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<strong>GSN</strong> <strong>2015</strong> DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS<br />

Most Notable Cybersecurity Program, Project or Initiative<br />

City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles - Centralization <strong>of</strong> Cybersecurity<br />

Incident Data Analysis<br />

<strong>2015</strong> Winner<br />

<strong>Awards</strong> Category:<br />

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Most Notable Cybersecurity Program, Project or<br />

Initiative<br />

Name <strong>of</strong> Nominated Product, Service,<br />

or Program:<br />

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City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles Centralizes Cybersecurity Incident<br />

Data Analysis with Customized Solution<br />

Reason this entry deserves to win:<br />

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With more than 4 million residents, the City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles<br />

is the second largest city in the Unites States. <strong>The</strong><br />

City <strong>of</strong> LA’s Information Technology Agency (ITA) manages<br />

the IT systems and network traffic for more than<br />

37 departments, including those that support the city’s<br />

financials, taxes and public internet for citizens. ITA is<br />

dedicated to using the most secure, cost effective, highly<br />

efficient and interoperable enterprise-wide technology<br />

to serve the City <strong>of</strong> LA. In recent years, the cybersecurity<br />

threat landscape has dramatically evolved, with an everincreasing<br />

number <strong>of</strong> advanced persistent threats and<br />

targeted breaches. State and city governments today are<br />

tasked with safeguarding citizen data and confidential<br />

information, making them a target for malicious threat<br />

actors. Until recently, if an inconsistency or potential security<br />

breach was found, the protocol in place required<br />

pulling security logs from each individual department,<br />

reviewing and analyzing the disparate reports and then<br />

correlating the data manually with multiple security<br />

tools. This was a time consuming process that not only<br />

left room for error, but did not allow ITA to proactively<br />

tackle enough <strong>of</strong> the cyber threats attempting to infiltrate<br />

the city’s networks. Led by Timothy Lee, the city’s<br />

chief information security <strong>of</strong>ficer (CISO), ITA sought<br />

to implement an advanced security information and<br />

event management (SIEM) solution, to help consolidate,<br />

maintain and analyze security data across the city’s multiple<br />

departments. Given the limited resources Lee and<br />

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