Archives: Seminar

A New Era of Data Protection: Converged DR and Backup

  Presented by Zerto

In today’s always-on, information-driven organizations, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster is key!

  • The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immense
  • Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by software problems and cyber security related disasters
  • Having a plan and process in place will help you mitigate the impact of an outage on your business.

In this presentation we will address the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions.

Architecting the New SD-WAN Edge for the Cloud-first Enterprise

  Presented by Silver Peak

Adoption of cloud services has driven enterprises to re-think WAN architecture. Architectures based on traditional, manually-programmed routers can’t keep pace. A business-driven SD-WAN can provide secure direct connections from the branch to SaaS/IaaS across the internet, significantly increasing application performance resulting in a superior end-user QoEx (Quality of Experience). By integrating SD-WAN, WAN optimization, routing and security in a single unified platform, enterprises can simplify branch WAN edge architecture, accelerating time to value and dramatically reducing operational costs. From a centralized SD-WAN orchestrator, application priorities and QoS and security policies may be configured and assigned to automate traffic handling across the WAN. A single mouse click distributes SD-WAN configuration parameters to all sites, improving operational efficiency and minimizing the potential for human errors that can negatively impact application availability and enterprise security. This session will describe why SD-WAN adoption continues at a breakneck pace because of the user productivity, agility and cost savings benefits that a business-driven SD-WAN delivers.

How to Solve the Toughest Challenges in Cloud Security

  Presented by Sophos & Pine Cove Consulting

In an ever-changing, auto-scaling environment, continuous visibility of your public cloud infrastructure is vital. Join Pine Cove Consulting and Sophos Security as we discuss how you can use the power of AI and automation to simplify compliance, governance and security monitoring in the cloud.

Visibility is the foundation on which all public cloud security policies and activities are built. We will discuss how to monitor multiple cloud provider environments including Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, Microsoft Azure subscriptions, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects, Kubernetes clusters, and development code repositories. With superior visibility, layered with compliance and DevSecOps policies controls and alerts, teams can take control and build on their cloud security strategy with confidence.

Join us to learn how building a complete picture of architecture, including a full inventory and real-time network topology visualization including hosts, networks, user accounts, storage services, containers, and serverless functions, can help you improve your cloud security challenges.

Rethinking Vulnerability Prioritization in the Modern Threat Landscape

  Presented by Tenable, Inc.

When it comes to reducing cyber exposure, an effective vulnerability management approach helps you eliminate blind spots that are often the root of security issues. But with 16,000 vulnerabilities identified in 2018 alone, security leaders know it’s not practical to find and fix every vulnerability. Using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize is a good start, but it isn’t enough to address the complexity of today’s attack surface. Security professionals need to be able to reduce the vast universe of potential vulnerabilities down to a subset of the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited in the near-term. Attend this session to learn how adding real-life context to your vulnerabilities can help prioritize vulnerabilities so you can focus your remediation efforts on those that matter most.

Innovation and Evolution: BC/DR for Today’s Multi-Cloud Environments

  Presented by Unitrends

We are living in a “Less is More” world. In a landscape that’s rapidly changing, IT professionals are managing more work, projects, and risk than ever before. While external threats such as malware and natural disasters cause significant downtime and data loss without proper BCDR implementation, organizations must also be prepared to safeguard from within. Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and not only on-premises. As cloud-delivered solutions such as IaaS and SaaS are rapidly adopted by an increasing number of organizations, and the workforce itself is becoming increasingly dispersed and mobile, organizations must consider data protection strategies to address gaps in BC/DR outside the traditional data center. Join Adam Marget, Technical Specialist from Unitrends, as we explore the evolving landscape of data protection, cloud’s growing role, BC/DR strategies to safeguard local, remote, and cloud-based workloads, and best practices in planning your DR approach.

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.

Defense in Diversification: Improving Cybersecurity via Smart Consolidation

  Presented by ExtraHop

Ask any analyst, reporter, or financial observer, and they’ll tell you that the security market is ripe for consolidation. For years, security vendors have proliferated, buoyed by high valuations and ever-expanding enterprise security budgets. While this rush to innovate has resulted in better and more sophisticated threat defenses, it has also created a complex web of tools which already overworked, overwhelmed, and understaffed security teams must manage.

This tool sprawl is one reason that so many in and around the security industry believe that an era of consolidation is coming. According to ESG Research, 66 percent of businesses are actively working to consolidate their security portfolio. For many in the security industry, a security platform that essentially puts your “SOC-in-a-box” is an ideal solution to the tool sprawl problem.

But this approach is not without peril. If the security industry consolidates to the point that there are just a few platform solutions, this will not only stifle innovation, it will result in a monoculture — and monocultures are notoriously susceptible to disease. If every organization uses an identical or nearly identical set of security tools, breaking into one means breaking into them all. And once threat actors figure out how to break in once, they’ll have the keys to every organization. Just like the world banana population —itself a monoculture — is currently being wiped out by a fungus to which is has no natural resistance, a single cyber threat could take down a vast number of organizations.

Ohh La La: I Wish That I Knew What I Know Now When I Was Younger

  Presented by Max Davis-Johnson • CIO at Boise State University

Reflections and speculations on the future of technology and how do we survive, adapt, and even thrive.* With apologies to Rod Stewart and Faces

Max Davis-Johnson has an outstanding record of transformative and innovative leadership in both Higher Education and Industry.

Max is CIO at Boise State University, a position he assumed in 2010. He served previously as Deputy University Technology Officer at Arizona State University for five years and was the Directory of Administrative Computing at Northern Arizona University from 1998 to 2005.

Prior to that, Max worked for 19 years in the Architectural Engineering Construction (AEC) systems industry as a software developer, project manager, consultant, and business developer.

Max is a graduate of the University of Kansas.

Innovation and Evolution: BC/DR for Today’s Multi-Cloud Environments

  Presented by Unitrends

We are living in a “Less is More” world. In a landscape that’s rapidly changing, IT professionals are managing more work, projects, and risk than ever before. While external threats such as malware and natural disasters cause significant downtime and data loss without proper BCDR implementation, organizations must also be prepared to safeguard from within. Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and not only on-premises. As cloud-delivered solutions such as IaaS and SaaS are rapidly adopted by an increasing number of organizations, and the workforce itself is becoming increasingly dispersed and mobile, organizations must consider data protection strategies to address gaps in BC/DR outside the traditional data center. Join Adam Marget, Technical Specialist from Unitrends, as we explore the evolving landscape of data protection, cloud’s growing role, BC/DR strategies to safeguard local, remote, and cloud-based workloads, and best practices in planning your DR approach.