Vivit Chicago Chapter Webinar w/ HPE Guest Presenters on the Micro Focus Merger

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep. 2]: Mastering Multicloud - Architectures, Organizations, Building Blocks

In 2019 the balance tipped, and for the first time the majority of enterprise IT workloads are running in the cloud, not in a data center.

Enterprise IT staff need to stop thinking of cloud solutions as islands of function and special cases and begin to think of pulling it all together into a cohesive multicloud. We'll lay out the major categories of tools and systems and how they fit together, and at the organizational structures and operational practices needed to support multicloud operations.

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries. Later episodes will discuss cloud organizations and operational practices, and success metrics and best practices for cloud organizations.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep 3]: The Agent Experience - From Good to Great

Although organizations are busy adding self-service channels, and AI-enabled chatbots or virtual agents to their customer engagement strategies, there is no replacement for the human touch.

Successful companies are transforming the agent experience, delivering better coaching, more analytics, and improved compensation packages.

Learn how you can leverage AI and analytics to reduce contact center agent turnover rates--and ultimately improve the customer experience.

Cloud & Cybersecurity Series [Ep.1]: Success Metrics, Best Practices & More

What does it take for enterprise cybersecurity teams to "up their games" to the next level of cybersecurity? What does it mean to be a "successful" cybersecurity organization, and what technologies and practices does it take to become one?

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries.

We separated the best from the rest, and took an in-depth look into what made the most successful organizations that way. Participants will come away with best practices, tools, technologies, and organizational structures that contribute to success. Most importantly, they'll learn how to measure cybersecurity success--and their progress towards it.

The most important function of an application security program is effectively fixing flaws once they’re discovered. But the speed of that fix rate matters — the time it takes for attackers to come up with exploits for newly discovered vulnerabilities is measured in days, and sometimes hours. Yet our most recent State of Software Security report found that one in four high and very high severity flaws aren’t addressed within 290 days of discovery.

Improving your fix rate is critical, but the sheer volume of vulnerabilities present in most organizations’ application portfolios makes it necessary for them to make daily tradeoffs between security, practicality, and speed.

This might seem like an insurmountable problem, but our data also presents hopeful glimpses at potential prioritization and software development methods that could help organizations reduce risk more quickly. In this session, we’ll share some steps and best practices that will start lowering your fix rate.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

It’s more common than you think that organizations and brands have more web apps than they realize. In fact, Veracode customers often find roughly 30 per cent more applications than they knew about. With one project Veracode worked on for a high street bank in the UK, they discovered 1,800 websites that had yet to be logged.

There are a number of reasons unknown or unlogged web applications continue to live in your portfolio. For example, through M&A activity, more than just a company or brand is acquired – you also acquire their web assets. Further, the digital landscape is decorated with marketing promotional sites meant to attract attention. And the very thing meant to draw attention to your brand and boost your bottom line is the same target attackers go after to infiltrate your organization.

Join this session to learn how to uncover unknown web applications in your portfolio to ensure their security from cyberattackers.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

Open source frameworks have changed the business world in profound ways. They’ve ushered in a level of speed, innovation, and convenience that significantly alters the IT equation. With large numbers of developers and others contributing to a project, it’s possible to advance and evolve software in ways that wouldn’t have been imaginable in the past. What’s more, this form of open collaboration benefits everyone by making software available at a lower cost point — and sometimes even at no cost.

Make no mistake, open source software libraries are here to stay – and they can introduce new and sometimes dangerous risks to an enterprise. The use of open source code increases the number of users affected as well as the number of exposure points. It’s vital to have a strategy and framework in place to manage open source libraries and components. Otherwise, the road to digital transformation will likely be paved with frustrations, problems, and even failures.

Open source software risks revolve around three key areas: visibility, security, and governance.

In this session we will help you understand these factors and how to formulate a stronger cybersecurity strategy that protects you from open source risk.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

One of the most powerful things an organization can do to improve its security posture is to cultivate security-mindedness in its developers. Security and development teams often feel at odds with one another and yet they share a common goal: to put quality code into production. Bringing these teams into closer contact gives them a deeper understanding of each other’s pressures, priorities, and processes.

Developers are well-positioned to address application security. By designing applications with security in mind, and finding and fixing flaws early in the software development lifecycle, developers shift security left. In doing so they both lighten the burden on the security team and reduce unplanned work for themselves down the road.

An interested developer—given the right direction, encouragement, and tools—can become an effective security champion.

Join this session to learn how to identify the right developers for this role and how to best train and support them over time. Your security champions will advocate for security as a non-negotiable component of code quality and in turn foster security-mindedness in their peers, amplifying security knowledge across the organization.

About the speaker: Ryan O’Boyle is a Principal Security Researcher at Veracode, and a certified ScrumMaster. Prior to joining Veracode, he helped create the internal penetration testing team at Fidelity Investments, where he was focused not only on finding vulnerabilities but helping engineers fix them and avoid them altogether.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

Although there are a variety of application security technologies, there is no silver bullet. You need to gather the strengths of multiple analysis techniques along the entire application lifetime — from development to testing to production — to drive down application risk. Each testing type, from static to dynamic to software composition analysis and manual pen testing, has different strengths and weaknesses and are better in different scenarios, but you won’t be effective without taking advantage of them all.

Join this session to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different AppSec testing types, how they work together, and how to get started.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

The demands of modern software development and the rise of DevOps are shifting security left into the early phases of the development lifecycle. Companies that navigate this significant cultural, organizational, and technological change well are outpacing their competitors. But where to begin?

In this session, we will describe five essential steps for shifting security left:

1) Make security autonomous from day one.
2) Integrate as you code.
3) Avoid false alarms.
4) Create security champions.
5) Maintain operational visibility.

Equipped with this guidance you can begin to make the changes that will transform application security into a responsibility that is shared by development and security and that continues once applications are in production and operation. By shifting security left, you unburden your security team, empower your developers to write better code from the start, and deliver stronger, better applications than your competitors.

This session is part of Veracode's "Your AppSec Game Plan" Summit.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.2]: Top 5 'Must-Haves' for Your Next-Generation Contact Center

Contact centers are changing--drastically and swiftly. If you're not keeping pace--or exceeding it--you'll be at a competitive disadvantage.

Learn what successful companies are doing with areas such as agent experience, interaction channels, and emerging technologies.

Based on Nemertes' brand new, detailed, Customer Experience research study with 518 organizations, this webinar will explain the five crucial items that must be on your priority list to ensure your contact center is positioned to deliver successful customer experiences.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.1] AI Drives Measurable Success in Customer Engagement

Nearly 50% more companies are using or planning to use AI in their customer engagement initiatives.
Nemertes recently studied how 518 companies are using AI and analytics to improve their customer experiences. This webinar details:
• how these companies use AI
• what measurable improvements resulted.

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit US Government Solutions Special Interest Group.

Objective: Learn how to leverage the Cloud for realistic Performance Testing.

Cloud Burst, a Micro Focus performance testing solution, is the only product on the market today that can automatically support your scalable performance testing needs in the Government FedRAMP Cloud environments.

See how your testing can be hosted in a Private Secure Gov Cloud environment to automatically execute performance or stress test completely within the Gov Cloud environments, or from various cloud regions around the world, simulating real user’s experience during the performance test.

Watch the live demo running in the FedRAMP Gov Cloud regions to see how easy, quickly and affordably you can plan, design and execute your application performance testing requirements.

This offering with flexible pricing, allows clients to leverage their investment in the Micro Focus ADM software solutions, increasing their ROI, while reducing risk and adding value to their organization’s internal and external users.