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. 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.


Panelists:

Aaron Baillio • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Oklahoma
Chris Martin • Director, Technical Services, MYCON General Contractors
Shamoun Siddiqui • Vice President & CISO, Neiman Marcus
Craig Broussard • Director, Global Infrastructure, NCH Corporation

Alan Chuang • Director, Information Technology, Trinity Consultants

Critical Planning: Timeline and Lifecycle of Responding to a Ransomware Attack

  Presented by Shawn E. Tuma • Co-Chair, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, Spencer Fane LLP

This session will discuss the lifecycle of a ransomware attack and address key phases such as: how they happen, what the process is for recovery and investigation, and what can be done ahead of time to prepare for and hopefully prevent them from happening.

Bio:
Shawn is an attorney internationally recognized in cybersecurity, computer fraud and data privacy law, areas in which he has practiced for over two decades. Shawn helps businesses protect their information and protect themselves from their information.

He is Co-Chair of Spencer Fane’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group where he regularly serves as cybersecurity and privacy counsel advising a wide variety of businesses ranging from small and mid-sized companies to Fortune 100 enterprises, across the United States and globally in dealing with cybersecurity, data privacy, data breach and incident response, regulatory compliance, computer fraud related legal issues, and cyber-related litigation. While this area of the law has evolved greatly in the 20+ years while Shawn has been practicing, he continues to evolve with it as a practitioner representing his clients, academically as an author and instructor, and as an analyst for the national media.

Situational Awareness Into the Dark Web

  Presented by Check Point Software

In our journey through this session, we take you through the evolution, goals, and motivation of the Dark Web. We will share with you what and whom you can find on the platforms as well as the major conflicts individuals face while exploring this web. The session also exposes you to the syndicates and structures running on the platforms. Surprisingly, we see how those groups were among the first to embrace and implement Blockchain technology and created a major global demand for crypto currencies. This is the time to listen, learn, and be exposed to the deepest secrets of the Dark Web.

Enduring from Home: COVID-19’s Impact on Business Security

  Presented by Malwarebytes

All of us are living in the new Work from Home normal caused by the rapid transmission and spread of COVID-19. While people everywhere have been worried about stopping the spread of COVID, malicious threats have not only continued to propagate but they have exploded in new and interesting ways. During this presentation we will review some of the more creative ways hackers have targeted business and individuals during the age of Work from Home and some ways to protect yourself from them.

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.

DRaaS for Everyone

  Presented by StorageCraft

Are you really ready for a data disaster? Learn more about how disaster recovery has changed the last couple years and how to put together a DR strategy for your business. Learn about a simple and economic DRaaS solution.

Managing the New Team Dynamic in a Teleworking World

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

Migrating data to the cloud has been a transition many years in the making. With the move to teleworking in 2020, many organizations have sped up their cloud usage out of necessity. Many new security challenges have come from this. In addition, monitoring productivity of staff has been difficult. Managing all team dynamics has brought questions of effective policies and procedures.

Join the INTERFACE-Sacramento Advisory Council for a discussion of these topics and more. We will present practical suggestions in managing your cloud providers to allow maximum work efficiency while also meeting your cyber security needs.


Panelists:

Keson Khieu • Chief Information Officer, Emergency Medical Services Authority
Maisha Dottery • Chief Technology Strategist, California State Treasurers Office
Tony Coronas • Director of Information Technology, Roebbelen Contracting, Inc

Enduring from Home: COVID-19’s Impact on Business Security

  Presented by Malwarebytes

All of us are living in the new Work from Home normal caused by the rapid transmission and spread of COVID-19. While people everywhere have been worried about stopping the spread of COVID, malicious threats have not only continued to propagate but they have exploded in new and interesting ways. During this presentation we will review some of the more creative ways hackers have targeted business and individuals during the age of Work from Home and some ways to protect yourself from them.

DRaaS for Everyone

  Presented by StorageCraft

Are you really ready for a data disaster? Learn more about how disaster recovery has changed the last couple years and how to put together a DR strategy for your business. Learn about a simple and economic DRaaS solution.

SD-WAN Edge Transformation for the Cloud-First Enterprise

  Presented by Silver Peak

As cloud adoption and SD-WAN innovation hastens, global enterprises are transforming how they build and secure wide area networks. Leveraging automation, enterprises can deploy, connect and secure hundreds of sites per week, a feat not possible with a traditional device-centric approach.

During this session, we’ll discuss how the unification of SD-WAN, WAN optimization, routing and security in a single, centrally orchestrated platform:

  • Delivers superior application performance wherever apps are hosted
  • Increases the quality of experience for end users and for IT
  • Simplifies branch WAN edge architecture