Cybersecurity For Broadcasters Retreat: Managing The Media’s Expanding Security Compliance Needs

SEC and insurance company rules are raising the pressure on media companies to regularly audit their technology vendors’ security practices. Leaders in the field will discuss what networks and station groups are doing to standardize the way they communicate and collaborate with vendors to ensure compliance in an Oct. 18 panel, Managing The Media’s Expanding Security Compliance Needs, at TVNewsCheck’s Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat at the NAB New York Show.

The panel will consider whether the industry should coalesce around a third party to audit and certify vendors, and how large media companies can agree on rules and procedures that smaller companies can participate in among other pressing compliance issues.

Brian Morris, CISO, Gray Television; Shilpi Ganguly, VP, IT and security, AMG Security Office; and Dmitriy Sokolevsky, CISO, Avid, will join moderator Gary Olson, consultant, GHO Group, for the 2:45 p.m. panel on Oct. 18 at the Javits Center.

“The SEC is widely expected to release strict new rules for publicly traded companies, and broadcasters and their security executives are girding for that now,” said TVNewsCheck Publisher and Co-Founder Kathy Haley. “This panel should be eye-opening to everyone in the audience — from TV engineering and security executives at station groups and networks to their counterparts at technology vendors — in terms of the gravity of the new rules and the prospect of creating a standard security questionnaire to remove some of the burden from vendors.”

The Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat will run Oct. 17-18 at the Javits Center in New York City as part of the NAB New York Show. Additional panels include Leading-Edge Strategies for Securing the Network; Securing Content Repositories and Media Pipelines; Engineering/IT/Security Partnering to Mitigate Risk; Minimizing the Risk of Ransomware Attacks; Security and the Road to Modernizing Broadcast Technology; and Ransomware: Unique Perspectives on Defense for the M&E Industry.

The event will also include private information exchanges and an incident response simulation designed to reflect the heightened dangers broadcasters currently face.

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