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Cyber Leaders Exchange 2025

Oct 1, 2025 to Oct 2, 2025

As a new administration sharpens its focus on cybersecurity, agencies are moving swiftly to meet the mandates of the latest executive order. Join Federal News Network Oct. 1–2 for a free event to explore how federal leaders are adapting to evolving threats, integrating new technologies and strengthening cyber resilience.

This event will feature senior cyber policy officials offering a governmentwide perspective on critical priorities, including:

  • Leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance cyber defense
  • Preparing for post-quantum cryptography
  • Securing software development across the enterprise
  • Advancing zero trust architectures and integrated identity management
  • Ensuring operational resiliency amid growing threats

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

​An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university’s network in May.

The breach was discovered and reported to law enforcement authorities following an outage that affected some of its systems on June 24, following an investigation with support from external cybersecurity experts.

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Accelerate Together: Secure by AI 2025

Aug 28, 2025 1:00 p.m. ET

Adapting cyber defenses in the age of AI and cloud, presented by AWS

As the federal threat landscape rapidly evolves, especially with the rise of AI and cloud, agencies are rethinking how they secure systems and data.

Join Federal News Network for Accelerate Together: Secure by AI 2025, a one-day virtual event presented by AWS. Cybersecurity leaders from AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk will share how agencies can adapt with:

  • Zero trust architectures
  • AI-driven threat detection
  • Faster, smarter incident response
  • Enhanced compliance, visibility, and resilience across cloud environments

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks.

Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees.

“We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use,” reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers.

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The Next Era: Cybersecurity, workforce and the future of digital services

As agencies accelerate their digital transformation efforts, the need to deliver seamless, secure and user-friendly services has never been more urgent. From implementing zero trust to enhancing the customer experience, federal leaders are navigating complex decisions around modernization, workforce priorities and cybersecurity readiness.

In this timely conversation, government and industry leaders will share lessons learned, strategic priorities and what’s next on the road to modern, secure public services.

Webinar

Aug 12, 2025 2:00 p.m. ET

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Global Cyber Authorities Warn of Escalating Threat from Scattered Spider Group

In a joint cybersecurity advisory, authorities from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have issued an urgent warning regarding the evolving tactics of the cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider. This advisory comes from a coalition that includes the FBI, CISA, RCMP, NCSC-UK, ASD’s ACSC, CCCS, and the Australian Federal Police, reflecting the transnational scale and severity of the threat.

Scattered Spider—also tracked as UNC3944, Oktapus, Storm-0875, and Muddled Libra—has gained infamy for its brazen intrusions into commercial sectors, critical infrastructure, and IT service providers. The group’s attacks are marked by sophisticated social engineering, data theft, and ransomware extortion campaigns.

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Identity-First Strategy for IT Modernization: Office of the DoD CIO Perspective

Jul 17, 2025 2:00 p.m. ET

As the Department of Defense continues to drive forward its enterprise-wide Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) strategy, identity federation, auditability and automation are essential components to achieving mission success, reducing risk and meeting compliance goals.

In this webinar, industry leaders will break down how Identity as a Service is helping DoD agencies accelerate secure onboarding, simplify legacy system integration and apply advanced tools like Attribute-Based Access Control and AI to strengthen identity governance.

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Accelerate together: Zero trust

Are you ready to accelerate zero trust at your agency?

“You have to be able to scale across hundreds of teams, thousands of workloads,” says AWS Principal Technologist Sean Phuphanich, when discussing how to make a zero trust architecture the foundation for modernization. “That’s really where a lot of the stumbling blocks come into play because then you’re dealing with a lot of different teams, different environments, different tools.”

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Johnson Controls starts notifying people affected by 2023 breach

Building automation giant Johnson Controls is notifying individuals whose data was stolen in a massive ransomware attack that impacted the company’s operations worldwide in September 2023.

Johnson Controls is a multinational conglomerate that develops and manufactures industrial control systems, security equipment, HVAC systems, and fire safety equipment for buildings. The company employs over 100,000 people through its corporate operations and subsidiaries across 150 countries, reporting sales of $27.4 billion in 2024.

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