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Women in Cyber: Expert Training Course with Tracy Bills and Robin Ruefle

DESCRIPTION OF THE SESSION

In light of the Women in Cyber Mentorship Programme, ITU, FIRST and EQUALS have the pleasure to present our fourth Expert Training, as part of the TRAIN series of the programme.

Through an interactive workshop, Tracy Bills and Robin Ruefle from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute provided us with insights into how computer security incident response teams share information. Attendees had an opportunity to understand how information sharing with other incident response teams can occur, learn best practices for information sharing, and gain a base level awareness of information sharing tools.

Such an exchange of cyber threat information is critical to the security of cyberspace and it was yet another milestone of knowledge gaining on your cybersecurity journey in the programme.

TRAINING COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SHARING

	Wednesday June 23^rd 2021		14:00--17:00 Geneva time
	Invitation letter		Live Archive
	Registration: Training Courses		Remote participation Registered users only

AGENDA

Time	Activity	Speaker
14:00 – 14:05	Welcome and Introduction	Moderator: Yasmine Idrissi Azzouzi
14:05 – 15:05	Introduction to Information Sharing	Trainers: Robin Ruefle and Tracy Bills
15:05 – 15:10	BREAK
15:10 – 16:00	Types of Information Sharing and Scenarios	Trainers: Robin Ruefle and Tracy Bills
16:00 – 17:00	Enabling Information Sharing	Trainers: Robin Ruefle and Tracy Bills

SPEAKERS INFORMATION

Tracy A. Bills is a Senior Cybersecurity Operations Researcher at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center hosted at Carnegie Mellon University. She has over 20 years of combined experience in cybersecurity and intelligence analysis. She has helped build and mature national-level cybersecurity information sharing programs.

Her previous professional experience includes being the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s (MS-ISAC) liaison to the Department of Homeland Security where she served as the link between Federal Government and State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) Governments for cybersecurity awareness. Prior to that, Tracy was a Senior Cyber Threat Analyst in the Department of Defense (DoD) providing situational awareness and understanding of cyber threats impacting DoD networks.

Robin Ruefle is the team lead for the CSIRT Development and Training team within the Security Operations team in the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her focus is developing guidance and for the establishment, operation, and evaluation of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), security operations capabilities and insider threat programs.

She also develops and delivers courses on building and operating CSIRTs, security operations centers (SOCs), and insider threat programs; along with leading evaluation teams to help such entities improve their processes. Robin received her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and her Masters of Public and International Affairs (MPIA) from the University of Pittsburgh.