I am Abdeslam Mazouz. I am originally from Morocco. I moved to the United States in 2010. I pursued a degree in network security because of passion about computer and technology in general. At first it was challenging to balance school, work, and a new family. However, I graduated with a high GPA (3.85) and was offered my first job prior to graduation. Throughout the years, I improved my skills and expertise with each opportunity. I pursued a master’s degree in Information Assurance and Security from Capella University. Their program has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense (CAE IA/CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). After moving up through several roles in Information Security, I was appointed the Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Minneapolis. This was just a few months before the death of George Floyd and the civil unrest that unfolded after. Little did I know that I would be tasked with the defending the City of Minneapolis against the hacktivist group Anonymous during the weeks following the George Floyd incident. These days, I continue to build and transform the City’s information security programs to be a resilient organization against new threats, work with City leaders to reduce risk, and enable business processes in a secure, streamlined, and easy way. I am passionate about building information security programs and improving existing programs. I enjoy challenging projects in information security and look for the opportunity to use my expertise to help other organizations and contribute to the security community.
Accomplished IT & Security executive with a proven record of leading diverse technology teams, implementing and leveraging technology to deliver business value. Strong experience in:
– M&A
– Privacy
– Cybersecurity
– Identity & Access Governance
– Infrastructure Technologies – storage, network, compute
– Cloud Adoption
• Strong leadership skills, including leading executive direction and strategies during high stress CNN events.
• Proven ability to engage business partners, establish effective working relationships, and deliver results across multiple platforms and hierarchy.
• Effective communicator with all levels of organization personnel: C-level executives, legal/compliance, business leaders, technology leaders and staff.
• Extensive Problem / Incident Management experience involving business critical systems and operations for several Fortune 100 companies.
Adolph Barclift serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for Five Star Bank based in Rochester New York. He leads their information security and compliance functions. His responsibility includes data security operations, vulnerability management, fraud detection and regulatory compliance across heterogeneous operational environments.
He has more than 20 years experience in information systems solution delivery, information security and data visualization.
Minneapolis Cybersecurity Conference
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Live in Person @ Sheraton Bloomington Hotel
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.
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Keynote Speaker
Abdeslam Mazouz
Chief Information Security Officer City of Minneapolis
I am Abdeslam Mazouz. I am originally from Morocco. I moved to the United States in 2010. I pursued a degree in network security because of passion about computer and technology in general. At first it was challenging to balance school, work, and a new family. However, I graduated with a high GPA (3.85) and was offered my first job prior to graduation. Throughout the years, I improved my skills and expertise with each opportunity. I pursued a master’s degree in Information Assurance and Security from Capella University. Their program has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense (CAE IA/CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). After moving up through several roles in Information Security, I was appointed the Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Minneapolis. This was just a few months before the death of George Floyd and the civil unrest that unfolded after. Little did I know that I would be tasked with the defending the City of Minneapolis against the hacktivist group Anonymous during the weeks following the George Floyd incident. These days, I continue to build and transform the City’s information security programs to be a resilient organization against new threats, work with City leaders to reduce risk, and enable business processes in a secure, streamlined, and easy way. I am passionate about building information security programs and improving existing programs. I enjoy challenging projects in information security and look for the opportunity to use my expertise to help other organizations and contribute to the security community.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Platinum Sponsors
LiveAction provides end-to-end visibility for network security and performance. By relying on a single source of truth – the packets – LiveAction gives modern enterprises the confidence needed to ensure the network is securely meeting business objectives, providing full network visibility to better inform NetOps and SecOps, and reducing the overall cost of network and security operations. By unifying and simplifying the source of collection, inspection, presentation, and analysis of network traffic, LiveAction empowers network and security professionals to proactively and quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across increasingly large and complex networks. To learn more about LiveAction, visit https://www.liveaction.com.
Gold Sponsors
Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading xTended Security of Things™ platform designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored Things of the enterprise xIoT landscape. We fully automate the remediation of the biggest IoT, OT, and network device vulnerabilities—including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, default device credentials, out-of-date device firmware, and out-of-date certificates.
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.
The main ambition of our software company tenfold is to discover and provide simpler ways for businesses to meet the growing demands of permission management. With our innovative software solution, “tenfold“, we have successfully revolutionized the way IT users and IT permissions are dealt with – never before has it been so easy to control and automate all important processes involved in the life-cycles of IT users, while always keeping an up-to-date, company-wide overview of who has what permissions. Together with our partners, we support medium-sized and major companies from different industries. More than 1.000 notable businesses have adopted tenfold as their .choice of user and permission management tool so far.
Radware is a global leader of application delivery and cyber security solutions for virtual, cloud and software defined data centers. Our award-winning solutions portfolio delivers service level assurance for business-critical applications, while maximizing IT efficiency. Radware solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. Radware’s corporate headquarters are located in the U.S. (Mahwah, NJ) and international headquarters are located in Tel Aviv. Global presence includes offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
Silver Sponsors
Cavelo helps businesses achieve attack surface management with automated data discovery, classification and reporting. Its cloud compatible cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) platform continuously scans, identifies, classifies and reports on sensitive data across the organization, simplifying compliance reporting, vulnerability management and risk remediation.
HelpSystems has long been known for helping organizations become more secure and autonomous. However, over the years, our customers have shared with us that it has gotten harder and harder to protect their data. As technology plays an increasingly important role in the way organizations operate, cyberthreats are evolving to become more powerful than ever before. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from being in an industry where the only constant is change, it’s that being adaptable is the best way to grow in the right direction. So we’ve listened to our customers’ concerns, problem-solved, and delivered with impressive results. Consequently, we’re a different company today — one that is tackling cybersecurity head-on.
That’s why HelpSystems is now Fortra, your cybersecurity ally. We’re bringing the same people-first support and best-in-class portfolio that you’ve come to expect from HelpSystems, only now we’re unified through the mission of providing solutions to organizations’ seemingly unsolvable cybersecurity problems. We offer leading solutions like data security, infrastructure protection, managed services, and threat research and intelligence. Throughout every step of our customers’ journeys, our experts are determined to help increase security maturity while decreasing the operational burden that comes with it. Because our team puts the same level of care into protecting our customers’ peace of mind as their precious data. We’re driven by the belief that nothing is unsolvable. We’re tenacious in our pursuit of a better future for cybersecurity.
We are Fortra.
Stamus Networks believes in a world where defenders are heroes, and a future where those they protect remain safe. As defenders face an onslaught of threats from well-funded adversaries, we relentlessly pursue solutions that make the defender’s job easier and more impactful. As a global provider of high-performance network-based threat detection and response systems, we help enterprise security teams accelerate their response to threats with solutions that uncover serious and imminent risks from cloud and on-premise network activity. Our Scirius NDR and Scirius ND are advanced network detection and response (NDR) systems that expose serious and imminent threats to critical assets and empower rapid response. Unlike other network security companies, Stamus Networks delivers truly useful detection at enterprise scale by applying the right technologies to the right problems, while avoiding the hype, fear and exaggeration that is often employed by security vendors.
Okta is the World’s Identity Company. As the leading independent Identity partner, we free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. The most trusted brands trust Okta to enable secure access, authentication, and automation. With flexibility and neutrality at the core of our Okta Workforce Identity and Customer Identity Clouds, business leaders and developers can focus on innovation and accelerate digital transformation, thanks to customizable solutions and more than 7,000 pre-built integrations. We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. Learn more at okta.com.
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.
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
Session 1
Session 2
Networking
Session 3
Presentation
Identity & Access Management: A Growing Need for Mid-Sized Organizations
Mid-market businesses today are faced with increasingly complex IT landscapes, rapidly evolving digital threats and growing pressure through privacy and security regulations. To protect their data and ensure appropriate access across various local and cloud services, medium-sized organizations more than ever depend on automated IAM solutions.
However, common IAM products designed for an enterprise context have proven too large and complex to be used effectively: Their lengthy setup and massive scope exceed the needs and resources of medium-sized companies. Mid-market access management takes a more efficient approach to help organizations quickly regain control of users and data.
In this session, you will learn:
- What makes identity & access management a necessity for the mid-market
- How IAM boosts security, productivity and compliance
- What to look out for when choosing an IAM provider
