BSidesAugusta 2018 - Ray Davidson - Creating a Volunteer Cyber Department

Ray Davidson (@raydavidson) In 2013, the State of Michigan created a public-private partnership to leverage information security resources in the state. The stated goal was to create a cadre of volunteers to assist the state in responding to cyber-emergencies. To date, there have not been incidents which have justified mobilization of the force, and the scope of the force is being expanded to include assistance to local/regional government, educational and health/medical organizations. Experienced professionals will read the previous sentence and have many questions of a theoretical and practical nature. The goal of this presentation is to answer as many of those as possible from our experience and to collaborate with attendees to come up with additional answers which can be used to raise the security culture in other states.