Next Meeting Thursday, October 13th 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM 

Event: National Preparedness Month 

Topic: FBI speaks on Emerging Cyber Attacks

Speaker: Scott Augenbaum, Cyber Crime Supervisor

President Obama signed a proclamation on August 27, 2010 that designated the month of September as “National Preparedness Month,” and encouraged all Americans to support FEMA’s Ready campaign and the efforts of the Citizens Corps to promote volunteerism in the homeland security arena.

“During National Preparedness Month, we stress the importance of strengthening the security and resiliency of our Nation through systematic preparation for the full range of hazards threatening the United States in the 21st century, including natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemic disease, and acts of terrorism,” said the president, in proclamation number 8549.

The Nashville LIG is proud to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for year’s annual National Preparedness Month itSMF event.

Scott Augenbaum is the Cyber Crime Supervisor in the FBI Memphis Division and manages the program in Nashville and Memphis with a staff of seven Special Agents. The FBI’s Cyber Program covers computer intrusion investigations, online child exploitation, intellectual property rights and Internet fraud.

Scott started his career in the FBI in the New York Field Office in 1988 as a support employee in the Financial Management Section. In 1994, he went to the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA and became a Special Agent. His first office was the Albany, New York Field Office, Syracuse Resident Agency. He was assigned to work domestic terrorism, white collar crime and all computer crime investigations.

After September 11, 2001, Scott was appointed the Joint Terrorism Task Force Coordinator for the Syracuse Office. In December 2004, he was promoted to a Supervisory Special Agent at FBI headquarters in the Cyber Division. He was assigned to the Cyber Task Force Unit and was responsible for managing the resources of the FBI’s 72 Cyber Task Forces throughout the United States. In addition, Scott was responsible for the management oversight of the Internet fraud and intellectual property rights program.

Scott will discuss the emerging cyber threat from transnational organized criminal enterprises and foreign threat actors.  He will detail how these threat actors are facilitating their actions by spear phishing their victims through social networking sites.  In addition He will discuss the importance of organizations to view information security as a strategic component and one of the most important objectives for the business is to keep their intellectual property out of the hands of cyber threat actors.