Archives: Seminar

[1 CPE] Beyond Cybersecurity: Assembling Resiliency for the Inevitable Breach

  Presented by BJ Deonarain, Global Quantum and Classic Cyber Security Director • Hitachi Vantara

The Imperative for Resiliency, 100% cyber security is unachievable; breaches are inevitable, where modern threats demand a shift from reactive defense to proactive resilience. Resilience requires mindset and culture change, not just new technology, while focus can sustain operations and limit damage when security fails.

Assembling the resiliency strategic pillars and actions:

  • Risk Assessment: continuous evaluation of assets and vulnerabilities
  • Incident Response: develop, test, and update comprehensive crisis plans
  • Employee Training: ongoing education to make staff the first line of defense
  • Systems Testing: regular audits, penetration tests, and vulnerability scans
  • Partnerships: collaborate with industry experts for knowledge sharing
  • Culture: embed resiliency throughout the organization at every level

BJ Deonarain is a globally focused cybersecurity executive responsible for driving cyber security and cyber resiliency strategy at Hitachi Vantara. With a career spanning technical innovation, client solutions, and cross-functional leadership, BJ combines deep technical expertise with a client-centric approach to mitigate risk and elevate organizational security postures.

[1 CPE] State of the Union: Annual Information Security Report

  Presented by Chad Spoden, Sr Information Security Consultant, Solution Architect Manager • FRSecure

The result of over 100 incident cases handled by the FRSecure response team in the last two years, Sr Information Security Consultant Chad Spoden will dive into the latest threats and response techniques you need to know—and what you can do to minimize the risk and impact of similar events. The breakdown will cover Business Email Compromise, Ransomware, and Internal Compromise. You can’t afford to miss it!

[1 CPE] From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Agile and DevOps in Enterprise AI Development

  Presented by Mike Douglas, SVP Digital Transformation • Lunavi

Enterprises everywhere are racing to incorporate AI into their development practices to improve time to market, create competitive advantages, and avoid being left behind. The tools make it easy to get started, but building mission-critical software with AI is a different challenge entirely. Human + AI development demands security, accountability, and rigorous quality controls that isn’t part of most AI development practices.

In this talk, I’ll show how Agentic Engineering built on a foundation of Agile and DevOps, provides a process for developing software at high speed while keeping humans in the loop, delivering value incrementally, and baking quality into every step through automated security and quality gates. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of modern AI development tools and processes, and how proven Agile and DevOps practices provide the critical human oversight that responsible AI development requires.

[1 CPE] The Speed of Trust: Why Your AI Strategy is Only as Fast as Your Security Architecture

  Presented by Bradley Mitchell and Olivia Geesen, Prisma SASE Specialists • Palo Alto Networks

In the race for AI dominance, many businesses are hitting the brakes as security struggles to keep up. We’re stuck in a “Fragmentation Tax,” managing endless siloed tools, to protect against prompt injections, shadow AI, and data exfiltration.

Prisma SASE specialists, Bradley Mitchell and Olivia Geesen, will discuss how organizations can approach these challenges including the benefits of a holistic platform strategy.

[1 CPE] Global SASE, Local Advantage: Why Inspection Location Matters

  Presented by Blackfoot Communications & Cato Networks

Speakers: Eric Midtlyng, Director of Product Management, Blackfoot Communications and Michael MacLean, Channel Sales Engineer, Cato Networks

As organizations adopt Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures, many discover that security effectiveness depends not only on the platform itself, but also on where inspection occurs and how traffic reaches security services.

This session explores the architectural considerations that influence user experience, application performance, security visibility, and operational resiliency in modern SASE deployments. Attendees will learn how regional security presence, traffic localization and resilient connectivity can improve outcomes for distributed organizations.

Using real-world deployment examples, we will examine the role of localized security inspection, digital experience monitoring, and emerging AI-powered security capabilities. The session will conclude with demonstrations and practical guidance for evaluating SASE architectures that balance global reach with local performance and operational simplicity.

[1 CPE] Future-Ready Infrastructure: Enabling AI, Security, and Resilience

  Presented by Nutanix

As agencies evaluate generative AI, cybersecurity modernization, and digital services, infrastructure has become a strategic decision rather than simply an operational one. This session examines how public sector IT leaders are simplifying operations, increasing resiliency, and preparing their environments to support emerging AI workloads without sacrificing security or budget predictability. Attendees will leave with practical considerations for infrastructure modernization, virtualization strategy, and building a platform capable of supporting tomorrow’s government services.

[1 CPE] Cybersecurity and Compliance For 2026

  Presented by Structured

This session examines how organizations can align cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance programs with the realities of 2026. The presentation reviews current threat trends, executive accountability requirements, and the expanding impact of artificial intelligence on risk management. It then connects federal, state, and industry obligations, including NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, CJIS, PCI DSS 4.0, CMMC, and emerging privacy laws to practical security program design. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for building a complete security program that integrates governance, segmentation, risk management, Zero Trust principles, and penetration testing to reduce risk and support regulatory readiness.

[1 CPE] AI-Native Networking: From Reactive IT to Autonomous Operations

  Presented by Josh Miller, Sr Sales Engineer • HPE

Traditional networks were designed for human troubleshooting. As environments scale and expectations rise, reactive operations and manual workflows no longer meet the needs of modern enterprises.

AI-Native Networking represents a fundamental architectural shift — where AI is not layered on top of infrastructure, but built into its foundation. By combining real-time telemetry, cloud-native microservices, and continuously trained models, AI-Native platforms move IT from reactive firefighting to autonomous operations.

The result: measurable improvements in user experience, reduced operational overhead, faster root-cause resolution, and infrastructure that continuously optimizes itself.

This session explores what it truly means to be AI-native, how it differs from legacy “AI-enhanced” approaches, and the business outcomes organizations are achieving by embracing this new model.

[1 CPE] 30 Years of Security Assumptions Broke: Rethinking Security Controls in the Age of AI

  Presented by Pete Petersen, Sales Engineer • Silverfort

Frontier AI has quietly retired a three-decade assumption: that defenders have time to react after an attacker moves. Autonomous models now compress full attack chains into minutes, chaining ordinary misconfigurations at machine speed with no hesitation and no fatigue. Detection becomes forensic instead of preventive. Vulnerability management can’t patch fast enough. Periodic access reviews can’t review fast enough.

The answer requires a fundamental shift: from preset admin-time access rules and too-reactive detection to controls placed at the moment it matters most: runtime. Every identity, human, machine, or AI agent, must authenticate to act. That moment is the only control point capable of operating at machine speed, intervening before lateral movement begins.

This session gives security leaders the framework to drive that shift — examining why traditional controls collapse against AI-powered adversaries, what runtime enforcement looks like in practice, and how to elevate identity to a genuine, autonomous enforcement point at the center of a modern security operating model.

[1 CPE] The Future of Ransomware is Here: ESET’s Latest Threat Report

  Presented by Wafi Choudhury, Enterprise Account Manager • ESET

Join us for an in‑depth walkthrough of the most significant insights from ESET’s latest Threat Report. This session will examine the rise of AI‑assisted attacks, including the discovery of PromptLock, an AI‑powered ransomware prototype. We’ll also explore key shifts in malware‑as‑a‑service, NFC‑driven fraud, and PowerShell‑based delivery techniques, and gain a clear understanding of how ransomware operations are evolving and reshaping today’s threat landscape.