Topic: Information Security

Seminar Topics

[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] Five Pillars of AI Security

  Presented by Collin Miller, Director, Cloud Security • Structured

Artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding across employee productivity tools, autonomous agents, software development, SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, and privately hosted models. This growth creates security challenges that cannot be addressed with just isolated products or policies. The Five Pillars of AI Security framework provides a practical strategy for enabling AI adoption while managing risk across five essential areas: Data Security, Identity Security, Workload Security, Network Security, and Governance. The framework helps organizations govern and protect the data accessible to AI, control human and non-human identities, secure AI runtimes and infrastructure, gain visibility into AI traffic, and establish effective policy and oversight. We’ll combine solutions from leading technology partners with assessment, roadmap, implementation, and continuous-assurance services, allowing each organization to start with its most pressing risks and develop a prioritized security program that supports responsible and scalable AI adoption.

[1 CPE] The New AI Era in Cybersecurity: What it Means for Your Organization

  Presented by Jesus Lopez, Sales Engineer • ESET

This session explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern cyber threat landscape by empowering both attackers and defenders. It examines how adversaries use AI to scale attacks, evade detection, and increase their effectiveness. The presentation also highlights how organizations can leverage AI to build proactive, adaptive defenses that detect and respond to threats more efficiently. Finally, it showcases how ESET applies AI-driven technologies to protect against evolving cyber-attacks and strengthen overall security resilience.

[1 CPE] State of the Union: Annual Information Security Report

  Presented by Chad Spoden, Sr Information Security Consultant, Solution Architect Manager • FRSecure

The result of over 100 incident cases handled by the FRSecure response team in the last two years, Sr Information Security Consultant Chad Spoden will dive into the latest threats and response techniques you need to know—and what you can do to minimize the risk and impact of similar events. The breakdown will cover Business Email Compromise, Ransomware, and Internal Compromise. You can’t afford to miss it!

[1 CPE] AI Changes Everything

  Presented by Michael Lippman, Regional Channel Systems Engineer • Fortinet

AI, data sovereignty, and identity are reshaping how organizations think about security. This panel discussion explores how to protect emerging AI workloads, maintain control of sensitive data, and provide secure access from anywhere.

Panelists:

  • Greg Still, Chief Executive Officer, Xiologix
  • Terry Patton, Technology Director, Wellpinit School District

[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.

AI has supercharged these attacks through automation and making it easy for unsophisticated actors to execute sophisticated attacks. One consistent lesson has come from experiences with frontier AI models and agents: identity protection has become even more important than it already was.

Implementing a layered defense that includes identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and robust identity recovery is key to true cyber resilience.

[1 CPE] Empower AI with Security by Design

  Presented by Emeka Mgbeahuru, Systems Engineer • Palo Alto Networks

As AI rapidly transitions from experimental chat tools to the backbone of enterprise software, organizations face a critical turning point in securing their modern application stack. You’re invited to this exclusive workshop, “”Empower AI with Security by Design,”” to safely accelerate AI adoption without exposing sensitive data. In this session, we demonstrate how embedding real-time guardrails directly into the AI lifecycle enables teams to innovate at machine speed without increasing their attack surface.

Participants will gain actionable insights into our comprehensive approach to securing custom AI applications and enterprise usage – Powered by Precision AI™. Whether your teams use AI code assistants, build custom agentic applications, or govern employee access to public tools, this session delivers the definitive framework to address your AI strategy.

[1 CPE] Building Trust for What’s Next: PKI Modernization & Quantum Readiness

  Presented by Doug Knight, RVP, Solutions Engineer • DigiCert

Certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Browser requirements are evolving. Machine identities are growing exponentially. At the same time, organizations are beginning to plan for post-quantum cryptography while supporting new AI-driven systems that depend on trusted digital interactions.

These changes are transforming PKI from a traditional security function into the operational trust layer for modern business.

This session provides a practical roadmap for modernizing PKI, improving visibility into machine identities, automating certificate lifecycle management, and building crypto-agility for future cryptographic transitions. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to reduce operational risk today while preparing for post-quantum security and the next generation of digital trust.

[1 CPE] Proving Cyber Resilience: Measuring Outcomes, Not Effort

  Presented by David Pier, Sr Sales Engineer • Horizon3

Most security programs measure effort — not outcomes. Organizations patch thousands of vulnerabilities, deploy dozens of tools, and run annual tabletop exercises… but when an attacker shows up, none of that matters.

What matters is whether they can prove their defenses actually work.

In this talk, Horizon3 shares how leading organizations are using autonomous pentesting to see their environment through the attacker’s eyes — continuously, safely, and at scale. By shifting from assumptions to proof, they’ve learned to:

  • Prioritize what’s exploitable. Focus limited resources on the weaknesses that truly put the business at risk that are known to be abused by threat actors.
  • Quickly fix what matters. Close the loop from find → fix → verify and reduce your exploitable attack surface.
  • Reduce attacker dwell time. Use pentest results to precisely deploy honeyTokens to detect compromise early, and to continuously prove your EDR and SIEM are tuned and working as intended.

Cyber resilience isn’t about being perfect — it’s about getting better over time. And the only perspective that truly matters is the attacker’s.

[1 CPE] Securing the AI Era: Protecting Your Organization from the Latest AI Threats

  Presented by Ryan Dennison, Inside Channel Account Manager • ESET

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way organizations operate, but it is also creating new opportunities for cybercriminals. From AI-powered phishing and deepfake impersonation attacks to advanced malware and automated social engineering, businesses face an evolving threat landscape that demands next-generation protection.

In this session, we’ll discuss innovative security capabilities designed to safeguard users, devices, and data. Attendees will get an exclusive look at the newest AI-powered security enhancements launching this month. Join us to discover how your organization can embrace AI with confidence while staying protected against the threats of tomorrow.