Presented by Gigamon

With the move to cloud and the multitude of approaches, your ability to effectively monitor and secure workloads gets even more difficult. IT complexity, the rate of change, lack of skills, and organizational silos have made confidently managing security and performance nearly impossible. Visibility is critical. Join us for a discussion of the security considerations for on-prem private, public, and hybrid clouds. You’ll learn best practices and see how a little planning and design can go a long way. Achieve a secure and viable hybrid cloud implementation and get a high return on your investment.

  Presented by Aruba, a HPE Company

Over the past couple of decades, we’ve relied on a certain predictable and repeatable model of expectations from our infrastructure that has delivered. However, the demands of Digital Transformation, the pace of change, the capabilities within our teams -- and of course the pandemic -- have created business pressures that traditional ways of building and security infrastructure just can’t keep pace with.

The time is now to reflect, reset, and embrace a different way that will increase agility and flexibility as well as enhance performance and security. Lose the baggage of the past, travel light, and let’s chart a course for the journey ahead.

  Presented by Infoblox

In recent years, continuous integration and continuous deployment, aka CI/CD, have become de facto standards for DevOps-minded software development organizations. Adoption of CI/CD enables software architects and IT specialists to create more flexible, secure and agile infrastructure with new features and functionality that are continually improved and deployed. While compute and storage aspects of environments have benefited greatly from CI/CD, network infrastructure has lagged behind.

This presentation pulls back the covers on efforts taking place to bring CI/CD philosophies to the work of revamping legacy, monolithic network architectures using cloud-native principles, microservices and containerization. The end goal is to create networks that are inherently more adaptable, scalable, automated and simpler to manage.

Speaker Bio: Glenn Sullivan is a Principal Product Manager for Emerging Technologies at Infoblox and joined the Infoblox team when SnapRoute, a company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Infoblox. At SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for product direction by advocating for the end-user. Prior to founding SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for building out hyperscale data center environments at Apple. In addition to core network operational functions, Sullivan led efforts to automate the lifecycle management of various platforms in a multivendor environment. Before Apple, Sullivan was a specialist support engineer on the LAN Switching team in Cisco TAC. While there, his specialty was in turning around customer sentiment by focusing on escalated issues and transforming the customer experience into a positive one. Sullivan has a BS in Network and Systems Administration from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

Remote working during the pandemic proved to be beneficial for some companies and employees. Even as we are returning to the office, many will want to work remotely on a permanent basis. We are seeing an evolution of the definition of an office. There will certainly still be offices for all organizations where employees perform their work as normal. Now that remote working has shown to be an added value, IT departments need to lead this change in structure.

Join the INTERFACE Advisory Council for a look at what lies ahead. How are you adjusting your security procedures? What have you learned over the last year with employees working remotely? We will discuss how IT departments should be involved in decision-making and execution of policies. Also, this changing model of a traditional office could impact the job pool. Opportunities for IT professionals to find employment from out-of-market companies will only increase.

Panelists:

John Brandt • Director of IT, Santa Fe Opera
Luis Brown • Chief Information Security Officer, Central New Mexico Community College
Bill Halverson • Sr. Technology Advisor, CNM, Ingenuity
Darshana Kanabar • Deputy CIO, NM Taxation and Revenue Dept

  Presented by New Mexico Tech Council

In today’s complex business environment, supply chains have become equally complex. For many organizations, those supply chains deliver both goods and services where software is a critical component.

The New Mexico Technology Council’s Cybersecurity Peer Group is proud to present on Global Supply Chain Security Concerns with Mark Fidel of RiskSense, Dr. Tyler Lovelly of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, and Geoff Wilkerson of Seagate Technology. Join us to learn about the Cybersecurity concerns right now, and what is being done to mitigate these risks. The panel of New Mexico experts will touch on challenges from both the private and public sector.

Bios:

Mark Fidel is currently a co-founder RiskSense and manages all State, Local, and Educational Markets in New Mexico and the United States. He has a J.D. in Law, graduating from the University of Denver - Sturm College of Law. He earned his Executive MBA from the University of New Mexico and his bachelor’s degree in Finance from New Mexico State University.

Dr. Tyler M. Lovelly works within the Space Electronics Technology program at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. His previous experience includes working with United Space Alliance supporting the NASA Space Shuttle program, serving as a research group leader at the NSF Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing, and participating in the AFRL Space Scholars program. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.

Geoff Wilkerson is a member of the Product Security Office at Seagate Technology, where his primary focus is security compliance and managing product certifications. Geoff's background is in project management, information security, and supply chain security. A member of the OTTF for several years, Geoff was one of the earliest advocates for Seagate to champion the use of the O-TTPS as a product lifecycle standard. Geoff lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and three children.