Archives: Seminar

[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] Ransomware: Who, What, Why & How…

  Presented by Check Point Software

Over the last 12 months, ransomware attacks surged by 93% with a devastating impact on businesses and industries worldwide. In today’s hybrid IT environment, preventing ransomware attacks seems like an impossible feat. But is it?

In this session, we will cover the latest ransomware trends and how you can protect your organization from falling victim to sophisticated ransomware attacks.

[1 CPE] Ransomware In Focus: How AI Surgically Contains the Threat

  Presented by Darktrace

In the immediate aftermath of a ransomware attack, executives too often face a difficult dilemma: either pay a ransom or shut down critical systems and services. In today’s increasingly complex digital ecosystems, the collateral damage that ensues from ransomware attacks can be broad-ranging and destructive, with organizations taking days, weeks, or even months to recover.

But what if there was another way out – a way to surgically contain ransomware in its earliest stages, without disrupting normal business operations? Join this presentation to learn how Cyber AI is helping thousands of organizations fight back against ransomware. We’ll discuss:

  • The impact of ‘double-extortion’ ransomware and ‘ransomware-as-a-service’
  • Real-world examples of ransomware detected by Cyber AI
  • How self-learning AI responds proportionately to ransomware, thanks to its deep understanding of an organization’s pattern of life

[1 CPE] Discover How SD-WAN Edge and Cloud Security are Enabling Digital Transformation

  Presented by Silver Peak & Aruba, a HPE Company

Adoption of cloud services and the explosive increase in mobile and IoT devices have driven enterprises to transform both their WAN and security architectures – not just one or the other. The strategic imperative is to deploy a more intelligent, highly automated software-defined wide area network (WAN) that can be seamlessly integrated with modern cloud-delivered security services. Gartner coined the term “secure access service edge” (SASE) to describe this cloud-first architecture. During this session, Aruba and Silver Peak will discuss:

  • SD-WAN and security considerations enterprises must address when migrating to a SASE architecture
  • How to address Zero Trust access security requirements for remote workers and IoT
  • Pros and cons of single vendor vs multi-vendor SASE implementations

[1 CPE] SASE: The Power of Convergence

  Presented by Palo Alto Networks

Fueled by digital transformation and a massive shift to work-from-home, traditional enterprise networking and security infrastructures have been stretched to the breaking point. Legacy on-premises point-product approaches of yesteryear simply don’t make sense anymore. It’s time for a new model with the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE (pronounced “sassy”).

SASE is quickly becoming the predominant network and security architecture that underpins our post-COVID world. SASE is the convergence of network services like SD-WAN, and security services like FWaaS, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA, into a single, cloud-delivered service model.

Join this presentation to learn:

  • Why networking and security must converge in the cloud
  • The key use cases driving SASE adoption
  • Real-world case studies of customers who have adopted SASE

[1 CPE] How to Advance Strategic Business Goals with IoT

  Presented by Aruba, a HPE Company

Whether it’s the allure of the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), a fear of being viewed as a laggard, or internal pressure to do something new, many companies rush head-first into IoT projects without clearly defined objectives or value propositions. The result is a high rate of failure and subsequent disillusionment about the real value of IoT. If your company’s strategic goals require human productivity monitoring, human productivity organizational redesign, augmented reality, energy monitoring, and/or building security, Aruba’s ESP can expedite time-to-insight and time-to-value. The solutions can securely handle all manner of IoT devices and integrate them with enterprise business applications and processes. Join us to learn how you can reduce IoT deployment time to a fraction of what a custom-developed solution would require.

[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] 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] Maelstrom of Security

  Presented by Jerry Petru • President, InfraGard State of Washington Chapter

Join this research-based, high-level session with a twist of humor, on the challenges all businesses face today. This will not be a live demo or hands-on how-to, but rather is designed to arm attendees with information as a takeaway and allow for rumination on what can be done better in their environment.

Hacking activity is at an all-time high as home cloud & Covid-19 remote working has become the standard. Where are you in your cloud journey? Automating in silos will never simplify organizational transformation. Relevant for Key Stakeholders of Business Units, CSOs, CISOs, CEOs, IT management, and support roles in networking and security backgrounds, this discussion will cover bad hygiene and password complexity.

Mr. Petru is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), The Chartered Institute for IT. He is an innovative, and technically sophisticated professional, offering substantial years of broad-based experience in evaluating large corporate systems as well as in identifying operating systems and software issues between different hardware platforms. Today, Jerry is the President of The Washington State InfraGard Chapter. Mr. Petru also owns an SDVOSB “Veterans for Cybersecurity Framework L.L.C.”.

Powered with a comprehensive background in development and implementation, he has authored more than forty-two different courses and two books based on AIX/UNIX, Security, Linux, Networking, and Virtualization technologies teaching to an audience of thousands around the world for the past twenty-five years. Jerry has spoken at forty-nine International Conferences over the past twenty-one years. He is equipped with a proven track record of success in designing and implementing system security, high availability, disaster recovery, and long-range strategic plans for Fortune 100 Companies. Mr. Petru is armed with stellar qualifications in all facets of project lifecycle development, from initial analysis and conceptual design to implementation, quality review, and enhancement to optimize operational efficiencies that improve business and IT operations.

[1 CPE] The Future of Cyber Education: How to Create a Cybersecurity Culture

  Presented by Heather Stratford • CEO, Drip7

Cybersecurity education has evolved into its own industry category within IT over the past ten years. Ninety percent of data breaches can be traced back to human error. IT teams around the globe are constantly learning about and implementing new safeguards to use technology as the protection for safeguarding personal data and company information. Addressing the “people factor” of cybersecurity is both more complicated and often difficult for IT teams to successfully navigate.

Heather calls Spokane home and is a national thought-leader in the IT Training and Cybersecurity field. She is the founder and CEO of Stronger International and more recently Drip7 — a microlearning platform for cybersecurity education. She has helped a wide range of clients with cyber and compliance education from General Motors, Stanford, SABIC, MultiCare, and Deloitte. Heather regularly gives keynote speeches, writes articles, and is frequently asked to comment on National cybersecurity topics. She has a passion for including more diversity and women in cybersecurity and entrepreneurial start-ups. Heather is a National Tory Burch fellow, graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, received the Women in Business Leadership Award, and is an adjunct professor at Whitworth University in their MBA program. She has 5 children, loves to travel and waterski, and has recently shifted from mountain biking to riding motorcycles.