Archives: Seminar

Automating the Analyst

  Presented by Darktrace

Alongside the rise of today’s dynamic workforce, the speed and scale of sophisticated cyber-attacks are rapidly increasing. As the cybersecurity industry continues to endure an ongoing skills shortage, over-worked and under-resourced teams urgently need augmentation in order to defend against evolving, sophisticated threats.

For over three years, Darktrace experts have been working to meet this challenge, investigating whether they could teach AI to think like a cybersecurity analyst. It takes subtle, nuanced skills and implicit knowledge for an analyst to detect genuinely threatening activity, and the creation of the world-first Cyber AI Analyst took analyzing over one hundred of the world’s top threat analysts and complex machine learning algorithms. Join Darktrace as we discuss the Cyber AI Analyst in action.

Stop Ransomware for Good: Extending Zero Trust from Endpoint to Enterprise Network

  Presented by Airgap Networks

Nearly 70% of the ransomware attacks start from the compromise of a single endpoint followed by lateral movement. This is what turns an attack on a single endpoint into a huge breach. In this talk, Ritesh Agrawal, CEO and Founder of Airgap Networks, will discuss how ransomware cripples your organization and various mitigation techniques to help better protect your organization against the ransomware menace. This session will cover some of the following topics:

  • Ransomware propagation protection via Zero Trust Isolation (Identity-based segmentation)
  • Instant remediation via Ransomware Kill Switch

You Are No Longer Forgotten: The Small Business Security Challenge

  Presented by Chris Roberts • Hillbilly Hit Squad

Most of the security industry is chasing “around” 31,000 larger enterprise sized companies for their business. The list is well known, circulated and targets are on the backs of ALL the C-Suite, most of the technical folks and the MSP/VARS that support them. The Security industry circles them like packs of hyena or vultures waiting for one of them to fall, get breached, or for a vendor to be thrown out… pouncing on the fresh kill with glee…

Meanwhile, you’re sitting there getting slaughtered by every adversary known to mankind because you ARE the forgotten, you’re too small for the multi-billion $$ cyber companies whom IF they decide to deal with you will flood you with MSA’s, SOW’s and NDA’s that would take a week’s worth of lawyer time JUST to understand, let alone realize that they’re not accountable for anything, unlikely to want to support you and in all honestly you’ll get a 1-800-YOU-AREN’T-SPECIAL number as your sole source of support.

We’re going to address the current situation, the state of play, and give you some thoughts, suggestions, ideas AND plans. We’ll provide resources on HOW to evaluate, where to look, what to do AND importantly we’ll do it because it’s what we’re doing. We live, breath and deal with this daily. We’ve sat in the meetings when the large cybersecurity companies state, “we’re done dealing with the SMB market” and we’ve got the battle scars from dealing with those subsequent consequences.

Unified Endpoint Management

  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.

Security Operations Center: Build Your Own or SOCaaS

  Presented by High Point Networks

Learn how Security Operations as a Service (SOCaaS) may be a good option for your business. In this session, we will compare and contrast many non-product specific aspects of SOCaaS and traditional Security Information and Events Management (SIEM’s) systems using first- hand real-world examples; the good, bad, and ugly. The purpose of this presentation is to equip the audience with enough knowledge so they can make a more informed decision regarding a traditional SIEM/SOC approach, or SOCaaS approach, when building a Security Operations Center. Presenter Dean Sheley recently lead an initiative to build a Central Security Operations Center for a statewide multi-university educational system while CISO for that state-wide university system.

How to Manage and Simplify Your IT While Lowering Your TCO for Government

  Presented by Nutanix

As Government leaders pivot to meet the unique challenges of an extraordinary 2020, a new normal is emerging: organizations are increasingly tasking IT to find and deliver rapid new business value through increased efficiency, enhanced automation, accelerated time to market, sharp innovation, and rock-solid cost savings.

For these organizations, it’s time to reach a new economic advantage. Learn how you can save your valuable budget, time, and manpower and redistribute resources toward more high-value initiatives. After all, your infrastructure should deliver returns—not add complexity and costs over time.

It’s Time to Reboot!

  Presented by Riaz Yusuff • Chief Information Officer, OHR, University of Minnesota

The changing landscape in IT warrants a different approach on a number of issues. The IT landscape was already changing rapidly pre-COVID-19. But the pandemic has necessitated the need for flexible & robust systems in place, secure remote access to systems, creative policies and procedures in recruiting & retaining IT talent, right implementation methodology between waterfall, agile and dev-ops, and changes in many other aspects in IT. This keynote will leave you with several thought-provoking ideas and questions for consideration to 10X the output of your IT teams.

Riaz Yusuff is a Chief Information Officer for the Office of Human Resources at the University of Minnesota. He has 20 years of experience in Information Technology starting from a developer and later in various leadership roles. Riaz specializes in optimizing IT spend for large organizations.

Riaz regularly presents various topics on IT leadership at conferences, and he has been featured on several leadership panels. Riaz has earned his MBA and MS IT degrees, and has earned several certifications including PMP. His book “The 6-Foot Distance in IT: How to Cope with Fast Changing IT Landscape Post Pandemic. A Guide for Senior IT Leaders” is coming to Amazon this spring.

How to Manage and Simplify Your IT While Lowering Your TCO for Government

  Presented by Nutanix

As Government leaders pivot to meet the unique challenges of an extraordinary 2020, a new normal is emerging: organizations are increasingly tasking IT to find and deliver rapid new business value through increased efficiency, enhanced automation, accelerated time to market, sharp innovation, and rock-solid cost savings.

For these organizations, it’s time to reach a new economic advantage. Learn how you can save your valuable budget, time, and manpower and redistribute resources toward more high-value initiatives. After all, your infrastructure should deliver returns—not add complexity and costs over time.

What Does the Future Hold for Teleworking?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

With the current pandemic, companies have mobilized to enable employees to work from home. IT departments took on this task in March of 2020. Many security and compliance challenges have been dealt with, but some remain.

Join the INTERFACE- Advisory Council for a look at what lies ahead with remote working. How are you adjusting your security procedures? Do you know if your end-users will return to the office? The dreaded elephant in the room will be addressed as well – BUDGETS! What do you need? What is expected of your IT staff? 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.

Also, we will address long term items when it comes to in person working for different industries. How much of a shift in business will we see? We will discuss how IT departments will be involved in decision making and execution of policies.


Panelists:

Raul Carolus • Sr. System Programmer, Mason City Clinic
Nathan Pralle • Manager of Information Technology, Cambrex
Gene Schaff • Director of Information Technology, Tiller Corporation
John Schroeder • Director of IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Integrated DNA Technologies

Easiest Catch: Don’t Be Another Fish in the Dark ‘Net

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

You’ve read the headlines. Unfortunately, the question now is not if your information is going to be accessed or stolen, but when. To inform the attendees of current developments in the digital underground as well as provide realistic advice for cyber protection, Mark Lanterman will be discussing recent high-profile cybercrime events, including website breaches impacting a variety of organizations and sectors. Mark will discuss particularly dangerous types of threats that might affect individuals involving the Dark Web, the Internet of Things, phishing, and Wi-Fi attacks.

Presented by: Mark Lanterman • Chief Technology Officer, Computer Forensic Services