INTERFACE Spokane
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.