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Getting SASE:
What Every Enterprise Should Know

October 27, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:25 PM ET
(8:00 AM – 1:25 PM PT)

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Getting SASE: What Every Enterprise Should Know

Over the past two years, the concept of secure access service edge (SASE) networking has taken the IT industry by storm, causing many enterprises to rethink their network architectures and their fundamental approach to wide area network security.

This unique, information-packed event looks at some of the key strategies an IT organization will need to consider as it moves into the SASE generation of technology and services. Leading SASE technology developers, service providers, and IT practitioners who have pioneered this new wave of networking and how it works in real-world IT environments will provide their latest insights and recommendations.

Agenda

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM EST

Keynote: Evolving SASE: From Emerging Technology to Scalable Solution
Presenters: Rik Turner and Sal Salamone
For decades, enterprises have searched for networking solutions that would provide remote workers and distributed offices with secure and reliable connectivity to conduct business. Last year, requirements changed quickly due to Covid at about the same time SASE burst onto the scene. In this keynote presentation, you’ll hear about the connectivity and security challenges businesses face and the critical role SASE services can play. You’ll also learn how SASE integrates networking technology, network security, remote access, and the network itself into an integrated offering delivered as a service.

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM EST

Fireside Chat with VMware

12:30 PM – 1:05 PM EST

Panel Session: Next Generation Security Management for IT Leadership
Sponsored by: Menlo Security, Palo Alto Networks
Discussion presented by: InformationWeek Moderator: Sara Peters
Panelists: Cindi Carter

As the IT enterprise continues to expand and include more at-risk end points through the proliferation of cloud platforms, edge computing, IoT, remote workers, and mobile devices, IT leaders are increasingly under pressure to keep corporate data secure and be confident they’ve got control over all access to their networks. Multiple distributed security solutions are no longer an effective – or manageable – way to ensure an effective threat posture, so IT leaders have to rethink how they’re architecting and managing their security plans. With a more unified architecture like Secure Access Service Edge, IT leaders have a platform that delivers wide-area networking and security as a cloud service that enables IT to automatically identify users, devices, and applications, and guard them with specific policy-based security protocols outlined by the business. This next-generation approach enables IT to ensure secure access to specific data or applications anywhere in their distributed network. In this session, our panel of experts will discuss:

  • Why it’s important right now for CIOs to lead the way in planning for next-generation network security
  • How to reduce complexity with a consolidated security stack across the enterprise
  • The role of Zero Trust in a SASE environment to remove the risk of any trust assumptions
  • How a SASE approach increases your IT department’s visibility across the network, improving security overall and building trust in secure access

1:20 PM – 1:55 PM EST

Spotlight Webinar:
What Every Enterprise Should Know About VMware SASE
Presented by: VMware
VMware SASE ensures rich and seamless experience when users access multi-cloud applications from any location using any device. The solutions empower IT to simplify management of the distributed workforce and multi-cloud application environment, while protecting users and infrastructure from a rapidly changing threat landscape. AIOps capabilities of VMware SASE provides deep visibility into each users’ experience with proactive remediation on the path to self-healing. Join us in this session to find out what sets VMware SASE apart in the industry.

2:10 PM – 2:45 PM EST

Panel Session: SASE’s Real Impact on Enterprise Security

Sponsored by: Perimeter 81
Discussion presented by: Dark Reading
Moderator: Kelly Jackson
Panelists: Jennifer Minella and Eric Parizo

SASE promises to improve enterprise security by replacing point solutions –such as secure gateways, CASB, firewalls, and zero-trust network access –with a cloud-native software stack that performs all of these functions. But can SASE services really replace all of these solutions? How can enterprises migrate from legacy technology to a SASE environment? And can SASE really improve enterprise data security? In this panel, top experts discuss the real-life potential of SASE, and its potential impact on an organization’s security posture.

3:00 PM – 3:35 PM EST

Panel Session: Addressing Modern Networking Connectivity and Security Challenges
Discussion presented by: Network Computing
Moderator: Sal Salamone
Panelists: Brian Chee and Lincoln Lavoie
The increased use of cloud services and the need to support a more distributed workforce are creating new network traffic patterns and security challenges. Point solutions used in the past do not scale well both from a management and performance perspective. SASE offerings are attracting attention because they address today’s enterprise pain points. SASE does not require organizations to fundamentally change the way they approach IT. It lets organizations evaluate where their resources reside and gives them the security and networking capabilities to support today’s distributed and cloud-based network architectures.

3:50 PM – 4:25 PM EST

Panel Session: The Practicalities of Implementing SASE
Discussion presented by: ITPro Today
Moderator: Sue Troy Panelists: John Burke, Maria Korolov, and Curtis Franklin
In this panel discussion, we examine the practicalities of SASE implementation. What are the prerequisites? What are the biggest challenges of deployment? What does a typical SASE project look like? How long does it take? Does it involve network downtime? What internal staff is needed? And can IT shops go it alone in implementing SASE, or do they need outside help?
Topics that will be discussed include:
  • How SASE can improve security in remote and work-from-home systems
  • SASE’s impact on traditional, perimeter-based networking architectures
  • What types of SASE technologies and services are available on the market today
  • How SASE might change enterprise strategies for implementing cloud services and apps
  • SASE’s potential impact on secure gateways, firewalls, cloud access security brokers, and zero-trust network access
  • The impact of SASE on data center operations
  • How SASE may change the way your organization works with cloud service providers
  • Future directions of SASE technology – and how to prepare

October 27, 2021

11:00 AM – 4:25 PM ET

(8:00 AM – 1:25 PM PT)

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Speakers & Panelists:

Jason Georgi
Field CTO,
Palo Alto Networks
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Amit Bareket

CEO and Co-founder,
Perimeter 81

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Mark Guntrip
Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Strategy,
Menlo Security
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Rik Turner
Principal Analyst
Omdia Cybersecurity Team
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Salvatore Salamone
Managing Editor
Network Computing
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John Burke
CIO and Principal Research Analyst,
Nemertes
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Maria Korolov
Contributor,
Informa Tech
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Jay Thontakudi
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
VMware
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Craig Connors
VP & CTO, Service Provider and Edge,
VMware
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Sue Troy
Managing Editor
Network Computing
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Eric Parizo
Principal Analyst, Security Operations,
Omdia
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Sara Peters
Editor-in-Chief,
InformationWeek and
Network Computing
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Brian Chee
Founder/Director and Systems Analyst,
Advanced Network Computing Laboratory
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Lincoln Lavoie
Principal Engineer,
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory
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Cindi Carter
Global CISO
Women in Security – Kansas City
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Curtis Franklin
Senior Analyst,
Omdia
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Jennifer Minella
Founder and Principal Advisor
Viszen Security
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Cindi Carter
Global CISO
Women in Security – Kansas City
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Curtis Franklin
Senior Analyst,
Omdia
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Curtis Franklin
Senior Analyst,
Omdia
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Getting SASE: What Every Enterprise Should Know

October 27, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:25 PM ET
(8:00 AM – 1:25 PM PT)

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Natalie Silvanovich
Security Researcher,
Google

Natalie Silvanovich is a security researcher on Google Project Zero. Her current focus is messaging applications and video conferencing. Previously, she worked in mobile security on the Android Security Team at Google and as a team lead of the Security Research Group at BlackBerry, where her work included finding security issues in mobile software and improving the security of mobile platforms. Outside of work, Natalie enjoys applying her hacking and reverse engineering skills to unusual targets and has spoken at several conferences on the subject of Tamagotchi hacking.

Jason Georgi

Jason is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.

Amit Bareket

Amit is a cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in system architecture and software development. He is the author of 8 patents issued by the USPTO for storage, mobile applications and user interface.

Prior to Perimeter 81, Amit co-founded SaferVPN, sold in 2019 to J2 Global, and worked as a Software Engineer for major enterprises including IBM XIV Storage and BigBand Networks. He served in the Israel Defense Force’s elite cyber intelligence unit (Unit 81) and graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Mark Guntrip

Mark Guntrip leads cybersecurity strategy at Menlo Security.He brings over twenty years of experience in the enterprise security market where, through a range of roles including engineering, product management and product marketing. He has a proven track record of building success in new markets as well as promoting growth within more established areas.

Prior to Menlo Security, Guntrip held various management roles within companies including Proofpoint, SymantecandCisco.Guntrip earned his master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University, UK.
Rik Turner
Principal Analyst,
Omdia Cybersecurity Team

Rik is a principal analyst in Omdia’s IT security and technology team, specializing in cybersecurity technology trends, IT security, compliance, and call recording. Rik provides analysis and insights on market evolution and helps end-users determine what type of technology and which vendor they should pursue. Rik has also worked in Omdia’s financial services technology team, with a specialization in capital markets technology. Prior to joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked as an IT journalist, specializing in networking and security. He was also a foreign correspondent in Brazil, where he worked, among others, for the Financial Times and The Economist.
Salvatore Salamone
Managing Editor,
Network Computing

Salvatore Salamone is the managing editor of Network Computing. He has worked as a writer and editor covering business, technology, and science. He has written three business technology books and served as an editor at IT industry publications including Network World, Byte, Bio-IT World, Data Communications, LAN Times, and InternetWeek.

John Burke
CIO and Principal Research Analyst,

Nemertes

At Nemertes Research, John Burke advises key enterprise and vendor clients and conducts and analyzes primary research in these areas. He leads research on hybrid cloud, the modern software-defined WAN, automation and DevOps.

An established speaker, John has appeared at UBM’s Interop events, IDG’s IT Roadmap and Tech Target events, and in private events for Comcast, Cisco, Citrix, AT&T and other vendors. He has spoken on subjects including SD-WAN, hybrid cloud, automation and the new data center; SDN and NFV; security; and desktop virtualization. Mr. Burke writes frequently for Network World, Tech Target and other media sources.

As a research analyst and consultant, John draws on his past and current experience as a practitioner and leader in IT to better understand the needs of IT executives and the challenges facing vendors trying to sell to them. His experience has given him broad and deep knowledge in computing, communications and IT management.

Maria Korolov
Contributor,
Informa Tech

Maria Korolov is a journalist specializing in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. She writes for several IT media outlets, including DataCenterKnowledge.com, CSO.com, CIO.com and NetworkWorld.com, and frequently speaks at industry conferences. She graduated from Cornell University in 1990.

Prior to her work in IT media, she covered local politics for the Chicago Tribune, was a war correspondent reporting from Chechnya and Afghanistan, and ran a news bureau in Shanghai.

Jay Thontakudi
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
VMware

Jay Thontakudi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware focusing on SASE solution. Jay has over 20 years’ experience in Product Management at Cisco Systems working with major Enterprise, Service Provider and Data Center customers to design and deploy next generation network infrastructures.

Jay has been successful in taking products to market from incubation to market adoption to achieve $B run rate. Products include workload automation solution to provision networking and storage systems, Intent Assurance for software defined data center networks, SDN solution for Service Provider WAN networks, Next Generation Routing and Switching Systems for Enterprise, Service Providers and Data Center customers.

Craig Connors
VP & CTO, Service Provider and Edge,
VMware

Craig Connors is currently VP and CTO for Service Provider and Edge at VMware. Previously, Craig served as the CTO for SD-WAN and SASE at VMware. Prior to being named CTO, Craig served as the Chief Architect for VMware SD-WAN, both before and after VMware’s acquisition of VeloCloud. He came to VeloCloud from Cisco Systems, where he worked in the Corporate Development Technology Group’s Advanced Development Team.

Prior to Cisco, Craig spent time as a Principal Engineer and Software Development Manager for Talari Networks. His programming work prior to Talari Networks was centered in the online gaming space which is what led him to networking. Craig is a veteran of the United States Army and holds a BS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.

Sue Troy
Managing Editor,
Network Computing

Sue Troy is a senior content director at Informa, where she serves in editorial management roles for ITPro Today. She has spent more than 25 years writing and editing IT-focused content, with long stints at companies such as TechTarget and Ziff Davis Publishing. Before joining Informa in May 2017, her most recent role was as editorial director of TechTarget’s CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, where she was inspired by emerging technologies such as IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence.

Eric Parizo
Principal Analyst, Security Operations,
Omdia

Eric supports Omdia’s Cybersecurity Accelerator research practice, guiding vendor, service provider, and enterprise clients. He provides thought-leading analysis and contributes to custom research. His specializations include enterprise security operations (SecOps) and enterprise infrastructure security technology, with a focus on enterprise network security and security architecture integration. 

Eric has been covering, researching, or speaking on topics related to enterprise information technology for approximately 20 years.

Prior to joining Omdia (formerly Ovum) in 2019, Eric spent four years at GlobalData, where he was responsible for tracking and analyzing the enterprise network security product segment as well as the top-tier enterprise security vendor technology and strategy. 

Eric previously spent approximately 15 years as a technology journalist and a multimedia editor at leading B2B publisher, TechTarget, most recently serving as executive editor for the Security Media Group. He is a nine-time ASBPE award winner, the B2B publishing industry’s most prestigious award for excellence

Sara Peters
Editor-in-Chief,
InformationWeek and Network Computing

A journalist for 20 years, Sara Peters has spent most of her career covering cybersecurity and enterprise IT, with a dash of basketball on the side. Before joining InformationWeek and Network Computing, she was senior editor at Dark Reading and a featured columnist for Bleacher Report.

Brian Chee
Founder/Director and Systems Analyst,
Advanced Network Computing Laboratory

Brian Chee’s greatest success has been as founder and director of the Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) resulting in the graduation of 100 of the next generation of networking engineer. With successes like Fedora and the PODS environmental micro sensor network, ANCL has been making its mark on the world. With something in the arena of 300+ articles published in Communications Week, Internet Week and InfoWorld; and with quite a few of those articles being syndicated around the world, ANCL’s impact is international.

Brian is a communicator for a technical world, regardless of whether it is in a classroom, a boardroom or in front of a video camera. His successes have been to convey extremely complex messages in a manner that can be understood by a wide audience.

Lincoln Lavoie
Principal Engineer,
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory

Lincoln Lavoie is a principal engineer at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). In this role, he is responsible for the technical management of the broadband access technology grounds, including NFV, WiFI, DSL, Gfast, GPON, and PoE. In addition to his duties with the UNH-IOL, Lincoln participates in many industry organizations, including the Broadband Forum (BBF) and OPNFV. Lincoln currently holds leadership / editor roles within the BBF and contributor / committer roles within OPNFV.

Cindi Carter
Global Chief Information Security Officer,
Women in Security – Kansas City

Cindi Carter is a global, multi-industry Cybersecurity and Information Technology Executive with more than 15 years of experience as a transformational leader for both startups and enterprises. Cindi’s expertise includes building Cybersecurity practices in highly regulated industries, turning strategic goals into actionable outcomes, influencing a “secure from the start” culture, developing secure architecture & engineering platforms, and highly collaborative engagement (C-Suite, Board, Clients and Industry) for managing risk. Now field CISO for Check Point Technologies, Cindi was the CISO for IntSights Cyber Threat Intelligence, where she was responsible for driving the company’s internal security initiatives, as well as serving as an external-facing advisor and subject matter expert in the areas of threat intelligence, cybersecurity resilience and risk management.

Cindi also served as VP and Chief Security Officer at MedeAnalytics, a healthcare analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader, and before that Cindi was the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. Cindi is the founding President of Women in Security – Kansas City. She was honored as part of SC Media magazine’s “Women to Watch in Cyber Security” list, and was also featured in Cybersecurity Venture’s book, “Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime.” She presents at nationwide conferences, local chapters, and webinars including SecureWorld, RSA Conference, HIMSS, Evanta CxO Summit, and B-Sides. Cindi holds several recognized IT, security, and project management certifications and has a Master of Science degree in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems, both from Central Michigan University.

Curtis Franklin
Senior Analyst,
Omdia

Curtis Franklin Jr. is a Senior Analyst at Omdia, focusing on security operations and enterprise security management. Curtis has been writing about technologies and products in computing and networking since the early 1980s. He has been on staff and contributed to technology industry publications including BYTE, ComputerWorld, CEO, Enterprise Efficiency, ChannelWeb, Network Computing, InfoWorld, PCWorld, Dark Reading and ITWorld.com on subjects ranging from mobile enterprise computing to enterprise security and wireless networking.

Previously, he was senior editor of Dark Reading; editor of Light Reading’s Security Now; and executive editor, technology, at InformationWeek, where he was also executive producer of InformationWeek’s online radio and podcast episodes.

Curtis is the author of thousands of articles, the co-author of five books and has been a frequent speaker at computer and networking industry conferences across North America and Europe. His most recent books, Cloud Computing: Technologies and Strategies of the Ubiquitous Data Center and Securing the Cloud: Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center, with co-author Brian Chee, are published by Taylor and Francis.

Jennifer Minella
Founder and Principal Advisor,
Viszen Security

Jennifer (JJ) Minella is an internationally-recognized authority on network and wireless security, an author and public speaker. A network architect turned advisory CISO and infosec leader, in the past ~15 years she’s worked with organizations up to Fortune 50 on strategies ranging from network security to leadership. She is also the creator of the Mindfulness-Based Leadership for Infosec workshop series.

Jennifer is the founder and principal advisor on enterprise security architecture at Viszen Security, offering technical strategy and coaching solutions to CXOs and practitioner. Minella is also co-author of “Low Tech Hacking” and various CISSP courseware versions and a Program committee member for RSAC USA, Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) and others.