Cisco highlighting Upstate NY security conference

An official from Cisco will be a keynote speaker at a security conference in Upstate New York next week.

Patrick Gray, a senior security strategist for Cisco and a 20-year veteran of the FBI, will keynote the New York State Cyber Security Conference, being held June 4-5 at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. The conference will bring in experts from the FBI, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies to discuss strategies and highlight advances made in online security, according to the Albany Business Review.

The conference will include 50 seminars and demonstrations of technology, including one by an employee of the State University of New York at Albany on how easy it is for hackers to break into a system.

In New York State, more than 70 million electronic personal records were breached in 2007. As a result, New York became one of the first states to implement a computer and handheld device encryption policy for 60 state agencies.   

The New York State Cyber Security Conference is in its 11th year. The attendance fee is $150 for private sector employees and $50 for nonprofit members.