Building a Community of Trust with Tom Billington, CEO of Billington CyberSecurity

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tombillington/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tom Billington</a>, CEO of <a href="https://billingtoncybersecurity.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billington CyberSecurity</a> and Producer of the Billington CyberSecurity Summit, joins Carolyn and co-host Mark Senell to discuss the upcoming <a href="https://billingtoncybersummit.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">14th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit</a>, what goes into creating a valuable community for both the government and the commercial sector, and the important topics that will be the basis for this year's conference.</p><h2>Key Topics</h2><ul><li>[02:58] - Founding the Billington Cybersecurity Summit </li><li>[09:59] - Developing Conference Topics </li><li>[12:43] - Bridging Federal and Commercial Cybersecurity </li><li>[16:02]- Critical Infrastructure at Billington </li><li>[19:04] - Commercial Industry at Billington </li><li>[21:45] - Registering for The Summit</li><li>[22:49] - Preparing Key Conference Themes </li><li>[24:46] - Hottest Topics at Billington This Year</li><li>[27:03] - What’s New About Zero Trust </li><li>[28:22] - Tech Talk Questions</li></ul><br/><h2>Quotable Quotes</h2><p><strong><em>On Founding Billington Cybersecurity Summit: </em></strong>"I really started this business to be distinctly patriotic, to provide a serious dialogue in a way that I felt wasn't really being done at that time...So breaking into the federal cybersecurity community, to be honest, was hard as an entrepreneur. We had to build trusted relationship after trusted relationship. Over the course of 14 years, it's become decidedly easier now, now that we have had the privilege of having those trusted relationships."</p><p><strong><em>On Zero Trust:</em></strong> "Many of the areas that zero trust encompasses have been around since the profession has existed in cybersecurity. But at no other time has the U.S. government proclaimed the importance of this overarching field as it has in t