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How to Level Up on Information Security Risk Assessment

  Moderated by INTERFACE Advisory Council

Do the words “Risk Assessment” send knots to your stomach? Are you interested in doing an assessment, but not sure what to expect? Join the Advisory Council for a panel discussing real life experiences conducting information security risk assessments, how to get started, what to look out for and tips and tricks. You don’t have to be a walking target!

Panelists:

  • Curt Dodds • IT Manager, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
  • Russell Seeney • President, InfraGard
  • David Stevens • IT Program Director, Kapiolani Community College

Disaster Recovery for the Cloud Era

  Presented by Druva

More and more enterprises are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management for their applications. The ability to keep secondary, or backup data in cloud storage; eliminates traditional data centers, reduces operational complexity associated with legacy on-premise backup solutions, allows unlimited scalability, centralizes storage of all secondary data sources, provides unlimited compute, allows for additional insight and business value from that data. and finally, and finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility.

Integrated Risk Management

  Presented by ServiceNow

Organizations need to transform inefficient processes by combining security, IT, and risk capabilities into an integrated risk program which provides continuous monitoring, prioritization, and automation to ensure rapid identification and response to risks.

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.