Kevin Lynch, CEO, Optiv

As we continue our return to the physical world, we are featuring a thought-provoking and innovative OptivCon keynote series, The Future of Cybersecurity. The inaugural keynote will be delivered by Kevin Lynch, Optiv’s Chief Executive Officer, where he will discuss how to craft and hone a future-built mindset that will enable you and your organization to evolve to meet whatever any future may bring.

John Ayers, Vice President of Advanced Detection & Response, Optiv

Marty McDonald, Senior Demand & Delivery Manager, Optiv

Extended Detect and Respond, XDR, was coined by Palo Alto Networks in 2018 and has continued to morph as the market is defined. The market is being defined in two categories today, Open and Native. The goal of XDR is to unify a variety of technologies (e.g. SIEM/SOAR/Threat Intel/End Point/etc.) to bring clarity to SOCs, out of the chaos of the existing tool stacks. We will explore what XDR is and isn’t, how this could impact your security spend and how SIEM may still play a role in the SOC. During this session we will discuss the differences between Open and Native platforms and the impact each architecture will have on your organization, as well as how XDR can improve your protection, detection capabilities, productivity, and lower ownership costs and how SIEM plays into the different strategies.

James Christiansen, VP, Security Transformation, Netskope

Security Service Edge (SSE) is a relatively new term to cybersecurity that defines the set of security services that enable a successful SASE architecture, including technology capabilities such as Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Firewall-as-a-Service, and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). These tools will allow you to integrate security into your web use, cloud applications, and company email.

By transforming into an SSE future, you will:

• Enable the future of work
• Redefine Risk Management and Data Protection
• Simplify Operations

Learn how this shift can help you simplify your security architecture, provide clear direction for your users, and put the onus on providers to ensure that the individual pieces (CASB, SWG, ZTNA, RBI, Firewall-as-a-Service) all work seamlessly together.

Jerry Chapman, Engineering Fellow, Optiv

Over the span of weeks in 2020, Zero Trust went from being a marketing buzzword to the best strategy for securing the non-perimeter from all unknown users, devices and applications seeking access. Yet nearly two years later, there is still confusion about what Zero Trust maturity looks like and even the actual definition of Zero Trust.

Join our Zero Trust expert who will be answering three primary questions:

• What are the stages of Zero Trust maturity – and where are you?
• What are the most common – and effective – strategies for embracing Zero Trust?
• Where should you invest to expand your Zero Trust footprint in 2022?

Peter Havens, Product Marketing Director, Cortex, Palo Alto Networks

Learn about the importance and evolution of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations and the recently released results where 30 security solutions were pitted against Wizard Spider and Sandworm threat groups.

Miles Ukaoma, Senior Demand and Delivery Manager, Optiv

Niv Weisenberg, Senior Director & GM, Cyber Digital Transformation, Optiv

Investments in Connected Worker capabilities are have grown from $400B in 2015 to $600B in 2020 and expected to double by 2025, alongside a massive increase in connected devices IoT from $7B in 2018 to $27B in 2019 with an estimation of $40B by 2025.

By 2021 AI augmentation will create $2.9T worth of business value with 20% CAGR focusing on Decision Support and Automation, Agents (bots), and Smart Products.

In 2020 enterprise spending on Cloud infrastructure surpassed data centers by 25%. Not surprising, considering 70% of F-500 CIOs and CTOs say that 60% or more of their organization's infrastructure and applications will be in the cloud in two years.

Alongside the digital transformation ambition of the business, new risks are introduced. However, cybersecurity can play a key part in becoming a key enabler unlocking billion-dollar use cases. We will present and holistic approach to identifying the business needs, assess the desired state vs the organization’s maturity, define an actionable transformation roadmap, and implement differentiated capabilities that will accelerate the speed to value, through a collection of case studies.

Brian Bowden, Strategic Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Join us to see how recent innovations allow organizations to enhance Zero Trust security.

Anatoly Elberg, Senior Demand & Delivery Manager, Optiv

Brian Golumbeck, Practice Director, Risk, Optiv

Daily we see reports of new data breaches and ransomware attacks that have significant impact to the companies and even our economy. Yet these companies that are being attacked have spent significant time and monies to secure their data and networks. This presentation will guide attendees through a typical security journey starting with an ad-hoc security program through gaining compliance to regulatory standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA or NIST. We will then look at the process of moving from a compliance-driven security program to a risk management program aligned with business operations and goals. We will also review risk automation opportunities and use cases.

This presentation will focus on providing the attendees meaningful and actionable recommendations to help guide them through their security journey and building a business-aligned risk management program.

This presentation will discuss Risk Management, 3rd party Risk Management, Integrated Compliance, Risk Automation, Cyber Resilience, Cloud Security, Risk Reporting and Business Alignment.

Michael Wood, Field CTO, HashiCorp

From C-Suite to practitioner, the enterprise is challenged not only to deal with known patterns of intrusion, but also prepare to respond to unanticipated vectors for attack. As we consider defense posture holistically, complexity not just of tech stack but also how work gets delivered introduces a limitless number of opportunities for vulnerability. How do we address first principles of IT delivery and reduce the number of gates we must defend? Join us to explore how industrialized delivery can tremendously improve our defense posture.

Carl Manion, Practice Director, Threat Management, Optiv

Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the volume and sophistication of cyber threats, matched by an equally exponential rise in related vulnerabilities. When combined with changes in the modern IT environment brought on by digital transformation and the impact of COVID on work from home numbers, experts are seeing increased complexity and significant gaps in security coverage in many areas. Updating your Remediation capabilities for Threat and Vulnerability Management to include robust and more mature processes and best practices involves improving your approach to vulnerability prioritization, optimizing resource utilization, and improving overall visibility of your IT environment. In this session, we will discuss how Optiv’s Remediation Consulting Services can assist your security team in doing just that.

Douglas A. Brush, Global CISO Advisor, Splunk

It is not a matter of if, but when, your organization will suffer an incident that impacts the technology supporting your business. How will your organization continue to operate and recover during cyber or other incidents? There is no way to stop all risks to the company, and you must plan for contingency operations.

This presentation will focus on resiliency and provide planning strategies for continuity and recovery. We will discuss what others are doing and what you can do to increase your resilience.

Katie Pelton, Sr. Advisory Consultant, OCM – CP&I, Optiv

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, technology continues to bring together users, applications, and data. As these connections grow, there is a rise in vulnerability, complexity of threats, and effort required to prove compliance. While the focus often revolves around technology, it is equally important to factor in the people and business processes that are affected by these changes. In today’s data-driven world, it is imperative to take a new approach to IAM strategy and program governance – one that embraces and continuously integrates organizational change management into all aspects of plan, build, and run.

Aaron Ausherman, Sales Engineering Manager, CrowdStrike

Presentation will be focused around what’s current (Russia/Ukraine, Log4j, etc), threat intel and Identity, the tradecraft current being used, and how the power of Intel, Identity, EDR and threat hunting can greatly change outcomes in the evolving threat landscape.

Terrence Davis, Sales Engineer, Armis

History repeats itself. And Cybersecurity History is no different. Come and check your knowledge of Cybersecurity, types of attacks, device security and more. Who knows? You just might learn something.

Aubrey Turner, Executive Advisor, Ping Identity

Conflict often arises between security and convenience and compromises have to be made. Marketing wants to make it as easy as possible for customers to reach products and services while security is tasked with protecting assets and often throws up barriers. This not only creates friction between departments with opposing objectives, but the friction might ultimately find its way to the end-users. So is it possible to have zero trust while providing zero friction for end-users without compromises and how do organizations ultimately bridge the gap to create frictionless user experiences?

Josh Kleen, Enterprise Sales Engineer, Rubrik

Corporate data is under attack. Ransomware is now a multi-billion dollar industry with no signs of slowing down. Just watching the evening news, it is clear that organizations are not ready for this new reality and often times are stuck paying millions just to get their data safely back.

With security teams now mandated to build solutions to this problem, the industry is being flooded with new tools and technologies focused on keeping the bad guys out. But building bigger and more walls isn’t enough. The data itself must be protected in a way that keeps it secure from outside attack while also being monitored to ensure it is 100% safe to recover.

In this session, we will discuss the ever-evolving threat of ransomware and how to create a holistic cyber resiliency posture. Learn how Optiv and Rubrik go beyond simple recovery to provide intelligent insights and a revolutionized approach to zero trust data management, dynamic threat detection, granular recovery, and compliance.

Mallory Weggemann, 2020 & 2012 Paralympic Gold Medalist, NBC Sports Winter Paralympics Correspondent, Author, and Equality Activist

“You’re the best. You can make a difference and change the world.” The phrase, spoken to Mallory Weggemann by her father each day growing up, is among her core beliefs. Weggemann emphasizes that no matter your disability, everyone is able to overcome and ultimately make a difference in the world. With her unique ability to make audience members feel as if they are involved in a personal conversation, Weggemann teaches how to locate the grit and resilience necessary to keep moving in the face of setbacks.