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 Veeam

Today’s applications and data sets are larger, more complex, distributed and interdependent than ever. While many have a disaster recovery plan in place, executing, testing and documenting these plans is often complex and cumbersome. Join us to learn more about:

• Why a backup strategy is not a DR strategy.
• Democratized DR of today
• How tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost

  Presented by Fortinet

Navigating and securing the eroding edge of your network. A conversation around Zero Trust in the wake of COVID-19.

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

In March of 2020, the IT industry was forced to adapt quickly in response to COVID-19. No line of business had to adapt more than healthcare. Using cutting-edge technology, the healthcare response to this pandemic has moved rapidly. Join Dwight Pond, of Saint Alphonsus Health System, to learn about the many developments that have already been achieved. He will share many practical examples of how technology has moved at an advanced rate in 2020. Also, Dwight will look at what the future has in store for the healthcare industry and how technology will play a pivotal role.

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

In 2020, Idaho was forced to react quickly to a global pandemic. Companies had to mobilize to enable employees to work from home. IT departments all throughout the state took on this task. How does this remote working environment change workflow? What challenges remain? Will we see permanent remote working in many industries? What security vulnerabilities did this expose and in what ways have we responded?

Join the INTERFACE-Boise Advisory Council to discuss these topics and more. Each panelist will share their experiences from leading the deployment of remote working and offer insight into what lies ahead. The group will also touch on new security challenges that have arisen from a remote working environment.

Presenters:
Laurel Caldwell • Director of ITS, Latah County
Herman Doering • HIPAA Information Security Officer, St Luke's Health System
Jerry Hindberg • Associate Director of Network & Cybersecurity, Lewis-Clark State College

  Presented by Darktrace

Against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tensions and an ever-evolving threat landscape, the risk of cyber-attacks to governments and the private sector alike has never been higher. Join Darktrace’s Director of Strategic Threat, Marcus Fowler, and Americas CISO, JR Tietsort to discuss this new era of cyber-threat and how Cyber AI can help defenders regain the upper hand.

This speaking session will include a Q&A with our experts, and explore:

• How nation-state attacks are changing
• How organizations can respond to the classic balance of security and productivity
• How organizational maturity in risk management is maintained whilst ensuring cyber defense

  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 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 CompuNet

Most of the organizations we work with have had a common challenge in not being fully content with their current ransomware protection and/or disaster recovery posture. In this session we will discuss modern approaches to both, that if you choose to implement, will not only help you sleep better but also allow for testing and reporting that you can use to prove your new strategy is working and ready to roll if an unfortunate event hits your operation. So please plan to join the data management and protection division of CompuNet - Gravity Data for this informative session that could just be a view into a more secure future for your organization.