I was invited to testify earlier today before the Maryland Commission on Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence.
The Commission was established by the Maryland State Legislature to “conduct an overview of federal and state cyber security laws and policies and consider Maryland’s role in promoting cyber innovation and to recommend a comprehensive framework and strategic plan for cyber security innovation and excellence”.
I was asked to talk about trends I thought were important in IT Technology over the next 2-3 years, the cybersecurity implications of those trends, and to add my take on possible policy issues that the Commission might take a look at. As part of the presentation I was asked to give some background about myself (I noted that I was pretty much the most local person they would find, having been born in Washington DC and grown up in Montgomery County, while going to college at the University of Maryland College Park and then the University of Maryland University College.