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May
4
Wed
IT Hot Topics Conference 2016 @ Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Conference Center
May 4 – May 6 all-day
IT Hot Topics Conference 2016 @ Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Conference Center | Morrisville | North Carolina | United States

The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.

This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.

Read more about this year’s conference.

Aug
12
Fri
Fortinet Training: Fast & Secure Tour @ Brier Creek Commons
Aug 12 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm

Join our partner Fortinet for an in-depth four hour technical training followed by a network cocktail reception.

Carolina Advanced Digital is a Platinum Fortinet Partner offering consulting and integration of a breadth of security solutions.

Agenda
10:30am- Registration on the FortiExpress
11:00am-3:00pm- 5.4 Boot Camp Training; Customers and Partners Welcome; Lunch will be served (boxed or catered inside truck)
3:00pm-5:00pm – Networking Cocktail Reception at Brier Creek Beer Garden with appetizers (other local venue)

FortiOS 5.4 delivers Faster Time to Resolution through visibility and control enhancements, new security integrations and services, and performance boosting improvements to enable internal segmentation firewall deployments.

Seats are limited!

Section 1 – Basics
• TFTP Boot Process
• Switching changes in FortiOS
• New FlatUI overview and VDOM changes
• Transparent vs NAT mode changes
• Lab
Section 2 – Policy
• Policy changes and enhancements
• The New Internet Services Database- ISDB
• Revamped Traffic Shaping
• Vwire
• SSL Inspection
• Lab
Section 3 – ATP
• Lifecycle of a Virus
• Compact Pattern Recognition Language (CPRL)
• Proxy Mode vs Flow Mode
• ATP Integration
• Botnet Mitigation
• Test Your Metal
• Lab
Section 4 – Advanced
• FortiView
• ADVPN
• DNS Profiles
• WAF
• Link Load Balancing
• Lab
**Please bring a laptop with wired ethernet port, DB9 serial port and terminal software.

Aug
8
Tue
Crash Courses- Fayetteville, NC @ Scrub Oaks
Aug 8 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Crash Courses- Fayetteville, NC @ Scrub Oaks | Fayetteville | North Carolina | United States

Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure

Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.

Who should attend:
•    Security analysts, engineers, directors
•    Cyber security awareness and training managers
•    Network and wireless admins and managers
•    Server, storage, and datacenter managers
•    Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
•    Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects

Dates and locations:
•    Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
•    Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
•    Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC

Aug
9
Wed
Crash Courses- Wilmington, NC @ Hops Supply Co.
Aug 9 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Crash Courses- Wilmington, NC @ Hops Supply Co. | Wilmington | North Carolina | United States

Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure

Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.

Who should attend:
•    Security analysts, engineers, directors
•    Cyber security awareness and training managers
•    Network and wireless admins and managers
•    Server, storage, and datacenter managers
•    Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
•    Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects

Dates and locations:
•    Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
•    Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
•    Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC

Aug
10
Thu
Crash Courses- New Bern, NC @ Baker's Kitchen
Aug 10 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Crash Courses- New Bern, NC @ Baker's Kitchen  | New Bern | North Carolina | United States

Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure

Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.

Who should attend:
•    Security analysts, engineers, directors
•    Cyber security awareness and training managers
•    Network and wireless admins and managers
•    Server, storage, and datacenter managers
•    Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
•    Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects

Dates and locations:
•    Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
•    Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
•    Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC

Mar
18
Sun
Infosec World CISO Leadership Summit @ Disney's Contemporary Resort
Mar 18 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

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

 

Apr
24
Wed
IT Hot Topics Conference 2019 @ Grandover Resort & Conference Center
Apr 24 – Apr 26 all-day
IT Hot Topics Conference 2019 @ Grandover Resort & Conference Center | Morrisville | North Carolina | United States

The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.

This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.

Read more about this year’s conference.

Apr
28
Tue
Date TBD: IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 @ Grandover Resort & Conference Center
Apr 28 – May 1 all-day
Date TBD: IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 @ Grandover Resort & Conference Center | Morrisville | North Carolina | United States

IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 is being rescheduled due to COVID-19.

The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.

This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.

Call for Speakers – https://www.papercall.io/itht2020

May
19
Tue
Mist 1/2 Day Bootcamp on AI @ Virtual
May 19 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Mist 1/2 Day Bootcamp on AI @ Virtual

See what the buzz is about! If you haven’t heard of Mist (now a Juniper company) you should join us Tuesday, May 19th for a free half-day bootcamp on the new Mist technology including topics on security, remote access, and more. I’ve highlighted a few of our team’s recommended don’t-miss sessions in bold for you.

Carolina Advanced Digital is a Mist Masters partner. Join us for this half-day bootcamp featuring everything you need to know to break free from the shackles of your legacy network architecture.

  • 15 engaging and entertaining workshops
  • Jam-packed with FREE GEAR! We’re giving away a free AP + other prizes at every “drill”
  • Bonus: Send us your controller config and we’ll send you a Mist Cloud Org with YOUR config replicated, so you can see it in action by the end of the day. You’ll even get a free Mist AP with your newly created Org.* (restrictions apply)

Sessions include
• Transitioning Your Controller Network to cloud? (30min)
• Remote Worker 101 (30min)
• What is the Self-Driving Network? Let’s get real about it! (30min)
• API Automation Customer Examples – Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 (30min)
• Mist Architecture – A behind the scenes look at Mist cloud (30min)
• Marvis Deep Dive & Roadmap (30min)
• How to Measure Wireless Experience w/ Service Levels (30min)
• Wired Experience Service Levels & Roadmap (30min)
• EX ZTP & Configuration with Mist Dashboard (30min)
• Guest Access (15min)
• Policy Configurations and Interoperability with Aruba Clearpass and Cisco ISE (15min)
• Auto provisioning with Mist (15min)
• Bonjour Gateway & Other Exciting Roadmap Elements (15min)
• Wireless IDS / IPS Security (15min)
• AI-Powered Radio Resource Management (15min)

Register

Dec
17
Thu
Security-Driven Networking for K12 with Fortinet @ Virtual
Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Security-Driven Networking for K12 with Fortinet @ Virtual

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
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