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Technology in Transition - Delivering Peace of Mind

With shrinking budgets and resources, CIOs are challenged with deploying technologies that address: a new workplace demographic, a more mobile workforce, cost reductions, and driving efficiencies, while at the same time providing innovation to the business. However, without adoption, even the best solutions fail. 

Ensuring that workplace technologies are easy and intuitive to use is critical to their success. 

We will discuss the evolution of the distributed workforce including: increasing efficiencies and effectiveness, reducing costs, meeting and exceeding customer expectations, and innovative technologies â?" all with a proven path to adoption through familiar interfaces. We will also discuss options for you to consider to deliver these strategic enablers into your business.

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CommScope

 

 

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Improving Email Deliverability AND Security

It may seem self-evident, but email is still the predominant form of business communication whether in B2B or B2C channels with business sending over 100 billion emails each and every day. Not all of this traffic is legitimate, desired, or safe however with estimates that as much as 90% of all email traffic can be considered spam or worse. In this environment businesses need to ensure that the email they send is viewed as trustworthy, and that the mail they receive is safe of threats. To do this email authentication is imperative and DMARC, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance is the gold standard. While DMARC policies are published to public DNS servers and already protect up to 60% of mailboxes for the most part these are public mailboxes from consumer email providers and many businesses are still on the outside looking in. Savvy IT Leaders know that they need to leverage commercial solutions that streamline DMARC management for their own email infrastructure to ensure they are protected from threats, and able to communicate with partners, clients, and prospects.  

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Disaster Recovery and Preparing for the Inevitable

Like death and taxes, IT outages are an inevitability whether as the result of power loss, telecommunications outage, or any one of a myriad other potential technical and non-technical issues. In this environment, the savvy CIO knows that what matters most is preparation " being ready for that next outage with an IT infrastructure that is both resilient and flexible and Disaster Recovery procedures that allow for efficient and effective recovery, balancing Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives with appropriate cost. Disasters happen but with proper planning they don't have to be disastrous to your business.

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The Enterprise Immune System: Using Machine Learning for Next-Generation Cyber Defense

From insiders to sophisticated external attackers, the reality of cyber security today is that the threat is already inside. A fundamentally new approach to cyber defense is needed to detect and investigate these threats that are already inside the network - before they turn into a full-blown crisis. 

Based on unsupervised machine learning and probabilistic mathematics developed by specialists from the University of Cambridge, new ?immune system' technologies are capable of learning the ?self' of an organization. By analyzing every network, device, and user, and modeling them as they go about their day-to-day activity, the Enterprise Immune System can establish a highly accurate understanding of normal behavior. It can therefore spot abnormal activity as it emerges, and even take precise, measured actions to automatically curb the threat. 

Rules and signatures are not keeping pace with today's rapidly evolving cyber attacks. The Enterprise Immune System represents a fundamental step-change in automated cyber defense, is relied upon by organizations around the world, and can cover up to millions of devices. 

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Big Data Analytics and the Impact on Fraud

Financial fraud is, unfortunately a huge business, with annual losses so massive that were Fraud a country, it would have the fifth highest global GDP. While enterprises in the financial services sector have always used analytical processes to detect and limit those losses, as technology moves forward the analytical capabilities that can be brought to bear increase in exponentially in capability and those on the leading edge are able to see, and stop, more fraud in less time. Just as Big Data capabilities are bringing significant business benefit to other aspects of the business, they can to fraud mitigation but several challenges need to be overcome for maximum efficiency. Only by addressing quality, volume, security, and integration challenges and by further ensuring the right staff with the right skills are in place can benefits actually be realized.

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• The increased use of unmanned technology combined with ever quicker financial transaction processing has created a world ripe for the proliferation of fraud  
• In a fight fire with fire approach, those same machine learning approaches can be repurposed to analyze transactions looking for the needle in the needlestack that is the illicit one  
• A Big Data approach only works with the right foundation; garbage in garbage out has never been more true and data and process rigor is essential to success

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The Year of Ransomware: Can Technology Alone Prevent Phishing Attacks and Breaches?

As ransomware and phishing attacks continue to grow in number and sophistication, organizations need to reconsider their current security strategy. Companies continue to invest billions of dollars in technology to shore up their defenses against these threats. But is that enough? Is complete reliance on technology the answer? Or should we focus on the human and human behavior?

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How to Reinvent your Company's Future by Investing in Disruptive IT

Business strategy and technology have become inseparable - and it's changing how the game is played. This session will help you define the disruptive architecture needed to build the technology innovations that will deliver the most value to your organization - and demonstrate this value to your company's stakeholders. 

Join IBM's distinguished engineer, Doug Kinnaird, to discover:

• How to ensure that your IT strategy and capabilities are aligned to realize business transformation.
• Best practices and examples that will guide your cognitive journey including where to best apply infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cognitive technologies.

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Cyber-Espionage and the Advanced Persistent Threat

More and more C-level executives are realizing that cyber security is not just an IT function given the far-reaching and direct impact that cyber security threats can have on current and future business operations. As is evidenced in recent reports from security providers such as Mendicant, McAfee, SentinelOne and others, cyber espionage attacks by APT actors are breaching organizations both large and small, public and private. Whether the objective is Intellectual Property (IP), M&A information, financial records, or other business-sensitive protected data losses can result in significant brand, reputation, and financial impacts. To counter these risks, CISOs need to realize that traditional security techniques are insufficient, and that a new tier of security solutions are required to defend against the APT attack. 

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