DAU: Cybersecurity Hacks for Contracting Teams

Let’s explore the myriads of cybersecurity considerations and tools which go into creating unclassified solicitations and contracts.  We’ll also talk about cybersecurity during the life of the contract. Let’s list out resources helping contracting teams and shine a light on the best practices in contract cybersecurity.

Date: July 21, 2025

Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

CLPs: 1.5

Register HERE.

Who Should Attend: Ideal for any professional with responsibilities for cybersecurity.

Contact Information: For Registration of technical questions, please contact us at events@dau.edu 

DoD Cyber Solutions: This is a series of webinars to bring the Acquisition Workforce up-to-speed on all the cybersecurity requirements in federal contracts and how to evaluate those contractual requirements. In the DoD alone, there are some 120K small business contractors and 70% of those contractors have less than 30 employees. This webinar series will share information with contracting communities, project managers, and contractors on the resources available to create robust cybersecurity.

Speaker

Kelley Kiernan

Professor Emeritus

Kelley Kiernan is a professor of Cybersecurity and Information Protection at the DoD’s Defense Acquisition University (DAU).   Kelley Kiernan is a cybersecurity and small business ecosystem leader, who applies her experience from Industry, NASA, Navy, Air Force and Space Force to pave the way for robust cybersecurity adoption in the acquisition ecosystem.  Kelley is an engineer, scientist and an innovation expert. She is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and served as an Air Force officer where she was a recipient of the Air Medal.  Kelley's champion leadership brings robust cybersecurity within the reach of everyone.

This event is being offered as a courtesy to NWT APEX Accelerator clients.