Data Connectors is proud to host the Tech-Security Strategies Conference.

Unifying data protection, leveraging the power of the cloud

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Speaker’s Bio:

Joey Kilaita, Regional Sales Director, Chicago, grew up in the Druva HQ since it’s beginning stages.  When Druva opened up a position in his hometown of Chicago he couldn’t resist. His expertise is around the mobile Enterprise, specifically around governance, data collection, and restore and led him to the top of the sales team within Druva. He and Bob Pawloski (Sales Engineer) cover IL, IN, WI, MI, MO, MN, and IA. He is a huge San Jose Sharks and Golden State Warriors fan, so bonus points if you can relate!

Improving Resilience and Performance in Light of Recent Internet Outages

We’ll discuss recent outages that impacted Amazon’s S3 file storage service (Feb 2017) and Dyn’s DNS service (Oct 2016). Presenting application and network performance data from each event, we review key indicators and how they tie to the ultimate outage diagnosis. We’ll then follow up with tips on improving resiliency and performance of Internet-connected services in light of these outages.

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Stopping Ransomware at the Door (and every other threat)

From ransomware to rootkits, old school security cannot keep pace with today’s advanced attacks. Learn why these threats work and how to protect against them.

Learn how you can get innovative endpoint protection without impacting performance.

·        Prevent: stop ransomware before it strikes by addressing the attack methods of attacks used by advanced persistent threats
·        Detect: quickly and easily detect and isolate attacks
·        Respond: laser in on critical alerts and address them with simple to understand security intelligence

Speaker’s Bio:

Previous to Sophos, Ben worked at Fortinet, SonicWALL, and was a lead network Engineer for over 11 years. His biggest project there was becoming one of the first companies to become PCI level 2 certified in the industry. He has now been with Sophos for 3.5 years as a Channel Sales Engineer.

The Art of Detection – Conquering the Six Stages of an Attack

While initial network penetration is quick and difficult to detect, attackers perform a series of actions once they’re inside the network, offering a window of opportunity for detection early in the attack life-cycle. This gives enterprise defenders a chance to act quickly to stop or minimize business impact. Doing threat lifecycle management effectively takes a mix of mature security processes, analyst skills, and “force multiplier” tools. In this session, you’ll learn:

– More in-depth details at the six stages of the attack lifecycle

– How to avoid the pitfalls that cause network infiltration detection to fail

– An effective approach for accurate detection throughout the entire attack lifecycle, not just at infiltration

Making Information Security Manageable with GRC

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Securing the Digital Workplace 

Cyber Threats are only increasing.  Attackers are shifting their tactics as we shift our security strategies.  Join us for a discussion about the every changing threat landscape and how you can more effectively protect your company from these threats.  In this session we will talk about how cyber threats have increased in 2016, where attackers are shifting to, and what industry experts are recommending to address these shifts.

Explaining Bitcoins will be the easy part:  Email Borne Attacks and How You Can Defend Against Them

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Keeping the Enterprise Always On with IT Resilience

Your organization is always running and can’t afford downtime during a disaster or the traditional time it takes to recover from one.  Backup solutions don’t solve these problems as they are not true disaster recovery for the business.  What types of disasters will impact the business?  Learn about disaster recovery scenarios, and also the questions to ask and answer when planning your disaster recovery solution to drive true IT resilience.  Learn about which decisions impact the business in which ways, and how to avoid making sacrifices for your always-on organization.

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The Impact of DDoS Attacks – The Stakes Have Changed – Are You Prepared??

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from consumer-facing financial and news websites, to internally-oriented employee intranet links, and present a major challenge in today’s cloud-based world to making sure people can access important information and mission-critical applications. Arbor will discuss the misconceptions & facts about Modern day DDoS attacks and the Advance Threat landscape and how they can help customers mitigate their risk.  From the Mirai Botnet to the recent Wannacry ransomware attack, see how DDoS attacks are being used as a “smokescreen” for other nefarious activities.

Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, helps secure the world’s largest enterprise and service provider networks from these DDoS attacks and advanced threats. Its advanced threat solution delivers complete network visibility through a combination of packet capture and NetFlow technology, enabling the rapid detection and mitigation of attack campaigns, malware and malicious insiders.

Stop Cyber Threats With Adaptive Micro-Segmentation 

Virtualization, the cloud, and the promise of containers have evolved the data center, bringing better application delivery and cost reduction. With these benefits come new risks that include increased East/West traffic and the potential for new cyber threats. Adaptive micro-segmentation is transforming and improving security inside the data center and clouds while speeding up app delivery.

In this session you’ll learn:

– How adaptive micro-segmentation enables security anywhere (on premises, AWS, Azure, etc.) on anything (bare metal, vSphere/KVM/XEN, containers), while eliminating app delivery delays caused by traditional security approaches.

– How customers are using adaptive micro-segmentation to instantly protect high-value apps, separate dev from prod with one rule, take existing security policies to the cloud, and more.

– How live visibility of application traffic and dependencies is making security dead simple for IT operations and security teams.

Speaker’s Bio:

As Regional Systems Engineer at Illumio, Jeff Francis provides engineering and technical support in myriad ways. He works closely with customers needing assistance, advice, and training in architecture, integration, and the state of the security landscape. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the IT field, with a focus on software development, devops, Linux systems administration, device drivers, embedded systems design, network architecture, and network and computer security. He has worked most of the last 15 years as a Security Engineer for various large security vendors.

Does Your Time to First Byte Bite?

Join Scott Taylor, Director of Solutions Engineering at Dyn as he provides a high level overview of DNS, the various multi-DNS configurations and how this layer of your infrastructure has everything to do with security. From DDoS to DNS amplification and reflection attacks, it’s all covered including strategies to mitigate, opportunities to architect infrastructure resiliency and tips to improve digital performance.

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A Blueprint for a Modern Enterprise Security Program

One of the biggest challenges in cyber security today is how to manage the volume, velocity, and complexity of data generated by the myriad of IT security tools. The feeds from these disconnected, siloed tools must be analyzed, normalized, and remediation efforts prioritized. The more tools, the more difficult the challenge. This security model requires legions of staff to comb through huge amounts of data to connect the dots and find the needle in the haystack. These efforts can take months, during which time attackers can exploit vulnerabilities and extract data. Rather than adding more tools, organizations need to implement a new, more efficient enterprise security model.

According to analyst firm Gartner, cyber risk management that uses intelligence-driven analytics can help organizations operationalize cyber security practices, break down silos, and enhance security operations tasks through automation. This presentation explores the emerging discipline of intelligence-driven cyber risk management as a response to the mounting cyber-attacks, advanced persistent threats, and insider leaks. It outlines not only today’s cyber security challenges, but provides practical advice of how to operationalize an organization’s cyber security practices across a growing attack surface.

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