Archives: Seminar

Cyber AI and Geopolitics: Managing Tomorrow’s Cyber Risk

  Presented by Darktrace

Against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tensions and an ever-evolving threat landscape, the risk of cyber-attacks to governments and the private sector alike has never been higher. Join Darktrace’s Director of Strategic Threat, Marcus Fowler, and Americas CISO, JR Tietsort to discuss this new era of cyber-threat and how Cyber AI can help defenders regain the upper hand.

This speaking session will include a Q&A with our experts, and explore:

  • How nation-state attacks are changing
  • How organizations can respond to the classic balance of security and productivity
  • How organizational maturity in risk management is maintained whilst ensuring cyber defense

The State of Cybersecurity

  Presented by Andy Hanks • Chief Information Security Officer, State of Montana

Join the State of Montana’s Chief Information Security Officer, Andy Hanks, on an imaginative journey that utilizes real cybersecurity concepts, frameworks, and resources that State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments can use to enhance their cybersecurity posture. Andy discusses the current state of cybersecurity by conceptualizing a State of Cybersecurity that must protect it’s data in a rapidly evolving threat environment where hackers leverage sophisticated tools to launch persistent attacks.

Andy Hanks is a business-driven cybersecurity executive with over 25 years of experience in information technology, a Master of Science in Information Systems, and multiple cybersecurity certifications. As Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Montana, Andy’s mission is to protect citizen’s data. Andy partners with state and federal agencies to identify threats, mitigate vulnerabilities, and reduce risks; and he collaborates with cybersecurity leaders across the nation to develop and implement best practices.

Andy represents Montana’s cybersecurity interests in the State Legislature, State Information Technology Manager’s Council, and the State Information Technology Board. He is chair of the Montana Information Security Advisory Council, a member of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center Executive Committee, and a member of the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council. Andy enjoys backpacking, watching football, and riding his motorcycle.

One Company’s Journey to a Modern Data Center Environment

  Presented by Structured

When the facilities team at a healthcare organization in the Pacific Northwest announced to the IT team that they were undertaking a campus remodel project and they needed the on-prem data center for office space, the IT team quickly sprang into action to find a new home for their DR environment. From learning of this management decision, to performing a due diligence assessment of their ability to use a DRaaS solution, into an RFI and RFP process, and coming to agreement on a contract, this was one of the most rigorous evaluation projects the company has undertaken. This presentation will describe that journey of evaluation and discovery, including the rest of the story which describes the onboarding process and challenges faced along the way. Craig Rhodes is an experienced professional actively engaged with various clients providing Data Center and Program Management consulting services.

Infoblox Threat Intelligence Report: July – September 2020

  Presented by Infoblox

This session will dive into recent Threat Intelligence Research including new malware variants and trends that were prominent over the July-September 2020 timeframe. We will examine specific Ransomware, Infostealers, Trojans, and RATS! attacks that surfaced over the last 90 days. Discover tips to improve your defenses and defeat these types of treats.

Master the Edge: How to Achieve Context-Aware, Zero Trust Network Access

  Presented by Aruba & Structured

Have you been tasked with implementing Zero Trust Network Access but are unsure of how to go about it? Are you confused about how to achieve “minimum access”? Are you struggling with employing “continuous adaptive risk & trust assessment” on your network? If so, attend this session. Learn how to deploy an open, multi-vendor Enterprise security framework that gives security and IT teams an integrated way to gain visibility, control, and advanced threat defense. See how security prioritization and machine learning helps organizations leverage existing third-party solutions to better protect investments and implement proactive risk controls.

SD-WAN Edge Transformation for the Cloud-First Enterprise

  Presented by Silver Peak

As cloud adoption and SD-WAN innovation hastens, global enterprises are transforming how they build and secure wide area networks. Leveraging automation, enterprises can deploy, connect and secure hundreds of sites per week, a feat not possible with a traditional device-centric approach.

During this session, we’ll discuss how the unification of SD-WAN, WAN optimization, routing and security in a single, centrally orchestrated platform:

  • Delivers superior application performance wherever apps are hosted
  • Increases the quality of experience for end users and for IT
  • Simplifies branch WAN edge architecture

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements. Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience. You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

Why Every Business Needs a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

  Presented by Veeam

Today’s applications and data sets are larger, more complex, distributed and interdependent than ever. While many have a disaster recovery plan in place, executing, testing and documenting these plans is often complex and cumbersome.

We’ll also discuss:

  • State of BCDR today and what hinders DR planning for most companies
  • Why backup strategy is not DR strategy
  • Democratized DR of today (how tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost)

It Ain’t Done ‘Til It’s Automated: Security at the Speed of DevOps

  Presented by Check Point

Companies are rapidly migrating applications and workloads to the cloud. For many this is a Software as a Service for a first option, with migration to public cloud second, and only if necessary will workloads be deployed inside of the legacy data center. This is further complicated by the desire to accelerate the development lifecycle allowing devops to drive the IT migration. InfoSec is playing catchup to the business and devops constant acceleration.

In this session, you will learn strategies and best practices for allowing SecOps to keep up with the Speed of DevOps, as well as fundamental security knowledge applicable for any workload migration to any cloud provider.

FBI Cybercrime Overview

  Presented by Casey Harrington • Special Agent, FBI

Ever wonder what your local FBI office is doing to combat Cybercrime? Join Special Agent Casey Harrington for an overview of information you need to know about possible threats. He will share resources that are available to you.

Special Agent Casey Harrington is the current supervisor of the FBI Cyber Task Force in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to his arrival in Utah in 2020, SSA Harrington spent 14 years working on the Cyber squads in the New Haven and Boston Field Offices, as a supervisor at the FBI Cyber Division Headquarters in Washington D.C, and as an Assistant Legal Attaché in Frankfurt, Germany.

Speaker: Casey Harrington • Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation