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FISSEA Fall Forum: September 30, 2025

FISSEA Federal Cybersecurity, Innovation, Awareness, Training
Credit: NIST

FISSEA is celebrating 38 years of working together and shaping the future. We have adopted the annual theme of “Collaborative Cybersecurity: Building a Community of Awareness and Action.”  Quarterly Forums are designed to provide opportunities for policy and programmatic updates, the exchange of best practices, and discussion and engagement among members of the Federal Information Security Educators (FISSEA) community.

Agenda:

1:00pm - 1:05pm

 

Welcoming Remarks

Latha Reddy, FISSEA Co-chair, Vice President and Director of Technology and Cybersecurity, Spire Investment Partners, LLC

Danielle Santos, Deputy Director of NICE, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

 

1:05pm - 1:15pm

 

Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October) Updates

Jennifer Cook, Senior Director of Marketing, National Cybersecurity Alliance

 

1:15pm - 1:30pm

 

FISSEA Fifteen: A Collaborative Discussion on Cybersecurity Awareness Activities

Facilitated by Susan Hansche, Training Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

 

1:30pm - 1:55pm

 

Field-Tested AI Tactics: Building Better Cybersecurity Assessments with Generative Tools

Jim Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer, Federal IT Security Institute

 

1:55pm - 2:05pm 

 

FISSEA Ignite: Stop the hacker, a Security Awareness Game (FISSEA Contest Winner for “Most Innovative Solutions”)

Sarae Winnicki, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2:05pm - 2:15pm

 

FISSEA Ignite

 

2:15pm - 2:25pm

 

FISSEA Ignite

 

2:25pm - 2:30pm

 

Closing Remarks

Joyce Mui, FISSEA Co-Chair, Information Technology Specialist for Security and Networking, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Created July 30, 2025, Updated August 29, 2025
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