Topic: Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] Business First: Accelerating Microsoft 365 Recovery from Weeks to Hours

  Presented by Ryan Garrett, Advisory Sales Engineer • Rubrik

It doesn’t matter whether the event was an accidental deletion, a malicious insider, an external attacker, or an AI-driven data destruction event. No matter the cause, are you prepared to recover your business? When your Microsoft 365 environment is down, the only job is getting operations back online. Autonomous Business Recovery identifies your Minimum Viable Business, the critical users, groups, and data they’ve been working with, and restores them first. No manual inventories, no guesswork, no waiting on a full mass restore that could take weeks due to Microsoft’s API constraints. In this session, we’ll walk through how ABR sequences your recovery from the most critical operations to the last mailbox, collapsing recovery time from weeks to hours regardless of what caused the outage.

[1 CPE] A Sociopathic 5-Year-Old Has Your Access Token: AuthN/AuthZ for Agentic AI

  Presented by Gil Kirkpatrick, Chief Architect • Semperis

Semperis Chief Product Officer Alex Weinert describes AI agents as “curious, genius, sociopathic 5-year-olds.” He’s right, but while you can supervise one 5-year-old, you can’t supervise thousands of AI agents operating at millisecond speed across every system you own. You don’t supervise them. You childproof the house.

This session explores the access control model agentic AI actually requires, covering workload identity (SPIFFE, WIMSE, and the IETF’s AIMS draft), delegated OAuth (token exchange, actor chains, Rich Authorization Requests, sender-constrained tokens, and the 2026 MCP authorization spec), and dynamic per-action policy evaluation, including why a role is an input to an authorization decision, not the decision itself.

You’ll leave with a reference architecture, a maturity model, and a clear understanding of what’s standardized today and what still has to be built.

[1 CPE] Data Resilience in the Age of Attack: Protect What Matters

  Presented by Landra Pierce, Product Strategy Technologist • Veeam

Cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat; they are a reality every IT team must be prepared for. When an attack occurs, your data becomes both the primary target and the key to recovery. Many organizations still rely on backup strategies that are designed for hardware failures or accidental deletions, rather than today’s threats, like ransomware, insider risk, and automated attacks. This disconnect creates vulnerabilities, especially when backups become an overlooked entry point in your security strategy. In this session, we will address these challenges to help you better protect your organization.

This session is ideal for IT professionals who want greater confidence in safeguarding their data and peace of mind. We will examine the most common oversights that leave organizations, including those in government, education, healthcare, and other sectors, exposed to cyberthreats. You’ll discover how teams are advancing beyond basic backup to adopt a cyber-ready approach, including topics like immutability, threat awareness, rapid recovery, and intelligent automation.

Our focus will be practical and grounded in real-world scenarios, and what truly works when pressure is high and time is limited. Because when every minute counts and trust is at stake, data resilience means more than surviving an attack. It’s about protecting what matters most and emerging even stronger.

[1 CPE] How (Not) To Build a Fire Department

  Presented by Herb Williams, Sr Enterprise System Engineer • Arctic Wolf

This presentation uses the analogy of building a fire department to explore the realities, risks, and misconceptions organizations face when attempting to build and operate an in-house cybersecurity function or Security Operations Center (SOC). Grounded in global research from over 1,000 security and IT professionals, the session highlights persistent trends such as rising data breaches, increasing ransomware attacks, growing attack surfaces, and the ongoing shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent. It demonstrates why cybersecurity—while mission-critical to business continuity—is not a core business function for most organizations, and why treating it as such often leads to inefficiency, burnout, wasted spend, and increased risk.

Through real-world data and practical examples, the presentation walks through what “state-of-the-art” cyber defense actually entails: 24×7 coverage, specialized skills, integrated tools, continuous improvement loops, and proactive threat intelligence. It contrasts this ideal with the common reasons in-house SOCs fail, including limited operating hours, lack of authority, underestimation of integration and tuning efforts, overreliance on point solutions, and the misconception that technology or AI alone can solve structural gaps. The session concludes with actionable insights on measuring and improving cybersecurity maturity, emphasizing the importance of people, process, and operational discipline—and reinforcing why many organizations achieve better outcomes by focusing on preparedness, resilience, and strategic partnerships rather than trying to “build their own fire department.”

Key themes addressed include:

  • Current cybersecurity and ransomware trends impacting organizations globally
  • The true cost and complexity of building and maintaining an in-house SOC
  • Why talent shortages and burnout continue to undermine security operations
  • Characteristics of mature, state-of-the-art cyber defense programs
  • Common pitfalls that cause in-house SOCs to fail
  • Practical guidance for measuring, optimizing, and continuously improving security posture

[1 CPE] The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack

  Presented by Torry Williams, Lead Solutions Architect • 11:11 Systems

Recovery plans are no longer optional—they’re inevitable. In today’s evolving threat landscape, every business will be tested. Whether it’s traditional disasters driven by nature or human error, or modern-day crises fueled by cyberattacks and ransomware, the stakes are higher than ever.

How do you ensure your organization is prepared not just to survive, but to recover with confidence? In this session, we’ll cover:

  • The key stages of a cyberattack and what they mean for your business
  • Best practices to reduce your exposure and minimize impact
  • Essential tools and strategies to recover quickly if compromised
  • What a real-world recovery looks like—and how to be ready for it

[1 CPE] How (Not) To Build a Fire Department

  Presented by Tom Simonis, Sr Sales Engineer, Enterprise US • Arctic Wolf

This presentation uses the analogy of building a fire department to explore the realities, risks, and misconceptions organizations face when attempting to build and operate an in-house cybersecurity function or Security Operations Center (SOC). Grounded in global research from over 1,000 security and IT professionals, the session highlights persistent trends such as rising data breaches, increasing ransomware attacks, growing attack surfaces, and the ongoing shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent. It demonstrates why cybersecurity—while mission-critical to business continuity—is not a core business function for most organizations, and why treating it as such often leads to inefficiency, burnout, wasted spend, and increased risk.

Through real-world data and practical examples, the presentation walks through what “state-of-the-art” cyber defense actually entails: 24×7 coverage, specialized skills, integrated tools, continuous improvement loops, and proactive threat intelligence. It contrasts this ideal with the common reasons in-house SOCs fail, including limited operating hours, lack of authority, underestimation of integration and tuning efforts, overreliance on point solutions, and the misconception that technology or AI alone can solve structural gaps. The session concludes with actionable insights on measuring and improving cybersecurity maturity, emphasizing the importance of people, process, and operational discipline—and reinforcing why many organizations achieve better outcomes by focusing on preparedness, resilience, and strategic partnerships rather than trying to “build their own fire department.”

Key themes addressed include:

  • Current cybersecurity and ransomware trends impacting organizations globally
  • The true cost and complexity of building and maintaining an in-house SOC
  • Why talent shortages and burnout continue to undermine security operations
  • Characteristics of mature, state-of-the-art cyber defense programs
  • Common pitfalls that cause in-house SOCs to fail
  • Practical guidance for measuring, optimizing, and continuously improving security posture

[1 CPE] Why Layered Identity Defense Is the Best Offense

  Presented by Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist, Americas • Semperis

Cyberattackers are adept at finding ways through your defenses and into identity systems like Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta, and endpoint defenses won’t stop them. From there, they can move laterally, escalate privileges, access sensitive data and resources, and inject malware or ransomware. Implementing a layered defense that includes identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and robust identity recovery is key to true cyber resilience.

Join Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist, Semperis, to learn:

  • How layered defense has changed over time
  • Why ITDR and identity recovery are essential to a robust layered defense strategy
  • How a layered defense can help you combat attacks that are designed to bypass traditional attack-detection methods
  • Which best practices lead to identity—and cyber—resilience

[1 CPE] Ransomware Resilience: Navigating Threats in a Hybrid-Cloud World

  Presented by Ken Smallwood, Systems Engineer, Data Services and Storage • HPE

This presentation explores how organizations are navigating rising cyber threats, evolving workloads, and stricter regulations while managing legacy environments. We will discuss the growing risk of ransomware, fragmented data across cloud and edge, and the need for unified, resilient data protection strategies.

[1 CPE] Data Resilience in the Age of Attack: Protect What Matters

  Presented by Landra Pierce, Product Strategy Technologist • Veeam

Cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat; they are a reality every IT team must be prepared for. When an attack occurs, your data becomes both the primary target and the key to recovery. Many organizations still rely on backup strategies that are designed for hardware failures or accidental deletions, rather than today’s threats, like ransomware, insider risk, and automated attacks. This disconnect creates vulnerabilities, especially when backups become an overlooked entry point in your security strategy. In this session, we will address these challenges to help you better protect your organization.

This session is ideal for IT professionals who want greater confidence in safeguarding their data and peace of mind. We will examine the most common oversights that leave organizations, including those in government, education, healthcare, and other sectors, exposed to cyberthreats. You’ll discover how teams are advancing beyond basic backup to adopt a cyber-ready approach, including topics like immutability, threat awareness, rapid recovery, and intelligent automation.

Our focus will be practical and grounded in real-world scenarios, and what truly works when pressure is high and time is limited. Because when every minute counts and trust is at stake, data resilience means more than surviving an attack. It’s about protecting what matters most and emerging even stronger.

[1 CPE] Ransomware Resilience: Navigating Threats in a Hybrid-Cloud World

  Presented by Ken Smallwood, Systems Engineer, Data Services and Storage • HPE

This presentation explores how organizations are navigating rising cyber threats, evolving workloads, and stricter regulations while managing legacy environments. We will discuss the growing risk of ransomware, fragmented data across cloud and edge, and the need for unified, resilient data protection strategies.