Presented by Scott Beasley, Cybersecurity Solutions Architect • Comcast Business
What are the common threats organizations face and how do these threats get into the network? Join this session to learn what you can do to slow down attackers and mitigate threats when you are attacked. We’ll review the types of services organizations need to help defend against attacks and where to find them.
Presented by Ramzi Harb, Sr Solutions Architect • Horizon3.ai
Join Ramzi Harb, Senior Solutions Architect, for an engaging session on “Offense-Driven Defense.” Ramzi will challenge conventional risk assessment practices and unveil how focusing on real-world exploitability and impact can revolutionize your security approach. Drawing from insights gathered across more than 150,000 autonomous pentests, he’ll share compelling stories and actionable lessons that show how viewing your cyber terrain through an attacker’s lens can uncover hidden vulnerabilities, optimize resource allocation, and strengthen your defenses against advanced threats. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading industry practitioner on why it’s time to “go hack yourself” and build resilience in today’s borderless threat environment.
Presented by Sumi Gorla, Director of Systems Engineering • Illumio
Regardless of how sophisticated a ransomware attack may be, the objective remains the same: exploit a vulnerability and move laterally across your network. In this session, we’ll peel back the layers and walk through simple steps to get started with Zero Trust Segmentation, including:
Sumi Gorla is Director of Systems Engineering at Illumio, driving product strategy, field enablement, and customer success across US Central and LATAM. With leadership experience at EMC, Brocade, Citrix, and BigSwitch, she leads high-performing teams to solve business problems and deliver impactful solutions. Sumi bridges technical depth with clear, outcome-driven communication.
Presented by JR Silverthorne, Partner Solutions Consultant, West • Palo Alto Networks
Cloud teams have become increasingly overwhelmed, and critical issues are left unresolved. The volume of Cloud-related alerts have been increasing as cloud-related threats increase in the SOC. The nature of threats and not new, with basic hygiene issues left unresolved. Why? Because neither the SOC nor the cloud team truly owns them. SOC teams lack deep cloud context. Cloud teams aren’t built for fast triage. What’s needed is a hybrid skillset—someone who thinks like a cloud engineer but responds like a SOC analyst. That talent doesn’t exist in most orgs.
What is needed are toolsets that merge Security Operations Platform with Cloud Security. A convergence that allows organizations to offer preventative and incident response within the same platform with prioritization and remediation to prevent breaches. This approach supports protection of the entire application lifecycle and dynamic runtime protection for Code to Cloud to SOC protection.
Presented by Tanner Harrison, Systems Engineer • Fortinet
In this session, we’ll explore where hidden risks often lurk and share practical strategies to identify, address, and prevent them. From proven techniques to close security gaps to Zero-Trust and cloud-first solutions, you’ll leave with actionable insights to strengthen your defenses and build a more resilient, proactive security posture.
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Presented by Jesus Lopez, Solution Architect • ESET
With the rise of cyber threats and ongoing cyber talent shortage continuing unabated, many organizations are turning toward Managed Detection and Response (MDR). So how can this service enhance an organization’s overall security posture and improve incident response? This presentation explores combatting new threats, like multi-extortion ransomware with MDR how to leverage AI-powered threat detection and response, and human expertise, to prevent new ransomware variants the significance of a prevention-first, holistic cybersecurity strategy.
Presented by Ken Smallwood, Systems Engineer • HPE Zerto Software
Discover how to achieve an always-on 24/7 business, ensuring that customers and stakeholders can expect uninterrupted access to their data and applications. Learn how to solve for Ransomware Resilience, Disaster Recovery, and Multi-Cloud mobility for virtualized environments, with continuous data protection (CDP) for any app, any cloud, and any threat. With the right solutions in place, your organization can seamlessly protect critical data and applications, mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks, and maintain business continuity.
Explore strategies for achieving ransomware resilience, automated disaster recovery planning and testing, and flexible hybrid-cloud capabilities that allow you to move applications and scale capacity on demand. By integrating comprehensive data protection measures, you can ensure compliance with regulatory mandates and provide robust resilience against evolving cyber threats. This approach empowers your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives by reducing the burden of manual recovery processes and ensuring rapid restoration of operations.
Presented by Stefanie Elle, Channel Sales Engineer • 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 Gary Quinn, Sr Sales Engineer, Enterprise 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 Oscar Minks, President • FRSecure
The result of over 125 incident cases handled by the FRSecure response team in the last two years and nearly 400 validated Risk Assessments, President Oscar Minks 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.
Oscar Minks is a seasoned security and ethical hacking expert with over two decades of technical experience. To Oscar, our focus on fixing a broken industry is key. Leading by example and demonstrating the importance of doing things correctly, not just conveniently, remains a major focus in his position among FRSecure’s leadership today. Oscar is the author of FRSecure’s Annual State of InfoSec Report and a leading voice in the security world.