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Defending Against Ransomware

September 16th, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM PST

The average ransomware payment nearly tripled in 2020, a startling trend that shows no signs of stopping.
As ransomware attacks evolve from economic nuisance to national security threat, a powerful response is needed from government and organizations alike. This virtual event will explore the best ransomware defense strategies and tools on the market today.

September 16th, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM PST

AGENDA
KEYNOTE 1
Ransomware Backup and
Recovery Strategies That Work

Presented by: Nick Cavalancia, CTO, Founder & CEO, Techvangelism

The assume breach model suggests that no organization is immune from cyberattack and every organization must prepare for when a breach occurs. Backups are essential for when the inevitable happens, but questions remain such as how often should you back up, how thorough should your backups be and what policies should you put in place to support them? In this keynote, we’ll reveal the most effective ransomware backup and recovery strategies of today.
Sponsored by
Presented by
Nick Cavalancia
CTO, Founder & CEO, Techvangelism
Anthony Giandomenico Practice Director FortiGuard Responder Services
Fireside Chat

Presented by: Anthony Giandomenico, Practice Director – FortiGuard Responder Services, and Scott Wotring, Content Director, ITPro Today 

 

Presented by
Anthony Giandomenico Practice Director FortiGuard Responder Services
Nick Cavalancia
Founder & CEO Fortinet
NETWORKING BREAK
Networking Break

Sponsored by: Fortinet

KEYNOTE 2

Ransomware preparedness: Are you ready?

Presented by: Theresa Miller, Principal Technologist & Contributing Editor, ITPro Today

Your organization’s systems are constantly subject to ransomware attempts, whether from phishing campaigns sent to end users or attacks that infiltrate your systems without needing to trick users. You’re confident in your defenses, but attackers are growing more sophisticated by the day. With enormous payouts, costly downtime and your reputation at stake, are you really willing to risk it? Ransomware detection is critical to business success, and the ability to simulate and test can reveal how truly ransomware-ready your systems are. Learn about this underused technology and how it can help your organization.

Sponsored by
Presented by
Theresa Miller
Principal Technologist & Contributing Editor ITPro Today

Deepen Desai
CISO & VP of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler

Fireside Chat

Presented by: Deepen Desai, CISO & VP of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler and Scott Wotring, Content Director, ITPro Today 

Presented by
Deepen Desai
CISO & VP of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler
Theresa Miller
Principal Technologist & Contributing Editor ITPro Today
NETWORKING BREAK

Networking Break

Sponsored by: Zscaler
PREMIER SESSIONS
Protecting Your Organization from the Business of Ransomware

Presented by: Robert Zamani, Sr. Director, Pre-sales Engineering for the Americas Team, Malwarebytes

Ransomware attacks are estimated to be occurring every 11 seconds. Their frequency and complexity continue to increase as threat actors double down on ransomware attacks. But why? Because ransomware is a business for many. The profitability of ransomware grow as we continue to troubleshoot by paying the ransom. But what’s the alternative?

Join this session to learn more about:

  • The business of ransomware
  • The evolving threat landscape
  • Ransomware Protection Tactics and Techniques
  • Your Security Roadmap for Hybrid and Remote Workers
  • Leveraging an EDR with Limited Security Staff
Sponsored by
Presented by
Robert Zamani
Sr. Director, Pre-sales Engineering for the Americas Team, Malwarebytes
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Preventing Next Year’s Ransomware, Zero-Days, and Other Advanced Threats

Presented by: Presented by Malwarebytes

for decades, organizations have been trying to fight malware using detection techniques and agents running within the bloated Windows operating system. This is proving to be an endless cat-and-mouse game, in which malware and defenders are running within the same (weak) security boundary – malware that leverages some OS vulnerability can tamper with security agents and win the game. In this talk, we’ll present a refreshing approach that can isolate all kinds of malware, including ransomware, OS zero-days, and other advanced threats.
Sponsored by
Presented by
Tal Zamir
Founder, CTO, & Board Member, Hysolate
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NETWORKING BREAK
Networking Break

Sponsored by: Sponsored by Hysolate

PREMIER SESSIONS

Ransomware – Behind the Headlines

Presented by: Simon Conant, Principal Threat Researcher, Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks

Ransomware is on the radar of every organization, but what really happens once the bad actors infiltrate a system and how did they get there? From infection to remediation, to understanding how ransomware events unfold can help organizations prevent attacks and build effective response and recovery plans. With our threat intelligence, incident response, and product development teams working together, Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks sees attacks from a very different perspective. Join Simon Conant, Principal Threat Research for Unit 42, as he shares an inside-out view of the ransomware crisis from the front lines, providing detailed threat intelligence and practical guidance on how you should rethink your defenses to stay ahead of the threat.

Sponsored by
Presented by

Simon Conant
Principal Threat Researcher
Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks

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Cyber Security in the Time of Ransom(every)ware

Presented by: Stephen Helm, Sr. Product Market Manager, WatchGuard Technologies

In this period of ransom(every)ware, organizations need to realize that
threats come in numerous forms and use advanced techniques, even against
smaller businesses. Having a unified security platform that can empower
your team detect and kill ransomware faster, is critical. In this
webinar Stephen Helm will explore the recent uptick in ransomware
attacks, including:

  • Headline grabbing attacks
  • What’s changed with Ransomware and what has stayed the same
  • Common attack methods
  • The importance of user-focused security
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Stephen Helm, Sr.
Product Market Manager, WatchGuard Technologies

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SPOTLIGHT SESSION
Spotlight Custom Webinar

Presented by: Anthony Giandomenico, Practice Director – FortiGuard Responder Services

According to our FortiGuard Semiannual Global Threat Landscape Report, Ransomware increased by 10.7 times over the last 12 months! And not only has it gotten more prevalent, but they have also increase their levels of extortion. If you have not yet been a victim of a ransomware attack, the odds are that it is just a matter of time. If your organization has already been breached, you’re not immune. When that day comes, it is essential that you know what to do to minimize the impact to you, your team, and your business.

During this presentation, we will provide a brief session on key insights on ransomware tactics and techniques and steps an organization can or should take to effectively deal with an active ransomware attack.

 

Sponsored by
Presented by
Anthony Giandomenico Practice Director FortiGuard Responder Services
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NETWORKING BREAK
Networking Break
Sponsored by: Fortinet
SPOTLIGHT SESSION

Advances in Ransomware and How to Defend
Against It

Presented by: : Nirmal Singh, Director of Malware Labs at Zscaler and Brett Stone-Gross, Director of Threat Intelligence at Zscaler

Ransomware has increased in both velocity and sophistication in the past year, with over $20B in reported damages in 2020. Today, cybercriminals are bypassing defenses by hiding in encrypted traffic and trusted third-party applications and are increasing their leverage using double-extortion and DDoS tactics. The Zscaler ThreatLabz research team monitors data from over 150 million daily blocked attacks, uncovering insights into the mechanics of these attacks and how to prevent them.

Join Director of Threat Intelligence Brett Stone-Gross and Director of Malware Labs Nirmal Singh as they walk through emerging ransomware trends, frequently exploited vulnerabilities, attack sequences of the top ransomware families, and key strategies to prevent these evolving threats.

What Attendees Will Learn

  • The latest trends in ransomware
  • Attack sequences of the top ransomware families
  • Key strategies to prevent modern ransomware attacks
Sponsored by
Presented by
Brett Stone-Gross
Director of Threat Intelligence at Zscaler
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PREMIER SESSIONS
Ransomware Resilience – Enhance Protection and Recovery with Zerto

Presented by: Presented by David Paquette, Technologist and Product Marketing Manager at Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

The threat of ransomware is evolving and growing well into 2021. Ransomware attacks continue to make national and world news. Ransomware goes beyond traditional cyber security, requiring more advanced data protection and recovery options from DR experts. Zerto can help. In this presentation, learn:

  • How ransomware continues to evolve and threaten organizations
  • Tips and best practices from the field
  • How to plan for proactive and reactive ransomware recovery measures
  • A case study involving two separate attacks on the same organization
  • How Zerto helps protect and recover from ransomware attacks
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Presented by
David Paquette Technologist and Product Marketing Manager
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Thinking Beyond Ransomware

Presented by: John C. Checco, Resident CISO, Proofpoint former SVP, Global Information Security Innovation Group, Bank of America

In recent months, an enormous amount of attention has been placed on the threats, impacts and costs of ransomware.  Indeed, breaches in our critical infrastructures – fuel, utilities, food supply, government agencies, and other supply chains – have all been affected by such exploits. This talk is not about ransomware itself. This is a call for cybersecurity professionals tasked with protecting our organizations from operational harm, to think beyond ransomware, beyond the trend, and beyond the known expectations. The key takeaways from this discussion are:

  • Determining where ransomware lies in the attack chain
  • Understanding where security programs excel and have blind spots
  • Strategies to build a more holistic security program to fend off the next level of attacks
Sponsored by
Presented by
John C. Checco
Resident CISO, Proofpoint former SVP, Global Information Security Innovation Group, Bank of America
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Prizes & Interaction

Attend the live conference on September 16, 2021 and win! The more you participate, the more points you earn! It’s that simple. You’ll earn prize points for each activity you participate in throughout the virtual conference. Points will be calculated at the end of the live event day.

*Giveaways are limited to North American residents only. Winners are limited to one prize per calendar year for Informa Tech sponsored events.

Explorer Giveaway

30 Points

Session Viewed

25 Points

Zone Visits

20 Points

Location Chat Attended

10 Points

Documents Viewed

5 Points

Exchanged vCards

Keynote Sponsors
Fortinet
Zscaler
Premier Sponsors
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Hysolate
Malwarebytes
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proofpoint
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Defending Against Ransomware

September 16th, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM PST

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.

Nick Cavalancia

CTO, Founder & CEO, Techvangelism

As the founder and CEO of Techvangelism, Nick Cavalancia is also a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP. With more than 25 years of enterprise IT experience, Nick is an accomplished consultant, speaker, trainer, writer, and columnist, and has achieved industry certifications including MCSE, MCT, Master CNE, and Master CNI. He has authored, co-authored, and contributed to nearly two dozen books on topics that include cybersecurity, cloud adoption, business continuity, and compliance.

Anthony Giandomenico

Practice Director – FortiGuard Responder Services

Anthony Giandomenico has 30 years of comprehensive experience as an Executive, Entrepreneur, Mentor and Security Consultant for companies within information security across all industries. In his current position at Fortinet, he is responsible for all aspects of the FortiGuard Responder services including P&L, marketing activities, service delivery, and new service development.

He has presented, trained and mentored on various security concepts and strategies at many conferences and trade shows such as the Gartner Security Summit, HIMSS15 and ISMG Data Breach Summit and media outlets including a weekly appearance on KHON2-TV morning news “Tech Buzz” segment and Technology News Bytes on OC16, providing monthly security advice among others.

Theresa Miller
Principal Technologist & Contributing Editor, ITPro Today

Theresa is a Principal Technologist and an IT professional that has been working as a technical expert in IT for over 20 years and has her MBA. She is uniquely industry recognized as a Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert, and is the founder of the community website https://24x7itconnection.com. You can also find her on twitter @24x7itconnect.

Deepen Desai

CISO & VP of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler

Reverse engineering and analysis of the latest Malware threats.
Big Data analytics.

Specialties: Network Security – Vulnerability/Malware/Spyware Research & Analysis, IPS & Gateway AV Signatures
Programming – PHP, Perl, Java, Shell, C, and VB.

Robert Zamani

Sr. Director, Pre-sales Engineering for the Americas Team, Malwarebytes

Robert Zamani is a Senior Director of Pre-sales Engineering for the Americas team at Malwarebytes. He is the resident subject matter expert in solutions engineering, working alongside customers and industry leaders to mitigate cyber risk. Through research and continuous study, he has kept abreast of both traditional and nascent endpoint security solutions.

Robert has more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, endpoint, and perimeter security. In addition, he has tenured at McAfee, Symantec, Juniper Networks, Optiv, and SentinelOne.

A graduate of Polytechnic of Central London, Robert started his own software company right after graduation. Soon after, he realized he loved to be in front of people as much as he loved being behind a computer. His professional interests include information systems security—the technical, business, and public policy aspects of computer security solutions.

 

Robin Manke-Cassidy
Director, Product Marketing Network & Security, Citrix

Robin leads product marketing messaging for the Citrix Networking and security portfolios. She joined Citrix 8 years ago with experience in a variety of product management and marketing roles in the mobile and client space. Previously, she spent two decades in enterprise IT management in a variety of roles including access, security, datacenter server management, and networking. She holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Arizona State University.

Tal Zamir
Founder, CTO, & Board Member, Hysolate

Tal is a 20-year software industry leader with a track record of solving urgent business challenges by reimagining how technology works. An entrepreneur at heart, he has pioneered multiple breakthrough cybersecurity and virtualization products. Before founding Hysolate, Tal incubated next-gen end-user computing products in the CTO office at VMware. Earlier, he was part of the leadership team at Wanova, a desktop virtualization startup acquired by VMware. Tal began his career in an elite IDF technology unit, leading mission-critical cybersecurity projects that won the prestigious Israeli Defense Award. He holds multiple US patents as well as an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, and the honor of valedictorian, from the Technion.

Simon Conant

Simon Conant is a Principal Threat Researcher in Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 Threat Intelligence group. He draws upon a quarter-century of international experience in the fields of malware & infrastructure analysis, networking, and information security, including several years in the Microsoft Security Response Center. He was involved in founding Microsoft’s CSS Security & Internet Crime Investigation teams, and the International Botnet Task Force.

Subsequently he has worked in threat intelligence and analysis in the financial sector and for a large international law firm. Simon now researches malware, campaigns and actors with Unit 42, and is a recent recipient of the FBI Director’s award. A native of New Zealand, Simon is based near Seattle WA.

Brett Stone-Gross

Brett Stone-Gross, Director of Threat Intelligence at Zscaler

Brett Stone-Gross is the Director of Threat Intelligence at Zscaler. He has over 15 years of experience tracking sophisticated malware threats and leading technical research teams. Brett has authored more than a dozen publications and presented at top cybersecurity conferences. His work has led to the disruption of numerous large-scale criminal operations in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies.

Prior to joining Zscaler, Brett worked at CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, Lastline, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

 

David Paquette

Is a a product marketing manager, content specialist, and product manager with 20+ year of experience covering software and hardware technologies for edge computing, cloud computing, hyperconverged infrastructure, disaster recovery, server and data migration, and more. I have been working remotely for several years, am self-motivated, and ready to bring my skills and experience to a new adventurer.

 

Vinod Sundarraj
Senior Director, Security Product and Services

Leading outbound product management/marketing for Virtual products (VM) and SaaS services covering Network Security, Multi-cloud Security, Security Management-as-a-Service and MSSP marketing. Responsible for strategy, positioning, messaging, pricing and packaging.

John C. Checco

is an information security professional providing subject matter expertise across various industries. He currently resides as leader for the CISO Advisory Board on Financial Services for Proofpoint, and President Emeritus of the New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance (an FBI public/private partnership program). John specializes in the areas of Zero-Trust Strategies, Responsible Automation, Biometric Security and Cyber-Physical coordinated threats on critical infrastructures.

John has been a Strategic Advisor to the Board of the WSTA (Wall Street Technology Association) since 1997, active in InfraGard’s NY Metro Chapter since 2003, and co-founder and co-chair for the NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference & Workshop series since 2014.