Security in Microsoft Azure: Understanding the Shared Responsibility Paradigm

As hybrid IT environments become the new normal, IT leaders must change their approach to designing and delivering enterprise-wide DRaaS solutions. Disaster recovery solutions must now align with the transformation of production environments to interconnect services, various cloud providers, and IoT, all while securing business-critical data from increasing cyberthreats. For IBM POWER and complex mainframe computing and cloud environments, traditional disaster recovery strategies may not be enough to support today’s business recovery objectives. DR testing the most critical applications once or twice per year is potentially insufficient and has created challenges for IT organizations to demonstrate their ability to meet RTOs and RPOs and have the confidence to invoke their DR plan should an outage occur. Join us for a discussion focused on how a change in thinking about DRaaS solutions can yield unprecedented business resumption capabilities including how to:

• Overcome challenges associated with hot sites and bare metal restores
• Benefit from an automated, always-on recovery system
• Avoid hassles and problems when testing your recovery systems
• Make hybrid a reality with industry-leading partners in IBM and x86 recovery

The session will be led by Orry Dubois, Chief Technology Officer at ZPX Cloud. Orry is a 30-year veteran in the disaster recovery (DR) industry and has held various management and leadership roles with multiple DR service providers including Sungard and IBM. PJ Farmer, Director of Product Management at TierPoint, will help review some case studies to understand how this new way of thinking solved our shared clients’ business problems and drove real results.

Today’s mobile workforce accesses data from a variety of devices and cloud applications, opening the door for cyber criminals to use compromised identities to damage your organization. IT security teams must now face the reality of being able to protect users and devices anywhere. Shifting focus from traditional security boundaries, the rapid adoption of cloud applications and BYOD has made identity the new perimeter. Solutions like Microsoft’s Office 365 with Enterprise Mobility + Security offer an expansive portfolio of security services to centralize and manage access and identities. Join us for a discussion focused on the core tools and best practices to help protect your users and your business, including how to:
- Protect access to devices and applications with Azure Active Directory
- Manage company-owned and bring your own (BYO) devices with Intune
- Provide extra security with multi-factor authentication
- Gain visibility into your cloud apps and services with Cloud Application Security

The session will be led by Matt Tabor, Director of Product Management at TierPoint. Matt has 20 years of experience working with cloud and managed services organizations in various management, consulting, and engineering roles. He currently provides strategic direction around TierPoint’s Managed Services and Cloud Platform including a managed security offering for Office 365 using Enterprise Mobility and Security services from Microsoft.

BraveIT is an interactive, thought leadership event designed for the modern IT professional happening on 9.19.19 in New York City aboard the Intrepid Seam Air & Space Museum. This livestream features two of our mainstage sessions:

*INSPECTION! The 2020 Security & Compliance Audit*

The Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, 5G network deployments, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, software-defined networking (SDN), public clouds, hybrid infrastructure - what do all of these have in common? They are all experiencing explosive growth. Businesses will benefit from growth in these areas, but with more opportunities come new compliance and cybersecurity challenges. IT decision-makers will need to evolve at a pace matching these new opportunities (and risks). It’s easier said than done, though. How do you keep up with day-to-day IT operations while accounting for new advancements in technology and new trends?

TierPoint’s Chief Security Officer and Certified Ethical Hacker, Paul Mazzucco, leads a discussion with Forrester Analyst, Renee Murphy, to understand the latest strategies and tactics surrounding cybersecurity and IT compliance.

*With a Little Help from My Friends: IT Leaders Trade Stories & Secrets*

A large percentage of businesses – small and large – are undergoing some form of digital transformation, essential for them to stay competitive. But digital transformation may mean something different depending on the type of businesses and industry. Some prioritize their IT transformation efforts to make their IT organization more efficient and positioned for revenue generation.

Microsoft leads a discussion with a panel of IT leaders who have stories to tell about their current digital & IT transformation efforts (security, cloud migration, disaster recovery, budgets and human resources). Panelists include: Clearsense, Connection, Christian Broadcast Network, and New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

BraveIT is an interactive, thought leadership event designed for the modern IT professional happening on 9.19.19 in New York City aboard the Intrepid Seam Air & Space Museum. This livestream features two of our mainstage sessions:

*What 5G Really Means for IT*
For customers, 5G will mean faster speed and better coverage. For carriers, it means more customers and more towers. For IT, it means something else. There may be some not-so-immediately-obvious impacts from the new technology, like heavier loads on your applications and infrastructure due to the easier access to faster speeds, new sources of data (like IoT, Machine Learning and AI), and ensuring you have the right talent to handle the changes. In this session, we join IT experts in a discussion on the implications and solutions to adapting to the new networking technology.

Moderated by TierPoint CRO Tony Rossabi, the panel will feature LiveNation SVP Network, Gabriel Sassoon; PCCW Global CEO, Marc Halbfinger; CenturyLink, SVP, Core Network & Technology Solutions, Paul Savill; and IBM Cloud Global Offering Executive, Gabriel Montanti.

*Battle Royale: Hyperscale vs. Hyperconverged*
Hyperscale (a.k.a., public) clouds have been all the rage. But as more businesses look to the cloud for their data and applications, they’re asking some tough questions: “Is public cloud more economical than private cloud in all cases? Which type of cloud best addresses my company’s unique needs? How does hyperconverged infrastructure change the equation? Are we properly staffed to manage any of the options?” Industry experts and IT leaders will tackle these and similar questions, to help you make the best decision for your business.

Moderated by TierPoint President & CFO Mary Meduski the panel will feature Compass Datacenters Founder & CEO Chris Crosby; Nutanix COO, David Sangster; Goldman Sachs Managing Director, Technology, Media and Telecom, Jason Tofsky; Cowen’s Colby Synesael; and Upstack Chief Strategy Officer, Jeff August

Organization under attack. Users locked out. Systems taken offline. Data at risk.
Ransomware attacks continue to make headlines and impact organizations of all types and sizes. A recent study found that business detections of ransomware attacks have skyrocketed 235 percent since early 2018. With this dramatic increase in attacks, it seems like a good time to talk to our resident security expert about ransomware. Why are these attacks increasing? Despite the visibility, risks, and costs of attacks, how are so many organizations still vulnerable? What can you do to defend your data from this threat? In this webinar, you’ll learn more about this hacker fan favorite including:
- Ransomware fundamentals – what is it and how does it work?
- Ransomware in the news.
- How to prevent ransomware.
- How to recover from ransomware attacks.

Key takeaways from this session include:
• What is trending in software-defined networking
• What are simple network tools that allow you to manage high traffic needs
• How to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your interconnects from your
TierPoint data center
• How to increase your network security and performance and remove friction for end
users to set up dedicated connections
• How to implement solutions for on-demand network redundancy
• How to improve SaaS performance for end users with your network design
• How to reduce latency between SaaS, clouds, your other sites and end users
• What are dedicated cloud connectivity options

Cloud migration – to your first cloud, from one cloud to another, or to more cloud instances – can be incredibly complex. Beginning with assessments and sizing, to the move itself and then ultimately developing and leveraging a post-migration strategy, it’s critical that each element is carefully planned to ensure the availability of applications and to minimize the impact to productivity. In this webinar, you’ll see how the expertise of a cloud services provider like TierPoint, in combination with Zerto’s replication technologies ensures continuous data protection, non-disruptive testing, and support for diverse environments during a cloud migration.

Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of the data center or cloud, up from less than 10% in 2019.

As a result, businesses are increasingly leveraging both hyperscale data centers and cloud deployments closer to the edge to support their IT strategies and digital transformation initiatives.

Rapid growth in multicloud IT deployments is driving an increased need to consider options for connectivity. Dedicated, fast, and globally-reaching connectivity is key to bringing the cloud closer to the edge where businesses reside and need services.

Join TierPoint and Megaport for an in-depth look at two multicloud use cases. Our experts will give their insights into how the demand for both hyperscale and edge computing can be combined with cloud connectivity to make cloud strategies a reality.

More organizations are adopting a hybrid approach to IT and are seeking a partner to help integrate both outsourced and in-house IT services, ideally managed through a single interface.

Designed to meet the needs of our customers, the TierPoint Portal is a streamlined console that provides a comprehensive user-friendly dashboard of critical information immediately upon logging in.

From data center and managed services performance dashboards to trouble ticketing support, the TierPoint Portal is your dependable, always-on visibility tool to help manage your TierPoint IT infrastructure environment.

Join us to learn how the TierPoint Portal makes it easy to view, protect and access management tools for all facets of your environment.

TierPoint’s Chief Security Officer, Paul Mazzucco, is an expert in the field of human behavior and cybersecurity, and in this presentation, Mr. Mazzucco examines the natural human tendency to fear the unknown and how this has consequences on today’s IT leaders, namely for the data and people they attempt to protect. Mr. Mazzucco will also highlight how attackers leverage these psychological vulnerabilities for attacks in Phishing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Attendees will learn about the latest tactics attackers are using to exploit cybersecurity efforts, and they will also understand how to address the tension between the unknown of what an attacker is capable of doing versus what an IT leader can proactively do to avoid organizational complacency and security vulnerabilities.

In addition to Paul’s security duties at TierPoint, Paul Mazzucco is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) answering to the FBI, the United States Secret Service, Pennsylvania Electronic Crimes Task Force (PAECT) and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (U.S. CERT).

The benefits of turning to the cloud are numerous; scalability, control, flexibility, and power to name a few. While transitioning to the cloud has many strong points, there are still the challenges of data and application protection. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
• How to leverage multi-cloud as an addition to your traditional data center
• What applications and services require the most protection in hybrid mode—and how to protect them
• The importance of portability and how to avoid lock-in
• How to get better compliance and data protection by moving data between on-prem and the cloud.

Cloud architecture, strategy, and implementation are all impacted by security and compliance guidelines and postures. What are the best practices for Cloud approach? How does it impact your security, cost, and other frameworks within IT?

Join special guests - Jo Peterson, Chuck Price, and Alvaro Gonzalez for a lively discussion on "Cloud" approach and identifying underlying implications to consider..

Don't let the end of support for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 sneak up on you—the impacts to security and costs are too important. Avoid business disruptions and use this as an opportunity to adopt the most current security and innovation technologies. Join us as we discuss how to prepare for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 End of Support. In this session you will learn:

-when mainstream and extended support ends for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and what the impact is on your organization
-what are some key features of Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017
-how to make the move to upgrade
-what tools and expertise are available from a managed services partner like TierPoint to help you make the transition

As reported in Forbes last year, 73% of companies are planning to move to a fully software-defined data center within two years.

A software-defined data center is based on a virtualized environment of compute, storage, networking and security in conjunction with policy-based management and automation. The evolution from a traditional data center architecture to one that is software-defined can take months if not years but can yield immense benefits for the business.

Join us for a discussion on the progress toward the fully software-defined data center, including benefits of infrastructure as code and overcoming challenges associated with traditional workflows.

As businesses embark on IT transformation initiatives, they must ensure their cloud connectivity is secure, reliable and high performing. Low latency from the data center to the edge is crucial. With the rapid growth in IT deployments leveraging public cloud services as well as legacy systems and hosted private clouds, direct cloud connectivity is a key success factor for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.

Join TierPoint’s Dominic Romeo and Zayo’s Christopher Smith, for a discussion on cloud connectivity to learn how these solutions can effectively and efficiently bring public cloud capabilities to the edge.

TierPoint's Paul Mazzucco will discuss the double-edged sword of artificial intelligence, which is aiding the efforts of hackers and protectors alike. Join us as we explore the world of the Darknet, how bad actors are using machine learning and AI to create better attack vectors, and how IT professionals are also using these tools to defend their vital infrastructure. Powered by behavioral modeling, these technologies are the next frontiers in attack mitigation.

Digital transformation doesn’t happen overnight. Whatever your strategy, you’ve likely had to research, assess, trial, or even migrate workloads to a public cloud.

Platforms like Microsoft Azure offer an expansive portfolio of solutions but also create many opportunities for quick wins in the traditional IaaS space and, for many, are a step in the journey to transform the legacy enterprise.

Join us for a discussion focused on the core set of services needed to build out a virtual private cloud in Azure, addressing many of the decision points that professionals are confronted with during this process. Additionally, we will review several PaaS offerings that might complement your IaaS environment.

With the ever-changing cyber threat landscape, you need to be sure the security measures you put in place are performing as expected.

There were over 53,000 reported security breaches with 2,216 confirmed data breaches reported in the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. IT executives consider network security a critical priority, but they also want to reduce the complexity associated with supporting an array of disparate security products.

Enter the next generation firewall. Join our panel of experts for a discussion on:
- best practices around next-generation firewall deployments
- to learn more about the state of the firewall market, threat detection capabilities, and reputation protection, and
- how the right partner can help strengthen your security posture.

BraveIT is an interactive, thought leadership event designed for the modern IT professional who is tasked with navigating opportunity and risk in a mission-critical world. The live event is taking place in Chicago on 9/13, we hope you'll join us for the live stream if you are unable to attend in person.

In this era of accelerating opportunity and risk, IT decision-making evolves constantly. And while the propagation of possibilities fuels innovation and growth, it also makes it increasingly difficult to keep pace; to continuously optimize mission-critical strategies in the face of new threats and persistent change. Although your master plan may be established and stable, you know it can’t be static. Fine tuning it regularly is a required exercise in business optimization, product differentiation, and risk mitigation. That’s why BraveIT is an essential part of your yearly planning cycle. It keeps you current with industry best practices and best-in-class implementations, pressure tests your operating assumptions and enriches your plans for a broad range of potential events and opportunities—all while connecting you with peers and partners who are facing similar challenges.

As IT professionals face daunting challenges to combat the likes of hackers and shrinking budgets, we recognize your heroics in changing the dialogue from “no” to “how.”

All times are CDT:
- 12:30 PM: Opening Remarks
- 12:45 PM: It's a Brave New BC/DR World
- 1:25 PM: Workshop: What Organizations Need to Know to Achieve True IT Resilience
- 2:20 PM: What IT Nightmares Keep You Up at Night? Peer Perspectives on Real-World BC/DR
- 3:10 PM: Bravery in the Midst of Digital Transformation: Success Stories
- 4:10 PM: Data Center of the Future
- 4:40 PM: BraveIT Award presentation

Visit https://web.tierpoint.com/braveit/2018-agenda for full details.