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

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

Security Innovation- It’s in the DNA

A special event for federal agency attendees.

When
Wednesday, July 18
10:00am-1:00pm
(lunch provided)

Where
The International Spy Museum
800 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

About
Join Carolina Advanced Digital and HPI at the International Spy Museum for the
HP System and Printing Security Event.

You’re invited to a special event hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and partner
HP Inc. featuring the HPI “SURE” family of system security solutions and the most
secure laptops and printing available today.

::: REGISTER OR GET MORE INFO :::

Federal attendees Register at  https://conta.cc/2lfaMU0
Get more information https://conta.cc/2K2CEZu

::: ABOUT YOUR HOST :::

Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. is a security-focused HP partner, with HP solutions
on both GSA and SEWP V GSS contracts.

Carolina Advanced Digital is involved with the SoT planning committee and will be attending the event.

In today’s technology-dependent world, the importance of Cyber Security continues to come to the forefront. Cyber attacks are a threat at all levels, from individuals, to government agencies, to businesses of all sizes and industries. At NC TECH’s 2019 State of Technology Conference, we will explore Cyber Security and how it impacts all facets of our lives, and look to future trends and how we can prepare ourselves.

More than 600 security, IT and business leaders from across sectors and functional roles will gather May 10 at our flagship tech conference for a day of engaging keynotes, interactive panel discussions, a fast paced pitch competition from tech startups and an exhibit showcase. A pre-conference reception will be held the evening prior, on May 9.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

• Artificial Intelligence + Cyber Security – How to use AI to Prevent, Detect & Contain Threats?
• Cyber Security Readiness – Is Your Business Cyber Resilient?
• Data Breaches Are a Matter of When, Not If – Lessons Learned from Real Cyber Attacks
• From the C-Suite to the Front Lines – Is Cyber Security a Priority for Your Organization?
• Human Risk + Vulnerability – Can You Close the Human Gaps in Your Security Plan?
• The Cyber Security Talent Gap – Can You Find the Right Security Team?

STARTUP SHOWCASE

NC TECH will incorporate a STARTUP SHOWCASE by selecting 6 tech startup companies with innovative security technologies to present on stage. Selected companies will be given a 5 minute timeslot to present to general attendance, 2 complimentary registrations, exhibit space and lots of visibility leading up to the event. Event attendees will vote to select one startup to win a prize package consisting of cash and in-kind services.

Date and Time

Kick off your eRate expedition with our engineering team covering what you need to know for planning your wired, wireless, and security projects for K12. We’ll cover highlights of these vendor-neutral topics and provide a brief introduction to our company, team, and contracts you can use including NC 204X and DPI.

• What’s New in Wi-Fi: K12 edition
• What to consider for your next edge switch upgrade to support IoT and upcoming Wi-Fi
• Considerations when moving to the cloud for network services
• Security hot topics for schools in 2021

Kick off your eRate expedition with our engineering team covering what you need to know for planning your wired, wireless, and security projects for K12. We’ll cover highlights of these vendor-neutral topics and provide a brief introduction to our company, team, and contracts you can use including NC 204X and DPI.

• What’s New in Wi-Fi: K12 edition
• What to consider for your next edge switch upgrade to support IoT and upcoming Wi-Fi
• Considerations when moving to the cloud for network services
• Security hot topics for schools in 2021

eRate 2021: Aruba Solutions Overview for K12 (Wi-Fi, edge switches, and ClearPass). Based on your pre-event feedback, we’ll cover some or all of the following topics:

• Aruba WiFi 6 solutions
• Aruba WiFi management options, Central Cloud, AirWave, and controllers
• New and upcoming from Aruba (what to expect after your funding and ordering)
• New Aruba CX edge switches and NetEdit
• Brief overview of Aruba ClearPass for authentication and NAC
• Q&A

eRate 2021: Mist & Juniper Solutions Overview for K12 (Wi-Fi, edge switches, and Marvis)

• Mist’s AI-driven network management and benefits of the cloud
• Deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting Wi-Fi with Mist cloud
• Comparison of pricing and features to other solutions and architectures (e.g. controller)
• Short intro to managing edge switches in the cloud
• Optional location services plus contact and proximity tracing (with built-in BLE array)
• Q&A

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

October 4 @ 10am Eastern: Live Demo with RealCISO Cyber Risk Platform

Join us for a live demo and Q&A series. Each month, we’re diving into a specific compliance requirement and will show you how the RealCISO platform will streamline your assessments. RealCISO is a powerful software platform that enables leaders to understand and manage their organization’s security posture and reduce cyber risk, all in just a few clicks. Here’s what we have planned for June:

• Platform overview and general demo
• Deep dive into HIPAA Readiness & identifying gaps that your organization would need to fill to be HIPAA compliant

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 10:00am-11:00am ET

Register Today: https://bit.ly/37Hghqq