At this year’s Infosec World CISO Leadership Summit, Carolina Advanced Digital’s VP of Engineering switches roles and presents on topics of mindfulness-based leadership for infosec professionals, and navigating through change.

In today’s high-stakes cybersecurity environment, chief information security officers must be more than technology and people managers. An effective CISO is a combination of business leader, risk visionary, technology translator and team mentor and enabler. If this sounds different than the technology-focused infosec path of the past, that’s because it is. To be an effective leader, security practitioners must become strategists who can look across the entire organization—its technology and people—and identify vulnerabilities proactively. These vulnerabilities, though, aren’t what you will find in the CVE; instead, leaders understand that running a proactive, capable security organization starts with people and processes. And to accomplish that, the CISO her/himself must first possess the leadership skills and tools to inspire those around them.

Attend the CISO Leadership Summit to participate in this interactive day of learning with peers, and take home new techniques and ideas to inspire and lead your organization.

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM 
Inside & Out: Mindfulness-Based Leadership
Jennifer Minella, Vice President of Engineering & Security, Carolina Advanced Digital

Leaders in any organization aren’t necessarily the people on top of the org chart. Take a break from the conference mayhem and join peers for a candid session on leading from all sides including from within, using mindfulness to increase performance and efficiency in the workplace, increasing EQ, and building a toolset for bringing mindfulness to your professional life.

Take-away skills include a new level of listening and engaging, differentiating reactions from responses, and tips and tricks for finding the time and space each day to focus on the most important tasks.

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM 
The Pace of Change: Building a Change Culture, How to Lead Teams through Change
Jennifer Minella, Vice President of Engineering & Security, Carolina Advanced Digital

“Nothing endures but change.” The popular quote summarizes Heraclitus’ understanding that change was central to the universe. Yet, the complex human brain is often change averse, and leading oneself through change is challenging enough. The prospect of leading a team or entire organization through change may seem insurmountable. Leading through change means taking an inside-out approach and effectively wielding the weapons of culture and communication in managing conflict and complexity throughout change—at every level.

Build your toolset for leading through change, creating a change culture and managing the risks while reaping rewards.

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM 
Workshop: Board Level Communications Challenges and Opportunities
Tony Spinelli, Chief Operating Officer, Fractal Industries, Inc

Demonstrating the progress of your program, strategy, and your personal leadership brand are some of the challenges and opportunities you have to build credibility and confidence with your company’s Board of Directors and executive management. It’s become the norm for cybersecurity leaders to meet with a company’s Board of Directors on a regular basis, and it’s your one opportunity in the spotlight to demonstrate your leadership and command of risk management and cybersecurity.

The Board’s responsibility is oversight and governance for what has been identified as a top risk for nearly every company: cybersecurity. With that in mind, security leaders should expect to be incredibly challenged and receive deep inquiry about the dimensions of your program, the program’s maturity against your peers, and how you and your program have addressed the most recent cybersecurity threats.

Given these challenges we’ll discuss the methods to effectively articulate your program’s maturity, risks and threats, and how to best communicate cybersecurity leadership, risk management and demonstrate well-managed stewardship.

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Networking Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM 
Workshop: Understand Yourself and Your Team for Greater Success
Todd Fitzgerald, Managing Director, CISO Spotlight

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM 
What Kind of Leader Do You Need to Be?
Tony Spinelli, Chief Operating Officer, Fractal Industries, Inc

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM 
Essential Privacy Principles Every CISO Must Know
Todd Fitzgerald, Managing Director, CISO Spotlight

Automating Your Security Ecosystem with LogRhythm,
Fortinet, and Bradford Networks

This is a great opportunity to join your peers and industry leaders at events hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital covering Security Automation with Fortinet, LogRhythm, and Bradford Networks.

Trends and technologies covered:
• User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
• Security Information Event Management (SIEM)
• Network Access Control (NAC)
• Next Generation Firewalls and integrated Security Fabric
• Security Automation roundtable discussion

Join us for the full day, or just a portion.

Dates and locations
• Tuesday, April 24th @ Childress Vineyards, Lexington, NC
• Wednesday, April 25th @ Chatham Hill Winery, Cary, NC

Agenda:
9:30-10:00 Registration and breakfast (breakfast provided)
10:00-10:20 Introduction by Carolina Advanced Digital
10:20-11:50 Fortinet Security
12:00-1:15 Lunch & Learn with LogRhythm (lunch provided)
1:25- 2:45 Bradford Networks
2:45- 3:15 Security Automation – Roundtable Discussion
3:25 Wine Tasting

Who should attend:
• Security analysts, internal testing, and incident response teams
• Firewall, network and wireless admins and managers
• Security professionals interested in the latest SIEM and UEBA technologies
• Professionals interested in the latest network access control (NAC) technologies
• Enterprise and mid-size organizations in all industries
• Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
• Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, threat visibility, incident response, and security intelligence projects

Automating Your Security Ecosystem with LogRhythm,
Fortinet, and Bradford Networks

This is a great opportunity to join your peers and industry leaders at events hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital covering Security Automation with Fortinet, LogRhythm, and Bradford Networks.

Trends and technologies covered:
• User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
• Security Information Event Management (SIEM)
• Network Access Control (NAC)
• Next Generation Firewalls and integrated Security Fabric
• Security Automation roundtable discussion

Join us for the full day, or just a portion.

Dates and locations
• Tuesday, April 24th @ Childress Vineyards, Lexington, NC
• Wednesday, April 25th @ Chatham Hill Winery, Cary, NC

Agenda:
9:30-10:00 Registration and breakfast (breakfast provided)
10:00-10:20 Introduction by Carolina Advanced Digital
10:20-11:50 Fortinet Security
12:00-1:15 Lunch & Learn with LogRhythm (lunch provided)
1:25- 2:45 Bradford Networks
2:45- 3:15 Security Automation – Roundtable Discussion
3:25 Wine Tasting

Who should attend:
• Security analysts, internal testing, and incident response teams
• Firewall, network and wireless admins and managers
• Security professionals interested in the latest SIEM and UEBA technologies
• Professionals interested in the latest network access control (NAC) technologies
• Enterprise and mid-size organizations in all industries
• Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
• Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, threat visibility, incident response, and security intelligence projects

Join us for the first of our Thursday Tech Talk series with the Carolina Advanced Digital crew. In this episode, we have a friend from Mist joining us to talk about returning safely to work with contact and proximity tracing inside the organization, how it’s different than the public-private app partnerships, and then we’ll hop over to a demo of Mist’s AI-based Wi-Fi, show you what’s going on in our office, and offer a sneak peek at some upcoming news.

Join Tech Talk episode 4 with the Carolina Advanced Digital crew. In this episode, Jen along with Dan and Mark (or whoever she can grab) will take a look back at the chaos of COVID-19 as organizations scrambled to work through remote access and the cleanup we need to do afterwards. Hosted by Jennifer Minella.

eRate 2021: Fortinet Solutions Overview for K12 (firewalls, remote access, and more). Based on your pre-event survey of topic interests, we’ll talk about some or all of the following:

• Firewalls, filtering, and gateway security
• When and how to use sandbox technology for K12
  
• Email security
• When and why you need SSL inspection
• Secure remote access
• SD-WAN
• Other security, NAC, SIEM
• Q&A

Our customer-favorite Crash Course event is back! We are hosting this FREE one-day event at Footnote (Foothills Brewing) in Winston-Salem, NC on Wednesday, November 9th. Registration is limited to make sure you get the most out of the sessions. Carolina Advanced Digital will be joined by partners Arctic Wolf & Barracuda to bring you the newest industry updates in cybersecurity operations, web application security, and more.

Who should attend:
•    Security analysts, engineers, directors
•    Network and wireless admins and managers
•    Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
•    Anyone with cyber security, networking, web application or other security projects

Date and location:
•    Wednesday, November 9th @ Footnote (Foothills Brewing), Winston-Salem, NC

Registration
Free
Limited seats- Please email your account manager or sales  (at)  cadinc.com to request an invite.

Fortinet Teleworker Solution Workshop: Engineered for Remote and Secure Productivity with ZTNA (virtual)

Join Carolina Advanced Digital and Fortinet for a virtual workshop: How can you securely support a remote workforce and maintain business continuity in an ever-changing business environment?

Learn how Fortinet solutions offer an integrated solution to support telework. FortiGate Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) have built-in support for ZTNA and IPsec VPNs, enabling remote workers to connect securely to the company network. With endpoint protection provided by FortiClient Fabric Agent and multifactor authentication (MFA) with FortiAuthenticator, organizations can securely support remote work and maintain business continuity.

Class registration is limited – we’ll have a small group to make sure you get the most out of the workshop. All that’s required to participate is a laptop/computer with a browser and Internet access.

Registration
Free
Limited seats- Please email your account manager or sales  (at)  cadinc.com to request an invite.