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Say Goodbye to Vulnerability Backlogs: Using RASP to Reclaim Control and Reduce Risk

Knowing is half the battle when it comes to protecting applications and their sensitive data. 

Application security testing tools scan your code to reveal the long lists of known vulnerabilities, but not all are remediated before the next release-even with mature secure software development practices. Enterprises resort to using theoretical levels of criticality â?" not actual risks-to prioritize which accumulated vulnerabilities to fix and in what order. Many vulnerabilities often undergo an exception process and make it into protocol. 

A real-time, embedded solution like Prevoty's runtime application self-protection (RASP0 changes the game completely. Prevoty places an automated security mechanism at the front of the lineâ?"directly in the application's operating environmentâ?"to immediately lower risk and act as a compensating control at runtime. 

As such, Prevoty-enabled enterprises see 98%+ of their known vulnerabilities mitigated instantly, reducing backlogs and expediting an otherwise cumbersome release process. Prevoty RASP detects live production attacks and generates real-time security event longs and reports. Security teams can then correlate pre-production vulnerability scan results with Prevoty's runtime attack logs to go back, remediate based on actual riskâ?"not just hypothetical threats. The result? Improved forensics.

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Imperva

 

 

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"How Will We Pay for It?" - Strategies and Tradeoffs to Fund Digital Transformation

Digital transformation delivers a sustainable competitive edge if done right. The multi-million dollar boardroom question that CIOs are often left to address: "how are we going to pay for this?" with ongoing operations consuming 80%-90% of a typical IT budget. 

Join this interactive discussion to hear how technology leaders are adopting three specific strategies to reallocate capital & resources to digital growth. That reality requires significant rethinking of cost components and budget tradeoffs, and exploring radical options across the entire IT landscape.

Sponsored by:

Rimini Street

 

 

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How Mid-Market CIO's are Transforming Businesses in the New World of IT

The role of mid-market CIO's is rapidly changing requiring  the need to not only support the day-to-day technology concerns of a business but also align new technology plans with the organizations top strategic objectives; in addition all of this must be done while continuing to drive down costs due to tighter IT budgets.

 
The core of many mid-market organization objectives is how to stay competitive through a better understanding of what customers want.  Such an understanding is not the responsibility of a single individual or department but a cohesive approach to enabling all employees to access and interpret customer information as it relates to their specific job functions in their respective departments.  

This experience also needs to tie the organization together in a common, flexible and secure platform to not only meet the CIO's needs but also help drive the organization's strategic objectives forward.
Learn how 8x8 can help you create an optimal customer experience by enabling a superior employee experience.

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8x8

 

 

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DevSecOps - One Man Changes the World

Today, Infosec and DevOps operate in silos with different and sometimes competing mandates. DevOps teams focus on velocity with continuous iterations while Infosec teams focus on managing risk and control. With the meteoric rise of microservices architectures enabled by application containers, the disconnect between DevOps and Infosec puts the organization at significant risk. Traditional vulnerability and remediation processes are ineffective in securing containers. Instead, security must be integrated into the CI/CD toolchain as a critical test to discover vulnerabilities and enforce enterprise policies before production. This session will discuss these challenges and suggest techniques, organizational changes and tools that can help DevOps and Infosec adjust to these new realities.

Sponsored by:

Tenable Network Security

 

 

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The New Landscape of AI-Powered Customer Engagement

Adaptation is everything. Today's customer knows more about our brand and out competitors than we do - they constantly research competitors, interact with us on their own terms, flow across channels, and take unpredictable routes to a fluid destination. They give us a narrow window of opportunity to capture their attention - and if we miss it's, it's gone forever. 

Despite that, only 10% of organizations can adapt an individual's experience in real-time, and optimize their path-to-purchase. The other 90% just can't move fast enough to stay relevant. 

In this session, we'll explore how truly disruptive companies are raising the bar for customer experience, right now - leveraging data from across channels to optimize every aspect of the journey - bringing customers closer, and earning the right to expand those relationships. 

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Sponsored by:

Pegasystems

 

 

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Increase the Speed and Agility of Data Analytics

Hadoop and related technologies for Big Data analytics can deliver tremendous business value, and at a lower cost than traditional data management approaches. But early adopters have encountered challenges and learned lessons over the past few years. In this presentation, we'll discuss:  

Sponsored by:

Dell EMC

 

 

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Rethink Security with Zero Trust

As today's attacks become more sophisticated, the pressure to protect access to enterprise systems and applications has grown considerably. Unlike the traditional security perimeter model, a Zero Trust approach dispels the notion of traditional models and moves toward a ?Never trust, Always verify? model for protecting access to data. Zero Trust recognizes that any network, device, user, or application could be compromised, and the credentials associated with them. As such, in order to better protect sensitive company resources, IT departments need to adjust their mindset and adopt a new way of thinking: that bad actors are already in their environment. Join us to hear how identity has become the hub of any Zero Trust framework, and discover several guiding principles and paradigms that help define a Zero Trust model.  

We'll examine: The current (broken) state of security and the role identity plays in cyber attacks, the massive rethink underway that redefines security to follow identity, and how Centrify is adopting a Zero Trust model approach with identity at the core, thus uniquely helping reduce risk through the power of identity services.

Sponsored by:

Centrify

 

 

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Security. Compliance. ROI. Why Should You Have to Choose?

With massive volumes of data growing at double-digit rates, regulations getting stricter, escalating security demands and mounting storage costs, many organizations in the digital economy feel caught between a rock and a hard place. Having to choose between security, compliance and storage ROI is no choice at all. This session looks at how to develop a data storage strategy that can address your compliance requirements, provide military-grade security and be cost effective all at the same time. 

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Sponsored by:

Leonovus

 

 

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Interconnection Oriented Architecture: Methods, Innovations and Opportunities

Next generation digital services such as Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud, and Software-Defined Everything are increasingly reliant on proximal, high-speed, low-latency interconnectivity and adjacency to massive compute, storage, and Software as a Service. 

Sponsored by:

Equinix

 

 

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How to Prevent a Costly Attack

Cybercrime has impacted virtually everything and everyone, at some level. Whether it's a big bank or hospital, a hotel chain or transit system, cyber-attacks affect organizations and individuals alike. Industry experts and analysts agree: cybercrime rates will continue to increase in 2018. In this session we'll discuss common attack types and threat vectors, war stories from the SOC at eSentire and how your firm can approach cybersecurity to prepare for inevitable attacks.

Sponsored by:

eSentire

 

 

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Year of the Defender - Cybersecurity Predictions for 2018

Cybersecurity dominated the news cycle in 2017. There were headlines about viral ransomware, global destructive wipers posing as ransomware, leaks of spy tools from U.S. intelligence agencies, and breaches at major companies. 

What does 2018 hold in store for the defenders? Come discuss the largest security trends Cybereason researchers have identified for 2018.

Sponsored by:

Cybereason

 

 

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Leverage AI and Cognitive Capabilities in Your Corporate Video and Deliver Live Streams That Excite Your Workforce

The old world of corporate video is low-quality, hard-to-find and difficult to watch. Learn how leading companies are leveraging AI and cognitive insights as well as IBM Cloud Video's tracking and administration features to deliver effective video that excites and engages teams across offices, continents and time zones. With cognitive enhancements such as automated captions and keywords, the right content is now easier than ever to find. Whether it is a live stream of a c-level address, or team knowledge sharing, video can be created and leveraged across the organization as a learning, communication, and training tool that helps build stronger bonds between team members and communicates powerfully the key messages.

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IBM

 

 

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Where Are We on Our Journey? Effective Dashboards for Decision Making

How fast are we going? Are we going in the right direction? How much fuel do we have in the tank? These are common questions for those on the move.  Companies on a digital transformation journey need effective dashboards to help them understand the myriad data sources screaming for attention. We will discuss best practices for the various types of dashboards that can be used to make the most important decisions for your company.

Takeaways:

1. Digital Transformation is providing an increasing amount of data to be understood and analyzed in order to make the right decisions.
2. Effective dashboards are a key tenet of consuming this onslaught of data.

Sponsored by:

Celonis

 

 

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How Will We Pay for It? - Strategies and Trade-offs to Fund Digital Transformation

Digital transformation delivers a sustainable competitive edge if done right. The multi-million dollar boardroom question that CIOs are often left to address: "how are we going to pay for this?" with ongoing operations consuming 80%-90% of a typical IT budget.

Join this interactive discussion to hear how technology leaders are adopting three specific strategies to reallocate capital & resources to digital growth. That reality requires significant rethinking of cost components and budget trade-offs, and exploring radical options across the entire IT landscape.

Sponsored by:

Rimini Street

 

 

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Thought Leadership

Where Are We on Our Journey? Effective Dashboards for Decision Making

How fast are we going? Are we going in the right direction? How much fuel do we have in the tank? These are common questions for those on the move.  Companies on a digital transformation journey need effective dashboards to help them understand the myriad data sources screaming for attention. We will discuss best practices for the various types of dashboards that can be used to make the most important decisions for your company.

Takeaways:

1. Digital Transformation is providing an increasing amount of data to be understood and analyzed in order to make the right decisions.
2. Effective dashboards are a key tenet of consuming this onslaught of data.

Sponsored by:

Celonis

 

 

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Revolutionizing the WAN

Security is a major concern for enterprises, and the new cloud-first model requires a different, application-driven approach to securing the branch. Enterprise WAN architectures are at an inflection point, either ride the wave of WAN transformation or remain rudderless and adrift in a sea of WAN complacency. Shift to a business-first networking model and liberate your applications from the compromises of existing WAN approaches to accelerate your business.

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Increase the Speed and Agility of Data Analytics

Hadoop and related technologies for Big Data analytics can deliver tremendous business value, and at a lower cost than traditional data management approaches. But early adopters have encountered challenges and learned lessons over the past few years. In this presentation, we'll discuss: The five worst practices in early Hadoop deployments and how to avoid them Best practices for the right architecture to meet the needs of the business How to ensure highly scalable and elastic Big Data infrastructure.

Sponsored by:

Dell EMC

 

 

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Digital Transformation requires agile operating models, orchestrated in the cloud

Moving to the cloud changes the game, but managing the sprawl of private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud with a diversity of vendors, services, and standards can weigh business down. Digital Transformation requires aggregating, orchestrating, and securing all cloud services. 

Attend this session to explore how a secure digital workspace can help your teams simplify and manage complex multi- and hybrid-cloud infrastructure technology from a single console - allowing connection, collaboration, and innovation from anywhere - on any application, any device, any cloud, at any time. You'll gain insights on: 

• Providing an always-on workspace without a costly outlay of capital 
• Ensuring excellent app performance over a resilient network 
• Matching your IT investment with business needs

Sponsored by:

Citrix

 

 

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Planning for a Multi-Cloud Future

The promise of the cloud is almost beyond compare; infinite computing resources, unmatched reliability and uptime, instantaneous service availability, simplistic self-service and provisioning, and the low-low prices of a buy by the drink model. These are the reasons behind the rush to the cloud that we are currently experiencing, but the wholesale adoption does bring a downside " as more and more capability is moved to the cloud, more and more cloud providers are utilized since, for the most part, each provider offers only a limited suite of services. The MultiCloud environment that creates a new set of challenges that IT leaders need to overcome, notably resiliency, interoperability/integration, and security and compliance through careful planning and the lessons learned from building complex on premise distributed systems.

Takeaways:

1. As enterprises move to the cloud, MultiCloud environments will increasingly become the norm, not the exception
2. Consistent planning and thoughtful architecture will be essential to efficient and effective cloud deployments