SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2025: Featured Keynote: Cybersecurity Insights - An Interactive Fireside Chat with US Department of State's Gharun Lacy

As a known hub for the direction of geopolitics, sanctions, and trade, the Department of State is an attractive target for advanced nation-state threat actors motivated more by a desire for information than by greed, and as public-facing representatives of the U.S. overseas, diplomat staff and buildings don’t have the benefit of anonymity. Deputy Assistant Secretary Gharun Lacy will share Diplomatic Security's cybersecurity strategies for navigating the evolving cyber threat landscape and leveraging emerging technologies as a uniquely positioned law enforcement entity in the U.S. government's most global agency.