Dallas

As we near the end of the year, join John Hendley, IBM X-Force Head of Strategy, as he delivers the Cyber State of the Union, where he will discuss this year’s most prominent threats, who they’ve targeted, how much it’s costing various industries and geographies, and what we can expect from emerging threats on the horizon.

It’s important to recognize that cybersecurity is rooted in more than zero trust, and compliance mandates. The core to all cybersecurity is protecting TRUST. Unfortunately, the TRUST component has been pushed aside to chase trends and compliance. It’s time we earn back TRUST before we become lost in a new cyber-revolution.

This discussion will review Dell Data Protection Suite, a comprehensive software solution to protect workloads across multiple environments spanning from edge to core to cloud. This session will review:

• Current industry trends regarding data protection including the explosion of data growth, increase in cloud adoption for enterprise workloads and self-service backup management.
• An overview of Data Protection Suite features including backup and recovery, disaster recovery, application consistent protection with governance and oversight, continuous replication, centralized monitoring and management and cyber recovery.
• Our “proven and modern” portfolio positioning, highlighting how Data Protection Suite helps customers across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
• A single, modern interface which allows visibility into your data protection environment across multiple systems and multiple sites.
• The benefits seen with Point-in-Time recovery which offers continuous replication and consistent recovery of inter-dependent applications, leading to minimized RTOs and RPOs.
• An overview of Dell Technologies Cloud Tier which natively tiers deduplicated data to the cloud simply and securely while offering a broad ecosystem with flexible deployment options.

“Pay Up, or Else”. The number of organizations who have been faced with this scenario has been steadily increasing over the past several years as ransomware attacks continue to rise — both in numbers and the size of payouts.

The clear and present danger of a ransomware attack looms large among cyber executives and business leaders as the number of vulnerabilities increases daily. According to a 2022 CRA Business Intelligence survey, nearly one in four respondents reported that their organization experienced one or more ransomware attacks in the past 12 months, and almost one out of three of these organizations said the attacker succeeded in gaining access to their systems, encrypting files, and demanding a ransom

According to this survey, many believe that the worst is yet to come and that they are at a significantly higher risk of a cyberattack than ever before – it’s not a matter of “if,” but “when.”

Preparing for the inevitable and defending against the threat of a ransomware attack requires constant evaluation and assessment, and then making the necessary adjustments.

On this panel, our lineup of industry experts will discuss the key security measures enterprises must take, going beyond backup and recovery and anti-malware/anti-virus solutions to include endpoint security, vulnerability management, Active Directory monitoring, credential protection, DNS security tools, SIEM, DLP and encryption, and cloud security software.

The cost of data breaches continues to grow—topping $4.5 million on average. But what if breaches could become harmless?

There is a paradigm shift in security: Traditional approaches to cybersecurity, focusing on network and device security, have proven insufficient due to evolving threats and third-party access. We’ll explore how enterprises can shift to a data-centric security model to mitigate the impact of inevitable cybersecurity breaches.

Malware-enabled credential theft has grown in parallel to the similar but more pervasive phishing-based attacks over the last decade. A large underground economy has emerged from the secondary sale of credentials and sensitive data stolen by the infostealer class of malware. Increasingly the Secureworks CTU has observed these credentials being acquired by ransomware groups that target the networks of large organizations. This presentation will explore the mechanics of this ecosystem and how network defenders can adapt.

Having responded to countless data breaches, Jennifer Beckage, Esq., CIPP/US, CIPP/E, named one of the Top 50 Data Breach Lawyers in the US 6 years in a row, has identified some of the top things any organization can do in a data breach to minimize risk. Lawyers quarterback a data breach response to help preserve privilege and issue spot risk issues, compliance matters, and to help meet legal obligations. Incident response involves numerous teams and quick response. In this session you will hear practical advice and steps your organization, and you can take to reduce risk in order to be better prepared for a data breach.

Use of the cloud is continuously growing, not surprisingly so due to its perceived lower costs, greater agility, and ability to increase computing power with increased demand & continuously deploy new applications and software features.

Despite the appeal of cloud, there are many security risks and vulnerabilities and managing these risks has proven to be a big challenge as cyber criminals shift their tactics to cloud data and systems in responses to this increased use of the cloud. According to a CRA Business Intelligence’s September 2022 Cloud Security Survey, misconfigurations, lack of oversight, and little visibility across the organization are among their chief concerns regarding cloud deployments.

If organizations are going to successfully adopt/transition to the cloud, they must ensure security is part of their program. An effective cloud security program includes various process and technology capabilities to effectively keep up with the current threat landscape and vulnerabilities.