WI Forum 2015-2016 Brochure
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Various government agencies do not always have to follow checks
and balances, and can wield unregulated power. Small businesses
often do not have the means or influence to defend themselves
when under scrutiny from these agencies. Five years ago, the US
Government teamed with a private enterprise to attack and take a
file without authorization from an American small business, and
they used that information to expand a government agency.
Michael Daugherty, a small business owner who created LabMD,
a cancer detection center in Atlanta, became a victim of a private
cyber security company. That company, in association with a
prestigious American university, conducted an invasion of
business files and then used their findings to motivate the US
Government to ride the wave of new cyber security protections
and legislation. Mr. Daugherty will create awareness about this
abuse of power, and his book The Devil Inside the Beltway