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.
June 9th, 2022
8:30am – 4:30pm
Overland Park Convention Center
Ballrooms AB
6000 College Boulevard
Overland Park, KS 66211
Presented by Eric Walters • Chief Information Security Officer, Burns & McDonnell
Presented by Darktrace
With cyber-attackers continuously searching for new ways to outpace security teams, it can lead to a struggle to fight back without disrupting business operations. Join this session to explore the benefits of Autonomous Response as a must-have that goes beyond ‘defense,’ including real-world threat finds and attack scenarios.
Presented by Hitachi Vantara
Today’s infrastructure must be engineered to support digital innovation, such as accelerating your cloud, applications, and data. The agility, efficiency, and resilience required for new workloads, applications, and requirements are needed for a modernized infrastructure. Join us as we guide you on your infrastructure, application, and data modernization journey so that you can make smart modernization decisions and build Your Cloud, Your Way.
Presented by Fortinet
Join this session for a comprehensive look at the current state of cybersecurity. Today’s ever-evolving threat landscape requires an integrated, automated approach to security. Learn how you can mitigate risk in your organization, optimize your security team’s operations, and gain best practices to integrate and consolidate your security tools; whether you’ve taken a multi-vendor or single-vendor approach.
Presented by John Ladley • Data Governance Author & EIM Leader
The new topic of the year is data literacy. In this session, you will learn how to use education to increase data literacy at all levels to reduce the mismanagement of data. Topics that will be covered include:
From there, John will offer some practical steps to acquire true engagement and data literacy in the process.
John Ladley is a highly experienced practitioner, advisor, and advocate for organizations looking for sustainable value from information and data. His experience and knowledge are balanced between treating data assets as an essential component of modern business and economies, and the practical solution to business problems.
His books are the authoritative sources for data and information management and data governance. He is a recognized authority and speaker on enterprise information management, including data monetization, information and data architectures, data governance, MDM, data quality, business intelligence and analytics, data warehouse, and knowledge management. John is sometimes called the "senior statesman of data." Currently, John is semi-retired and works with clients as an advocate for data governance and management and as a mentor to organization leadership.
Presented by Red Canary
Ransomware has been a dominant cybersecurity threat for the better part of the last decade. However, it doesn’t walk alone. It’s almost always the eventual payload delivered by earlier-stage malicious software or activity. Luckily, if you can detect the threats that deliver the ransomware, you can stop the ransomware before it arrives.
In this talk, we’ll extensively reference Red Canary’s 2022 Threat Detection Report, examining the malware and other malicious tools that adversaries often use to deliver ransomware. While the specific trojans and strains of ransomware may change from one attack to the next, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures are often similar across campaigns and threats. By developing robust detection coverage for the techniques adversaries abuse most often, rather than focusing on individual threats, security teams can achieve defense-in-depth against the many threats that leverage those techniques and the broader trends that dominate the infosec landscape.
Want to learn more about the prevalent adversary techniques and threats that can lead to a ransomware infection? Attendees will leave with:
Presented by Check Point
Covid and the push to accelerated ‘remote first’ strategies have forced organizations to leverage on-demand cloud infrastructure, often without the proper design, architecture, and security strategy in place to scale safely. In addition, infrastructure as a service providers are innovating very quickly and building high-value services for us to leverage in our application architectures. Lastly, we are challenged more than ever by a lack of mature cloud skillsets available to hire. These factors add up decisions with resources, identities, and access that put our most sensitive secrets at risk. As new and innovative cloud capabilities are introduced, so too are security innovations, both in technology and process.
Grant Asplund, Growth Technologies Evangelist, will discuss the evolution of Cloud security including headwinds, issues, challenges, and concerns companies can expect to be confronted with as they pursue reaching security maturity in the Cloud.
Eric WaltersChief Information Security Officer, Burns & McDonnellPresented by Eric Walters • Chief Information Security Officer, Burns & McDonnell
What level of access are applications requesting and then receiving directly from your employees? Is the security team aware? Has the risk been quantified? Who is looking at the application Terms and Conditions or the End User License Agreement? Is the access overly permissive? What happens if the application vendor is hacked? Can the attacker access your data? Is the vendor liable?
Eric Walters, CISO and Director of IT Operations at Burns & McDonnell, will discuss these and many more perils and pitfalls of vetting applications and plugins.
Eric Walters is a seasoned information technology leader with over 25 years of security experience. He is capable of translating IT details into executive-level business decisions. Eric believes good compliance does not mean good security, nor does good security mean good risk management. Passionate for employee development. His experience includes healthcare compliance, software development, information security program management, cyber security managed services, global transition operations, infrastructure cloud operations, enterprise architecture, and document management, and is a retired Marine Officer.
Presented by Cribl
Digital transformations, cloud migrations, and persistent security threats turned observability from a niche concern to an essential capability in today’s organizations. We’re still in the early days of observability maturity, but early stumbles point to where observability must go in the future. This talk discusses where observability is today and the three critical areas necessary for observability to deliver on its promises throughout the enterprise.
Presented by Arctic Wolf
Organizations have come to rely on cyber insurance to mitigate the impact of increasingly sophisticated, disruptive, and widespread cyber-attacks. As a result, insurers are issuing more policies, and the amounts of protection available are increasing. In 2020, the global insurance community saw the first cyber insurance program that exceeded $1 billion in coverage.
Join this session to hear why:
Presented by Hitachi Vantara
While object storage has surged in popularity as an alternative to NAS due to the technological limitations of NAS, customers are now pushing the limits of object storage as well. Where do we take the technology from here to remain relevant and continue to address the needs of modern AI and ML workloads? We will look at the roots of object storage and what needs to happen to the technology to continue forward with today’s modern workloads. Using flash technology and highly parallelized workloads, we will take an in-depth look at some of the directions we expect the unstructured data storage landscape to take. Do we see a world of all flash storage leading the pack or will we continue to utilize hybrid technologies to optimize the economics of storage? Join us for an in-depth look at the current landscape of unstructured data storage and where we go from here to address modern data workloads.
Presented by 42Crunch
APIs are the core building block of every enterprise’s digital strategy, yet they are also the number one attack surface for hackers. Traditional security and management approaches are failing every day as the scale and reach of API attacks increase. The time is now right for enterprises to consider a new end-to-end continuous approach to protecting their APIs. In this talk, you will learn how Global 2500 enterprises are embracing a positive security model combining shift-left and shield-right methodologies to protect their APIs throughout the API lifecycle.
Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council
For the last two years, there has been no shortage of change in how IT departments are organized. The structure in your shop likely looks nothing like it did in 2019. With the permanence of remote work, how have you evolved? Has your company kept up with the new landscape?
Please join the INTERFACE Kansas City Advisory Council for a discussion on the current landscape of leadership in the IT industry. We’ll discuss retaining employees, hiring workers remotely, dealing with the “great resignation,” and other topics of relevance to your IT career. Finally, the panel will address the challenge of keeping local Kansas City IT talent from exploring remote opportunities with out-of-state companies. Bring your questions for this open conversation with area leaders who will share their experiences and insights.
Presented by Novacoast
Asking for a budget and justifying spending in cybersecurity departments can be a difficult task due to limited data and high uncertainty of future events. This talk will dive into quantitative risk analysis as it relates to cybersecurity: how to model uncertain events and understand financial risk. Attendees will see a first-hand demonstration of how quantitative modeling can be used to communicate risk and understand ROI. Attendees will walk away with the tools needed to present cyber risk as a dollar amount that can be easily understood by other business decision-makers at their company.
Presented by Optiv & Rubrik
Businesses today rely heavily on technology and data. Though most organizations have developed strategies to access critical data during an outage caused by natural disasters or power disruptions, these strategies are ineffective during a cyber attack. Interconnected users, servers, cloud devices, and continuous web access results in an environment that is open for cybercriminals to significantly disrupt operations and/or take an entire network hostage.
How can you support the identification and protection of critical data that must be shielded from the impact of cyber attacks, while also enabling rapid recovery to a secure state? Join us to learn how you can automatically store backups in a malware-protected, air-gapped vault or a remote cloud-based solution that safeguards your data’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. We’ll discuss how you can ensure your data is verified and clean before entering the vault and is maintained in an immutable state while within the vault, significantly reducing recovery time by guaranteeing that you are recovering to a known good state.
Presented by Malwarebytes
The Malwarebytes 2022 Threat Review is an annual report on the latest threats, attack trends, and privacy breaches impacting individuals, organizations, and national security. Researchers detail threat intelligence across operating systems and examine how privacy has shifted and the ways that cybercriminals and crimes are evolving. With a stronger understanding of the threat landscape, organizations and individuals can make more informed security and cyber-protection decisions.
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.
Nancy Baker
Assistant Director, Information Technology
University of Kansas
Kip Ballinger
Sr Cyber Security Specialist
Leidos
Shaun Bender
Vice President, Mobile Operations
Sullivan Law Firm
Kevin Blazer
Information Security Officer
Academy Bank
Richard Borlaza
Director, Information Technology
Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy
Amy Botts
Manager, Information Security Risk
Hallmark Cards Inc
Sherry Callahan
Chief Information Security Officer
Dairy Farmers of America
Geoff Degen
Director, Information Technology
CrossFirst Bank
Shawn Geib
Director, Security
Honeywell FM&T
Adrian Guerrero
Director, Operations
Kansas State Board of Nursing
Dave Ireland
Manager, Information System Security
US Dept of Agriculture
Britney Kennedy
Business Information Security Officer
Cardinal Health
Jason Kentner
Director, Information Technology
KCAS Bioanalytical & Biomarker Services
Chris Mann
Chief Information Officer
DH Pace
Harry Maroudas
Information Systems Security Office
USDA Risk Management Agency
Michael Nixon
Director, Information Security
Stormont Vail Health
Nathan Powell
IT Administrator
Lewis Rice LLC
Stan Rumford
Vice President, Information Technology
Envista Credit Union
Jenya Sablin
Sr Manager, Information Technology
Black Knight Financial Services
Gary Schieber
Executive Director, Technology and Information Security
Baker University
BJ Smith
Head of Information Security
Seaboard Foods
Kara Speciale
Director, Information Security Governance Risk & Compliance
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Melissa Spicer
Sr Manager, Information Security
Evergy
Andrew Spidle
Director, Information Technology
Axcet HR Solutions
Vernon Turner
IT Administrator
Ultra Precision Control Systems
Altaf Uddin
Director, Information Systems
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
David Upsdell
Sr Vice President
Midwest Trust Company
Rachel Vessar
Director, Technology
Maysville R-I School District
Adam Wasserman
Director, Information Technology
Paris Brothers
Mark Wilcox
Information Security Officer
NBKC Bank
David Witte
Sr Manager, Information Security
MO Jackson County
Florian Yanez
Director, Information Security
Helzberg Diamonds
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.
Overland Park Convention Center
Ballrooms AB
6000 College Boulevard
Overland Park, KS 66211