Archives: Seminar

[1 CPE] Disaster Preparedness and Data Protection Strategies for Business Continuous Availability

  Presented by Stacey Budd, Data Resilience Expert and Sales Engineer Team Leader • Arcserve

As natural disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, and severe winter events become more frequent and intense, businesses face increasing economic and operational challenges. High-profile disasters, including the Camp Fire in 2018, which incurred a staggering $16.5 billion in damages, and Hurricane Maria’s profound impact on Puerto Rico, estimated at $139 billion for full recovery, underscore the escalating financial stakes.

This presentation will explore effective strategies to bolster business resilience in the face of natural catastrophes.

Key elements of the session will include:

  • Critical insights from Arcserve’s annual global research study on disaster preparedness.
  • A comprehensive Disaster Preparedness Checklist tailored for companies.
  • Practical tools designed to safeguard business operations and data resilience.

We will delve into the details of a 5-step disaster and ransomware recovery plan template, as well as the 3-2-1-1 backup strategy, which ensures robust data recovery through multiple backup copies stored both locally and offsite. By implementing these strategies, businesses can minimize financial losses, reduce operational downtime, and achieve a rapid recovery, thereby ensuring continuity even during catastrophic events. This session aims to arm business leaders with the essential tools and knowledge to safeguard their enterprises amidst an increasingly unpredictable global landscape.

[1 CPE] The Current Threat Landscape Requires a Unique Approach

  Presented by Todd Bertchume, Technical Marketing Engineer • Forescout

Specialized threats targeting OT environments have been around since at least 2010, with the reports of Stuxnet. Recognizing the criticality of these devices, Threat Actors have continued evolving, continuing to target OT devices, many of which are inherently insecure-by-design. Research, such as Vedere Labs’ OT:ICEFALL research project and Project Basecamp by Digital Bond from 10 years ago showed how significant the scope of vulnerable devices are that are pervasive in critical infrastructure systems. Today’s SOC needs to not only see those devices and the risks they pose while also ensuring accurate detection of the threats uniquely targeting those OT environments they’re deployed in. This session will explore this unique threat landscape and the capabilities required to combat the threats and automatically mitigate the risks specially targeting Operational Technology environments.

Todd Bertchume is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Forescout. He brings over 23 years of experience in the networking industry working on the partner, customer, and manufacturer side of the business. He holds many industry certifications in networking and security. Over the years, he has helped many customers building data centers and spent the last few years specializing in securing assets in the health care industry.

[1 CPE] Navigating Cloud Complexity: Challenges, Drivers, and Solutions

  Presented by John McHaney, Enterprise Architect • Hitachi Vantara

Join this session for an overview of challenges and drivers for customers related to Cloud, including a General Hybrid Cloud architecture overview with Hitachi On-Prem, Near-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Solution Offerings.

John McHaney is an Enterprise Architect at Hitachi Vantara specializing in Cloud, Converged, and Business Applications, with expertise in Oracle and SAP technologies. He joined Hitachi Vantara in October 2018, bringing a background in software development, Oracle database administration, and infrastructure architecture. With experience in technical pre-sales at EMC, Oracle, and Hitachi, John excels in communicating complex solutions. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, he continues to innovate in enterprise architecture, leveraging his extensive experience in Oracle, SAP, and cloud technologies.

[1 CPE] Global Insights on Identity Security Maturity: Why it Matters? Why Now?

  Presented by Jed Knopf, Solutions Architect • CyberArk

In our global survey of 1,500 identity-related security experts, we found only 9% of organizations have the highest level of maturity. These Transformative organizations have the most mature identity security programs as they strategically focus on four key tenets: tools, integration, automation, and continuous threat detection & response. As a result, these organizations significantly outperform their competition in driving business outcomes and reducing risk. Learn how you can mature your identity security program because the future of security starts with identity.

Key Session Takeaways:

  • Top challenges for identity security
  • The four tenets of identity security
  • How to take a holistic approach to identity security
  • Key considerations in evaluating identity security providers

[1 CPE] The Current Threat Landscape Requires a Unique Approach

  Presented by Eric Vanderbur, Global Solutions Architect • Forescout

Specialized threats targeting OT environments have been around since at least 2010, with the reports of Stuxnet. Recognizing the criticality of these devices, Threat Actors have continued evolving, continuing to target OT devices, many of which are inherently insecure-by-design. Research, such as Vedere Labs’ OT:ICEFALL research project and Project Basecamp by Digital Bond from 10 years ago showed how significant the scope of vulnerable devices are that are pervasive in critical infrastructure systems. Today’s SOC needs to not only see those devices and the risks they pose while also ensuring accurate detection of the threats uniquely targeting those OT environments they’re deployed in. This session will explore this unique threat landscape and the capabilities required to combat the threats and automatically mitigate the risks specially targeting Operational Technology environments.

[1 CPE] Rapid Growth of Unstructured Data Across Industries and the Challenge of Protecting It

  Presented by Paul Swanson, Account Executive, PLS NAS • Rubrik & Structured

In today’s digital economy, nearly every industry is finding that data is becoming increasingly critical to its core business success. Data enables innovation and discovery, powers advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and drives medical and earth-science breakthroughs. Most of the collective data fueling today’s technological and scientific advances consists of unstructured data files – trillions of them. For effective stewardship of both infrastructure and data, IT needs to have insight into the depth and breadth of your organization’s unstructured datasets and the workflows that use them. Join this session for a discussion of the rapid growth of unstructured data across industries and the challenge of protecting it.

[1 CPE] Modernizing Physical Security

  Presented by Verkada & Structured

In this session, we’ll look at the technologies at the forefront of enterprise building security. Connected security devices can provide users with real-time insights and a full picture of the health and safety of their environments. We’ll explore how to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations, and costly inefficiencies with best–in–class solutions that provide a scalable way to easily configure, monitor and respond to events from anywhere. Learn how modernizing your physical security can help you seamlessly safeguard the physical world –– without sacrificing privacy –– to operate safer, smarter buildings.

[1 CPE] Cybersecurity and Compliance For 2024

  Presented by Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance • Structured

The cybersecurity regulatory compliance landscape has never been more complicated, and this presentation will provide information and updates to CMMC, GLBA, PCI, TSA, generative AI and security best practices. This discussion will focus on security solutions to these challenges, including penetration testing and zero trust implementations. Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Structured will be the presenter.

[1 CPE] Global Insights on Identity Security Maturity: Why it Matters? Why Now?

  Presented by Brian Roberts, Sr Solutions Engineer • CyberArk

In our global survey of 1,500 identity-related security experts, we found only 9% of organizations have the highest level of maturity. These Transformative organizations have the most mature identity security programs as they strategically focus on four key tenets: tools, integration, automation, and continuous threat detection & response. As a result, these organizations significantly outperform their competition in driving business outcomes and reducing risk. Learn how you can mature your identity security program because the future of security starts with identity.

Key Session Takeaways:

  • Top challenges for identity security
  • The four tenets of identity security
  • How to take a holistic approach to identity security
  • Key considerations in evaluating identity security providers

Brian Roberts is a motivated, technically-minded individual with 12 years of solutions engineering experience ranging from backup and disaster recovery to identity security. He primarily focuses on Privilege Access Management and Least Privilege Enforcement with self-hosted and cloud assets.

[1 CPE] Opportunities & Risks for Industries: Generative AI Models

  Presented by Joe Vadakkan, President, Southwest Arizona Chapter • Cloud Security Alliance

Generative AI models can perform tasks that traditionally require creativity and human understanding. They learn patterns from existing data during training and can subsequently generate new content, such as texts, images, and music, that follow these patterns. Due to their versatility and generally high-quality results, they, on the one hand, represent an opportunity for digitalization. On the other hand, the use of generative AI models introduces novel IT security risks that need to be considered for a comprehensive analysis of the threat landscape in relation to IT security. We will be diving into risk analysis, measures, and operational models associated with utilizing Gen AI.