Ben Nicholson has worked at Palo Alto Networks for the past 7 years. In that time he has worked as a Professional Services Engineer, Global Solutions Architect, and is now a Global Practice Leader for Prisma Cloud. He has deployed Prisma Cloud for a multitude of customers and has in-depth working knowledge of many security platforms.
Jorn is a bearded, bumbling Nordic geek from the frozen tundra surrounding Minneapolis, MN (a suburb of Canada, doncha know!) playing Solution Engineer at NeuVector by SUSE. Understanding the business behind the technology makes Jorn a uniquely qualified guide to the container security journey. With over 30 years in IT, at industry leaders like IBM, Rundeck, CenturyLink and Savvis, and experience as a practitioner, Jorn has lots of stories about ruining things on the Internet before there even was an Internet, uphill both ways, in the snow. After many years doing really big things at really big companies, he’s disturbingly excited about being a part of the awesomeness that is SUSE. Ask him why.
Adam Stone, Vice President Services Delivery and Chief Privacy Officer with Minneapolis-based TrustMAPP, has over 35 years’ business leadership experience with 23+ years leading data privacy and security functions for healthcare, insurance, financial services, distribution, software, and marketing organizations. In his current role, Adam is a key member of the executive team, helping ensure the success of customers who leverage TrustMAPP to improve the effectiveness of controls and processes in support of information security. Among his other duties, Adam serves as a fractional chief information security officer (CISO) and chief privacy officer (CPO) for a portfolio of financial services, manufacturing, and insurance companies.
Adam actively participates in several industry initiatives and serves as a Distinguished Fellow with the Ponemon Institute and as an advisory board member and instructor for the Shared Assessments program.
Adam is a sought-after mentor and community leader who rarely turns down an opportunity to help others. He is also an adjunct professor, currently teaching a course on information security risk management for connected medical devices at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Stone earned his MBA from the University of St. Thomas and BA from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Stone holds several professional certifications, including Fellow in Information Privacy (FIP), CIPP, CIPM, CISSP, ISSMP, HCISPP and CTPRP.
acob Latonis is a Senior Threat Research Engineer on the Threat Research Team at Proofpoint where he focuses on researching and understanding the threat landscape, engineering and software development, and tooling to support research and analysis at scale. Jacob’s start in security was in a Security Operations Center (SOC) for a large financial organization. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Jacob spent his previous years in myriad roles, including SOC work, threat detection engineering, security engineering, threat intelligence, and more. Jacob earned his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his M.S. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Jacob currently resides in downtown Chicago where he spends his time running, exploring the city, and championing walkable cities and public infrastructure.
Darryl Togashi is a highly accomplished individual with a diverse range of roles in the field of cybersecurity. He is the Vice-President of InfraGard Indiana, the Indiana Director for the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, and the Chairperson of the Executive Committee CAE-CD Advisory Board for the AUCSSCD. Additionally, he is a member of the Indiana Executive Cybersecurity Council, co-chair of the Indiana Cybersecurity TSAP Committee, an adjunct faculty member at several Indiana Colleges, and a Full-time Cybersecurity Faculty at Purdue University Global. With over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and over eight years of experience in higher education, he has developed numerous cybersecurity courses and labs.
Darryl is an advocate for cybersecurity awareness in the community and throughout Indiana. He partners with various organizations such as JA, Techfest, Girl Scouts, CyberPatriots, and Indiana Executive Cybersecurity Council to spread the word about cybersecurity and help our youth gain early knowledge of cybersecurity. His goal is to develop young cyber defense employees for our nation. Darryl is always looking for opportunities to help and promote cybersecurity awareness among the youth.
Darryl holds an MBA in Management from Indiana Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University. He has recently earned several certifications, including Pent+, CHFI, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and MITRE Cyber Threat Intelligence. Darryl is currently working on courses related to User Experience and Interaction Design for AR/VR/VR/XR and AI in Cybersecurity. His latest interest is in the use of AI/XAI and the privacy and ethical implications surrounding data collection.
Indianapolis Cybersecurity Conference
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Live in Person @ Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center
In Person | Virtual | Hybrid
Earn up to 10 CPE credits
About the Event
FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce.
Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks.
Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizations.
“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”
Gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from advanced Cyber Threats. Demo the newest technology, and interact with the world’s security leaders and gain other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.
The FutureCon community will keep you updated on the future of the Cyberworld and allow you to interact with your peers and the world’s security leaders.
For sponsorship opportunities email sales@futureconevents.com
Keynote Speaker
"Using the Right Metrics to Communicate the Business Value of Your Information Security Program"
Adam Stone
Vice President Services Delivery and Chief Privacy Officer TrustMAPP
Adam Stone, Vice President Services Delivery and Chief Privacy Officer with Minneapolis-based TrustMAPP, has over 35 years’ business leadership experience with 23+ years leading data privacy and security functions for healthcare, insurance, financial services, distribution, software, and marketing organizations. In his current role, Adam is a key member of the executive team, helping ensure the success of customers who leverage TrustMAPP to improve the effectiveness of controls and processes in support of information security. Among his other duties, Adam serves as a fractional chief information security officer (CISO) and chief privacy officer (CPO) for a portfolio of financial services, manufacturing, and insurance companies.
Adam actively participates in several industry initiatives and serves as a Distinguished Fellow with the Ponemon Institute and as an advisory board member and instructor for the Shared Assessments program.
Adam is a sought-after mentor and community leader who rarely turns down an opportunity to help others. He is also an adjunct professor, currently teaching a course on information security risk management for connected medical devices at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Stone earned his MBA from the University of St. Thomas and BA from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Stone holds several professional certifications, including Fellow in Information Privacy (FIP), CIPP, CIPM, CISSP, ISSMP, HCISPP and CTPRP.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Ron Zochalski
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Security Officer
Lake County Government - Superior Court Juvenile Division
Adam Stone
Vice President Services Delivery and Chief Privacy Officer
TrustMAPP
Darryl Togashi
Vice-President InfraGard Indiana, Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Indiana State Director- Cybersecurity Professor
Purdue University Global
David Sims
Staff Vice President, Security Technology Services
Elevance Health
Bernie Hirsch
CIO/CISO/CQO
MicroVote General Corporation
Premier Platinum Sponsors
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world’s greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Platinum Sponsors
Mainline is an IT solution provider serving clients across the United States and across industries. With acquired knowledge and earned trust, we offer expertise and experience to our clients at a local level, with the backing of a national, highly skilled organization. Founded in 1989, Mainline offers over 30 years of experience to our 2500 customers. With over 400+ IT professionals, we act as an independent advisor to find the best solution for our clients’ business needs and strategy. Mainline partners with best of breed solution providers and we have over 1000 technical and sales certifications, including accreditation by the International Enterprise Architecture Institute (iEAi). With our expert IT Services practice, Mainline works with our clients from the initial IT assessment and strategy development to the implementation and support of their tailored business IT solution. Mainline also offers Managed IT Services, Staff Augmentation services, and CIO Advisory services, helping clients to transform core business processes for long-term success. Mainline has received accolades and awards from technology manufacturers including IBM, HPE, Dell Technologies, NetApp, Red Hat, and VMware, as well as industry awards including CIO Review Company of the Year, CRN Tech Elite 250 and Managed Service Elite 150, and Florida Trends Best Company.
SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, secure enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Business-critical Linux, Enterprise Container Management and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company employs more than 2,000 people globally. SUSE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Gold Sponsors
Cloudflare, Inc (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the world’s 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, London, and Singapore.
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter storage and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. More information is available at www.proofpoint.com
Silver Sponsors
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ZeroFox delivers proactive external cybersecurity to outfox the adversary and disrupt, identify, and dismantle threats outside the traditional corporate perimeter. The ZeroFox Platform combines advanced AI-driven analysis to detect complex threats on the surface, Deep, and Dark Web with fully managed threat intelligence services and threat analysts who become an extension of your team – all while providing automated remediation to effectively disrupt threats.
trackd.com is a modern patch management platform with a unique twist. Our solution records the experience of vulnerability remediation practitioners after they’ve applied a given patch (i.e. did it break something?), anonymizes that data, and then shares it in real-time with all other trackd platform users. The data enables remediation teams to identify the small percentage of patches that are likely to break something, as well as those with little or no history of disruption that can be considered strong candidates for auto-patching.
AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, and compliance management. More than 30% of the Fortune 500 leverage AuditBoard to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. AuditBoard is top-rated by customers on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights, and was recently ranked for the third year in a row as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte. To learn more, visit: AuditBoard.com.
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Recorded Future delivers the world’s most advanced security intelligence to disrupt adversaries, empower defenders, and protect organizations. With proactive and predictive intelligence, Recorded Future’s platform provides elite, context-rich, actionable intelligence in real time that’s ready for integration across the security ecosystem.
Array Networks, the network functions platform company, develops purpose-built systems for hosting virtual networking and security functions with guaranteed performance. Proven at over 5000 worldwide customer deployments, Array is recognized by leading enterprises and service providers for next-generation technology that delivers agility at scale.
Commvault is a worldwide leader in delivering data readiness. We’re committed to ensuring you can protect, manage, move, recover, and use your data. Always. Commvault backup and recovery software helps you easily manage your data in a consistent, compliant way. Our software automates mind-numbing IT tasks and makes your data work harder for you — so you can gain invaluable insights for your business. Commvault solutions work on-prem and in the cloud, and work with the digital tools and procedures you’re already using. Get Commvault direct and through our global ecosystem of trusted partners. Keep your data accessible and actionable with a single solution that ensures your data is available — no matter what. https://www.commvault.com/
We see the world of cybersecurity differently.
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Partners
(ISC)² is an international nonprofit membership association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world. Best known for the acclaimed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) certification, (ISC)² offers a portfolio of credentials that are part of a holistic, pragmatic approach to security. Our membership, more than 168,000 strong, is made up of certified cyber, information, software and infrastructure security professionals who are making a difference and helping to advance the industry.
Founded in 2012, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) is a National 501(c)3 non-profit community, focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. WSC’s mission is to advance women in cybersecurity careers by providing programs and partnerships that promote hands-on training, networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing and other professional opportunities.
WSC serves thousands of women across the globe by bringing awareness to, and advancing careers in, cybersecurity. The WSC community includes information security professionals, IT professionals, programmers, computer scientists and engineers, as well as women wanting to explore and join the field. Recognizing the importance of encouraging girls to embrace a future in STEM-related professions through its Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, WSC provides a unique hands-on curriculum focused on securing information technology. For more information, visit http://www.womenscyberjutsu.org.
The Pan Asian American Business Council (“PAABC”) is a non-profit organization consisting of Asian American businesses that would like to promote and grow their own and other Asian American businesses.
To enable Asian American owned businesses to develop and grow.
We put our heart and soul into this Cybersecurity Conference directory.
Way back in 2013 we had another website called “Concise Courses” which used to market and sell InfoSec training courses. We published a blog post listing all the upcoming InfoSec Conferences of that year, and Google loved the resource and put us right to the top of the search engines. That ‘accidental’ occurrence spawned this directory which is maintained by a small team comprising of Henry Dalziel and Charles Villaneuva and a bunch of freelance programmers.
What We Do:
We list, literally, every single Information Security conference, event and seminar within every niche in Cybersecurity.
We have a dedicated team that maintains our in-house tech stack, directory, and data curation.
Agenda
Times are subject to change
Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking
Presentation
Breaches - how to prepare and manage vulnerabilities in the cloud
Presentation
Kubernetes Security Is Impossible And You Should Probably Just Give Up
Security and compliance are complex and challenging. Kubernetes is definitely complex and challenging. And then you add a bunch of people into the mix. If this sounds like an impossible cocktail to overcome, you’re right! Join us for a session about how to enable zero-trust controls in Kubernetes, and how it will never work if we just throw more tools at the problem.
Sponsor Networking Time
What is Cloud Security
Don't Trust Your Inbox
As organizations look to adopt new security principles and network architectures like Zero Trust, they leave a critical gap – email. Around 91% of all cyber attacks begin with a phishing email, and newer attacks like Business Email Compromise directly impact the bottom line.Moreover, these attacks don’t need sophisticated malware or network intrusion to succeed; they exploit the implicit trust we place in our email communications. Join this session to: Learn how phishing attacks use trust and business logic as attack techniques Get common success criteria used for evaluating Zero Trust and anti-phishing solutions See how Zero Trust principles can be extended to email
Sponsor Networking Time
Lunch
Keynote
"Using the Right Metrics to Communicate the Business Value of Your Information Security Program"
Sponsor Networking Time
Building a Response Strategy
Presentation
Git Em’: Threat Actors and the usage of Git as a Delivery Mechanism
Git is a popular tool for version control and source code management among developers and software engineers in small and large enterprises alike. However, threat actors have taken a liking to using Git as well. This talk will dive into how threat actors are using Git and popular services that leverage Git. We’ll dive into commodity attacks, APT usage, and more techniques that leverage Git or Git powered services.
Sponsor Networking Time
Communicating Risk
Security Blindspots
Sponsor Networking Time
Panel Discussion
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Ron Zochalski
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Security Officer Lake County Government - Superior Court Juvenile Division
