The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook
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his team faced—from staffing to budget—ITA deployed a<br />
unique, cloud-based SIEM solution to enhance cybersecurity<br />
capabilities. In addition, Lee led the city’s Cyber<br />
Intrusion Command Center (CICC), a city-wide cybersecurity<br />
working group that leads cybersecurity preparation<br />
and response to security incidents, implemented<br />
the city’s first Integrated Security Operations Center<br />
(ISOC). This ISOC collects and correlates log data and<br />
security events from different security appliances across<br />
the city’s departments into a single database and a useable<br />
dashboard and actionable threat intelligence to<br />
enable a high-level security posture city-wide. Instead of<br />
going to each of the 40 plus departments, Lee and his<br />
team can now monitor everything from clickstreams and<br />
transactions, to security events and network activity, and<br />
analyze all the correlated data from a centralized, customized<br />
dashboard, 24x7 anytime, anywhere; turning<br />
machine-generated data into valuable intelligence that,<br />
in turn, drives good decisions. <strong>The</strong> SIEM solution takes<br />
the City of LA to another level of cybersecurity intelligence.<br />
With the data in one place, the City of LA and its<br />
FBI counterpart, FBI Cyberhood Watch, can quickly and<br />
efficiently gather information about threats, and identify<br />
strategies to prevent future intrusions. <strong>The</strong> solution<br />
has undoubtedly enhanced the city’s ability to manage<br />
and protect the city’s critical infrastructure and digital<br />
assets serving Angelenos. Lee states, “I can confidently<br />
say we have avoided a number of security breach situations<br />
because we implemented these proactive tools.<br />
We have blocked intrusion attempts, have been able to<br />
swiftly correlate data and share threat information to the<br />
stakeholders, and have been able to expedite the time it<br />
takes to close these security incident tickets.”<br />
Link to Web Page of Nominated Organization:<br />
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http://ita.lacity.org/index.htm<br />
Name and organization of nominating<br />
contact for this entry, including name, title,<br />
organization:<br />
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Caralyn Duke, Account Executive<br />
Qorvis MSLGROUP<br />
Nominating contact’s office telephone and cell<br />
phone:<br />
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office: (202) 683-3203<br />
cell: (202) 658-9201<br />
Nominating contact’s email address:<br />
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caralyn.duke@mslgroup.com<br />
Address of nominating contact’s organization:<br />
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1201 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 500<br />
Washington, DC 20036<br />
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