Apr. 10, 2024

9:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM

Primex Training Facility, 46 Donovan Street, Concord, NH 03301

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  Cori Casey

  Cori Casey: Cori Casey is a Primex³ Risk Management Consultant with a primary focus on the cyber liability threats that members are facing. Cori is Certified in Cybersecurity^SM through (ISC)² and works with members in mitigating cyber risk through training programs, policy planning, incident response coordination, and follow-up. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Justice Studies. Cori served in law enforcement for over 22 years with the Concord, New Hampshire Police Department, where he retired as a Lieutenant. He enjoys spending time with his wife Jessica and their three children.

   

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  Jason Sgro

  Leading NH’s largest dedicated municipal incident response team, Jason serves as Sr. Partner, Business Strategy, and Head of Cybersecurity & Human Privacy at The ATOM Group, headquartered in Portsmouth, NH.  He is the President of the FBI InfraGard Program in NH, the Executive Director of the Overwatch Foundation, and serves as the Director of the NH Office for Cooperation in Cybersecurity. A lifelong native of New Hampshire, Jason is a strategist at heart, comprised of equal parts speaker, evangelist, coach, and operator.  He has secured and advised public and private entities throughout New Hampshire and is widely recognized for his contributions toward building a future we can trust.

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  Rick Rossi

  Rick Rossi is the Cybersecurity Advisor (CSA) for New Hampshire within the Integrated Operations Division, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

  CISA established ten regional offices across the country to improve the delivery of the department’s services to critical infrastructure owners and operators and state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. CSAs are the front-facing cyber experts supporting regional operations capabilities. Mr. Rossi manages the major cyber engagements in New Hampshire with additional support to New England states, championing cyber resilience to public and private sector partners through a multitude of engagements, promoting education and awareness, and performing risk assessments. He has been with the Department for more than 15 years, with his most recent prior assignment as an Intelligence Operations Specialist with the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) where he served as the regional subject matter expert on Title 50 intelligence collection and reporting, cyber threat, as well as collection operations management for the New England DomDNI Region.

  Rick's prior experience includes serving as the senior DHS Intelligence Officer to the state of New Hampshire, where he was responsible for supporting national and departmental intelligence missions and ensuring that relevant homeland security intelligence information was shared between the national Intelligence Community, DHS, other federal partners, and the state of New Hampshire. Mr. Rossi transitioned to CISA in 2021 as the first Cybersecurity Advisor for New Hampshire. In this capacity, he has leveraged his many previous federal, state, local, and private sector relationships within the state and region to further develop cyber risk mitigation efforts in New Hampshire. Mr. Rossi earned a Bachelors Degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University. He also holds a Certificate in Legislative Studies from the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. He currently holds active GCIH, GCTI, and CEH industry certifications, and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. 

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  Matt Ellis

  Matt Ellis is an award-winning television news journalist, author and founder of Ellis Strategies, a strategic communications firm in Boston, Mass. The company provides expert public relations, crisis communication and video production.

  Matt also provides expert media training and coaches professionals of all levels on how to be a better public speaker. Clients include scientists, educators, engineers and business leaders from across New England. 

  Starting as a morning anchor and one-man-band reporter at WVVA TV in Bluefield, West Virginia, Matt rose the ranks of TV News to assume positions as Executive Producer for WCBS TV, News Director for WBZ TV and Head Writer for “Good Morning America,” where he was part of the team honored with a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

  In 2017, he published “Don’t Just Say It: a News Director’s Practical Guide to Public Speaking,” which gives speakers at all levels tools to improve their performance and confidence.

  Matt has been honored with an Emmy Award from the New England Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was recognized for excellence by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Associated Press, the Public Relations Society of America and the Publicity Club of New England.

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  Ken Weeks

  Ken Weeks is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of New Hampshire. He spent most of his adult life as a Naval Officer, Special Duty, Cryptology and Information Warfare, and retired as a CAPT (O6). Although most of his time was spent in the Pacific Theater, he also enjoyed several all-inclusive trips to Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. After the Navy, he worked as an Executive Leader of Cyber Operations at the National Security Agency (NSA). Ken spent a couple years in the private sector as a Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and then moved to New Hampshire and back into public service as the Department of IT Business Relationship Manager for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Since he always works in rooms with no windows and under artificial lights, he spends the rest of his time as an avid four seasons outdoor sportsman with his spouse, teenagers and two Irish Wolfhounds.

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  Timothy Benitez

  Mr. Benitez serves as the Resident Agent in Charge of the Manchester Resident Office as of January 22, 2017.  As RAIC, Mr. Benitez directs all investigative and protective strategies, addresses threats to both our nation’s financial infrastructure and our nation’s leaders in New Hampshire and Vermont.  Tim has 24 years of law enforcement experience that includes assignments as an agent investigating cyber enabled financial fraud cases in NYC, managing the NYC Digital Forensics lab, and the management of a digital forensic incident response team in NH.  In addition, he served as a member of the Presidential Protective Division from 2005-2010. Mr. Benitez is a graduate of Georgetown University and earned a master’s degree from Fordham University.

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