Archives: Seminar

Cyber AI: Fighting Back with Autonomous Response

  Presented by Darktrace

The digital enterprise is constantly expanding, with new IoT, cloud, and operational technologies all challenging traditional notions of cyber security. Safeguarding these evolving environments against machine-speed attacks has never been more difficult.

Yet the digital battleground now features its most formidable defender in Cyber AI—a self-learning technology that distinguishes friend from foe in order to thwart threats autonomously. With the Cyber AI Platform protecting your entire infrastructure in real time, it doesn’t matter whether the attack originates on a connected device, an industrial system, or in the cloud. Wherever it strikes, the AI fights back in seconds.

In this session, you’ll discover:

  • Why only Autonomous Response can counter today’s machine-speed attacks
  • Where advanced threat-actors exploit vulnerabilities in the cloud and IoT
  • What achieving 100% visibility can reveal about your organization’s risk profile
  • How the Cyber AI Analyst reduces the time spent triaging threats by 92%

Master the Edge: How to Achieve Context-Aware, Secure Access in a Mobile Era

  Presented by Aruba & Structured

Are you juggling disparate security platforms and struggling to make sense of the data? Do you need to share information and insights across teams but lack a cohesive way to do that? 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.

Mitigating Cybercrime Through Automated Response and Integration

  Presented by Fortinet

Come join our talk on mitigating cybercrime and learn about best practices to help your company maintain a strong security posture through the digital transformation and beyond. The bad guys are using automated tactics to try to find a foothold in your network. Isn’t it time to leverage an integrated security approach to automate your response?

Towards an Alabama State-Wide Network

  Presented by Dr. Damian Clarke • Chief Information Officer, Alabama A&M University

It is clear that society is moving into the digital age, yet much of the infrastructure required to build the economic base capable of delivering goods and services to communities in Alabama does not exist. The quality and effectiveness of the services delivered by utilities, educational, governmental, health, safety, and law enforcement organizations are increasingly dependent on wide-area network connections and the internet services they enable. Recognizing the limitations of currently provided state-wide network services, the consortium of the CIO’s of 14 public universities have joined in discussions and planning activities to study holistic alternatives for the establishment and operation of an advanced network backbone capable of reaching most, or all, of the state offices, campuses, and other facilities across Alabama.

Dr. Damian Clarke is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Computer Science Faculty at Alabama Agriculture and Mechanical University (AAMU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Miami and a Masters in Computer Science from George Washington University. His undergraduate is in Mathematics and Computer Science from South Carolina State University. As CIO, he oversees the management of the university’s network and communications infrastructure, Enterprise Resource Planning system (BANNER), Academic Information Technology, and other Information Technology (IT) services that support all levels of research, learning, and teaching. Dr. Clarke serves as the Chair of the Alabama Higher Education CIO (HE-CIO) Council. The HE-CIO council’s purpose is to create synergy among Alabama’s universities and research centers, in partnership with state offices by collectively promoting improved service delivery and economic advantages. Dr. Clarke is a founding member of the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC), a transformational partnership to advance cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities on HBCU, HSI, TCU, and MSI campuses, with data, research computing, teaching, collaboration, and capacity-building connections among institutions. MS-CC goal is to learn and grow as a consortium, dedicated to lifting all participating institutions in advancing research and education across diverse fields, disciplines, and communities as full contributors in the global research and education community. Before becoming CIO at AAMU, Damian was the CIO and Computer Science faculty at South Carolina State University (SCSU). Dr. Clarke was the original PI for a two year $500K National Science Foundation grant, “CC* Networking Infrastructure: Bulldog Connectivity and Research.” SCSU was the first of two HBCUs to receive the CC* Networking Infrastructure award.

Risk, Reliance and the Resilience Imperative

  Presented by Jeff Gaynor • President, American Resilience, LLC

America’s critical infrastructures empower the spectrum of National Life. Over the past four decades they have become near-inextricably reliant on a globally accessible and increasingly exploited Internet America has been unable to “secure.” Given that no one has been able to define how much protection or cybersecurity is required to either protect critical infrastructures and/or secure cyberspace; a proactive critical infrastructure — and by extension — national preparedness and security condition, validated by an objectively measurable and universally accepted success metric is now an imperative. Accordingly, thethis presentation and discussion will focus on the means to achieve and sustain Critical Infrastructure Resilience and in the process of doing so: Corrupt “The Predators View,” lower American infrastructure target values, correct the Nation’s cyber-reliant preparedness trajectory and ensure the safety, security, quality of life and future for this and generations of Americans’ to follow

Let’s Sharpen Your Soft Skills!

  Moderated by INTERFACE Advisory Council

You spend your days dealing with outages, attacks, requests and anything else that can keep you behind a monitor all day. However, there is so much needed to advance your IT career. When it comes to “soft skills” of networking and communication, it can be a challenge for an IT professional to find time. How can you improve your standing in your company? What about looking for your next position? There are so many skills needed to excel when it comes to your career. Join us for an interactive discussion that will address these challenges and more. Our local Birmingham IT professionals will share their experience on stepping out from behind the monitor and being noticed! Your questions are welcome in this panel discussion.

Panelists:

  • Jonathan Ingram • Information Systems Specialist, University of Alabama, Birmingham
  • Alexander Brewer • Sr Cyber Analyst & Incident Handler, BBVA Compass
  • Joanne Stephens • Director, Information Technology, Birmingham City Schools
  • Michael Dale • Board Member, PMI

The Current Malware Threat Landscape & Enterprise Grade Remediation

  Presented by Malwarebytes

Malware has become one of the biggest threat challenges faced by security and IT teams. Malwarebytes Labs conducts extensive proprietary research and analysis. The findings are periodically published to help security teams better understand the nature and evolution of these threats.

This presentation will cover key findings from our newly released annual report. It will highlight malware category trends and discuss new and emerging threats to be on the watch for. There will also be a discussion of industry best practices and technologies that can help your business to prevent, detect, and remediate these threats.

Attendees will leave with insight into the current malware threat landscape, as well as an understanding of steps they can take to mitigate breaches.

Turning Alerts Into Answers: Solving the Cloud Security Conundrum

  Presented by Expel

Our businesses are moving to the cloud with or without us. Perceived cost savings and convenience are key drivers for the business. While there are clearly opportunities for improvement in overall security when it comes to the cloud, we see CISOs being concerned about the lack of visibility into where our data resides and the controls that are said to be in place. And the concern isn’t just with cloud providers, it’s with all third parties with whom we share data, systems, and connections.

In this session, Justin Bajko of Expel will talk about what CISOs and security operations leads need to care about when it comes to cloud and security, and how to determine the different attack surfaces that exist in the cloud and with third parties. We’ll also talk about the processes and technologies that exist to help manage third party risk and the technical controls available to help secure the cloud.

Filling the Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline

  Presented by CyberUp

Join the Advisory Council for a discussion on the IT talent gap and career pathway opportunities you have.

Moderator:

  • Tony Bryan • Executive Director, CyberUp

Panelists:

  • Dave Reddick • Executive Director, Gateway Higher Education Cybersecurity Consortium
  • Kurt Aubuchon • Founder/Principal Consultant, Portunus Consulting
  • Mike Fuszner • Department Chair, St Charles Community College

Agility for People, Product, Process

  Presented by Suvandhya Rao • Agile Coach & Jolene Jangles • Transformation Coach; Balance Agility

In the recent years, Agility has increased in popularity. It is well known that it started in software development and has been adopted in other fields as well.

Join us to learn more about Agility and its effect on People Product and Process.
It will be an interactive session where we will share information, debunk myths and give you tools that will help bring three essential and indispensable areas of people, products and process together in a way that makes life better, faster, cheaper and happier!