Omaha Cybersecurity Conference
Thursday, August 14, 2025
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Omaha Downtown
Hybrid
Join Us in Omaha for the Futurecon Cybersecurity Event!
Hear from our esteemed speakers while gaining up to 10 CPE credits. Immerse yourself in the latest cybersecurity developments to gain valuable insights in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Learn how to effectively manage risk, demo the newest technologies from an array of different sponsors, and network with your local community.
Don’t miss our special ceremony recognizing our honorary attendees receiving an Award of Excellence!
Join us live for breakfast, lunch, and a wrap up cocktail happy hour!
Keynote Speaker
“Recalibrate Your Thinking: Overcoming Bias to Build Proactive, Trust-Centered Security Programs”
Robert LaMagna-Reiter
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer WoodmenLife
Robert LaMagna-Reiter is a leading, trusted Information Security & Risk Management professional. As CISO for WoodmenLife, Robert leads information security strategies and roadmaps; oversees cyber risk management; security architecture and engineering; and security operations. Leveraging more than 20 years of expertise, Robert helps others deliver value through proper security strategy aligned to zero-trust principles. Robert’s experience includes leadership roles in information security for transportation, government communications, retail, e-commerce, managed services, SaaS & insurance industries. Robert is a Team8 Villager, and serves as Advisory Board President for SOFTwarfare, Zero Trust Initiative Leader for the CyberTheory Institute, and Zero Trust Expert Committee Member for the Cloud Security Alliance.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
"Securing the Future: CISO Insights and Industry Leaders Discussing Current Cyber Threats and Strategic Defense Practices"
Robert LaMagna-Reiter
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer WoodmenLife
Manoj Regmi
VP Technology Farmers Edge
Marc Johnson
CISO / Director / vCISO / vCIO Impact Advisors
Ross Coudeyras
Head of Security and Compliance, Data Protection Officer, Remesh | Adjunct Instructor of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Doane University
Roxey Davis
Chief Operating Officer at Women + Cybersecurity = Women's Society of Cyberjutsu GRC Analyst at RxBenefits
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“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”
FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training to C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers).
Join us for a day with multiple illuminating presentations and a panel discussion featuring C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks, demo the newest technology, and discover the cutting-edge security approaches to prepare you for the future of the Cyber World.
You will gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from even the most advanced Cyber Threats. Interact with the world’s security leaders and your peers to gather details on other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.
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DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Omaha Downtown
Agenda
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Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking
The Future of Cyber Security
Presentation
From Spam to Sophistication: How Email Threats Evolved with Phishing-as-a-Service
Since the mid-1990s, phishing has evolved into a foundational attack method and remains one of the most common cybersecurity threats organizations face today. It’s also become a key focus of employee training programs across industries. In this session, we’ll explore the history of email security, trace how phishing techniques have adapted over time, and take a closer look at the emerging threat of Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS)—a new, scalable model that’s lowering the barrier to entry for cybercriminals.
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Presentation
How to Get Away with Cybercrime
We often talk about threats in terms of dollars lost, data stolen, or headlines made. But the real threat lives deeper—in the structure, the strategy, and the growing ambition of the actors behind the screen. Today’s cybercriminals don’t just encrypt files; they build economies, launder, influence, and forge alliances that stretch across borders and industries. In this talk, we’ll peel back the layers of modern cybercrime and explore how loosely affiliated hackers have evolved into organized syndicates. These groups operate more like multinational corporations than rogue disruptors—complete with HR departments, recruitment pipelines, insider relationships, and state protections.
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Keynote
Recalibrate Your Thinking: Overcoming Bias to Build Proactive, Trust-Centered Security Programs
Security decisions aren’t made in a vacuum — they’re often shaped by mental shortcuts, outdated assumptions, and pressure to act fast. Cognitive biases like anchoring, availability, and confirmation bias often sneak into risk assessments, leading to reactive strategies, overemphasis on headline threats, or clinging to legacy controls.
This session will dive into how we can break free from “we’ve always done it this way” thinking and steer their programs with greater clarity and impact. We’ll explore how common decision-making traps surface in the real world and how they quietly shape policy, control choices, and impact standard work. By taking a fresh lens on how bias affects your program’s security posture, we’ll discuss tactics to shift from a reactive to proactive strategy through practical methods that leverage data to build a trust-aligned program that scale.
Whether you’re maturing a SOC, leading cloud transformation, securely enabling artificial intelligence efforts, or maturing your zero-trust roadmap, this session will equip you with tools to spot hidden biases — and replace them with stronger, clearer judgment.
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Presentation
Workspace Security: Are you Ready?
The modern workspace is increasingly reliant on cloud-based applications, browser-first access, and AI integration, and faces significant security challenges that outpace the capabilities of traditional tools. Legacy solutions, including VPNs and even early ZTNA implementations, are proving vulnerable to sophisticated attacks, leading to data breaches and operational disruptions. This session will critically examine these gaps – network, identity, endpoint, and cloud security – and demonstrate how a fundamental shift in security focus towards the browser is required.
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Cyber Defense Strategies for earlier detection and faster response
Despite all the tools, talent, and investment, breaches still happen – often to organizations doing all the “right” things. In this session, Rishi Joshee from LMNTRIX shares 10 practical strategies for building (or rebuilding) a modern SOC that helps reduce risk.
Drawing from real-world experience, you’ll learn how to cut through alert noise, detect threats faster, automate where it matters, and structure your team for long-term resilience. It’s a practical, honest look at what works, what doesn’t, and why running a SOC today is equal parts strategy, technology, and controlled chaos.
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Presentation
Be Breach Ready
In today’s threat landscape, breaches are no longer rare events—they’re a reality. While preventing every intrusion is unrealistic, limiting its impact is achievable. This session explores how microsegmentation serves as a foundational control in implementing Zero Trust, helping organizations contain attacks and maintain business continuity.
Microsegmentation enables security teams to isolate workloads, users, and devices by creating fine-grained security zones across IT, IoT, and OT environments. When applied correctly, it prevents unauthorized lateral movement and reduces the blast radius of cyberattacks—especially crucial in hybrid and legacy infrastructures.
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