Building a Community of Trust with Tom Billington, CEO of Billington CyberSecurity

Tech Transforms, sponsored by Dynatrace

Tom Billington, CEO of Billington CyberSecurity and Producer of the Billington CyberSecurity Summit, joins Carolyn and co-host Mark Senell to discuss the upcoming 14th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit, what goes into creating a valuable community for both the government and the commercial sector, and the important topics that will be the basis for this year's conference.

Key Topics

• [02:58] - Founding the Billington Cybersecurity Summit
• [09:59] - Developing Conference Topics
• [12:43] - Bridging Federal and Commercial Cybersecurity
• [16:02]- Critical Infrastructure at Billington
• [19:04] - Commercial Industry at Billington
• [21:45] - Registering for The Summit
• [22:49] - Preparing Key Conference Themes
• [24:46] - Hottest Topics at Billington This Year
• [27:03] - What’s New About Zero Trust
• [28:22] - Tech Talk Questions

Quotable Quotes

On Founding Billington Cybersecurity Summit: "I really started this business to be distinctly patriotic, to provide a serious dialogue in a way that I felt wasn't really being done at that time...So breaking into the federal cybersecurity community, to be honest, was hard as an entrepreneur. We had to build trusted relationship after trusted relationship. Over the course of 14 years, it's become decidedly easier now, now that we have had the privilege of having those trusted relationships."

On Zero Trust: "Many of the areas that zero trust encompasses have been around since the profession has existed in cybersecurity. But at no other time has the U.S. government proclaimed the importance of this overarching field as it has in the last few years. So it becomes important for the government. It becomes important for the industry leaders who serve them."

On International Cyber Collaboration: "So it's not just the U.S. team sport. It's an international team sport. The partnership with our international allies is crucially important."

About Our Guest

Before launching his company in 2010, Tom Billington spent nearly two decades producing hundreds of events, publications and articles for four of the world’s leading media companies: Reader’s Digest, Phillips Business Information, BNA (now Bloomberg BNA) and Thomson Reuters. Now, Tom is the CEO and Founder of Billington CyberSecurity, a leading independent education company founded in 2010 with an exclusive focus on cybersecurity education. Every year, he hosts the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, which is known as the world's leading government summit on cybersecurity with the unique educational mission of convening the who's who in cybersecurity: the senior leadership from the U.S. government, our allied partners, and their industry and academic partners.

Episode Links

• 14th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit Agenda
• Ann Dunkin on Tech Transforms
• Books By Kevin Mitnick