Cloud Security Challenges and Solutions: An Overview of the Approach Oregon Takes

Description

Cloud adoption brings unique security challenges that require thoughtful planning and strong safeguards. This session provides an overview of Oregon’s approach to cloud security, highlighting key risks, solutions, and best practices that help protect critical systems and data.

Speakers

Sean McSpaden
Principal Legislative IT Analyst
Oregon's Legislative Fiscal Office

Over the past 30 years in the public, non-profit, and private sectors, Sean McSpaden has gained operational experience and leadership skills at the executive and management levels. His background includes the start-up and management of several small businesses. Sean has served on the Board of Directors or in Executive Director positions for several 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. His public service experience includes progressively responsible positions as an IT analyst, and in statewide coordination, management and leadership positions with the State of Oregon.

Over the past 26 years, Sean has worked with virtually every Oregon state agency, all major IT governing boards, agency business and technology leaders, other states and many federal and local government agencies on a variety of statewide and national information technology issues. From 2008-2013, Sean served as Oregon's Deputy State Chief Information Officer.

Sean currently serves as a Principal Legislative IT Analyst with Oregon's Legislative Fiscal Office. In that role, Sean has responsibility for oversight of Oregon’s IT, information security, GIS, and Artificial Intelligence programs, projects and initiatives on behalf of Oregon's Legislative Branch. Sean serves as the Committee Administrator for the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology and the Transparency Oregon Advisory Commission.

Sean also serves as a member of Oregon's Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and as Oregon’s Representative to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Privacy.

In addition, Sean serves as a Senior Fellow with the Center for Digital Government and the Center for Public Sector AI.

Sean holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In 2018, Sean earned his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management.