Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois
Strategies to help protect and recover your organization’s most critical data.
June 26, 2024
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:
- Avoiding the “All or Nothing” Fail-Over Approach
- Cloud Architecture: DR Transformation, Trends and Disaster fit for Ransomware/AI
- Ransomware Readiness: Building Resilience for Business Continuity
- Designing Cloud Disaster Recovery to Empower Cloud Migrations
- Navigating Business Resilience Post Breach
- 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: Navigating Business Resilience Post Breach
Fran Malloy, Principal Security Technical Leader, IBM
Learn how a retail CISO led his organization through their breach, response, and legal proceedings. You’ll hear how his teams aligned for multi-channel commerce cybersecurity through their eCommerce sites, retail locations, distribution center, and call centers supporting sister companies and his organization as they:
- Discovered the breach
- Undertook the forensic investigation
- Determined scope and time frame
- Developed the containment process
- Met communication expectations (e.g., legal, customers, employees, management, PR/media); and
- Navigated the layout of fines and fees faced as pertained to this breach.
Walk away with lessons learned and a few key actions you can implement to equip yourself with the foresight and confidence needed during a breach.
Malloy
10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
10:30am – 11:30am: Ransomware Readiness: Building Resilience for Business Continuity
Ed King, Consulting Services Principal, 11:11 Systems
Cybercrime and ransomware have reached epidemic proportions – they’ve become so commonplace for businesses, they’re now the most cited reason for IT outages. Many global governing agencies are putting laws and regulations in place to combat these threats, and organizations must be prepared to manage through and recover from a ransomware event. In our session, we’ll outline what organizations should have in place before the event occurs.
King
11:30am – 12:30pm: Cloud Architecture: DR Transformation, Trends and Disaster fit for Ransomware/AI
Daniel Zrubek, Sr. Technical Consultant, Nasuni
Disaster Recovery has come a long way since the era of mainframes and muscle cars. New business models and cloud strategies must be transformed to meet the demands of modern data and capture better outcomes, with increased quality. Strategies for security, performance, scale, and resiliency are paramount.
In this hour, we’ll go over:
- History of DR to today
- Moving to the cloud and planning for resiliency, modern DR
- Protecting data, planning security, Ransomware mitigation
- Is your cloud DR fit for AI/cloud services?
Zrubek
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Breakout Session: How to Avoid the “All or Nothing” Fail-Over Approach
Attendees will break out into groups to brainstorm solutions regarding incremental failover strategies, hybrid cloud solutions, resource allocation and load balancing, and more.
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Designing Cloud Disaster Recovery to Empower Cloud Migrations
Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Unity
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 include:
- 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
Moderated by: John Messamore, RSM, Tintri
Panelists include:
- Chad Choban, Sr. Director Global Infrastructure, Life Fitness
- Mouncef Elalamy, Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, HUB International Limited
- Kirby McCord, Senior Manager Infrastructure Architecture, U.S. Cellular
- Adnan Ramji, Vice President – Network, Data Center, & Recovery Services, Northwestern Mutual
- Aviran Vargas, Data Center Operations Manager, EZ Blockchain
- Other BC/DR executives sharing experiences, tactics, and lessons learned
Messamore Choban Elalamy McCord Ramji Vargas
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.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
