“There’s no question, we’re reaping the rewards of unprecedented digital innovation, but our expanding digital landscape has also created more ways for malicious actors to attack us,” FBI Boston Division Special Agent in Charge Ted. E. Docks said in his opening remarks at the annual Boston Conference on Cyber Security.
Now in its 10th year at Boston College, the last two of which were held at BC Law School, the October 14 gathering convened more than a dozen panelists and speakers. Among them were experts from the FBI, Liberty Mutual, the US Attorney’s Office, Google, US Cyber Command, Bain Capital Ventures HYCU, Inc., US Cyber Command, Mintz, and McDermott, Will & Schulte.
Kevin Powers, faculty director of the Master of Legal [M.L.S.] Studies in Cybersecurity, Risk, and Governance at the Law School, collaborates with the FBI on hosting the conferences. His participation in helping to bring the M.L.S. program to BC Law in 2015 demonstrates the commitment to leading legal education’s response to technological advances. The conference is a prime example of both that and the necessity of cooperative policies.
As keynoter Jose Perez, operations director of the Criminal and Cyber Branch of the FBI, said, “The cybersecurity threat is no longer a technical issue. “It’s a boardroom issue, a classroom issue, it’s a public safety issue that affects everyone. The threat environment is moving faster, reaching farther every single day, impacting more Americans.”
Read more about the October 2026 event in BC News.
Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham, Boston College
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