing, and biometrics will require national security policymakers to understand complexities they’ve never had to consider before. |
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