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.
September 17th, 2020
8:30am – 3:30pm
Virtual Conference
Multi-track seminars with Q&A
1-on-1 chat and networking
Hourly prize drawings
Presented by Jodi Ito • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawaii
Presented by StorageCraft
Ransomware attacks have increased over 130% since the COVID crisis. Everyone is a target and even those with preventative measures in place are at risk. We will review some of the latest attacks and offer best practices in how to protect your organization without increasing budgets.
Presented by Zerto
As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements. Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience. You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.
Presented by Nutanix
As we have seen in 2020, many companies are working to enable their employees to have a work from home capability. However, there are many factors that contribute to whether that will be possible or not. Are their apps supported? What devices are supported? How secure will they be? What latency issues will they incur and where is the data locality?
All of these topics and more will be addressed.
Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council
As the Hawaii State Department of Education responds to the changing situation of the “New Normal”, we have accelerated the modernization of our legacy systems. By focusing on automation and software as a service, the Department has been able to meet the rapidly evolving needs of telework and distance learning. By focusing on the work that is good enough, a technology transformation that was already well under way has been able to accelerate and meet the needs of students across the state.
Presenter:
Brook Conner • Assistant Superintendent & CIO, Hawaii Department of Education
Presented by Quest Software
Query tuning is key to peak performance in SQL Server databases. However, lots of developers and DBAs constantly struggle to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues and spend way too much time in trying to fix them. In this presentation, Quest will share their tried and true best practices for tuning SQL statements and other issues by utilizing Wait Time Analysis, reviewing execution plans and using SQL diagramming techniques. In addition, several case studies will be used to demonstrate these best practices.
Regardless of the complexity of your database or your skill level, this systematic approach will lead you down the correct tuning path with no guessing, saving countless hours of tuning queries and optimizing performance of your SQL Server databases.
Jodi ItoChief Information Security Officer, University of HawaiiPresented by Jodi Ito • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawaii
Join us for a panel discussion, led by Jodi Ito, Information Security Officer for the University of Hawaii. This panel will cast a wide net around the multitude of cyber-related considerations and issues that society is facing with our current pandemic situation. From securing telework locations, health screening when re-opening, servicing customers during a shutdown in a secure manner, to providing equitable distance-delivered education - the panelists will engage in a lively roundtable discussion of these topics and more.
Panelists:
Jodi Ito • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawaii
Vince Hoang • Chief Information Security Officer, State of Hawaii
Alan Ito • Information Security Officer, Hawaii Pacific Health
Ryan Field • Sr. Vice President, Director of Technology & Architecture, American Savings Bank
Jodi Ito is the Chief Information Security Officer with the University of Hawaii (UH) System in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology since 2000 and has been with the University since 1982.
Jodi is responsible for the security and protection of information assets across the University of Hawaii System. These responsibilities include developing and managing policies and procedures for the UH information security program, conducting risk & vulnerability analysis for critical assets, overseeing investigations into cyber incidents, & developing and conducting training on information policy & security issues across all 10 UH campuses and affiliated research & education centers. She has also organized several large scale red/blue team cybersecurity exercises on the UH cyber range involving University students, Hawaii National Guard, military, state, and federal government agencies.
Jodi is a Principal Investigator and Program Director for the NSA’s GenCyber Camps in Hawaii to introduce cybersecurity to high school students and teachers. She is also the co-PI on the NSF/NSA Scholarship For Services grants to provide full-ride scholarships for students pursuing cybersecurity degrees and the NSF Computer Science Principles for Hawaii to train high school teachers to be able to teach AP Computer Sciences Principles. She is also a member of the REN-ISAC, MS-ISAC, Educause, and Infragard. Most recently, she is an active founding member of the newly organized CyberHawaii and co-chairs the Education and Workforce Development Committee.
Jodi graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with both a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science in 1982 and a Masters of Science degree in Information and Computer Science in 1987.
Presented by Gigamon
Come discuss how gaining visibility into your network has become more of a challenge than ever before. With the evolution from the Data Center to Virtual Environments, Public and Private Clouds, our exposure has never been greater.
In this session we will cover Span vs. TAP, Traffic Aggregation, Packet Brokers, Traffic Intelligence, Virtual Environments and how to get that one view of all your data.
Learn how to maximize the ROI on your existing tools while increasing your scope of visibility.
Who knows, you might even have fun?! Heckling Encouraged!
Presented by One Identity
System Administrators are critical people to every organization. They design, build, and maintain all the parts and pieces that enable business, whether that’s retail, healthcare, or even a government agency. Ensuring sysadmin tasks are performed as securely as possible without hampering their ability to keep our business running is a delicate balance. These “insiders” not only know how the systems operate but have the credentials and privileges to operate them.
In this session, we will demonstrate an Active Directory breach using pass-the-hash and discuss ways to enable the System Administrators to operate in a way that not only protects the business from threats but also enables them to perform the intricate tasks they accomplish daily to keep business flowing under the covers.
Presented by ExtraHop Networks
With the sudden shift of the global workforce from in-office to remote, IT teams quickly transformed their operations to accommodate the new realities of business — including large-scale adoption of work-from-home technologies, heightened activity on customer-facing networks, and greater use of online services.
While these examples of agility allowed business to continue, they also greatly increased the risk of misconfigurations and cyberthreats. Now, it's looking like they could be here to say for a while. On top of that, bad actors have wasted no time trying to exploit new vulnerabilities. In the past several weeks, we've seen ransomware attacks affect several major organizations. These attacks come on the tail of a surge of attacks across the board brought on during the pandemic, as hackers scanned and took advantage of new workloads, and vulnerable VPN connections and misconfigurations left the gates to the network open.
When attacks like these make headlines, panicked board members have one question for CISOs: how can we be sure that won’t happen to us? We will share top strategies for CISOs to lead board-level conversations about risk management amidst the stark new realities of IT.
Presented by Check Point
Companies are rapidly migrating applications and workloads to the cloud. For many this is a Software as a Service for a first option, with migration to public cloud second, and only if necessary will workloads be deployed inside of the legacy data center. This is further complicated by the desire to accelerate the development lifecycle allowing devops to drive the IT migration. InfoSec is playing catchup to the business and devops constant acceleration.
In this session, you will learn strategies and best practices for allowing SecOps to keep up with the Speed of DevOps, as well as fundamental security knowledge applicable for any workload migration to any cloud provider.
Presented by VPLS
The Air Gap: A Double-edged Sword
Endpoints are frequently the target of initial compromise or attacks. It can take just minutes, if not seconds, to compromise the endpoints, putting industrial environments at risk. One recent study found that 30% of breaches involved malware being installed on endpoints.
Operational Technology (OT) endpoints are particularly vulnerable given the legacy technology powering environments like our manufacturing plants, power stations, and other critical infrastructure. Many organizations rely on an air gap for cybersecurity to protect their industrial environments.
Unfortunately, the air gap is a double-edged sword. While it may help insulate and shrink the attack surface, like all prevention measures, it is not 100%.
Join this presentation to explore how you can:
Presented by Nutanix
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has been taking the IT industry by storm the past 5 years. As businesses are exploring what this means to them, they need to ask themselves should we consider changing our infrastructure? During this session we will cover the following discussions:
Presented by ServiceNow
As a member of IT, have you found yourself doubting your relationship with the rest of the organization as you're perceived as a cost center rather an equal part stakeholder with a common goal? Do you find yourself struggling to collaborate with the rest of the organization as the tech debt in your organization has created seemingly insurmountable silo's? If you feel any of this describes your work environment and how IT may be perceived, please join the discussion in how the concepts of IT Service Management need to shift to a more inclusive Enterprise Service Management strategy. Ultimately, driving more effective technology purchasing, collaboration across the enterprise and re-branding of IT as an organizational enabler.
Presented by StorageCraft
Ransomware attacks have increased over 130% since the COVID crisis. Everyone is a target and even those with preventative measures in place are at risk. We will review some of the latest attacks and offer best practices in how to protect your organization without increasing budgets.
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.
David Chang
Director, Technical Support
First Presbyterian Church
Nathan Chang
Manager, IT Client Services
The Queen’s Health Systems
Brook Conner
Assistant Superintendent & CIO
HI Department of Education
Curt Dodds
Manager, Information Technology
U of H, Institute for Astronomy
Cody Down
Chief Information Officer & Associate Vice President
Hawaii Pacific University
Jeff Ferrer
Manager, Information Technology
HI Dept of Human Services
Wendee Hilderbrand
Managing Counsel & Privacy Officer
Hawaiian Electric Company
Alan Ito
Information Security Officer
Hawaii Pacific Health
Dana Mendoza
Director, Information Technology
VIP Food Service
Geoff Milford
Technical Analyst
Hawaii Pacific Health
Tim Minick
Director, Information Technology
HPM Building Supply
Grant Nakamichi
Manager, IT Infrastructure
Aloha Pacific Federal Credit Union
Jim Sleutel
Vice President & Manager, Cybersecurity
Finance Factors
Dave Stevens
Professor, Information Security Program
Kapiolani Community College
Tony Velasco
IT Division Chief
City & County of Honolulu
Dwight Victor
Systems & Network Team Lead
General Dynamics Missile Systems
Greg Wolf
ESS Manager
Matson
Charissa Wong
Manager, Information Technology
Bowers + Kubota Consulting
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.
