Jason Lewkowicz, Senior Vice President, Cyber Defense and Applied Security, Optiv

Join us in Denver as we continue our return to the physical world by featuring a thought-provoking and innovative OptivCon keynote series, The Future of Cybersecurity. The inaugural keynote will be delivered by Jason Lewkowicz, Optiv’s SVP, Cyber Defense and Applied Security. Join Jason as he discusses 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, Advanced Detection & Response, Office of the CTO, Optiv

Marty McDonald, Sr. 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.

Jim Sullivan, Sr. Channel SE, HashiCorp

Everyone has secrets and how we keep those secrets safe is more and more important as often times those secrets are the keys to our business. And in a distributed multi-cloud computing environment where secrets are needed by human and machine alike, keeping those secrets secret can be a chore. We’ll talk about why you need to automate the storage, retrieval, and production of secrets to support and secure your business.

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?

Jeff Shumway, Solutions Architect, CrowdStrike

Stopping current threats requires both visibility and prevention to code execution and credential access. CrowdStrike Falcon provides unique visibility to both problems in one unified platform.

Lily Lee, Sr. Manager, Global Security Strategists, Splunk

Two years into the deadly and disruptive global pandemic, not only are we continuing to see more attacks, we're also seeing more breaches and attack vectors. Security teams are exhausted and under extreme pressure. Security leaders are grappling with cloud complexity, supply chain attacks and facing widening talent gaps. Let's discuss some essential strategies that will help organizations overcome the talent crisis, increase cloud fluency, and respond to the ever-shifting threat landscape.

Tim Elliott, VP, Risk Demand & Delivery, Optiv

Kurt Reindl, Senior Practice Manager, Risk Automation, 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.

Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust

Remote working is now commonplace, while hybrid and multicloud footprints continue to rapidly expand. In this increasingly perimeterless world, organizations must embrace zero trust security principles, such as least privilege, continuous authentication and monitoring, segmentation, and microsegmentation to stay secure, while moving digital transformation forward.

Join this session to break down:

• What Is Zero Trust?

• Zero Trust vs. Zero Trust Architecture – Are They Different?

• The Path to Zero Trust

• 8 Ways Privileged Access Management (PAM) Enables Zero Trust

Mike Volk, Senior Manager, Threat Management, Optiv

Just a few years ago Cyber Insurance was a novel, inexpensive and optional coverage. Fast forward to today, cyber insurance now being added as a requirement in many client and vendor contracts and is hard to envision operating a business in without having this critical coverage in place. The complex cyber threat and regulatory landscape helped Cyber Insurance develop and mature quickly into a reliable backstop for modern risks, but the same environment is causing significant volatility in the market at a time when cyber insurance is needed most. The purpose of this session is to take a look at the purpose of cyber insurance, examine the forces shaping its development and discuss where cyber insurance it is headed. We will also look at cyber insurance in the broader context of cyber threat management and provide tips to maximize the value of your policy.

Mike Dibella, Senior Product Manager, SecOps Intelligence, Recorded Future

This presentation will get into how to optimize your SOC to adapt to the everchanging, complex cyber threat landscape. Our reliance on technology is increasing and thus the attack surface is widening. What’s not happening in all businesses is growing the size of the SOC team proportionally to the complexity that they are asked to deal with and the volume that they are asked to deal with. Therefore, looking for improvements and efficiencies is required to be an ongoing process.

Carl Fishkind, VP & GM, Data Protection, Optiv

Spencer Kindt, Senior Manager, Data Governance, Privacy, and Protection, Optiv

With adverse data events occurring more and more frequently, individuals are becoming increasingly aware of practices related to their data. As awareness regarding data practices increases, individuals are frequently asking themselves whether or not they can trust organizations that collect, process, or share their data. Recently, 47% of consumers reported that they switched companies or providers recently due to their data policies or data sharing practices. This is leading organizations to shift their focus to differentiate themselves by rethinking the relationship they have with individuals and the experience that individuals have with regards to data. Tune into this session to learn how organizations can embrace data governance, privacy, and data protection to enable trusted data use.

Jeromy Leugers, Sr. Systems Engineer, Forescout Technologies

Vedere Labs, the threat research team from Forescout Technologies, has been closely monitoring the cyber activities associated with the war raging in Ukraine. This session will discuss Vedere Labs threat intelligence, and the threat hunting capabilities of Forescout Frontline specifically focused on the current threat landscape posed by Russian adversaries.

Bob Reny,Sales CTO and Principal SE, Exabeam

Security information wave alerts, actions and automations are getting complex. Business Risk includes more technology impacted metrics to be calculated. Let’s have a real discussion about how the Science of Analytics is changing the way organizations operate a Security Operations center... true understanding over behavior through a Cyber Security lens.

Tiffany Henry, Director, GTM VM-Series, Palo Alto Networks

Did you know there are multiple industry approaches to Microsegmentation that customers are leveraging today? Across the multiple approaches in the market, there is one unified goal amongst them all - "To identify and prevent threats from spreading laterally."

During this session we will guide you through the following:

• Business drivers we are seeing from customers that are prompting them to re-evaluate their segmentation strategy

• The primary approaches to Microsegmentation that Palo Alto Networks discusses with our customers

• Examples and best practices of how customers across multiple industries are implementing Microsegmentation as a part of their Zero Trust strategy

Sterling Wilson, National Alliances Leader - Data Security, Rubrik

Ransomware is now a multi-billion dollar industry with no signs of slowing down. With security teams now mandated to build solutions to defend against cyber attacks, the industry is flooded with new tools and technologies focused on keeping the bad guys out. But building bigger walls isn't enough - the data itself must be protected in a way that keeps it secure from outside attacks while also monitored to ensure it is 100% safe to recover. In this session, we'll explore the ever-evolving ransomware threat landscape and learn how Rubrik leverages a Zero Trust architecture at the point of data to ensure resiliency in the face of cyber attacks. Together, Optiv and Rubrik go beyond recovery to provide intelligent insights and a revolutionized approach to Zero Trust Data Security, dynamic threat detection, granular recovery, and compliance.

Sal Gonzalez, Wounded Warrior Project

Sal Gonzalez was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, where he kept himself out of trouble by playing music and working at the family restaurant in his spare time. Inspired by the events of 9/11, Sal joined the United States Marine Corps infantry right out of high school. But in 2004, while serving as a machine gunner in Iraq, Sal was wounded.

When he came home, Wounded Warrior Project met him at his hospital bedside and helped him realize anything was still possible. He’s turned that concept into a career that spans his two greatest passions — music and helping other warriors.

Today, Sal lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he writes and performs music. He has appeared on “America’s Got Talent” and the TV show “Nashville,” and he released his first EP— “Heroes” — in 2020.

When he’s not playing music, Sal can usually be found helping other wounded warriors by sharing his story and teaching them that they, too, can still achieve their dreams.