Name: Critical Steps to Secure and Manage Your Remote Workforce
Start: 2020-04-23T17:00:00Z
End: 2020-04-23T17:00:42.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Absolute Software is a leader in Endpoint Resilience™ solutions and the industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a half-billion devices. Enabling a permanent digital tether between the endpoint and the enterprise who distributed it, Absolute provides IT and Security organizations with complete connectivity, visibility, and control, whether a device is on or off the corporate network, and empowers them with Self-Healing Endpoint™ security to ensure mission-critical apps remain healthy and deliver intended value. For the latest information, visit www.absolute.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

In today’s world, when it comes to ransomware attacks, it’s not a matter of if but when your company will be affected.

To avoid the painful outcomes ransomware ensures including, the prolonged shutdown of operations, lowered employee productivity, increased support cost, and reputational damages, it’s essential that organizations focus on creating a playbook for remediation and recovery that combine technology and process to get your operations back to normal quickly.

Speakers:
Alan Sanderson, VP of North American Sales at Absolute
Jeff Laskowski, VP of Global Professional Services at Absolute
Brian McGowan, VP of Global Security & Privacy at SharkNinja

The Reality of Ransomware Attacks

Resilience. It’s a word we’ve heard a lot this past year. From supply chains to telework infrastructure, and even our own mental health, we’ve all shown resilience in the face of the pandemic. Have our devices done the same?

The realities of digital transformation, combined with widespread work-from-home solutions, have ushered in a new wave of threats to endpoint devices. The result is a security landscape more complex than ever.

We commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study surveying IT and security professionals about the challenges they face today and uncovered an essential capability to overcome them: endpoint resilience.

Join Absolute and out guest speaker, Forrester’s Senior Analyst for Security and Risk, Chris Sherman, for a live discussion on the key data points and findings—and three recommendations to help your organization take a more proactive approach to endpoint security.

You'll learn:

- What endpoint resilience is, and how it solves current security challenges
- Ways to balance endpoint threat protection with detection, visibility, and control
- How to prove the ROI of security investments with a proactive strategy

Endpoint Resilience as a Proactive Security Strategy - with guest Forrester

Join renowned cybersecurity innovator and former CISO of Citi, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank, Charles Blauner, for a fireside chat with Absolute CEO, Christy Wyatt, as they explore managing complexity amidst the ever-evolving threat landscape

Together, they'll explore the biggest challenges facing security teams today, with topics including:
• The evolving role of CISO – where to focus amidst competing priorities
• How to measure – and mitigate – the impact of complexity
• The critical question that CISOs aren’t asking today – and what’s at stake when it’s overlooked
• The importance of endpoint resilience in risk management strategies

All attendees will also receive The Third Question white paper, featuring additional insight from Charles and:
• Todd Inskeep, former Cybersecurity Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Lou Klubenspies, CISO and Senior Director, IT Risk, PerkinElmer
• Malcolm Harkins, Former CISO, Intel

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Featured Speakers:
• Charles Blauner - Former Global Head of Information Security, Citi; former CISO, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank; Partner & CISO in Residence, Teams8 Group; President, Cyber Aegis Consulting; Strategic Advisor, Absolute Software
• Christy Wyatt - President & CEO of Absolute

The Third Question: What CISOs Aren't Asking, and What's at Stake

You’ve made a solid investment in IT security. After all, you're not about to let your organization fall prey to cyber threats.

Here's the bad news: those top-rated, ironclad applications you've got securing your endpoints?

They are going to fail.

Causes can range from inadvertent user interference to conflict between competing applications. And whenever a failure occurs, remediation can take days. Or weeks.

If only there was a way to make those critical applications self-healing.

There is.

And our product experts can’t wait to show you how in our latest webinar.

You'll learn:

• What Application Persistence means, and why it’s so important
• Applications that can be persisted
• How to enable, configure and activate Application Persistence policies
• How to report on app health & compliance

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Featured Speakers:

Isha Khaira / Customer Success Manager / Absolute
Neeraj Annachhatre / Product Marketing Manager / Absolute

Application Persistence: How to Secure Your Security

Our study of over 10,000 schools and districts examines the effects of distance learning on endpoint health, device usage, safety, and security as schools adapt to remote and hybrid learning models in 2020/21.

Join us as we review the findings of our landmark report, highlighting key trends and revealing a strategic blueprint for modern learning environments. This is a must-see event for IT professionals working in K-12 education.

Learn vital insights on these topics and more:

• Managing school devices in distance and hybrid learning environments
• Visibility into remote classrooms
• Keeping data and devices safe

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Featured Speakers:
Surita Bains, Director, Product Management | Absolute
Dave Mundo, VP, Data Intelligence, Research & Development | Absolute

Distance Learning’s Impact on Education IT

This new era of remote work could just as easily be known as the era of sensitive data on remote devices. In fact, we've tracked nearly a 60% increase in instances of sensitive data on endpoints since the end of March*.

That's why we're providing you with even more ways to control yours — which we can't wait to show you in our latest webinar.

Our product experts will demonstrate the intelligence and tools you can use to manage devices with at-risk data — anytime and from anywhere.

You'll learn:

• How to improve critical compliance reporting using custom scheduled reports
• What to do when a device with sensitive information goes missing — but you’re not at your computer
• How to ensure security controls and freeze missing devices remotely using our new mobile app.

*Impact of COVID-19 on Remote Work and Distance Learning Dashboard 

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Featured Speakers:
Bryce Ashdown, Senior Director, UX Design/Product Management | Absolute
Kenny Pak, Lead Onboarding Specialist, Customer Experience | Absolute

Standardize your compliance reporting & control your remote devices

As an Absolute customer, you understand the importance of securing your devices, apps, and data. But a world of remote work has introduced new challenges. Since the end of March, we've tracked a 43% rise in incidences of sensitive data on endpoints.

You already have the tools at your disposal to manage and secure remote devices — and we’ll show you how to best make use of them.

• How to use Absolute to restrict access to devices and protect sensitive data — within your existing IT processes
• The many uses of Device Freeze, including forcing updates and responding to security threats
• Data protection tips using Device Wipe and Data Delete
• Plus: best practices for optimizing end-of-life workflow with Absolute

You’ll leave this session with practical advice for managing and securing remote endpoints.

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Featured Speakers:
Troy Knihnitski, Senior Customer Success Manager | Absolute
Murray Maleschuk, Senior Technical Product Manager | Absolute

3 Essential Actions to Manage and Secure Remote Devices

Absolute and featured guest Forrester, reveal key trends impacting endpoint health, fragility, and complexity – and the unexpected challenges introduced by remote work and distance learning.

Increased spend hasn’t improved endpoint security. New tools have introduced new vulnerabilities. The need to support remote work and learning environments has increased complexity on the endpoint – making existing approaches less effective overall.

Backed by results from The State of Endpoint Resilience™ 2020 – Absolute’s breakthrough annual study of 8.5 million devices, this webinar explores the hidden forces threatening endpoint resilience – and the steps necessary to protect against them.

Join Absolute’s EVP of Product, Ameer Karim; and Forrester’s Senior Analyst, Security and & Risk, Chris Sherman as they reveal the most significant trends shaping data and device security now and in the year ahead, including:

• Global trends in endpoint resilience – what IT and security teams are prioritizing and what’s getting missed
• Emerging challenges for CIOs and CISOs as environments evolve in the face of COVID-19
• Data-driven strategies for ensuring resilient, unbreakable endpoint protection

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Featured Speakers:
Chris Sherman - Senior Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals - Forrester
Ameer Karim - Executive Vice President, Product - Absolute

The State of Endpoint Resilience in 2020 | Featuring Forrester

Success stories from the front lines of the remote learning transition with  Eric Ramos, CTO of California’s Duarte Unified School District, as guest speaker.

Preparing for a new school year is always challenging — and never more so than now.

The learning environment you support could be a classroom — or a kitchen table. Devices need to be configured, issued, tracked, and monitored — whether new, returned this year, or still in students’ hands. New apps may introduce new vulnerabilities, and new programs will require new ways of measuring success.

The only certainty? Preparing for any eventuality — but how?

Amidst this year’s chaos, success stories have emerged. Absolute’s K-12 peer advice series is a forum for you to learn what’s working in other schools and districts, share your challenges, and gain insight from others tackling the same.

Our first session features Eric Ramos, CTO of California’s Duarte Unified School District, sharing the steps they’ve taken to:

• Maintain student/teacher connectivity and access to online curriculae
• Protect student safety by identifying and taking action on risky online activity
• Measure application ROI to justify budget expenditures
• Confidently leave their fleet with students — even turning the impossibility of device collection into an opportunity for emotional connection

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Featured Speakers:
- Eric Ramos - Chief Technology Officer - Duarte Unified School District
- Surita Bains - Director of Product Management for Education - Absolute

K-12 Peer Advice Forum - What’s Working for IT and Security Teams

Securing devices and empowering educators during COVID-19

School districts are facing a challenge: transitioning programs online while keeping students safe and devices visible.

There are a lot of unknowns. Are student using their devices at home? How much time is actually being spent on school work vs other web activities? How will you track and get the devices back? And what needs to be done now to prepare for an uncertain start to the next school year?

We can help. Our director of product management for education, Surita Bains, will join former director of student technology at Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, Jordan Kauffman, for a live demo, featuring:

• New Web Usage reporting that shines a light on exactly where, and how long, students spend their time online - not just what they have open
• How to manage year-end device reclamation, while physical distancing measures remain in place, thanks to Absolute’s remote-scripting capabilities
• Supporting student and staff security and productivity while you’re operating a remote helpdesk

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Featured Speakers:

- Surita Bains - Director of Product Management for Education - Absolute
- Jordan Kauffman - Former Director of Student Technology, The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School Technical Consultant - Absolute

3 Immediate Actions to Save Time While Managing Online Learning

Keeping data safe and staff productive during COVID-19.

IT and security teams may not be front-line crisis workers in the traditional sense, but keeping the world’s organizations running smoothly is as critical a task as any right now.

We’re asking every user tasked with this massive responsibility to join us for a 45-minute product briefing. Dianne Lapierre, CIO of Absolute, will join Jason Short, VP of Product Management, to take you through a live demo on optimizing your Absolute instance to best support your mobile workforce.

We’ll cover:

• Configuring and maintaining a persistent, self-healing VPN connection
• Managing remote devices at scale, including enforcing Windows updates, device configuration, and resolving issues from helpdesk tickets to security events
• Maintaining system health and device visibility using tools
• Optimizing your reporting for key security apps like SCCM, encryption, and anti-malware

You’ll leave this session with concrete steps that you can immediately take to create a more secure environment.

**The ability to persist VPN clients and access to workflow automation scripts are being provided at no cost to every Absolute customer through August, 2020.**

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Featured Speakers:
Dianne Lapierre - Chief Information Officer
Jason Short - Vice President, Product Management

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