Presentation 2: “In the Cross-Hairs: Public Sector Threat Brief”
Matt Singleton is an Executive Strategist at Crowdstrike and currently teaches as a Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he was the chief information security officer for the state of Oklahoma where he led all cybersecurity defensive efforts, offensive operations and compliance/privacy practices. During that time, he completely rebuilt Oklahoma Cyber Command into a world-class program, oversaw the state’s efforts to push more than 32,000 state employees to work securely and effectively from home during the global pandemic, established the state’s first enterprise fraud prevention, detection and investigation program, and launched the Oklahoma Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
Prior to Oklahoma’s CISO, he served as chief operations officer for Oklahoma’s information services division. In that role, he oversaw the technology operations for 189 executive branch agencies/affiliates and executed the unification of 110 IT organizations across the state, realizing more than $875 million in cost savings. His work was highlighted in Chris Fussell’s Wall Street Journal best-seller, One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams. Matt’s prior work history includes leading IT at the University of Oklahoma. Most notably, he played a central role in establishing OU’s cybersecurity program, the OU Cyber-Forensics Lab and OU’s highly popular technology retail store, which ranked as the No. 1 institutionally managed Apple reseller in the Southeast.
He also provided critical leadership for the development of OU2GO, one of the first iPhone apps in Higher Education. Matt earned a master’s degree in applied intelligence from Georgetown University with specializations in cyber-intelligence, homeland security and counterterrorism. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from OU, a master’s certificate in IT service management and numerous other industry certifications.