Data Connectors is proud to host the Detroit Virtual Cybersecurity Summit.

About Check Point

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the largest network cyber security vendor globally, providing industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyber attacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Check Point offers a complete security architecture defending enterprises – from networks to mobile devices – in addition to the most comprehensive and intuitive security management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.

Real talk on ransomware

We all know what ransomware is – we know the stats, we’ve seen the headlines, we’re all in the mindset of “if, not when.” With all the fear, uncertainty and doubt constantly bombarding IT professionals, Arcserve dives into the realities of ransomware attacks and the real impacts on organizations. We offer participants an opportunity to “sound off” on ransomware and share experiences and challenges with your peers to better understand how prepared organizations are to defend against ransomware attacks.

Speaker’s Bio:

25 + years in the Technology industry has given John a unique understanding of an organization’s needs in both the protection and archiving of critical data. He brings insights from long careers at Cheyenne Software, Mimosa Systems, Iron Mountain Digital, and Computer Associates as well as several years ‘experience consulting as a Backup Recovery expert.

About Tenfold

The main ambition of our software company tenfold is to discover and provide simpler ways for businesses to meet the growing demands of permission management. With our innovative software solution, “tenfold“, we have successfully revolutionized the way IT users and IT permissions are dealt with – never before has it been so easy to control and automate all important processes involved in the life-cycles of IT users, while always keeping an up-to-date, company-wide overview of who has what permissions. Together with our partners, we support medium-sized and major companies from different industries. More than 500 notable businesses have adopted tenfold as their choice of user and permission management tool so far.

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About RSA

More than 30,000 customers worldwide—including nearly half the global Fortune 500—rely on RSA’s business-driven security™ strategy for cyber threat detection and response, identity and access management, online fraud prevention, and governance, risk and compliance solutions. Armed with the industry’s most powerful tools, enterprises can better focus on growth, innovation and transformation in today’s volatile business environment.

RSA is a part of the Dell Technologies family of brands. Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset: information. The company services customers of all sizes across 180 countries – ranging from 98 percent of the Fortune 500 to individual consumers – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud.

About Sophos

We help organizations keep data safe and block the growing number of complex threats. We protect everywhere and offer complete security with our full range of endpoint, encryption, email, web, network security and UTM products.

We help customers protect their businesses and meet compliance needs. And all our customers benefit from the expertise of our threat analysts located around the world. Their research is at the heart of everything we do. They quickly find the latest threats and update protection for our customers automatically. Plus, our support engineers are experts on all our products, and they’re available whenever you need them.

We make our products easy to install and use so you spend less time managing security. With Sophos you can focus on the needs of your business because we’re securing your entire organization.

About Auth0

Auth0 is the first identity management platform for application builders, and the only identity solution needed for custom-built applications. With a mission to secure the world’s identities so innovators can innovate, Auth0 provides the simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to scale and protect identities in any application, for any audience. Auth0 secures more than 100 million logins each day, giving enterprises the confidence to deliver trusted and elegant digital experiences to their customers around the world.

About Data Partner

Established in 2001, Data Partner Inc. has been providing our customers with complete IT solutions focusing on key critical elements. Over the years we have evolved our business model alongside the growing need for increased security and simplicity that today’s IT world demands. We utilize our teams years of experience to learn the details of your environment and offer you a state of the art, custom, and cost effective long term solution to meet all of your business needs.

About Fortinet

From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure.

We provide top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperative fabric. Our unique security fabric combines Security Processors, an intuitive operating system, and applied threat intelligence to give you proven security, exceptional performance, and better visibility and control–while providing easier administration.

Our market position and solution effectiveness have been widely validated by industry analysts, independent testing labs, business organizations, and media outlets worldwide. We are proud to count the majority of Fortune 500 companies among our satisfied customers.

Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe. Founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen, Fortinet is led by a strong management team with deep experience in networking and security.

Developing Your Identity Strategy

Remember when identity management meant creating new accounts and resetting user’s passwords? Over the years, digital identity has evolved into much, MUCH more. Your identity program now includes not just identity management, but also access management, privilege management, and even customer identity management, all of this falling under the umbrella of identity governance. More importantly, identity has shifted from being a basic operations function to the cornerstone for business enablement and digital transformation. In this presentation, Jerod walks you through key considerations when developing your identity strategy to help you improve the current state of your program while building a solid foundation for the future of your identity program.

Speaker’s Bio:

By day, Jerod Brennen (@slandail) is a storyteller, teacher, speaker, advisor, and security architect.

By night, he’s a husband, father, writer, filmmaker, martial artist, musician, and gamer. It’s fair to say that he’s earned every gray hair in his beard, having spent his career fulfilling infosec roles in consulting, higher education, retail, and public utilities.

Jerod loves to share what he’s learned over the years every chance he gets: at local and regional professional meetings, at larger conferences, and online via blogs and podcasts. He has published multiple online information security courses with Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, and he also teaches courses in person, both domestically and internationally.

At the end of the day, Jerod just wants to help folks get one step closer to doing what they want to do securely

Stop Staring at the Screen – Use Decision Automation to Propel Security Operations

As the number and complexity of cyber-attacks continues to escalate, it is clear that historical approaches to security operations are no longer enough. Enterprises must embrace innovation to drive secure value to their organization with automation. The latest buzzword in the security lexicon, automation has been hailed as the key to fundamentally alter how we manage, analyze and execute.
There is no automation without data.

Nowhere is this truer than in security operations. The foundation of detection and response initiatives, volumes of granular sensor data are analyzed by teams of security analysts to lower the chance that an attacker will slip through the cracks. Yet, there are still plenty of big hurdles to clear.

In this session, Tom Ryan, solutions architect at Respond Software, will introduce Robotic Decision Automation and how it is being applied to security operations centers with amazing results. Participants will learn from real customer examples on this industry-leading approach to security automation.

Speaker’s Bio:

Thomas is an expert in application security, red teaming and penetration testing, and general data security and privacy issues, with nearly twenty years of hands-on experience in the field at companies like Hewlett Packard and Micro Focus. He was a founding Board Member in the New York City chapter of OWASP, and has long been a well-known public advocate for stronger application security. His social-media based research project, dubbed the “Robin Sage Experiment,” demonstrated the dangers—and widespread prevalence—of information oversharing online today, and received media coverage and international attention. Thomas is passionate about how adversarial perspectives and red teaming exercises can help organizations build stronger cyber defenses, and designs attack and defend training curricula for top universities and cybersecurity certificate programs.