345- Framework that enables with Meghan Cook

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Meghan E. Cook Leading the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Cyber Incident Response Team, Meghan Cook brings a unique background in facilitation and public administration. Her approach combines relationship building with technical understanding to help local governments and school districts protect their technology infrastructure. Enabling Framework How do you lead effectively across multiple government agencies? Meghan Cook shares her journey from broadcast communications to directing New York State’s Cyber Incident Response Team, highlighting how facilitation skills and relationship building create successful outcomes in government technology. Her unique perspective shows why technical expertise alone isn’t enough to drive change in complex organizations.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone, to today's episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.
0:07.9	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Megan Cook, the director of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Cyber Incident Response Team.
0:17.1	Welcome to the show, Megan.
0:18.4	Hi, thank you. I'm happy to be here.
0:21.8	That's great to have you here.
0:22.9	So that is a mouthful to say for your title, but it's super critical.
0:28.9	So there's two pieces to it.
0:30.7	One is it's so long because you're one of a couple of different teams that New York State has in this space.
0:38.3	Yes. So New York State has a decentralized approach to cybersecurity.
0:45.7	And agencies work together. And really, it's one of the states where it does work well behind the scenes of agencies working together. But another agency is New York State
0:57.5	Information Technology Services, which has a very large cyber team. And they address many of the state
1:04.9	agencies. So in the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, we focus on helping the local governments
1:11.9	and the school districts, which in New York State, there are many of county, cities, towns,
1:17.8	villages.
1:18.9	That's a lot.
1:19.9	Yes, there's a tremendous amount.
1:21.7	So that's where our focus is.
1:24.1	But yeah, but we also work hand in hand with New York State ITS, with the New York State Police Cyber Analysis Unit.
1:32.8	We work hand in hand with the other agencies that might have their own connections to local governments.
1:37.9	So I like to say which agency I'm from I work for, but really I say to people, we're all talking to each other
1:45.8	multiple times a week across these state agencies because everything's so interconnected in our state.
1:51.8	And now for the listeners out here, like you and I have some background here. We know each other.
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