Archives: Seminar

Adding Anomaly Detection to Your Secure Access Strategy

  Presented by Cisco

Security analytics are a double-edged sword: while the information they provide can be vital to identify potential issues or anomalies before they become problems, the quantity of data collected, and alerts generated can overwhelm even the most experienced security team. As an admin, you want to efficiently focus on the likely risks and remediate them. How can we best filter the noise of routine authentications and highlight anomalous logins that may require attention? Join Cisco’s Ted Kietzman to explore anomaly detection and secure access.

Zero-Trust Network Access

  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.

CI/CD for Networking: Adopting DevOps Principles for a More Robust Network

  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).

Why Every Business Needs a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

  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)

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.

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements.  Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience.  You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

Let’s Look to the Future, Shall We?

  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 keep businesses functional. Some of these changes were temporary, while some were longer lasting.

Join the INTERFACE-New Mexico 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 Frankel • Chief Information Security Officer, Tricore Reference Laboratories
Jason Johnson • Deputy State CIO, State of New Mexico
Spencer Wilcox • Chief Security Officer and Executive Director of Technology, PNM Resources

To Pay or Not to Pay: What is Ransomware?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

In this session, we will discuss what ransomware is, how it happens and what can we do to prevent or recover from it. We will also briefly discuss the Dark Web; what is it and how is it used? Join Luis Brown – CISO for Central New Mexico Community College for his firsthand expertise. You will also learn more about criminal activity and what you need to be aware of to protect yourself and all your end users.


Speaker:
Luis Brown • Chief Information Security Officer, Central New Mexico Community College

Adapting and Implementing the New Normal for Education

  Presented by Ardham & Extreme Networks

Education Institutions and staff are rapidly preparing their organizations for success in a changed world. As they continue to drive towards digital transformation this global pandemic heightened these unique IT challenges into full force. Continuing to focus on their main challenges; some have been re-prioritized to accommodate remote learning to drive better learning outcomes.

Join our interactive session to see a showcase of key approaches and ideas in the education industry, plus the critical building blocks, to help advance your own IT response.

  • Key considerations for the new normal – technology and education trends.
  • A showcase of strategies and best practices from some of the leaders in the education industry.
  • How Education IT departments are coping with and adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • How Teachers and Staff are evolving their classrooms into remote learning environments and still continue to drive better learning outcomes.
  • Best Practices for Remote and Online Learning.
  • Facilitating agile environments, by delivering simple and secure remote and extended connectivity, with centralized IT control.
  • How to better enable contact tracing and occupancy management with ubiquitous, real-time location analytics and long-term data horizons.

Why Every Business Needs a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

  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)