[1 CPE] Best Practices for Dealing with the Increasing Costs of a Cyber Event

  Presented by Bradlee Frazer Esquire • Partner, Hawley Troxell

Lawyers and insurance agents are busier than ever dealing with cyber events, hacks, and data breaches! Why are such attacks increasing despite all the systemic countermeasures, consultants, and classes? What are some best practices to think defensively and prepare financially and legally for such an event?


BIO:

Bradlee Frazer is a partner with Hawley Troxell where he chairs the firm’s Internet and Intellectual Property Practice Group. In addition to emphasizing and focusing on all facets of Internet law, Intellectual Property law, and Information Technology law, he also helps clients with related transactional work and litigation.

Brad is a published novelist and has written extensively for national legal publications and law blogs. He is a frequent speaker on internet, intellectual property, and computer law topics and is a regular guest lecturer at Boise State University on those subjects.

A Boise native, Brad began his legal career in 1989 as an intellectual property attorney and commercial litigator at a Boise-based law firm. In 1997 he accepted an in-house position as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel with Fortune 1000 company, Micron Electronics, Inc., and remained there through the company’s merger with Interland, Inc. (now Web.com), then the nation’s largest Web hosting company. He eventually became Deputy General Counsel for Micron Electronics, Inc., and Interland, Inc. From June 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Frazer served as Deputy General Counsel to MPC Computers, LLC, in Nampa, Idaho.

[1 CPE] Leveraging Assessment Findings to Harden Your Security Perimeter

  Presented by Fortinet

Are you regularly evaluating your network security?

Performing assessments is a tried-and-true method for improving your security posture, but they can be a daunting task for network security staff who are often short on manpower, expertise, and/or time. Regardless, the benefits of running assessments almost always outweigh any potential drawbacks. Having a security assessment in hand will increase your security situational awareness and significantly impact your organization’s risk preparedness and mitigation.

Join us as we discuss the importance of periodically validating your existing security controls and provide learnings and best practices from our experts.

[1 CPE] Zero Trust: From Theory to Reality in Five Steps

  Presented by Guardicore

Let’s be real. True to its name, there is zero trust about the term “zero trust.” It’s been used as marketecture since its inception. Cut through the fog with this presentation with practical insight and steps to take to ensure your organization makes the most out of ZTA.

[1 CPE] Ransomware Resilience: Best Practices to Prepare, Mitigate, and Recover

  Presented by Zerto

Large organizations are still being forced to pay ransoms due to ransomware attacks. Disruptions to services and supply chains are putting ransomware victims in the news under a negative spotlight. Join recovery and resilience experts from Zerto to discuss best practices to minimize downtime and avoid paying ransoms by being prepared. In this session, you’ll learn:

  • Ransomware 101: A breakdown of a ransomware attack and how it affects systems
  • What steps you can take to reduce the likelihood of attacks on your system
  • How to best choose a recovery solution for ransomware
  • How you can best harden your recovery systems against attacks
  • How to create a recovery plan to react and recovery quickly
  • How a company hit twice by ransomware improved recovery time from weeks to minutes by planning ahead

[1 CPE] Simplify and Strengthen Your Security with a Platform Approach

  Presented by CompuNet

The tactical strategy of “see a problem, buy a solution” just isn’t enough in today’s threat landscape. Has security become a grind within your organization? Are you stitching together individual products, relying on manual workflows, and managing thousands of daily security alerts? It can feel like the security grind never stops. Where do you struggle?

NEW V11: Eliminate data loss. Eliminate ransomware. 20X lower storage cost.

  Presented by Structured & Veeam

NEW Veeam Backup & Replication™ v11 eliminates data loss and ransomware while saving 20X on your long-term archive retention costs. The 4-in-1 solution combining Backup, Replication, Storage Snapshots, and now Continuous Data Protection (CDP) under a single platform, delivers faster and more flexible data protection, recovery, and retention options. V11 unlocks unprecedented resiliency for any size business offering over 200 new features and enhancements, including:

  • Eliminate data loss with Veeam Continuous Data Protection
  • Eliminate ransomware with immutable backups on a Hardened Repository
  • Eliminate downtime with Instant Recovery for NAS, Microsoft SQL, and Oracle
  • Over 20X lower cost, long-term archive-to-cloud storage on Amazon S3 Glacier & Microsoft Azure Archive Storage
  • Conquer complexities in your way with Veeam-powered BaaS & DRaaS

Expect more from your data protection platform and remain resilient in the face of even the most demanding challenges.

[1 CPE] Payment Card Industry Compliance: How to Become and Stay Compliant

  Presented by Structured

This presentation will discuss the difficulties of becoming and staying compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements. Although currently in version 3.2.1, the updated Data Security Standard (DSS) 4.0 is coming soon and there are numerous changes and enhancements that must be complied with. Whether you are just beginning with PCI for your organization or have many years of experience, there are many challenges, both old and new that can create roadblocks to compliance. With emerging technologies such as zero-trust architecture ready for implementation, find out how to best use these controls for your organizational goals. This presentation will cover the requirements, trouble areas to be aware of, and how you can utilize specific technology in your compliance effort.

[1 CPE] Digital Transformation: What’s Next in a Post COVID World?

  Presented by Structured & Aruba, a HPE Company

While the pandemic shuttered many businesses and wreaked havoc with supply chains, it also massively accelerated investment in digital operations in the cloud and at the intelligent edge. Many decisions were made in haste, arising from the need to just “keep the lights on.” The next iteration of our global pandemic response is to revisit these decisions; correct oversights in security, enterprise connectivity, and endpoint access; and chart a sound course forward. Join us and learn how to confidently navigate what comes next regarding your organization’s ability to deliver secure and satisfying user experiences in all critical capabilities across the enterprise.

[1 CPE] The Montana Cybersecurity Report

  Presented by Pine Cove Consulting & Sophos

Each year, Pine Cove Consulting analyzes data reported to the Montana Department of Justice. This report shows how many Montanans fell victim to a data breach, how many organizations fell victim to a data breach that affected Montanans, and the average length of data breaches in Montana. In this presentation, we will share our findings and compare the statistics we have observed year over year to find trends. This is the only report produced that analyzes Montana-specific cybersecurity statistics. If you are an IT leader, business executive, or educator, we strongly recommend attending our breakout session so you can be aware of the cyber-threats right here in our backyard.

We will also be joined by Sophos Security who will share how these statistics relate to national and worldwide cybersecurity trends.

[1 CPE] The American Rescue Act Opportunities for IT in Montana

  Presented by Kevin Gilbertson • Chief Information Officer, State of Montana

Through the American Rescue Plan Act, funding is being distributed through grants within the State of Montana to enhance education, communications, and health and human services, as well provide funds for economic transformation and workforce development. We will discuss how these funds have provided State IT the opportunity to modernize our interactions with citizens to support ARPA efforts as well as provide an avenue for attracting technical jobs and talent to the state.

Kevin Gilbertson serves as the State of Montana’s CIO. He joined the Department of Administration in March of 2021 after spending almost thirty years in the enterprise software industry, which included work with state and federal government customers as well as Fortune 500 corporate customers.

Kevin most recently served as a Vice President of Product Strategy and Enablement at Helix Business Solution before being appointed State CIO by Governor Gianforte. Prior to joining Helix Business Solution, Gilbertson was the owner and principal consultant at Forstara and worked in various IT roles at RightNow Technologies, both based out of Bozeman, MT. He also partnered with federal agency CIOs on open data initiatives while working for Socrata in Seattle, WA.

Gilbertson holds a Master of Science degree from Capella University in psychology specializing in Organizational Leader Development and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.