Continuing the risk management learning series, the New York Alliance is sharing information about one more training opportunity focused on Developing Emerge

March 16, 2022 at 2:00pm
Cybersecurity: Taking the Next Steps from Awareness to Action 

This session will provide an overview of one of the most credible and quickly advancing threats to all Human Services Agencies, Cybersecurity.

Building off the awareness gained of the credible and advancing threat cybersecurity is to Human Services organizations, this webinar will discuss what to do next.

Attendees will leave with tangible strategies for developing a plan for navigating the vast world of cybersecurity solutions. In addition attendees will get a sense of what experts are anticipating as trends for bad actors in 2022.ncy Preparedness and Management expertise within your agency.

Target Audience: The target audience is Risk Manager Directors as well as any member of your team responsible for navigating areas of risk.

About the Training: Training is free for members and non-members.

About Our Presenter: Thomas Ess is the vice president of Emergency Management Safety and Security for People Inc., a multispecialty non-profit health and human services agency, providing programs and services to more than 10,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, special needs, families and older adults throughout Western New York and the Greater Rochester region.

Thomas has been with People Inc. since 2004, serving in many levels of management in the Residential Department and becoming the agency’s Emergency Preparedness coordinator in 2014. Thomas has built the Emergency Preparedness Program at People Inc. from the ground up, bringing his experience in Emergency Services to the human service realm to help ensure People Inc. was prepared for and able to mitigate emergencies. Thomas has served as the incident commander of the COVID-19 response for the agency since March of 2020, and continues to lead the agency’s efforts in safeguarding all of the people the agency supports, as well as its employees.

Outside of his work at People Inc., Thomas has been in the Fire Service for 17 years, serving seven of those years as assistant fire chief of the East Aurora Fire Department. Thomas also has a career in law enforcement, working as a public safety dispatcher for 14 years with the East Aurora Police Department and East Aurora Fire Control. Thomas has a bachelor of arts in Psychology and English from Allegheny College, a Masters of Public Administration from Buffalo State College and has a post graduate Executive Education Certificate from Harvard Kennedy School of Government for Leadership in Crisis and Performance Measurement. Thomas is an FBI Citizens Academy Graduate of 2018 and a Leadership Buffalo Graduate of 2013. He earned the American Red Cross Heroes Award for workplace safety in 2019 and was awarded the Developmental Disabilities Alliance of Western New York 2021 COVID-19 Hero Award for his work during the pandemic. Thomas was also recognized in the Buffalo Business First 40 under 40 class of 2021. Thomas is a known leader in the region for emergency management, who provides guidance to other non-profit agencies for emergency and safety preparedness.