Presented by Brian Knopp, Principal Sales Engineer, US • Arctic Wolf
Building and maintaining an internal SOC operation is hard. We’ll discuss why it’s imperative that organizations lean on 3rd party partners to provide 24×7 monitoring across your collective attack surfaces.
Presented by Teddy Nicoghosian, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Network Security • Barracuda & BlackPoint IT
The presentation by Barracuda and BlackPoint IT Services highlights the importance of an end-to-end, proactive security strategy. It details every phase of a ransomware attack—from the initial arrival of a malicious email to the final steps of recovery—demonstrating that a comprehensive understanding of the entire attack lifecycle is essential. This insight allows organizations to design defenses that are not only robust and all-encompassing but also flexible enough to adapt to the constantly evolving threat landscape.
Presented by Brian Anderson, Global Field CTO • Cato Networks
In this session, we’ll explore how a converged SASE platform combined with AI and machine learning (ML) enables real-time threat detection and mitigation, transforming network security from a reactive to a proactive model. The focus will be on how AI-driven solutions within the SASE framework can identify, analyze, and neutralize security threats in real time across distributed environments.
Brian Anderson, Global Field CTO at Cato, has over 20 years of experience in technology, working with networks, systems, application development, and security specializing in automation. Brian has worked to architect, attack, integrate, and secure networks and applications for emergency notification systems, government environments, healthcare organizations, transactional and e-commerce, including multi-tier cloud-based solutions, and has had a focus on web, database, and network and infrastructure security for the past 13 years at Imperva.
Presented by Aaron Kremer, Technical Solution Specialist • NetApp
As organizations navigate the evolving landscape of virtualization, cloud computing, and AI, they face increasing challenges in securing and managing their data. Security remains a critical foundation, while effective data management and mobility ensure data is accessible and protected across diverse environments. With rising complexity, simplicity becomes key to optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes. This session will explore strategies for balancing security, data management, and efficiency, providing actionable insights to help meet the demands of today’s dynamic IT environment.
Presented by Johan Bloomhart, Principal Sales Engineer • WatchGuard & BlackPoint IT
Join us for a 50-minute session exploring the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity. AI is transforming the way we detect and respond to threats, offering new opportunities to enhance security while also introducing unique challenges. This presentation will provide insights into how AI is shaping the security landscape and practical strategies for leveraging AI effectively to strengthen defenses and mitigate risks.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing cybersecurity, offering advanced capabilities to detect, prevent, and respond to threats. At the same time, cybercriminals are finding ways to use AI for more sophisticated attacks. In this session, we’ll explore AI’s impact on cybersecurity and discuss responsible ways to harness its potential while addressing emerging challenges.
This session will cover:
Additionally, we’ll provide guidance on developing AI policies that help organizations maximize efficiency while maintaining strong security measures. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to help them integrate AI safely and effectively into their security strategies.
Presented by Mike Brown, Sr Systems Engineer • Axonius
In today’s rapidly evolving security landscape, organizations face the challenge of managing a wide array of tools across endpoints, identities, and networks. While each tool serves a critical purpose, they often operate in isolation, creating silos that obscure visibility and expose vulnerabilities. This session will address how the fragmentation of security systems and data increases attack surfaces and how integrating a unified cyber asset management approach can significantly reduce attack exposure.
Join us as we explore how security professionals can move beyond disconnected tools to leverage a single, comprehensive view of their assets and threat exposures. We’ll highlight practical steps and present a preview of an end-to-end solution designed to break down silos, provide full cyber asset visibility, and enable a more holistic approach to minimizing security risks.
As technology continues to evolve, managing disparate security systems will remain a pressing challenge. This session will offer actionable insights to security professionals looking to streamline their approach and safeguard their organizations from the growing complexities of cyber threats.
Presented by Hubert Ralph Bonnell, CISSP, CCSM – Security Engineer • Check Point
As artificial intelligence (AI) permeates our lives, it’s crucial to address the cybersecurity challenges it presents. In this dynamic landscape, AI will be utilized by both attackers and defenders. We will explore the opportunities of leveraging AI to enhance your business and defenses while acknowledging the potential risks. AI-powered attacks, opaque AI systems, and a lack of standardized security practices demand proactive measures, rigorous protocols, and transparent designs to ensure a secure AI ecosystem.
Presented by Palo Alto Networks
As work increasingly moves to the cloud, traditional network perimeters dissolve, and the browser becomes the new frontline for productivity and risk. This presentation explores how Prisma Access Browser is redefining security by shifting focus from network-based controls to the user’s primary workspace: the Browser. We’ll dive into how this solution uniquely protects users and data at the browser level. Join us to understand how a secure, zero-trust approach to browser activity can streamline compliance, enhance user experience, and fortify your security posture without compromising productivity. This session includes a live demo.
Presented by HPE Aruba Networking
Ransomware and targeted cyber security threats are on the rise. A proactive prevention strategy should use both tried and proven methodologies as well as new and emerging technologies. East West traffic identification and isolation is key in preventing malicious content from spreading, both in the Data Center and at the Campus Edge of the network. We will focus on innovative approaches to address the security compliance, performance, agility, and scalability demands of today’s highly distributed, hybrid, network environments.
Presented by Chaney Edwards, Sr Security Solutions Engineer • Rapid7
We will begin focusing on building a framework that we will dive into the elements of in greater detail later in the presentation. These elements will be:
We will start by focusing on the importance of knowing your leadership, user base, regulations, and requirements –– and ensuring others know that Leadership and Management buy-in is critical to the success of the program. We will talk about how to interact with your user base and what you should communicate with those individuals. We will also touch on how regulations and business requirements will play a part in your program design as well. Next, we will spend time on building policy and procedures and understanding the hierarchy and differences around Information Security Policy vs. Guidelines vs. Procedures.
From there we will shift gears and focus on scan scheduling, design, and validation of the scans in place. While many feel this is the most important part of a program, getting the data is the least important part of the whole process and we will discuss why that is. We will cover topics including scan frequency, targets, and validation. We will touch on the benefits of tagging, the use of agents, and reporting. The focus will be that there is no “right way” to scan and rather several considerations to guide you to what is right for you and your environment. We will also discuss remediation methods and how to track said remediations. With any remediation process, exceptions will occur, and we will touch on best practices for not only accepting that risk into your environment but curating that list for a continual review.
Finally, we will discuss program validation, flexibility, and the OODA loop (Observer, Orient, Decide, Act) and how where you are on day one in your program will inevitably change over time. For validation we will cover reporting not only to leadership but to internal stakeholders like security and governance programs, but also the user base as well. We will discuss topics requiring your program to be flexible like new assets, mergers and acquisitions, new projects, leadership changes, and more. Leveraging the OODA loop we will discuss processes to help tackle these changes and ensure your program can survive an ever-changing landscape.
The session will then end with a live Q&A to discuss any topics had or to field any thoughts on the matter to garner a collaborative end to the talk and allow for audience participation.