A Whole-of-State program is only as strong as its ability to detect, investigate, and respond at scale. This session covers how AI-driven security analytics enable a modern SOC to defend an entire state. We'll explore shared telemetry, AI-assisted investigations, agentic security operations, and cross-agency threat hunting -- with a short demonstration showing coordinated response in action. Attendees leave with a repeatable model for collective cyber defense that scales across every jurisdiction in the state.
Sr Manager, Solutions Architecture, Elastic
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Bobby Suber leads Solutions Architecture for Elastic’s State, Local Government, and Higher Education (SLED) business, partnering with executive leaders to modernize public sector data and AI capabilities. His focus is helping states break down operational silos and implement true whole-of-state cyber defense strategies. As threat landscapes accelerate and data volumes explode, traditional, agency-by-agency approaches no longer work. He partners with CISOs, CIOs, and state leaders to operationalize AI-driven security analytics and unified data platforms—enabling counties, municipalities, higher ed, and state agencies to share intelligence, unify visibility, and build collective resilience.
Principal Solutions Architect, True Zero TechnologiesÂ
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Tony Chang is a Principal Solutions Architect at True Zero Technologies, where he works with states at the strategy level: the operating model, sequencing, and governance that turn a whole-of-state ambition into a durable program. He has done this work in several states, and his premise is that whole-of-state is a design decision before it is a technology one. What gets decided first is how authority is shared, which capabilities are centralized and which stay local, how data sharing is authorized between independent entities, and how progress is measured across all of them. He partners with CISOs, CIOs, and state leaders to translate those decisions into an executable roadmap for collective defense, where a detection in one jurisdiction becomes early warning for all of them. He is also active in the community end of that work, with rural counties, small municipalities, and school districts that face the same threats as the largest agencies on a fraction of the staff, through forums, working groups, and peer knowledge sharing that bring their operating realities into the design from the start.
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