Christie Karrels, Trellix | Trellix Cybersecurity Summit 2024

Public sector organizations continue to face a constant barrage of sophisticated cyber threats. And with new cybersecurity mandates and guidance — from recent executive orders to the release of the 2023 National Cyber Strategy — public sector leaders must make considerable decisions about their cyber enterprise that will have lasting impacts for years to come.

Christie Karrels, Strategic Solutions Architect at Trellix, joined other top decision-makers from government and tech at the Trellix Cybersecurity Summit to discuss merging topics in cybersecurity like ransomware, zero trust, global security and XDR.

In this interview, Karrels answered the following questions:
1. What are the biggest challenges the public sector is currently facing trying to defend against the expanding attack surface not only across their enterprise but across the extended software supply chain?
2. How is increasing reliance on cloud services made real-time cybersecurity and threat detection easier or harder?

This interview is part of a series filmed in conjunction with the Trellix Cyber Security Summit held on February 27, 2024, in Washington, D.C.