Here’s why cybersecurity’s brightest minds descended on UTSA

Representatives from the White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, the FBI, National Science Foundation and several national laboratories came together inside UTSA’s downtown School of Data Science Wednesday to discuss their interconnected efforts to harden the nation’s manufacturing sector against cyber attacks.

They descended on San Antonio to attend “Secure Together,” the second annual conference hosted by the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Center, or CyManII, an Energy Department-funded cybersecurity research and development institute launched in 2020 and housed at UTSA.

Advanced manufacturing, which incorporates new technologies in its processes, is one of the most vulnerable sectors of the economy to cyberattack — and most manufacturers have neither the resources nor the know-how to secure themselves against increasingly sophisticated nation state-backed adversaries.

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