IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing more new challenges with it every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to emerging developments in AI and the need for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations to help educate, advise and connect you to resources that can help you meet your goals.
Covering Information Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Communications, and more, you’ll find presentations, panel discussions, and exhibitors covering a variety of topics, as well as the latest innovations and best practices.
March 10th, 2020
8:30am – 4:30pm
Oregon Convention Center
Portland Ballroom
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, OR 97232
Presented by Theresa Masse • Cybersecurity Advisor, US Department of Homeland Security
Presented by Dasher Technologies
Global costs due to ransomware are predicted to hit $20 billion in 2021, and in 2019, a business fell victim to a ransomware attack every 14 seconds. Join us as we discuss what happens in the hours, days, and weeks following ransomware attacks, as well as ways to help improve the time to recovery, and prevent getting hit in the first place!
Presented by Zerto
Ransomware threats increased by 300% last year, and the industry is expecting it to get worse. Ransomware victims’ greatest pains are downtime and data loss. Current DR and Backup solutions aren’t equipped to help you manage it at the speed of business. Join us for this discussion on how to transform your data protection approach to ensure you can protect your data and resume operations almost instantly when facing a ransomware attack. See you there!
Presented by Quest Software
Feel like you're performing a high-wire balancing act in your role as IT Manager or Infrastructure Admin? Performance monitoring and capacity planning can be a real challenge regardless of your infrastructure design. You've got to decide what compute and storage resources are needed and predict when they'll be needed. You've also got to balance the competing priorities of staying within budget and providing acceptable service levels to users. But these days you're no longer simply managing an on-premises data center, you've also got to figure out which workloads to move to the cloud, how best to get them there and how to manage them in the cloud for the long term.
With all this increased complexity, comes the need for more robust performance monitoring tools to help you manage your hybrid environment and give you the means to resolve issues quickly. Finding the right solution can even help simplify the planning and execution of your cloud migration. Come join Quest to learn more.
Presented by StorageCraft
Managing storage continues to be complex, and often expensive. Something needs to change, and it certainly won't be a dramatic increase in staffing. Fortunately, object storage is the answer. By eliminating the use of legacy RAID, object storage, can be the foundation for a scale-out converged storage solution that solves both data protection and data storage challenges. Want to recover a multi-TB VM in less than a second? No problem. Want to protect files from ransomware? No problem. Need an enterprise file serving, archiving, or virtual server storage solution? No Problem. Attend this session to learn how object storage is changing the landscape for IT admin and the technology of the future.
Presented by IVOXY Consulting & NetApp
Public clouds set a high bar for IT expectations of agility, scale, and services. Regardless of location and infrastructure, teams’ consumption experience with public cloud providers is driving their decisions and spending on IT today. Along with the ability to consume services across a choice of public and private clouds, teams must consolidate enterprise workloads without performance impact, deploying from a private cloud platform with service catalogs. Public clouds automate management and lifecycle, and they simplify how users consume IT.
Attend this presentation to learn how to simplify container orchestration and automation across the hybrid multi-cloud.
Theresa MasseCybersecurity Advisor, US Department of Homeland SecurityPresented by Theresa Masse • Cybersecurity Advisor, US Department of Homeland Security
You know at some point you will experience a cyber incident, if you haven't already! The extent of the impact may not always be immediately obvious, however being adequately prepared makes the difference between chaos and responding effectively. This presentation provides an overview of federal cyber security services to assist private and public sector entities in improving their cyber monitoring, controls, incident response, awareness, and overall security posture. There are a number of assessments that will help organizations better understand their risks and inform decisions on prioritizing resources and funding. Whether large or small, all organizations are potential targets, and all employees have an important role in information security. Bad actors, whether criminals or nation states, are using more sophisticated techniques and tactics to infiltrate systems. Organizations must be prepared to react quickly and effectively, no entity is an island or immune from a cyber-attack. The federal government is committed to helping through sharing intel in a timely manner and offering relevant programs that can make a significant difference. Cyber resources and assistance can be expensive, however, there are a variety of federal cyber services available and all are free of charge. Take advantage of them!
Ms. Masse is a Cyber Security Advisor in Region X (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) for the US Dept. of Homeland Security. Prior to that, she served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Port of Portland for 5+ years. Theresa was the first CISO for the State of Oregon and served in that capacity for 10 years. Previous to that, she worked in the private sector as the Senior Director for Information & Corporate Security at Cummins Inc., an international Fortune 500 company.
Ms. Masse has a Top-Secret security clearance. She is a former member of the executive committee for the State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Government Coordinating Council and was chair of the Cyber Security subcommittee. Theresa also served on the Cyber Security Advisory Board at Mount Hood Community College. She is a past member of the executive committee of the Multi-State-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and currently serves as a co-chair of the mentoring program. Theresa has a Masters degree with a major in Management.
Presented by OneTrust
While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is now law, many key amendments and details about the law only passed just before the law’s effective date – meaning privacy and security pros are still working to build CCPA-compliant programs. In this session, we’ll share all the latest news on the CCPA law, including which amendments passed and how that impacts your privacy program. We’ll share a 5-step plan for CCPA compliance and what to expect in the future for the CCPA.
Presented by Silver Peak
As cloud adoption and SD-WAN innovation hastens, global enterprises are transforming how they build and secure wide area networks. Leveraging automation, enterprises can deploy, connect and secure hundreds of sites per week, a feat not possible with a traditional device-centric approach.
During this session, we'll discuss how the unification of SD-WAN, WAN optimization, routing and security in a single, centrally orchestrated platform:
Presented by Druva
While more companies are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management, there are still many wondering “why?” The answer: the cloud actually brings substantial advancements to the data protection and management table that simply aren’t possible without it. The easiest advantage to envision? Unlimited scalability. If a data protection tool is properly designed, the capacity should automatically expand to meet any customer’s needs. The second advantage: the cloud is the simplest way to centralize the storage of all secondary data sources while also providing unlimited compute that can be used to gain additional insight and business value from that data. Finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility is unquestionably a major value of the cloud, and simply isn’t possible otherwise.
Presented by Unitrends
We are living in a “Less is More” world. In a landscape that’s rapidly changing, IT professionals are managing more work, projects, and risk than ever before. While external threats such as malware and natural disasters cause significant downtime and data loss without proper BC/DR implementation, organizations must also be prepared to safeguard from within. Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and not only on-premises. As cloud-delivered solutions such as IaaS and SaaS are rapidly adopted by an increasing number of organizations, and the workforce itself is becoming increasingly dispersed and mobile, organizations must consider data protection strategies to address gaps in BC/DR outside the traditional data center. Join Adam Marget, Technical Specialist from Unitrends, as we explore the evolving landscape of data protection, cloud’s growing role, BC/DR strategies to safeguard local, remote, and cloud-based workloads, and best practices in planning your DR approach.
Presented by Quest Software
IOT is upon us all, like it or not. Gone are the days of just managing Windows Desktops and their respective software. Today we are responsible for managing the life-cycle of many types of devices. Anything from a Raspberry pi, to iPad, and anything in between must be managed and tracked during its life. With the exponential growth of network connected devices we are also seeing growth in the regulations surrounding those devices. Regulations means compliance audits which increases our need to manage and track out IT assets.
Presented by Malwarebytes
From ransomware to Mac threats, attacks are up this year. Join Malwarebytes Lab and your peers for an enlightening hour of discussion and interaction.
Pulling from our analysis of millions of attacks on endpoints each year, we’ll recap 2019 threats and outline emerging trends in 2020. Together we’ll cover:
Presented by Atmosera
Expectations for information security and data protection are increasing, and so is the complexity. The stakes are higher than ever before due to compliance requirements and potential consequences on a company’s reputation. This presentation is designed to demystify the process of developing a strong security framework by getting started with a Defense in Depth approach based on 10 basic proficiencies.
Join this session and gain key strategies to:
Presenters:
Sean Ventura • CISO, Atmosera
Byron Anderson • InfoSec Engineer, Atmosera
Presented by Fortinet
Come participate in a discussion about the Cybersecurity counterculture of platform consolidation. Learn of the potential benefits like reduction of complexity, and greater visibility and control.
Presented by Structured
This presentation reviews historical methods of verifying identity and integrity, as well as the current challenges we face around authentication and authorization. We will also examine lessons learned to see what the future might hold when it comes to Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council
Every company has become more dependent upon IT departments to run business operations. When it comes to a company’s Cyber profile, has enough thought been put into protecting the company? What is the process for managing social media accounts? Who has access and passwords? Do you have continuity of messaging and processes?
The hygiene of your Cyber profile has effects on many operations of business. Join us for an interactive conversation about the role IT needs to play in protecting intellectual property and more.
Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council
A panel of local senior IT Professionals will take questions from the audience to discuss their experiences with testing disaster recovery and business continuity plans. A wide range of topics will be discussed including specific lessons learned, specific tools used, and what methods need to be altered. Bring your questions so that you will be ready to take the plunge and test your plan!
Presented by Juniper Networks
Today’s networks and IT teams are challenged by the soaring numbers of mobile and IoT devices and apps. Learn how data science, AI, and a modern microservices cloud architecture can deliver the agility, scale, and reliability that businesses need to succeed. We are transforming user and IT experiences with an AI-Driven Enterprise through proactive automation and relevant insights while ultimately evolving towards a self-driving network.
In this session, you’ll learn why three of the Fortune 10 companies, along with thousands of other organizations, are AI-driven wired and wireless networking customers, to deliver new services, assure network performance, and streamline help-desk operations.
Presented by Mitel & Structured
Are you ready to move communication and collaboration to the cloud with confidence? If so, attend this session to learn how. MiCloud Connect is a full-featured communications and collaboration solution that is easy to deploy and manage. Blend traditional phone system features such as call transferring, extension dialing and more with instant messaging, conferencing, video and screen sharing. This allows you and your team to save time, reduce travel and efficiently collaborate with others. Plus, with the ability to make changes in real time, you can change your call routing or presence on the fly.
Presented by Aruba
A software-defined wide area network delivers secure connectivity with enterprise-level performance over disparate WAN links and technologies. SD-Branch extends beyond SD-WAN to support all elements of the branch – WAN, WLAN, wired networks and security to address all your IT network connectivity needs. Attend this session to learn how to achieve simplicity at scale and deliver amazing branch experiences all the way to your workers, customers, patients, guests, students, and more.
Presented by Nutanix
Flexibility and choice have become the cornerstone of long-term decision making for IT leaders, yet the leading legacy hardware manufacturers of the past 20 years have struggled to match that demand. Companies are all too often pushed to lean on one manufacturer's server, storage, and virtualization products, or commit completely to the public cloud to achieve necessary business agility.
Unshackled by legacy lines of business that have stifled innovation in the datacenter, Nutanix was free to take a different approach. Please join us to learn exactly how they did it, and how their private cloud platform, built from the industry-leading HCI solution, has helped organizations of all sizes deliver positive business outcomes inside data centers - internal or external.
Presented by Palo Alto Networks
Sometimes, the best offense is a really great defense. This can be especially true in the world of cyber threat hunting and prevention. With all that lurks on the dark side of the internet, it is comforting to know you can improve your defensive posture with actionable intelligence. Join this session to receive a detailed picture of today’s actual threat landscape -- brought to you by a seasoned professional with one of the world’s preeminent global threat intelligence teams, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
Presented by Structured
Are you dissatisfied with your current data center strategy and know you need to make a change? If so, you are not alone. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of enterprise on-premises data centers will be shuttered. Get ready for a mountain of migration activity and attend this session. In addition to covering some best practices and important considerations, we will present a case study of one company’s journey to a modern data center environment.
Advisor-approved content is the foundation upon which INTERFACE was developed. Each conference is guided by an Advisory Council of IT executives and senior managers. Advisor members represent both private and public sector organizations. The council contributes its insight into proposed educational topics and recommends local exhibitors and associations for participation.
Chris Apgar
CEO/President
Apgar & Associates, LLC
Richard Appleyard, PHD
Deputy CIO
Oregon Secretary of State
Ed Arib
Manager, Information Technology
City of Portland, Public Safety Division
Brian Barnett
Director, Information Technology
Hyphn
Caesar Bernardo
Sr Technical Program Manager
IGNW
Erik Blanchard
Manager, Information Technology
Asset Protection Partnership, Ltd.
Michael Bray
Chief Information Security Officer
The Vancouver Clinic
Jeff Brewer
Business Information Risk Manager
Conduent Inc.
Brad Buckmaster
Manager, Information Technology
Plaid Pantries, Inc.
Bree DeWolf
IT Governance Manager
Papa Murphy’s International
Theresa Fichtner
Vice President of IT
NW Preferred Federal Credit Union
Stephen Fitton
Technical Solutions Manager
Salem Health
Greg Funk
IT Manager
Alta Planning + Design
Juan Gamboa
Manager, Information Technology
Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp
Robert Gibson
IT Manager
Alta Planning + Design
John Hampton
Director of IT
Erickson Information Services
Ed Hawkins
Manager, Infrastructure and Voice Services
Portland Community College
Bob Hestand
Chief Information Officer
Neil Kelly Company
Tim Hoffman
Manager, Information Technology
Cardinal Services
Joe Holstein
Manager, Infrastructure
Multnomah Athletic Club
Bill Hopkins
Manager, Information Technology
City of Keizer
Don Hornschuch
Senior IT Manager
Qorvo
Jeff Hower
Director, IT Infrastructure & Operations
Oregon Institute of Technology
Syed Hussain
Chief Information Officer
Oregon Lottery
Kevin Kays
Manager, Information Technology
Pamplin Communications
Muneer Koborsi
Senior Manager, IT & Risk Management
EPSON Portland Inc.
Travis Luckey
Chief Information Officer
Oregon DEQ
Amy McLaughlin
Director of IT, Student Health Services
Oregon State University
Ty Melero
Sr Manager, IT Operations
The Vancouver Clinic
Larry Miller
Chief Information Officer
Exterior Wood, Inc
Todd Milliren
IT Director
Lektro, Inc
Vincent Mohr
Director of Information Technology
De La Salle North Catholic High School
Ken Moody
Vice President & Manager, IT
Norris Beggs & Simpson
Jake Niesen
Director of Engineering – Supply
Nike
Smart Ocholi
Chief, Technical Resources Branch
Engineering Division US Army Corps of Engineers
Christopher Paidhrin
Chief Information Security Officer
City of Portland
Shane Perry
Information Security and Risk Officer
OR Public Employees Retirement System
Jason Pompel
Sr. Project Manager
The Standard
Josh Renoe
Director, Information Technology
The Management Group
Mark Roller
Senior Manager, IT
NW Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA)
Jerzy Rub
Director, Cyber External Risk
Intel Corporation
Linda Rudawitz
Director, Information Technology
Warner Pacific University
Greg Sanker
Chief Information Officer
Oregon Department of Administrative Services
Mark Thomasson
Manager, Security
DAT Solutions
Sean Ventura
Chief Information Security Officer
Atmosera
Marie VerMeer
Director, Global IS Operations
Columbia Sportswear Company
Gary Vermeulen
Manager, Information Technology
WR Grace
Saby Waraich
Senior Manager, Information Technology
City of Portland
Ron White
Sr. Infrastructure Systems Admin
C-Tran
Scott White
Director, Information Technology
Bridgewell Resources LLC
Participating exhibitors at INTERFACE achieve a greater return on their investment from this series of IT events than any other face-to-face medium available today. This success is achieved through a time-efficient and cost-effective presence for a pre-qualified audience. This simple formula leads to higher levels of business development opportunity at each event.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland Ballroom
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, OR 97232