Archives: Seminar

Shifting from ITSM to ESM as a Way to Enable and Transform the Enterprise

  Presented by ServiceNow

As a member of IT, have you found yourself doubting your relationship with the rest of the organization as you’re perceived as a cost center rather an equal part stakeholder with a common goal? Do you find yourself struggling to collaborate with the rest of the organization as the tech debt in your organization has created seemingly insurmountable silo’s? If you feel any of this describes your work environment and how IT may be perceived, please join the discussion in how the concepts of IT Service Management need to shift to a more inclusive Enterprise Service Management strategy. Ultimately, driving more effective technology purchasing, collaboration across the enterprise and re-branding of IT as an organizational enabler.

What is HCI and How Does it Enable a Public Cloud On-Prem?

  Presented by Nutanix

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has been taking the IT industry by storm the past 5 years. As businesses are exploring what this means to them, they need to ask themselves should we consider changing our infrastructure? During this session we will cover the following discussions:

  • What is HCI exactly and why consider it?
  • Why are companies moving to the cloud and why are they now moving back?
  • How do I create the Public Cloud experience in my own On-Prem solution?
  • What hypervisors work with HCI solutions?

Top 5 Use Cases for Endpoint Protection in Operational Technology

  Presented by VPLS

The Air Gap: A Double-edged Sword

Endpoints are frequently the target of initial compromise or attacks. It can take just minutes, if not seconds, to compromise the endpoints, putting industrial environments at risk. One recent study found that 30% of breaches involved malware being installed on endpoints.

Operational Technology (OT) endpoints are particularly vulnerable given the legacy technology powering environments like our manufacturing plants, power stations, and other critical infrastructure. Many organizations rely on an air gap for cybersecurity to protect their industrial environments.

Unfortunately, the air gap is a double-edged sword. While it may help insulate and shrink the attack surface, like all prevention measures, it is not 100%.

Join this presentation to explore how you can:

  • Stop breaches and prevent data loss and ransomware damage with no dwell time.
  • Eliminate alert fatigue and optimize operations with customizable, standardized incident response processes.
  • Ensure business continuity in the event of a security incident, keeping systems online.
  • Reduce the cost of legacy EDR solutions, enabling response and remediation without negatively impacting business.

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.

Talking to the Board About the New Realities of IT Security

  Presented by ExtraHop Networks

With the sudden shift of the global workforce from in-office to remote, IT teams quickly transformed their operations to accommodate the new realities of business — including large-scale adoption of work-from-home technologies, heightened activity on customer-facing networks, and greater use of online services.

While these examples of agility allowed business to continue, they also greatly increased the risk of misconfigurations and cyberthreats. Now, it’s looking like they could be here to say for a while. On top of that, bad actors have wasted no time trying to exploit new vulnerabilities. In the past several weeks, we’ve seen ransomware attacks affect several major organizations. These attacks come on the tail of a surge of attacks across the board brought on during the pandemic, as hackers scanned and took advantage of new workloads, and vulnerable VPN connections and misconfigurations left the gates to the network open.

When attacks like these make headlines, panicked board members have one question for CISOs: how can we be sure that won’t happen to us? We will share top strategies for CISOs to lead board-level conversations about risk management amidst the stark new realities of IT.

Responsible Administration: The Admin Insider (Threat)

  Presented by One Identity

System Administrators are critical people to every organization. They design, build, and maintain all the parts and pieces that enable business, whether that’s retail, healthcare, or even a government agency. Ensuring sysadmin tasks are performed as securely as possible without hampering their ability to keep our business running is a delicate balance. These “insiders” not only know how the systems operate but have the credentials and privileges to operate them.

In this session, we will demonstrate an Active Directory breach using pass-the-hash and discuss ways to enable the System Administrators to operate in a way that not only protects the business from threats but also enables them to perform the intricate tasks they accomplish daily to keep business flowing under the covers.

Gaining Network Visibility with Application Intelligence

  Presented by Gigamon

Come discuss how gaining visibility into your network has become more of a challenge than ever before. With the evolution from the Data Center to Virtual Environments, Public and Private Clouds, our exposure has never been greater.

In this session we will cover Span vs. TAP, Traffic Aggregation, Packet Brokers, Traffic Intelligence, Virtual Environments and how to get that one view of all your data.

Learn how to maximize the ROI on your existing tools while increasing your scope of visibility.

Who knows, you might even have fun?! Heckling Encouraged!

Cyber Considerations During a Pandemic: Cyber Leaders’ Perspectives

  Presented by Jodi Ito • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawaii

Join us for a panel discussion, led by Jodi Ito, Information Security Officer for the University of Hawaii. This panel will cast a wide net around the multitude of cyber-related considerations and issues that society is facing with our current pandemic situation. From securing telework locations, health screening when re-opening, servicing customers during a shutdown in a secure manner, to providing equitable distance-delivered education – the panelists will engage in a lively roundtable discussion of these topics and more.

Panelists:

Jodi Ito • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Hawaii

Vince Hoang • Chief Information Security Officer, State of Hawaii
Alan Ito • Information Security Officer, Hawaii Pacific Health
Ryan Field • Sr. Vice President, Director of Technology & Architecture, American Savings Bank

Jodi Ito is the Chief Information Security Officer with the University of Hawaii (UH) System in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology since 2000 and has been with the University since 1982.

Jodi is responsible for the security and protection of information assets across the University of Hawaii System. These responsibilities include developing and managing policies and procedures for the UH information security program, conducting risk & vulnerability analysis for critical assets, overseeing investigations into cyber incidents, & developing and conducting training on information policy & security issues across all 10 UH campuses and affiliated research & education centers. She has also organized several large scale red/blue team cybersecurity exercises on the UH cyber range involving University students, Hawaii National Guard, military, state, and federal government agencies.

Jodi is a Principal Investigator and Program Director for the NSA’s GenCyber Camps in Hawaii to introduce cybersecurity to high school students and teachers. She is also the co-PI on the NSF/NSA Scholarship For Services grants to provide full-ride scholarships for students pursuing cybersecurity degrees and the NSF Computer Science Principles for Hawaii to train high school teachers to be able to teach AP Computer Sciences Principles. She is also a member of the REN-ISAC, MS-ISAC, Educause, and Infragard. Most recently, she is an active founding member of the newly organized CyberHawaii and co-chairs the Education and Workforce Development Committee.

Jodi graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with both a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science in 1982 and a Masters of Science degree in Information and Computer Science in 1987.

Do You Feel the Need… the Need for Speed? Top Five SQL Server Query Tuning Tips

  Presented by Quest Software

Query tuning is key to peak performance in SQL Server databases. However, lots of developers and DBAs constantly struggle to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues and spend way too much time in trying to fix them. In this presentation, Quest will share their tried and true best practices for tuning SQL statements and other issues by utilizing Wait Time Analysis, reviewing execution plans and using SQL diagramming techniques. In addition, several case studies will be used to demonstrate these best practices.

Regardless of the complexity of your database or your skill level, this systematic approach will lead you down the correct tuning path with no guessing, saving countless hours of tuning queries and optimizing performance of your SQL Server databases.

The Digital Transformation of Education

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

As the Hawaii State Department of Education responds to the changing situation of the “New Normal”, we have accelerated the modernization of our legacy systems. By focusing on automation and software as a service, the Department has been able to meet the rapidly evolving needs of telework and distance learning. By focusing on the work that is good enough, a technology transformation that was already well under way has been able to accelerate and meet the needs of students across the state.

Presenter:
Brook Conner • Assistant Superintendent & CIO, Hawaii Department of Education