About Summit

The Oregon Cyber Resilience Summit (OCRS) was first introduced in 2018 and every Summit aligns its content under the umbrella of a common theme that brings together attendees, speakers and sponsors. Multiple industries and sectors are represented, including federal, state, and local governments, information technology (IT) partners and vendors, K-12 and higher education (both employees and students), financial, and power and electric — a true community convergence!

Cyber threats represent some of the most significant challenges to our national security, economic system, and way of life. Cyber risks affect all sectors: critical infrastructure, power and energy, banking, higher education, and many more. The interconnectedness and interdependence among all sectors of our community cause cyber incidents in one area to affect the whole community. Consequently, it is paramount that we work together to defend our cyber “things.”

Every year, we build on the success of previous OCRS events by continuing to embrace the “whole community” approach, bringing together the private and public sectors, owners and operators, cybersecurity experts, students, and community members to network and train together to defend our infrastructure from cyber threats.

Who Attends the Summit

Over the years multiple industries and sectors have participated in OCRS, including federal, state and city governments, information technology (IT) partners and vendors, K-12, and higher education (both employees and students), financial, and power and electric — a true community convergence! In addition, the summit is beneficial for individuals in the following positions from educational institutions and any of the 16 DHS/CISA critical infrastructure sectors:

Cybersecurity, Information Technology (IT), and IT audit leaders, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), Chief Information Officers (CIO), Chief Technology Officers (CTO), Chief Audit Executives (CAE), directors, managers, and supervisors
Cybersecurity, IT, and IT audit professionals
Emergency response leaders and professionals
University and community college students, faculty, and staff
Leaders and professionals from public and private industries with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and industrial control systems (ICS)

Attendance to the Summit through the Years

Since its initial launch in 2018, the event has been well received by the community. Events are held at the University of Oregon. For 2020 and 2021, the event was held online to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The table below shows location and participants for the summit.

Year	Registered Participants	Public/Private Sector Distribution	Venue
2018	375	82%/18%	University of Oregon – Erb Memorial Union
2019	420	85%/15%	University of Oregon – Erb Memorial Union
2020	234	77%/23%	Online
2021	301	77%/23%	Online
2022	297	82%/18%	University of Oregon – Erb Memorial Union
2023	387	66%/34%	University of Oregon – Erb Memorial Union

What Attendees Say

I especially enjoyed the presentation by the student employees and how some of the University of Oregon students in the audience were excited about possibly working at the University.

Great format and I found “fireside chat with CISA director” to be an excellent session, enjoyed the Q&A from the audience.

I would recommend this program to others because of the wide range of topics covered in such a short time. There was a session for everyone.

I learned how vulnerable networks are to zero-day events, and I learned that CISA provides a tremendous number of services.

Great collaboration and networking opportunity, also a great space to learn from others.

The information was both timely and useful and the speakers were excellent. I really appreciated the strategic overview of current actors and threat landscape.

I would recommend this program to others. Great opportunity to enhance your understanding of cybersecurity issues.

It was very insightful and gave me a larger picture of how security relates to my work.

I learned a tremendous amount and became ever more aware of the innumerable threats we face.

There is nobody in the local community that is NOT impacted by issues being discussed at the Summit.

The networking. I met so many amazing people and created so many opportunities.

Conference Tracks

Cyber-Physical

addressing the growing challenge of securing interconnected information technologies (IT) and operational technologies (OT)

Cyber-Technical

providing deep technical insights into real-world attacks

General Cyber Resilience Awareness

building general user awareness

Land Acknowledgement

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.

We express our respect for all federally recognized Tribal Nations of Oregon. This includes the Burns Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Klamath Tribes. We also express our respect for all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home. We seek to lead in curricular, pedagogical, research, and public scholarship innovations and interventions that redress inequitable, oppressive, and violent histories and provide generative futures for all students, families, faculty, staff, and communities.