The team at Bulletproof is passionate about helping organizations gain a competitive edge to enable their growth and help them reach new heights of productivity and efficiency—securely. We hope to see you for our 10th annivesary in 2021!
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Today, the world is adapting, rethinking, reinvigorating and reinventing every aspect of how we live, work, communicate, collaborate, learn, transact business, and even socialize. Right now, we are challenging assumptions that have held true for years, decades, or even centuries at an accelerating pace.
This degree of creative disruption has never been seen before. The digital transformation of our society has also passed a point of no return—going back to paper was once an inconvenient option to fall back upon, but it is just no longer viable in many industries. As new norms evolve, iterative approaches to improvements in cybersecurity will simply not keep up. Our challenge and our opportunity will be to adapt and reimagine security for an era of Advanced Persistent Transformation.
Join Kevin Magee, Microsoft Canada’s Chief Security and Compliance Officer, to explore these evolving collective trends and hear Microsoft’s strategy on how to create resiliency and secure the “new normal”.
Traditional defense-in-depth cybersecurity architecture—like the military tactic it’s named after—only slows attacks by intelligent cybercriminals. Even the best multiple-point security solutions can’t entirely stop them.
These attacks are getting smarter and more frequent. As more workloads (and data) move into the cloud, the stakes get higher. A data breach is not an acceptable risk. The amount of overall visibility your IT team has into your cybersecurity architecture only helps if they can actually respond to all the threats they see coming.
In many organizations, the number of security incidents is so high and the responses require so much manual intervention that the security teams just cannot keep up. The only way to improve this is to be able to respond faster. The only realistic way to accomplish this is through automation.
In this keynote, you’ll learn:
Take this opportunity to refill your cup of java, network with other attendees and visit our Partner Showcase for Live Q&A and more!
12:10PM - 12:25PM EDT
If you haven’t done so already, throw your long-term plan to enable remote work in the trash. COVID-19 forced organizations to pick up the implementation pace from a crawl to a sprint to ensure the safety of their workers.
As we so often see in the wild, when we force employees to choose between productivity and security, we put our business data at risk. Trying to solve this problem in the midst of a massive workforce shift can feel impossible.
Your organization can survive the rush of remote work deployment and improve your security posture around a new virtual space for large group conversations, shared collaboration on information documents, and accessing resources remotely in a hybrid model.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Many businesses are now faced with the reality that their staff are not physically able to come to work due to COVID-19 restrictions. This has strained productivity, security, and morale as employees find it difficult to get their work done at home, or worse, find themselves furloughed because they can’t work remotely.
This session will discuss a solution that is adaptable for a large cross-section of businesses across many verticals. It can be used as a roadmap and guideline to make your business functional, secure, and efficient—no office required!
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Business
Irfan Khan
Solutions Architect
Bulletproof
12:25PM - 1:00PM EDT
Technology evolves fast. Security risks evolve faster. Many companies try to shore up their defenses by hiring third-party ethical hackers to test their security posture. This valuable exercise helps companies tighten security controls by finding cracks in their networks and systems.
We’ve performed hundreds of security assessments and penetration tests across a range of verticals, and (like any cybersecurity expert worth their salt) we’ve seen some predictable patterns emerge. In this session, we’ll cover the top 5 mistakes that compromise corporate networks—and, more importantly, tell you how not to make them.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Technical
Stretch your legs, get a snack and take a peak into our Partner Showcase—we'll be back in 15 minutes!
1:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
No matter how advanced your security infrastructure is, the truth remains: the greatest threat to your corporate data already has access to it. Often, an insider “attack” is the result of negligence caused by poor employee security awareness. Sometimes, though, insider attacks are purposeful and malicious, and these can be more damaging than any breach from the outside.
Activities such as IP theft, sensitive information leakage, and regulatory violations are difficult challenges for a dynamic workplace. This session will help attendees understand how to balance a modern collaborative environment with these challenges through Microsoft insider risk management and communication compliance. You’ll get a firsthand look at the tools available and how they can be used to protect your organization.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Technical + Business
Is your custom business application secure, easy-to-manage, and infinitely scalable? It can be. In this session, businesses can gain a deeper understanding of the broad range of Microsoft 365 Apps and Azure Cloud Services designed to quickly build custom serverless applications.
Learn how non-technical staff can build workflows to automate business processes, and discover how pro developers can build complex business applications using microservices in the cloud.
In this session, you’ll learn:
In this session, you'll learn:
Audience: Technical
Time to refuel and gear up for the next round of breakout sessions; be sure to stop into our Partner Showcase!
1:50PM - 2:05PM EDT
Businesses of all sizes can empower their SecOps team by building and operating a natively integrated security platform that can automatically detect and remediate security threats. Learning how to leverage the Microsoft Security Stack can also provide advanced threat investigation capabilities.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Technical
What makes an IT security pro? Often, it’s a matter of opinion. CyberSecure Canada is establishing a standard developed in coordination with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). This standard aims to raise the cybersecurity baseline among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Canada.
SMEs are the backbone of the Canadian economy, and protecting this sector is critical to protecting the country. This session dives into why this new standard is important, what is included in the certification, and why it matters to your business.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Moving to the cloud presents an opportunity to rethink traditional business communications. The continuing global pandemic has shown businesses that it’s possible to communicate and collaborate effectively from home (or anywhere) using tools like Microsoft Teams.
So why are we desperately hanging on to legacy phone systems? Send them the way of the fax machine (and save on overhead) by using Teams as the primary calling method for your business.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Technical + Business
One last break before the final sessions; don't miss your chance to engage with Partners at our Partner Showcase including Microsoft, HPE, and DataComm.
2:40PM - 2:55PM EDT
Nigel Melanson
Senior Technical Architect
Bulletproof
Mike Hilton
VP & GM of Hybrid IT
HPE
2:55PM - 3:30PM EDT
Today’s unpredictable workload demands a data center architecture that is flexible and scalable on-demand. Through the use of Hybrid Cloud architectures, your organization can benefit from flexible migrations to the cloud with the ability to keep some workloads on-premises. By using a Hybrid Cloud architecture with Microsoft Azure and HPE server and storage infrastructure, you can easily deploy and manage these demands.
In this session, you’ll learn:
• Hybrid vs. Cloud-native workload use cases
Audience: Technical
Is your ability to earn revenue hindered by travel restrictions? What if you could deliver your service remotely? Even better, what if you could deliver it to customers without even being present? Could you make your revenue immune to the next wave?
Confused? Curious? Excited? This session will open your mind on how to use your Subject Matter Expertise—your IP—to create expanded revenue streams that simply are not possible or scalable in a consulting or onsite delivery model. The opportunities have always existed, but COVID-19 has created the pause where companies have chosen to (or have been forced to) re-evaluate their delivery model.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Business
Learn the basics of Windows Virtual Desktop, a Windows Enterprise licensed capability in Azure. Windows Virtual Desktop can provide affordable virtualization-to-scale across scenarios such as elastic workforce, business continuity, and BYOD strategies on your existing Hybrid model.
This session will cover the essentials of design, management, and security, plus how to scale from a crawl to a sprint.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Audience: Technical
Closing Remarks. Thank you to all attendees and partners for participating!
3:30PM - 3:35PM EDT
Presenting Partner Keynote: Microsoft
Bulletproof Keynote
YES! The Bulletproof Roadshow is FREE thanks to the generous support of our partners!
YES! On-demand versions of both keynotes and all breakout sessions will be made available. Attendees will receive access via emai after the virtual conference.
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If you have any issues at ANY time during our virtual conference, please reach out immediately.
Email: athea.costello@bulletproofsi.com | Phone: 902.210.4621
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"The Roadshow was run really well, you had people there to give the right workshops and it was packed with a good mix of people and well-appointed guest speakers!”
“You brought so much useful information to me in one day. All of these things are on my plate so coming here and getting some access/info all at once was great.”
“New relevant topics and the UPDATES on old issues - it is like an annual IT retreat for non practioners (we are users).”
“Took a few things back to the office that I can actually use. Good investment of time.”
“I liked how there was so many options for attendees. Was nice to « customize » according to each person!”
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