October 2022 Security Workgroup Meeting
Thursday, October 13, 2022
1:00pm – 2:00pm

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Apache Kafka & Event Streaming for Cyber Operations

Speaker: Bert Hayes, Senior Solutions Engineer – Confluent 

Apache Kafka has been widely adopted by SOC's responsible for complex, multi-tenant operations in the federal government. SIEM technologies maintain connectors to push and receive data through Kafka. This talk will highlight how several SOCs in the federal government have adopted Kafka to streamline their operations.

Bert Hayes is a senior solutions engineer for Confluent. Bert supports State & Local governments across the United States. His work with the public sector began at the State of Texas' Department of Information Resources, and then continued at the University of Texas at Austin. At both organizations Bert was responsible for leading improvements in their cyber posture, selecting resources to assist their analysts, and supporting responses to active threats. Prior to joining Confluent, Bert spent many years at Splunk working with their State & Local government community. Bert and his wife have two teenagers and live in Austin, TX.

As of February 10th Governor Hochul lifted indoor mask or vaccine requirements for businesses statewide.  Following the revised state policy, masks will be optional for NYS Forum events.  We will continue to arrange seating to observe 6 foot social distancing where possible.   For more info on the State’s policy, view the Governor’s Feb. 10th release here

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