Archives: Seminar

The Rise of the Cyber Attack, How Can We Protect Ourselves?

  Presented by Kenneth A. Schmutz • Supervisory Special Agent, FBI

This presentation will highlight the rise in cyber-attacks coming from criminals, nation state actors, insiders, and terrorists. These attacks include ransomware, business email compromise, data theft, and theft of intellectual property. Supervisory Special Agent Schmutz will discuss ways in which these cyber adversaries are getting into our systems including current investigations being worked by the FBI’s Omaha Cyber Task Force. He will finish by providing ideas and resources that companies have used to reduce their vulnerability to these attacks.

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Schmutz graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Information Systems. He worked for 13 years in the private sector for IT companies prior to joining the FBI in 2004. SSA Schmutz investigated computer intrusions his whole career which included his time in Seattle, Chicago and the FBI’s Cyber Division in Washington DC where he focused on cyber threats to the critical infrastructure. In August of 2012, he was transferred to the Omaha Field Division where he serves as the supervisor of the FBI’s Cyber Task Force (CTF).

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.

Responsible Administration: The Admin Insider (Threat)

  Presented by One Identity

System Administrators are critical people to every organization. They design, build, and maintain all the parts and pieces that enable business, whether that’s retail, healthcare, or even a government agency. Ensuring sysadmin tasks are performed as securely as possible without hampering their ability to keep our business running is a delicate balance. These “insiders” not only know how the systems operate but have the credentials and privileges to operate them.

In this session, we will demonstrate an Active Directory breach using pass-the-hash and discuss ways to enable the System Administrators to operate in a way that not only protects the business from threats but also enables them to perform the intricate tasks they accomplish daily to keep business flowing under the covers.

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.

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.

How to Accelerate to the Cloud with Data Protection

  Presented by Clumio & Structured

Customers have a cloud-first mandate and SaaS is the easy button. Backup-as-a-Service is the easy button for Data Protection. To get to the cloud, you need seamless migration and a solid data protection strategy. In this session, we’ll talk about the challenges with current data protection approaches and why they can’t be used to protect your data in the cloud. You’ll learn how SaaS data protection that is built for the cloud replaces the cost and limitations of existing solutions helps customers overcome those challenges. With one agile, scalable and simple service, you can protect multiple datasources across clouds- on-premises, public cloud and SaaS.

The Top 10 List: Ransomware Preparation

  Presented by Tonaquint Data Center

Carl Wilkins, Director of Cloud Operations for Tonaquint Data Centers provides a Top 10 list of things you can do to mitigate the risk of Ransomware affecting you. Topics will include how to protect your data, how to protect your systems and infrastructure, and situations to be aware of that might indicate the presence of Ransomware in your environment.

Do You Know What is Plugged in to Your Networks, Data Centers & Clouds?

  Presented by Check Point

The connected network is undergoing significant transformation! A proliferation of connected Smart IOT devices for (in)security cameras, building management, Audio/Video Systems, Printers, Badge Readers and Access Points are just some of the IOT devices on all of our networks. Let alone the industry specific connected devices across manufacturing, healthcare, SCADA and other verticals which have their own alphabet soup of IOT and MOT assets. The Intelligent network must be able to identify, classify and integrate with the networks, security controls and data center deployments to securely allow the whitelisted application flows, while blocking unauthorized and malicious traffic. This challenge is amplified in that many of the applications which used to live inside of our physical data centers have migrated to the cloud or Software as a Service offerings requiring Smart IOT devices needing access to internet and cloud resources. Without proper security controls in place, IOT devices can and will be an entry point of malware infection and breach of our computer networks. Tools do exist allowing for dynamic profiling and monitoring of our physical and virtual network giving visibility and access controls back into the hands of IT. In this Session you will learn strategies & best practices for actively monitoring and enforcing dynamic access controls on the network with automated integrations across network & security controls.

Virtual Desktops & Virtual Applications: What’s New

  Presented by IVOXY Consulting & NetApp

Over the last year we have witnessed tremendous growth in the virtual desktop/virtual application segment, as a significant number of organizations began to work remotely. VDI has replaced traditional VPN technology, providing a faster, more seamless experience for the end-user, while reducing administrative overhead for their IT support team.

In this seminar Alec will catch you up on the latest advancements in virtual desktop technology, as well as dive into what’s new in the virtual applications space. From rapid provisioning to self-service provisioning, we have you covered!

Master the Edge: How to Achieve Context-Aware, Zero Trust Network Access

  Presented by Aruba & Structured

Have you been tasked with implementing Zero Trust Network Access but are unsure of how to go about it? Are you confused about how to achieve “minimum access”? Are you struggling with employing “continuous adaptive risk & trust assessment” on your network? 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.