SACRAMENTO, CA - (ISC)²

ISC2 Chapter Event: March 5, 2024

Location: Urban Roots, Sacramento

Sponsors: CYERA

Greetings ISC2 – Sacramento chapter members and guests. To celebrate the last week of Pacific Standard Time, and the incoming Daylight Savings Time (or Golf season as some may call it), we invited our friends from CYERA to talk to us about Generative AI – Cyber risk vs. Reward. For this event, CYERA hosted our chapter at Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse in Downtown Sacramento. This was our first event at this location and did not disappoint. Both food and drink were equally great and enjoyed by all. Great location, and just far enough away from the nearby Bad Bunny concert at Golden 1 Center to avoid any distraction, to the dismay of a few of the attendees that shall remain nameless.

After all the attendees made their way into the private room and got situated, CYERA was set to take center stage. What most do not know is that CYERA’s scheduled presenter was unable to attend due to illness, but that did not affect the quality or content of the information presented. CYERA Sales Director – West, Dena Nelson took the main portion of the presentation while Head of Global Field Operations, Eileen Wade, helped by adding color commentating and engaging the attendees. It was a great tandem that generated a lot of conversation. The importance of the need to identify and safeguard data within organizations was driven home with important statistics such as:

• In the last 10 years, total data stored has increased 49x to 98 Zettabytes (have we run out of letters?)!

• 70% of leaders are struggling to enable businesses to use their data.

• 69% of people state they maintain asset inventory manually.

• 79% of companies are investing to improve data security posture.

For those interested in additional information on how generative AI is being utilized to secure data, you can look into CYERA (who we also learned was named after combining the words “cyber” and “era”) at https://www.cyera.io/. In contrast to similar companies, CYERA was purpose-built for the cloud environment and is now working backward to secure data on-prem.

Once again, ISC2 – Sacramento would like to thank CYERA for sponsoring a great event, Urban Roots for allowing us to use their facility, and of course the ISC2 members and guests for the great times. Hope to see you all soon! Stay tuned for upcoming information on the next event!