Explore the changing security landscape. VMUG's online virtual event will deliver a highly interactive, 3-D virtual environment with live video-streaming keynote and breakout sessions with speaker Q&A, on-demand breakout sessions, and interactive partner posters. Experience this free, can’t-miss virtual event from anywhere in the world – without leaving your home or office! We’ve assembled an entire crew of experts who are ready to share their knowledge to help you succeed.
Malicious threat actors and cybersecurity attacks are on the rise. From small companies to the largest organizations, all are at risk of an attack. This session will look at the growing trend of cyber attacks and how organizations can buy down risk to mitigate against the constantly evolving threats.
Chris McCain
Senior Technologist, Application Networking and Security
VMware vDefend is a cutting-edge, software-defined distributed security solution engineered to defend against malware and ransomware in the VCF private cloud. vDefend offers a plug-and-play experience with VCF, delivering operational simplicity, unparalleled visibility, and robust protection. VMware vDefend protects your applications and data and accelerates your journey to Zero Trust with multi-layer, defense-in-depth security. Join this session to learn about vDefend powerful segmentation and advanced threat prevention capabilities to protect your VCF private cloud against malicious threats.
Bhanu Vemula
Director, Product Management and Marketing, Application Networking and Security Division
With each passing day, the risk of workloads in the enterprise network being compromised increases. Learn common use-cases and how VMware vDefend firewall can help protect your datacenter from malicious lateral movement.
Andrew Hrycaj
Technology Product Management
Join us to learn tips, tricks and design patterns for securing your workloads running on VMware VCF infrastructure
Pooja Patel
Director, Technology Product Manager Broadcom
Austin Gadient
CTO & Cofounder, Vali Cyber®
Anthony Dutra
Technical Marketing Engineer, Zerto
VMware Cloud Foundation has security built in at all layers of the platform, providing resilience to workloads while also protecting itself. We'll explore these layers and talk about key strategies for designing environments that mitigate vulnerabilities, implement robust access controls, and leverage built-in security features to protect both workloads and virtualized infrastructures, creating a multi-layered security approach that addresses both traditional and emerging threats.
Bob Plankers
Product Marketing Engineer
Almost half of all breaches today involve threat actors taking advantage of the high degree of freedom of movement within internal enterprise networks to gain access to your most valuable assets. Traditional security solutions have left organizations in the dark about what happens within their virtualized environments, which has enabled attackers to lurk within for months before being discovered. Lack of visibility, limited automation, operational silos and security policies that are decoupled from the assets being protected have led to operational inefficiencies and unmitigated risks. Join us to learn about how VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention enables you to turn on the lights in your datacenters and beyond and stop unauthorized lateral movement in its tracks.
Stijn Vanveerdeghem
Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager
VMware Live Recovery enables organizations to rapidly recover from ransomware attacks and disasters, minimizing downtime and data loss across on-premises and cloud environments. In this talk we'll show how providing immutable backups, isolated testing environments, and automated orchestration of recovery plans, helps businesses maintain operational continuity, protect critical data, and meet stringent recovery time objectives in the face of evolving cyber threats
Michael McLaughlin
Product Marketing Engineer
Come join us as we explore how VMware VCF Operations elevates the compliance and security capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation. We'll discuss how VCF Operations enables proactive monitoring of compliance, manages config drift, and provides a comprehensive approach to auditing your workloads and infrastructure.
Abhijit Timble
Product Marketing Engineer
Kelcey Lemon
Product Marketing Engineer
The planet has been getting more and more cyber-attacks in the last five years and isn’t slowing down. We will cover the most common attack avenues. We will discuss recent breaches and what could have been done to prevent these attacks so you can take that knowledge back to your deployment. We will also discuss some key VMware solutions that can secure your deployment along with some items that can save you money, too.
Patrick Coble
Security Nerd, VDISEC
In the middle of the Covid Pandemic in June 2021 my team discovered an indication of an ongoing Cyber Security incident which ultimately closed my employer for multiple days. What followed was a period of intense activity that involved active battle against a hostile attacker.
This presentation will explore the experience with the impacts of this event on our campus and what we have learned to help improve our resilience and will provide some information security and resiliency lessons learned to improve your defenses.
Participants will hear from the IT incident commander was on the frontlines of the university’s response, and what they encountered that was expected and unexpected during the response and recovery. Learn what worked for us, what didn't, what we didn't expect, and what we wish he had known before everything started.
Steve Athanas
Associate CIO, UMass Lowell