PAST EVENTS
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois
Strategies to help protect and recover your organization’s most critical data.
June 28, 2023
9:00am-5:00pm
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
Overview
Your system crashing is inevitable! Never mind the reason. The goal is to make sure you have an infrastructure that is as resilient as possible so that it can meet business needs in the event of a disaster. There are steps you can take to maximize your availability and prevent significant downtime.
The content of this one day conference will help you in determining the right level of availability protection, how to design, implement, test and get management buy-in for a highly reliable network infrastructure.
Who Should Attend:
- CIOs/VPs/Directors
- DR Managers
- Infrastructure & Security Managers
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
- Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
- Cloud Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches
- Value of Investment – Balancing Data Corruption, Disaster Recovery, and Cost
- Cyberresiliency Means Nothing Without Backup and Recovery
- Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization
- Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion)
Conference Price: $299.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am: Fireside Chat: How to Build a BC/DR Plan When You Don’t Have One
Steve Bloom, Director, Infrastructure & Operations, CSC Generation
Bloom
10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment and Exhibit Break
10:30am – 11:30am: Exploring Business Resilience with CyberResilience: An Engaging Tabletop Role-Playing Simulation
Adam Cole, Director of Security Operations, LifeOmic, LLC
As business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) continue to become ever more critical in today’s digital landscape, it’s essential for organizations to fully understand and navigate the associated challenges. In this session, we’ll be introducing CyberResilience, an innovative tabletop role-playing game designed to facilitate deeper comprehension of BCDR concepts. The game provides a hands-on, interactive experience, confronting players with a variety of realistic scenarios that demand strategic decision-making and efficient resource allocation. We’re seeking your engagement and feedback to further refine this learning tool.
Key points:
- Practical Learning: CyberResilience invites participants to step into the shoes of decision-makers, providing an interactive, practical method for understanding and applying BCDR strategies in various contexts.
- Wide Spectrum of Scenarios: With a multitude of scenarios ranging from cyber threats to organizational changes, CyberResilience immerses players in diverse situations that mirror real-world challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving and critical thinking.
- Alignment with Established Frameworks: The game is rooted in respected industry frameworks, such as NIST and CMMC, providing a familiar grounding for participants while exploring the nuances of BCDR strategy development and implementation.
Cole
11:30am – 12:30pm: Cyberresiliency Means Nothing Without Backup and Recovery
Michael Bova, Senior Cyber Protection Advisor, Acronis
Raymond Sue, Senior Solutions Engineer, Acronis
How companies and MSP’s can keep their business up and running with backup and recovery. While it’s great to focus on stopping any ransomware/malware or interruption in business that’s very close to impossible. What is your plan for when something happens.
Bova Sue
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
Patrick Benson, Senior Systems Engineer – North Central, Veeam
You cannot defend against a threat that you do not understand. Despite ransomware being a commonly used term many people are only familiar with the damage that such attacks do. This presentation will focus on the timeline of a ransomware attack in order to help attendees recognize potential gaps in their data protection strategy. By beginning with understanding how malware protection tools detect potential threats and ending with how organizations can recover from a ransomware attack you will learn how to think tactically about ransomware threat prevention, so that your organization does not fall victim to ransomware.
Benson
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment and Exhibit Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Cloud Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches
Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Unity
Seasoned practitioners are aware that BC/DR practices can reduce the cost of cyber breaches. But breaches will still occur and they will happen with greater frequency. How do you leverage all that DR/BC can offer to reduce the risk and mitigate the effects?
In this session attendees will learn:
- How DR/BC teams can work together more effectively to plan for a breach
- How you can improve recovery times from a breach
- How to strengthen the resiliency of
Sumar
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion)
In this session attendees will learn how to better set expectations with the business by getting ahead of the curve with a BC/DR first mentality towards every initiative.
Areas that will be covered:
- How to start with a BC/DR first mentality
- How to review the plan with the business
- Adjusting for new business application priorities
- How the teams should respond together in the wake of a disaster
Moderator: Patrick Benson, Senior Systems Engineer – North Central, Veeam
Panelists include:
- Brian Palmer, Director IT Security & Infrastructure, Ventas
- Lalit Arora, Senior Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual
- Mouncef Elalamy, Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, HUB International Limited
- Boris Voltchenko, Chief Information Security Officer and VP of IT Infrastructure, Reynolds Consumer Products
- Doug McConnell, SVP, Infrastructure Architect, Robert W. Baird & Co.
- Other BC/DR practitioners sharing experiences and lessons learned
Benson Palmer Arora Elalamy Voltchenko McConnell
Conference Price: $299.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.
