Presented by Chris McDuffie, Vice President of Cloud Architecture • Structured
Microsoft Intune is quickly becoming a strategic part of not only device management, but compliance and security as well. Structured will cover what’s new and how Intune will impact your Windows PC strategy management.
Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council
“The other company is offering higher wages. I get to work remotely as much as I want, and I am getting a four-day workweek. Sorry, but I must take it.” Have you heard this just a few times? So many IT hiring managers are having to find creative ways to keep staff members in-house. While budgets and major company overhauls can’t always be achieved, some methods can help.
Montana has some of the most unique challenges in the country for retaining staff. Join the INTERFACE Advisory Council for an open conversation on how to keep your Montana IT staff intact. This panel features local area IT hiring managers and leaders that deal with these challenges in their shops. Bring your questions as there will be an opportunity to get advice on the needs you have.
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Presented by Palo Alto Networks
Modern attack surfaces are dynamic. Without clear visibility that is constantly updated, it is all too easy to have persistent exposures and unmanaged assets. Security practitioners can only be as good as the data they have, so having a strong foundation of continuous discovery and monitoring ensures you can keep up with modern, dynamic attack surfaces to find, prioritize, and mitigate exposures as they arise.
Presented by Kevin Heide, Director of Enterprise Networking • Cerium Networks
Spend the morning with us while we explore the world of Zero Trust Architecture—but with a twist. Instead of a high-level overview of this strategic cybersecurity approach, we’ll get hands-on and show you practical examples using tools and environments that most of us are already familiar with.
Buckle up and join us on this exciting journey as we learn how to integrate different elements and policies across our organizations. We’ll also focus on optimizing our policies and enhancing threat protection.
Presented by CompuNet
If you follow the news, it is easy to see – disruptive events affecting critical business operations are becoming more prevalent. In this presentation, our guests from CompuNet will step through a comprehensive framework for Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Program development, highlighting methodology that integrates with cybersecurity risk management and builds upon the capabilities of an organization’s backup strategy. For context, CompuNet’s presenters will examine the technical and non-technical challenges organizations may face during cybersecurity events and how resiliency planning can help mitigate those challenges..
Presented by Travis Light • Cybersecurity Advisor, CISA
You have heard the buzz phrase “zero trust”, but what exactly is it? Join Travis Light for a breakdown of zero trust using a case study that highlights the pitfalls of the traditional “castle-and-moat” perimeter approach to network design. He’ll also discuss CISA’s zero-trust Maturity Model (ZTMM) 2.0. The ZTMM is a roadmap that organizations can follow as they transition towards a zero-trust architecture.
Travis Light serves as a Cybersecurity Advisor (CSA) in Montana for the Integrated Operations Division (IOD) of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). He supports the CISA mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure in Region VIII. His daily responsibilities include coordinating cyber preparedness information sharing and collaboration, developing risk mitigation strategies, responding to cyber incidents, and providing cyber security resources including conducting strategic and technical assessments.
Before joining CISA in January 2023, Travis spent nine years as a federal employee with the Montana Army National Guard (MTARNG) in a variety of technical positions covering network administration, enterprise architecture, telecommunications infrastructure, database administration, and information systems security for classified and unclassified enclaves in the Regional Network Enterprise Center and the state’s Data Processing Center.
Travis holds numerous professional industry certifications including GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA), ITIL 4 Foundation, CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist, and CompTIA Project+. He has earned a Bachelor of Science in Network Operations and Security from Western Governors University.
Presented by Rubrik
The Rubrik team will provide an overview of what they are seeing in the market. What questions data protection teams and IT leaders are being asked concerning the uptick in cyber events. We will pull back the curtain to explain how Rubrik detects ransomware, identifies sensitive data, and searches for indicators of compromise with threat hunting. If time allows, we will dive into the Rubrik interface and show you how we accomplish this in a single secure interface.
Presented by Lynn Soeth, Service Manager, Security Services • High Point Networks
You have a company-wide security culture. Is it a positive one? A safe security culture includes practices, policies, and attitude that prioritize the protection of sensitive information and the well-being of team members. It involves creating a positive environment where everyone feels empowered to ask questions and report potential security incidents. Using real world situations, let’s look at how you can actively participate in and grow a safe security culture at work and home.
Presented by Matt Helm, Sr Systems Engineer • Extreme Networks
During the presentation, we will discuss how to simplify your network and make it more secure by using the IEEE standard 802.1aq. We explain the standard, and how it is easier to use than traditional networking and much more secure. We will demo its simplicity and what makes it secure.
We will then move into Wifi 6e and how it is changing the way we must look at wireless deployments. We will discuss all the changes that it has brought us and what we must be planning for with the higher speeds that we will be able to achieve.
Presented by Aruba Networks
70% of all breaches are caused by endpoint security vulnerabilities, followed by lateral movement in the data center. Halt that hacker traffic. Attend this session to learn about a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/3 switching with the industry’s first hardware-accelerated programmable processor. This new tool augments your malware and ransomware detection and response capabilities by delivering stateful firewall services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude improvement over traditional data center L2/3 switches. You will learn how to gain visibility and enforce security policy for all East/West flows between workloads to protect the critical assets in your data center.