Archives: Seminar

Welcome to the New Age of Converged Secondary and Primary Storage

  Presented by StorageCraft

Gone are the days of deciding between a storage solution that can solve either data protection OR primary storage requirements. OneXafe is a scale-out converged storage solution that solves both data protection and primary storage challenges. Want to protect hundreds of VMs in a few clicks? No problem. Want to recover a multi-TB VM in less than a second? No problem. Need an enterprise file serving, archiving, or VMware storage solution? No Problem. Want to seamlessly recover an application in the cloud? No Problem. Attend this seminar session to learn more and see OneXafe in action!

7 Steps to Improved Business Continuity

  Presented by Quest Software

Aaron Newsome will kick off the first half of the session discussing:

Steps to Improved Business Continuity

  • Knowing your risks (perform a risk assessment)
  • Know your data & applications (define criticality per application and not all data & apps are created equal)
  • Know your goals, set objectives for each classification
  • Know your tools, review your current capabilities against business requirements
  • Build an in-depth defense, utilize tools to achieve goals

STAY PROTECTED

  • Document your plan, get buy-in and WIN confidence
  • Challenge your plan, test your defense in layers

The Thief is in the House… Understanding and Managing Information Security

  Presented by Mart Nelson • Chief Technology Officer, Avistas

This presentation is oriented toward discussions with Senior Management. We will focus on Business Value issues, where management needs to understand enough about Information Security to be able to make risk, budget and operations decisions. It is useful for all levels of management.

Bring your questions for this open dialogue on all elements of internal Information Security.

Collaboration Abomination

  Presented by Khlood Elsayed • PMP, CISSP

With the proliferation of “collaboration” tools/gadgets, it’s easier for communication to get lost. Needless emails, poorly organized conference calls, and lousy chatter/slack posts may leave you feeling lost and ineffective. Join us for this interactive session to pick up some practical tips to help you successfully collaborate across multiple business units, functional areas, and teams to galvanize their support to deliver the best value to your stakeholders. Maybe come out the other side better looking (who knows). Just join us, alright?

Why Does Ransomware Continue to Evade Our Defenses?

  Presented by Nyotron

Ransomware has long been a menace for organizations and consumers. Global damage cost estimates reach about 10 billion USD per year. After all these years, why does ransomware continue to be so good at being so bad?

In this seminar, we will review the security industry’s history of largely ineffective responses to ransomware. We will discuss standard ransomware detection methods with their pros and cons. You will see how ransomware developers use simple techniques to bypass each of those methods. This live session will also highlight some of the latest attacks, including Norsk Hydro and ransomware pretending to donate your Bitcoins to a children’s charity.

After examining the bad, we will provide you with a no-nonsense defense strategy for hardening your defenses against ransomware.

Illuminating Behavioral Patterns to Assist Technology for Insider Threats

  Presented by Vanguard Infrastructures & HPE

Today, intellectual property theft is responsible for the greatest transfer of wealth among the countries of the world and frequently involves utilizing the company Insider. The security of the company is every employees’ responsibility. Technological innovations in Machine Learning can identify both the human and machine insider threat. In addition, employees must be educated as to what to look for when looking for the Insider Threat. Sensitizing your employees to scenario indicators, elicitation techniques involving behavioral manipulation, and the other principles can create a security force multiplication that will provide greater protection for your company. Vanguard Infrastructures is presenting information and strategies to incorporate the eyes and ears of your employees in the hunt for the insider.

The Proliferation of Video in Enterprise Design, and How It will Impact You

  Presented by Star Leaf & Netrix

The presentation will go over the complexities of a successful video/collaboration environment from a technical and physical perspective. We will discuss the technology, psychology of, and successful adoption of Video Conferencing in the workplace. One size does not fit all and equipment must be scaled appropriately. We will also go over the recommended beta/installation program and what that looks like.

Top 5 Resiliency Myths and What to Do About Them

  Presented by Luis Tapia • Resiliency Relationship Manager, Fannie Mae and Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas

It is said that plans are worthless, but planning is everything. If this is true, why is it common for an organization’s resiliency posture to plateau in the advancement towards maturity, despite our best planning efforts? What can we do about common resiliency misconceptions that are holding your organization back? This presentation looks at challenges that impede resiliency and what can be done to break through these deep-rooted barriers. It considers both business and technology perspectives and suggests a how to overcome several resiliency myths.

As a kid, Luis Tapia loved watching Godzilla movies. It wasn’t the monster that captivated him, but concern about the destruction left behind. For the past 12 years, Mr. Tapia has made meaning contributions in emergency management and business continuity within the private, public, and non-profit sectors. In addition, Mr. Tapia has been an adjunct instructor for two universities, using a blend of theory and practice to teach the next generation of emergency management and business continuity planners. Mr. Tapia has been involved in a wide range of technical, natural, and man-made disasters, helping individuals and organizations coordinate their efforts and overcome the disruptive nature of these events.

Mr. Tapia’s educational background includes an MPA from the University of North Texas and MS in Emergency Management from Oklahoma State University. Mr. Tapia lives in Denton, TX.

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 Dallas 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:

  • Tambra Draper-Horn • Sr. Applications Security Engineer, Sabre Corporation
  • Craig Broussard • Director, Global Infrastructure, NCH Corporation
  • Susan Smith • Manager, Information Technologt, The Salvation Army of North Texas
  • Sergio Puga • Project Manager, FedEx