Presented by Pete Hernandez, Principal Security Architect • Atmosera

Join us as we discuss the challenges a global manufacturing company faced 2-years after adopting a modern authentication platform. We’ll cover how to approach adaptive access correctly, based on user context. We’ll cover how sprawling App registrations and misshapen service accounts were brought under control. Also, we’ll talk about how to govern identities correctly using Separation of Duties. Finally, we’ll review the real-world journey of adopting a Zero Trust Model for dynamic environments and how ZT empowers enterprises to remain resilient in the face of today's threats.

  Presented by Tony Steffe, Sr Systems Engineer, CISSP • Illumio

Regardless of the sophistication of the ransomware, the end goal is always the same: get in through a vulnerability and move laterally through your network. Join this presentation as we help peel back the layers to provide you with simple steps to get started that include:

• Gaining visibility to where you are the most vulnerable
• Closing risky ports
• Leveraging tools you already have in place without adding layers of complexity

Tony is a knowledgeable technical professional with 20+ years of experience developing, selling, and integrating technology for enterprise customers. He is effective in sales engineering, Internet security, project management, computer networking, and interpersonal relations. Exceptional at managing the personal and technical challenges that arise from building something new, Tony has successfully built out several high-impact IT projects.

  Presented by Matt Senechal, Regional Sales Manager • Netskope

This session will provide a technical overview of Security Service Edge (SSE), focused on the following topics:

• Unintentional or unapproved data movement
• Data protection for internal and external threats
• Conditional and contextual access to safely enable cloud & SaaS applications
• Protection from cloud-enabled SaaS and web threats
• Work from anywhere with a secure, fast experience

You will walk away understanding the fundamentals of SSE and how it will benefit your business.

  Presented by Isaac Story, Data Intelligence Sales Specialist • Hitachi Vantara

In a world with increasingly complex attacks being carried out on enterprise data assets, immutable storage is becoming a powerful defense against data breaches and Ransomware. Learn how customers are using this age-old technology that has come of age with more adaptable access options and increasing application integrations.

Isaac Story is a Data Intelligence Specialist with Hitachi Vantara. He has over 23 years of experience in IT infrastructure with a specific focus on advanced and emerging storage technologies including object storage and high-speed parallel file systems.

  Presented by Greg Pepper, Security Architect • Check Point

Join this session to leverage strategic, evidence-backed insights from top voices in the field. Tap into the expertise of seasoned professionals to untangle complexity and stay ahead of the curve. In this must-attend CISO session, discover how to keep up with artificial intelligence trends, cloud security challenges, and cyber security solutions that can cancel attacks faster than you can say ‘distinctive cyber-readiness’.

Greg Pepper, Security Architect, will share reflections on 2023 and identify a variety of key cyber threats and cybercriminal tactics that could influence your cybersecurity plans in the year ahead.

Gregory (Greg) Pepper is a Senior Architect and a Check Point Evangelist. Greg has been an IT professional for 20+ years with expertise in Security, Networking & Cloud Computing. At Check Point, Greg’s main focus is to work with customers, partners and Check Point employees to help plan, design and implement security solutions across their networks, clouds, endpoints & mobile devices. Greg has been involved with a significant number of our of major cloud migrations and transformation across some of the largest Enterprise, Commercial and Public Sector Customers. Prior to Check Point, Greg has worked at well-known companies like Sony, Cisco and Price Waterhouse Coopers and Organic. Greg holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University – Class of 1998.

  Presented by Leslie Ann Kainoa, Oregon Cybersecurity State Coordinator • CISA

In this session, we will address the current cybersecurity threats and critical infrastructure stakeholder concerns. We will focus on under-discussed topics, including how to address resource constraints and organizational dependencies. We will also review CISA’s recommended best practices and offer guidance for how all critical infrastructure organizations can effectively leverage CISA resources.

Leslie Ann Kainoa is the Oregon Cybersecurity State Coordinator for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Region 10. In her current role, Leslie provides cybersecurity assistance and support to public and private Critical Infrastructure sectors throughout the State. She is focused on working with these organizations to improve cybersecurity and critical infrastructure resilience.

  Presented by Dave Tuckman, Information Security Consultant • FRSecure

FRSecure (an Information Security company located in Edina, MN) took the results of +/- 400 Validated Information Security Assessments and 55 Incident Response Engagements conducted in 2022 and created an anonymized report from the data called: The State of Information Security. Full details and access to the report are available here: https://frsecure.com/2023-annual-infosec-report/

In this presentation, FRSecure Information Security Consultant Dave Tuckman will highlight key findings in the report, and what we can learn from it.

Understand how you can mitigate risk going forward to protect your business and clients in an ever-changing threat landscape. Dave will provide additional perspective on how you can leverage this information for a better understanding of your third-party (supply, vendor, contractor) relationships.

Topics include:

• FRSecure’s Annual State of InfoSec Report, informed by over 400 validated security assessments
• Where organizations are getting it right vs. falling behind
• How you can use this report to inform your own business’s security decisions
• How you can use this report to inform your business’s Third-Party Risk Management

  Presented by Andrew Hutchison, Director of Service Delivery • BlackPoint IT

This session will provide overview and trends of Cybersecurity for SMB

• Cybersecurity Landscape 2024
• Response and Recovery

Understand your options and how to keep your organization secure!

  Presented by Brian Roberts, Sr Solutions Engineer • CyberArk

In our global survey of 1,500 identity-related security experts, we found only 9% of organizations have the highest level of maturity. These Transformative organizations have the most mature identity security programs as they strategically focus on four key tenets: tools, integration, automation, and continuous threat detection & response. As a result, these organizations significantly outperform their competition in driving business outcomes and reducing risk. Learn how you can mature your identity security program because the future of security starts with identity.

Key Session Takeaways:

• Top challenges for identity security
• The four tenets of identity security
• How to take a holistic approach to identity security
• Key considerations in evaluating identity security providers

Brian Roberts is a motivated, technically-minded individual with 12 years of solutions engineering experience ranging from backup and disaster recovery to identity security. He primarily focuses on Privilege Access Management and Least Privilege Enforcement with self-hosted and cloud assets.

  Presented by Optiv & Akamai

Join us for an enlightening fireside chat as we delve into the realm of Zero Trust security architecture. Discover how Zero Trust principles can revolutionize your organization's cybersecurity approach, mitigate risks, and drive tangible business outcomes. Our expert panelists will demystify Zero Trust, offering actionable insights and strategies to harness its full potential in today's dynamic threat landscape.

Speakers:

• Dan Brown, Technical Director, Optiv
• Umar Carter, Sr Security Advisor, Optiv
• Tony Lauro, Director of Security Technology & Strategy, Akamai

  Presented by Zane Smith, Principle Solutions Architect • Tech Heads

Want to know the secret to gaining expertise in cybersecurity, AI, digital transformation, cloud migration, and more? The secret is: you don’t have to become an expert in these areas - you just have to become an expert in picking the right partner. Learn from an IT Industry veteran and CISSP-certified cybersecurity expert about the top 5 criteria for selecting the right external partner, ensuring your team focuses on innovation, not information overload or fire-fighting. Elevate your strategy, empower your team, and don't miss out on this game-changing session - your IT leadership success starts here!

  Presented by Juniper Networks & Structured

Every connection counts. Nearly every vital experience in modern-day life requires a strong network connection. At Juniper, we believe that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. When you shift from simply measuring connectivity to focusing on the experience of the end-to-end connection – everything changes. Join us to learn how Juniper is revolutionizing networking with an experience-first approach driven by the industry’s only AI-Native Platform.

  Presented by HPE Aruba Networking & Structured

While data center networking has evolved over the past decade to address the volume and velocity of emerging application architectures, security and services architectures have not kept up with the explosion of East/West traffic. These services have all been different appliances or VMs bolted onto the network, leading to many challenges for IT teams including complexity, different vendors to manage, and network chokepoints. With a new category of data center switches powered by embedded DPU technology, we can run stateful services such as firewall, telemetry, and encryption directly on the switches themselves. With these stateful services delivered at wire-rate on every port, we can solve some of the biggest challenges with East/West traffic such a scale, performance, micro-segmentation, visibility, and automation.

  Presented by Palo Alto Networks & Structured

Get up to date with the rapidly evolving world of cloud and container security without the buzzword bingo. In a sea of acronyms (CNAPP! CSPM! CIEM!) it can be hard to know what it all means and what really matters. And because of the rapid pace of advancement, what was state of the art a couple of years ago underperforms today. We will catch you up and as a bonus, we'll also talk about the opportunity to improve security while reducing costs (that's right, reducing costs) through proactive and preventative collaboration with your dev teams.

  Presented by Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance • Structured

The cybersecurity regulatory compliance landscape has never been more complicated, and this presentation will provide information and updates to CMMC, GLBA, PCI, TSA, generative AI and security best practices. This discussion will focus on security solutions to these challenges, including penetration testing and zero trust implementations. Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Structured will be the presenter.

  Presented by Tristan Todd, Solutions Architect • Pure Storage & Structured

For almost 10 years now, future-focused datacenter teams have been trying to evolve to a more cloud-like operating model. Some of us have succeeded, some of us have failed. During this fun-filled, example-heavy session, Solutions Architect Tristan Todd will share patterns of failure, patterns of success, some practical examples, and recipes for success on how organizations have succeeded in realizing success in adapting to a cloud ops model. This will be a fun, interactive, high-energy session that you won't want to miss!