Mike presently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for Grand Canyon Education, responsible for leading the security team and formulating the vision and strategy for protecting students, staff and information assets across the enterprise. Previous experiences include serving as a threat prevention expert for Check Point and working as a consultant and analyst for other organizations.
He is also a co-author/contributor for the joint book project, Understanding New Security Threats published by Routledge in 2019, along with multiple articles/whitepapers. When not working, he spends time playing video games with his kids, practicing martial arts and doing anything outdoors.
Award-winning Cyber Security Strategist with demonstrated success creating and executing enterprise programs impacting internal and client operations. My strengths are defining strategies, building organizations and practices, and restructuring operations and teams. I recover and initiate cross-organizational programs. Colleagues know me as an outstanding communicator with ability to partner with internal and client executives, technology/business stakeholders, and process owners to introduce structured, sustainable processes.
Phoenix Cybersecurity Conference
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Live in Person @ Marriott Phoenix Airport
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
"I Tricked AI, and I Liked It"
Michael Manrod
Chief Information Security Officer Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
Mike presently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer for Grand Canyon Education, responsible for leading the security team and formulating the vision and strategy for protecting students, staff and information assets across the enterprise. Previous experiences include serving as a threat prevention expert for Check Point and working as a consultant and analyst for other organizations.
He is also a co-author/contributor for the joint book project, Understanding New Security Threats published by Routledge in 2019, along with multiple articles/whitepapers. When not working, he spends time playing video games with his kids, practicing martial arts and doing anything outdoors.
CISO/Industry Leader Panel
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
Kane Eustace
Chief Technology Officer
Bluebell Behavioral Health PLLC
Keith Stocks
VP, Third Party Cyber Risk Management Transformation and Governance Leader
State Street
Dr. Rebecca Wynn
Chief Cybersecurity Strategist & CISO
Click Solutions Group
Michael Manrod
Chief Information Security Officer
Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
Premier Platinum Sponsors
BullWall is a cybersecurity solution provider with a dedicated focus on protecting data and critical IT infrastructure during active ransomware attacks. We are able to contain both known and zero-day ransomware variants in seconds, preventing both data encryption and exfiltration. BullWall is your last line of defense for active attacks.
Gold Sponsors
Your developer’s laptop is just a hop away from cloud infrastructure. ☁️ Attackers don’t think in silos, so why would you have siloed solutions protecting public cloud, private cloud, containers, laptops, and servers? Uptycs reduces #risk by prioritizing your responses to threats, #vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive #data exposure, and compliance mandates across your modern attack surface—all from a single platform, UI, and data model. This includes the ability to tie together threat activity as it traverses on-prem and cloud boundaries, thus delivering a more cohesive enterprise-wide security posture. Looking for acronym coverage? We have that, too, including #CNAPP, #CWPP, #CSPM, #KSPM, #CIEM, #CDR, and #XDR. Start with your Detection Cloud, Google-like search, and the attack surface coverage you need today. Be ready for what’s next… and #ShiftUp with Uptycs.
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.
Versa is the modern secure network. Available via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both, Versa SASE connects Enterprise branches, teleworkers, and end users securely and reliably to applications in the cloud or data centers around the world.
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.
For organizations with valuable data or brand, Next Reveal is a user-centric data protection solution that uncovers risk, educates employees and fulfills security, compliance and regulatory needs. Unlike legacy DLP, Next is a flexible, cloud-native, AI/ML powered solution built for today’s threat landscape.
Data Theorem prevents AppSec data breaches. We provide SAST, DAST, & RASP for API Security, Web Security, Mobile Security, and Cloud Security. Our products provide Inventory (Discovery), Security Testing (SAST/DAST), and Active Protection (RASP) for APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, and SOAP), mobile apps (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), Web Apps (Web 2.0 & Single Page Apps), & Cloud Apps + CSPM (Serverless Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions). Data Theorem is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA., with offices in New York, Chicago, Boston, Paris, and London. For more information visit https://www.datatheorem.com.
Stellar Cyber, innovated the world’s first open eXtended Detection and Response (Open-XDR) security platform, piecing complex attacks together throughout the entire IT infrastructure and automatically respond to attacks wherever they occur. Open XDR natively integrates dozens of security capabilities and presents results in an intuitive dashboard to supercharge analyst productivity.
Silver Sponsors
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company™, delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises. Rubrik’s big idea is to provide data security and data protection on a single platform, including: Zero Trust Data Protection, ransomware investigation, incident containment, sensitive data discovery, and orchestrated application recovery. This means data is ready at all times so you can recover the data you need, and avoid paying a ransom. Because when you secure your data, you secure your applications, and you secure your business.
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.
Synopsys helps development teams build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Synopsys, a recognized leader in application security, provides static analysis, software composition analysis, and dynamic analysis solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Synopsys helps organizations optimize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.
For more information, go to synopsys.com/software
Critical Start Managed Cyber Risk Reduction solutions deliver continuous security cyber risk monitoring and mitigation enabling strong protection against threats. Combined with a team of expert risk mitigators, our platform provides maturity assessments, posture and event analytics, response capabilities, comprehensive threat intelligence, and security workload management capabilities. We help you achieve the highest level of cyber risk reduction for every dollar invested, leading to increased confidence in reaching your desired level of security posture.
Conceal enables organizations to protect users from malware and ransomware at the edge. Our Conceal Platform uses Zero Trust isolation technology to defend against sophisticated cyber threats. Conceal is used by Fortune 500 and government organizations to ensure users and IT operations remain secure, anonymous and isolated from cyber attacks.
eSentire, Inc. is the Authority in Managed Detection and Response, protecting the critical data and applications of 1500+ organizations in 80+ countries, representing 35 industries from known and unknown cyber threats. Founded in 2001, the company’s mission is to hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business disrupting events. Combining cutting-edge machine learning XDR technology, 24/7 Threat Hunting, and proven security operations leadership, eSentire mitigates business risk, and enables security at scale. The Team eSentire difference means enterprises are protected by the best in the business with a named Cyber Risk Advisor, 24/7 access to SOC Cyber Analysts, Elite Threat Hunters, and industry-leading threat intelligence research from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU). eSentire provides Managed Risk, Managed Detection and Response and Incident Response services. For more information, visit www.esentire.com and follow @eSentire.
BlackBerry is a leader in endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems, protecting enterprises and governments around the world. Our end-to-end approach is deeply rooted in Cylance® AI and machine learning, providing continuous preventative protection, detection, and instant response. We extend protection for your organization against current and future cyberthreats by combining network and endpoint telemetry and by delivering innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety, and data privacy.
LogicGate offers modern risk management technology empowering businesses to proactively transform risk enterprise-wide. Because risk is a team sport, we created the Risk Cloud Platform® — the most nimble and collaborative GRC solution out there. Rapidly adapt to changing business conditions. Confidently innovate and build new processes as you go. Collaborate on risk across your entire organization. Risk Cloud® gives you an interconnected view of risk across the organization that you just can’t get from point solutions. After all, great companies are built not by avoiding risks — but by choosing the right ones.
We are more than just a name – we are on a quest to make your information technology work harder for you. Our solutions simplify IT operations at more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Rely on us to help you turn data into insights quicker, modernize your infrastructure faster for the cloud, optimize the application experience and get control of every device that touches your network.
Accelerynt is a Microsoft Gold Partner, and a leading provider of security, ERP and IT solutions. Founded by a team of cybersecurity, IT and automation experts in 2018, Accelerynt brings together leaders in security operations, threat hunting, IT service management, ERP, and automation to enable teams to focus on making the most of their investments and quickly adding strategic value to their organizations. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Accelerynt empowers the best technology teams around the globe to work efficiently and focus on what matters.
Fastly is upgrading the internet experience to give people and organizations more control, faster content, and more dynamic applications. By combining the world’s fastest global edge cloud network with powerful software, Fastly helps customers develop, deliver, and secure modern distributed applications and compelling digital experiences. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub. For more information on our mission and products, visit https://www.fastly.com.
Netskope is the leader in cloud security. We help the world’s largest organizations take full advantage of the cloud and web without sacrificing security. Our patented Cloud XD technology eliminates blind spots by going deeper than any other security provider to quickly target and control activities across thousands of cloud services and millions of websites. With full control from one cloud, our customers benefit from 360-degree data protection that guards data everywhere and advanced threat protection that stops elusive attacks. At Netskope, we call this smart cloud security.
Partners
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.
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.
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.
Agenda
Times are subject to change
Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking
Security Blindspots
Communicating Risk
Sponsor Networking Time
Tricks for Endpoint Security
Building a Response Strategy
Sponsor Networking Time
Lunch
Keynote
"I Tricked AI, and I Liked It"
Sponsor Networking Time
Current Risk Management
What is Cloud Security
Sponsor Networking Time
Defending Against Data Breeches
Identifying Threats in your Workplace
Sponsor Networking Time
Panel Discussion
“Cybersecurity Leaders and Experts on Current Cyberthreats and Practices”
