Billington CyberSecurity organizers invited Professor Wenke Lee to their 2025 State and Local CyberSecurity Summit to present on ACTION activities during a panel titled "AI on the Cybersecurity Frontier: Cutting Edge R&D at Academia." Dr. Lee gave an overview of the participating institutions, mission and goals, project selection criteria, connections to state/local governments, impacts, etc. He also discussed how one cannot have blind trust in any single AI agent. Instead, for cybersecurity, we need a multi-modal and multi-agent approach where agents collaborate amongst themselves and with humans to achieve better accuracy and robustness, in particular, in the face of attacks/manipulation by malicious AI agents/adversaries. He stressed how humans need to be the ultimate decision makers.
The Billington State and Local CyberSecurity Summit took place on Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The summit brought together top federal, state, local, and tribal government officials along with industry experts to share best practices, learn from one another, enhance current cyber operations and bolster future defenses. Top speakers included Chief Information Security Officers from Florida, New York, Maryland, Arizona, and Texas.