FBI Springfield hosted its inaugural Midwest Cyber Alliance Summit, designed to bring together the brightest minds across 84 counties within Central and Southern Illinois. This event provided the FBI with the opportunity to highlight the cyber threat landscape, insider risk, incident response, and focused heavily on quantum and the Artificial Intelligence landscape. Also highlighted was FBI Cyber Division's new Operation Winter SHIELD initiative. The summit brought together cyber-security speakers from John Deere, Caterpillar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Pearl Technology. The house was packed with cyber-security professionals from more than 100 organizations. Attendees represented U.S. critical infrastructure and a range from small to large enterprises. The summit featured an expert panel discussion who addressed numerous questions by cyber-security professionals. FBI Springfield plans to convert the panel discussion into future think-tank discussions with academia and the private sector. If you reside in the Central or Southern Illinois area and want to get involved, apply with the Peoria or Springfield InfraGard chapters. FBI Springfield would like to thank our co-host Pearl Technologies and sponsor - the City of Peoria. Operation Winter SHIELD: lnkd.in/gNB5BFEK @InfraGardNatl