Presented by Don Pecha, Chief Information Security Officer • FNTS

IBM Z is more modern than you may think. The IBM Mainframe is inherently built around security and quantum proof. Mainframes are still at the core of many businesses. Their mission critical data is secured and runs on a mainframe. Insurance, Finance, Manufacturing, Grocery, and Healthcare among other businesses are still actively leveraging mainframes. How do we know these critical machines are secure?

  Presented by Jonathan Halstuch, Co-Founder and CTO • RackTop Systems with SD3IT

Today’s cyber threats call for a new approach to data security, placing protections closer to the data. In this session, you’ll develop an understanding of why advanced cyber storage solutions are critical for defending production data from theft and destructive cyberattacks like ransomware. Learn strategies for reducing your organization’s threat window with a data-centric zero-trust architecture and artificial intelligence. Improve security and cyber hygiene while embracing the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model to ensure your organization’s data is defended during each of the three phases of an attack.

Key takeaways:

• Stay ahead of insider threats, data theft, ransomware, and extortionware with active defense
• Improve security and cyber hygiene by aligning with the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model
• How to involve stakeholders in a data-centric approach to security

  Presented by Tim Evans, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President • Adlumin

Join Adlumin's EVP, Tim Evans, as he provides guidance on selecting the right Managed Detection and Response (MDR) vendor for your organization. Evans will cover key considerations such as assessing your organization's security needs, evaluating the vendor's capabilities and expertise, and ensuring alignment with your organization's goals and objectives. Attendees will gain insights into the critical factors to consider when choosing an MDR vendor to enhance their organization's cybersecurity posture.

  Presented by Scott Davis, CDW Enterprise Architecture Team Field CTO & former Hitachi Field CTO  • Hitachi Vantara & CDW

You deserve a raise. Scratch that, you deserve a vacation and a raise. As an IT Titan, you were immeasurable in keeping your company afloat when the world halted in 2020 and threw all your initiatives into chaos. As an IT Titan, you persevered when all your priorities shifted to supporting every employee remotely and transforming your business into running 24/7 during the WFH mandate, while still caring for your loved ones. You achieved migrating your organization into the cloud, extending your security firewalls into the homes of your workforce, keeping stringent compliance requirements, and automating workflows to continue meeting stretch goals with limited staff. Whew!

As you reflect on your accomplishments, what did you learn? And what could you have done differently that will be top of mind to adapt to the woes of today, including perhaps mounting technical debt, a looming recession, an upcoming election year, ongoing supply chain issues, and urgent sustainability efforts?

• In the year of efficiency, how can businesses leverage cloud repatriation efforts and containerization to cut ballooning cloud costs?
• As you continue layering security tool after security tool, how can you implement cyber resiliency and drastically limit your risk from attackers?
• With the looming recession and a hiring freeze, how can IT departments meet stretch goals by leveraging adaptive automation technologies, such as ChatGPT? And how can compliance teams regulate these new tools to ensure data privacy while maintaining brand equity?
• How can you help accelerate your organization’s timeline for becoming carbon net-zero and ditch reusable straws and $0.10 plastic bags?

Join us as we review the top IT trends for 2023/2024 with CDW’s Scott Davis, Strategist and Former Hitachi Field CTO. As a former CTO and COO, Scott brings a unique perspective in guiding programs for organizational change. He brings his executive experience to help identify customer goals and challenges that disrupt the status quo to enable a better digital transformation roadmap leveraging the value of data, the IoT, and AI to achieve new business insights faster.

  Presented by Jamion Aden, Solutions Architect • IP Pathways

In the realm of cybersecurity, no conventional game plan, Business Continuity Plan, or tabletop exercise can fully anticipate and mitigate the challenges posed by cyber threats. Join us as we navigate through real-world encounters, and 'calling the play at the line,' when ransomware becomes the opposing force.

Our Solutions Architect, Jamion Aden, leverages over 18 years of comprehensive industry experience to lead this engaging and interactive presentation. In doing so, we aim to equip you with the necessary insights and strategies essential to effective event preparedness, as well as furnish your security toolkit with the necessary tools for bolstering your organization's cyber defenses.

  Presented by Darktrace

In the face of skyrocketing cyber risk, detecting and responding to attacks is no longer enough. Organizations must take proactive steps to prevent threats before they happen and to recover if compromised. In this session, Darktrace unveil an ambitious new approach to security, with core engines powering AI technologies to prevent, detect, respond, and ultimately heal from attacks across all areas of their digital environment. Together, these engines combine to strengthen organizations’ security posture in a virtuous AI feedback ‘loop,’ which provides powerful end-to-end, bespoke, and self-learning solutions unique to each organization.