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Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

Strategies to help protect and recover your organization’s most critical data.

November 17, 2022

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

     

Overview

Your system crashing is inevitable! Never mind the reason. The goal is to make sure you have an infrastructure that is as resilient as possible so that it can meet business needs in the event of a disaster. There are steps you can take to maximize your availability and prevent significant downtime.

The content of this one day conference will help you in determining the right level of availability protection, how to design, implement, test and get management buy-in for a highly reliable network infrastructure.

Who Should Attend:

  • CIOs/VPs/Directors
  • DR Managers
  • Infrastructure & Security Managers

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Cloud Architecture: DR in the Cloud, DC Failover in Near Real Time
  • Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization
  • Reducing the Cost of DR and Lowering Your Risk Profile
  • Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery
  • Value of Investment – Balancing Data Corruption, Disaster Recovery, and Cost
  • Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion)

Conference Price: $299.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Conference Program

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: Designing Cloud Disaster Recovery to Empower Cloud Migrations

Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Unity

Sumar

 

10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: Defending Critical Infrastructure Against Cyberattacks

Alexandra Weaver, Solutions Architect, Semperis

Studies from Mandiant and CERT-W show that cyberattackers favor stolen user account identities and Active Directory vulnerabilities as means to compromise organizations’ networks. Proactively protecting your critical identity infrastructure is vital not just to disaster recovery but to your overall operational resilience.

In this presentation, you’ll learn:

  • Why identity systems are so valuable to cyberattackers
  • How attackers are evolving social engineering and other attacks to target identity
  • How to reduce attack vectors through data classification, defense-in-depth (DiD), layering, and Zero Trust security models
  • How to prevent attackers from exploiting default Active Directory configurations
  • How to use identity security solutions to minimize the identity attack surface

Weaver

 

11:30am – 12:30pm: Fireside Chat: Organizational Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity


Jeff Roseman, Group Vice President, Information Technology, Marmon Foodservice Technologies

Roseman

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Luncheon and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Surviving Unexpected Storms – Business Continuity Lessons Learned In The Wilderness

Patrick Benson, Systems Engineer – North Central, Veeam Software

Checklists, redundant hardware and developing advanced skills are all part of a good Business Continuity practice. They are also fundamental to surviving in the great outdoors. Learn how camping, hiking and kayaking have all helped one IT professional develop his Business Continuity skills. By explaining the parallels that exist between basic survival skills and designing infrastructure you will gain insight into how to build more resilient organizations.

Benson

 

2:30pm – 3:00pm Refreshment Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Stay One Step Ahead of Ransomware with Large Scale Recovery

Kris Queen, Manager, Enterprise Systems Engineering, Pure Storage

Queen

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion)

In this session attendees will learn how to better set expectations with the business by getting ahead of the curve with a BC/DR first mentality towards every initiative.

Areas that will be covered:

  • How to start with a BC/DR first mentality
  • How to review the plan with the business
  • Adjusting for new business application priorities
  • How the teams should respond together in the wake of a disaster

Moderator:  Johnny Walker, Chief Solutions Officer, Top Gun Technology

Panelists include:

  • Julie Rolfe, Sr. IT Delivery Consultant, Zurich Insurance
  • Raymond Parpart, Director, Data Center Strategy & Operations, University of Chicago
  • Sergey Chernov, Segment CIO, Illinois Tool Works
  • Other Executives from IT departments sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned

 

 

Walker                                           Rolfe                                    Parpart                            Chernov

Conference Price: $299.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS