Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

  Presented by Nutanix

As we have seen in 2020, many companies are working to enable their employees to have a work from home capability. However, there are many factors that contribute to whether that will be possible or not. Are their apps supported? What devices are supported? How secure will they be? What latency issues will they incur and where is the data locality?

All of these topics and more will be addressed.

  Presented by Mimecast

Cyber-hygiene has become a source of great concern of late. And while the Office 365 suite has helped communication and collaboration from multiple location points (at the office, at home, and on the road) there are still security concerns that must be mitigated. In this presentation, we will hear best practice suggestions for remaining safe while using Office 365. First, we’ll talk about security attitudes, then review CISA concerns with Office 365, and finally offer best practice suggestions and thought leadership. This presentation will be driven by J. Peter Bruzzese… cyber-security advisor and 8x awarded Microsoft MVP (Exchange/Office 365).

  Presented by Lester Godsey • CISO, Maricopa County

According to SecurityToday.com we will see an estimated 31 billion IoT devices added to the Internet in 2020 and a whopping 75 billion in 2025. While many of these devices are corporate/industrial (IIoT) in nature, there is a very large home/personal IoT market to contend with.

Now that a significant portion business is being done at home and other locations other than the office, what impact are these devices having from a cybersecurity perspective as it relates to:

• Security vulnerabilities
• Security controls and awareness, we typically have in corporate networks but lack in home offices
• What data is leaving corporate systems - inadvertently and purposely
• Ability to adhere to governmental and industry compliance standards

Join us for an in-depth conversation around the 'normal' challenges with IoT devices and solutions and how this new paradigm of working from home exacerbates them.

  Presented by ACTRA

Digital Transformation has been a major focus affecting every sector over sometime now and a major contributor to increased organizational productivity and workforce transformation. COVID-19 resulted in virtually all organizations going partially or entirely virtual in response to CDC recommendations.

Questions we will answer in this discussion:

• What lasting impact does COVID-19 have on digital transformation strategies in optimizing process flow and efficiency?
• What unique cybersecurity considerations might this impact result in for practitioners?
• Given the potential impact and power of process integration, machine learning, and AI, how is this effecting or may it affect digital transformation in the foreseeable future?

Panelists:
Frank Grimmelmann • President & CEO, ACTRA
Anthony Dezilva • Security Architect, On Semiconductor//Chief Architect ACTRA Global Watch Center
Arthur Hansen • CEO, INCUS5
Mike Manrod • Chief Information Security Officer, Grand Canyon Education (GCE)
Pete Kim • Chief Information Security Officer, Raytheon Missile Systems

  Presented by Cisco

Security breaches pervade the headlines. What was seen as a rare instance just 5 years ago now seems to occupy the daily news cycle. A lot of these data breaches are made possible due to missteps and misconfigurations. There are many security issues introduced into website authentication mechanisms that further compound the security issues in addition to enforcing bad behavior by the end users. Security debt is a real problem for the vast majority of organizations in the world today and the attackers will utilize this to their advantage. In addition to keeping system hygiene at the front of the mind, defenders need to focus on proper network zone segmentation or, as it is a more popular term these days, zero-trust networks. The old conceptual style of a castle wall and moat to defend a network was deprecated several years ago. As a result of the dissolution of the traditional perimeter, a stronger focus has to be placed on the strength of authentication, authorization, and trust models for the users.

The antiquated notion of an information security practitioner running through the office brandishing their flaming sword of justice above their heads screaming “thou shall not pass” has at long last reached the denouement. Whether you are responsible for the security in a financial organization or one that makes teddy bears it is necessary to adapt and learn to trust, but verify."

  Presented by Nutanix

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has been taking the IT industry by storm the past 5 years. As businesses are exploring what this means to them, they need to ask themselves should we consider changing our infrastructure? During this session we will cover the following discussions:

• What is HCI exactly and why consider it?
• Why are companies moving to the cloud and why are they now moving back?
• How do I create the Public Cloud experience in my own On-Prem solution?
• What hypervisors work with HCI solutions?

  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 Structured

When the facilities team at a healthcare organization in the Pacific Northwest announced to the IT team that they were undertaking a campus remodel project and they needed the on-prem data center for office space, the IT team quickly sprang into action to find a new home for their DR environment. From learning of this management decision, to performing a due diligence assessment of their ability to use a DRaaS solution, into an RFI and RFP process, and coming to agreement on a contract, this was one of the most rigorous evaluation projects the company has undertaken. This presentation will describe that journey of evaluation and discovery, including the rest of the story which describes the onboarding process and challenges faced along the way. Craig Rhodes is an experienced professional actively engaged with various clients providing Data Center and Program Management consulting services.

  Presented by Structured & Aruba

Have you been tasked with implementing Zero Trust Network Access but are unsure of how to go about it? Are you confused about how to achieve “minimum access”? Are you struggling with employing “continuous adaptive risk & trust assessment” on your network? If so, attend this session. Learn how to deploy an open, multi-vendor Enterprise security framework that gives security and IT teams an integrated way to gain visibility, control, and advanced threat defense. See how security prioritization and machine learning helps organizations leverage existing third-party solutions to better protect investments and implement proactive risk controls.

  Presented by Check Point

Have you been tasked with implementing Zero Trust Network Access but are unsure of how to go about it? Are you confused about how to achieve “minimum access”? Are you struggling with employing “continuous adaptive risk & trust assessment” on your network? If so, attend this session. Learn how to deploy an open, multi-vendor Enterprise security framework that gives security and IT teams an integrated way to gain visibility, control, and advanced threat defense. See how security prioritization and machine learning helps organizations leverage existing third-party solutions to better protect investments and implement proactive risk controls.

  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.

We'll also discuss:

• State of BCDR today and what hinders DR planning for most companies
• Why backup strategy is not DR strategy
• Democratized DR of today (how tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost)

  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 Fortinet

Controlling users and devices on today’s networks is challenging. Many types of users requiring different levels of access need an automated solution. Devices are sneaking onto networks without approval and require visibility and control. Learn how Zero-Trust Network Access solution addresses the issue of knowing who, what, where and when and controlling everyone and everything on and off the network.

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

You were ready for a power outage. Cooling equipment has worked properly in your server room or data center. You had plenty of backup in the cloud and you felt good about your BC/DR plan, until a pandemic hit. The sudden shift to remote working for many industries forced rapid change for IT staffs to alter their business continuity process. Some of these changes were temporary, while some longer lasting.

Join the INTERFACE-Phoenix Advisory Council for a look at what BC/DR adjustments they have made in 2020. You will get tips on what has worked and what still is a challenge in keeping your users active and ensuring your business is fully operational.

Panelists:
Steven Porter • Manager of Information Technology, Alpha Geotechncial & Materials
Joanne Storbeck • Director of Business Continuity, HealthEquity
Jerry Simpson • Manager of Fire Technology, Phoenix Fire Technical Services