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Speakeasy Lunch & Learn with IBM and Virtual Guardian in CT

Join IBM and Virtual Guardian for a lunch and learn discussing: Trending cybersecurity threats, the value of threat intelligence for your organization, and strategies to improve your organization’s security posture. After presentations, attendees will get a password “speakeasy style” to gain access to Happy Hour.

Time: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 – 12:00pm – 3:30pm ET | Venue: 1928 Cocktail Club – 1018 Main Street Branford, CT

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Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Save the date! Virtual Guardian and Partners host our Annual Charity Golf Tournament for the benefit of The University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.

September 16, 2024 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm CT | Venue: Royal Golf Club

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BEHIND THE SHIELD PODCAST

Recorded on 9.21.2023

Behind the Shield September 2023

Hot Topics: Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. MGM and Caesar’s Cyberattack, TransUnion Data stolen, Microsoft AI Employee Accidental Leak, Canadian Airports DOS, Clorox Breach
Extras: CISCO’s $28B purchase of SPLUNK, NaviLogic’s name change to Virtual Guardian

Recorded on 8.3.2023

Behind the Shield August 2023

Hot Topics: Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines.

Recorded live on 6.15.2023

Behind the Shield June 2023

Hot Topics: US-based white hat researcher, Eaton Zveare, discovers serious flaws in well-known carmaker; Phishing controversy using pay raise as bait; Making progress in the war against cybercrime.
Special Guest Panelist: Graham Cluley of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast.
Extras: Rudolph Araujo, Arista Networks: “IoT, Ransomware, Insider Threats and Your Data: Threat Hunting to the Rescue”.”.

Recorded live on 5.18.2023

Behind the Shield May 2023

Hot Topics: Cisco IOS vulnerabilities and UQAM’s 2023 Report on geopolitical cyber incidents.
Extras: Amber Borgersen, Product Manager for IBM Security’s Threat Management functionalities – the QRadar Suite, discusses “SIEM is dead! Or is it…?”.

Recorded live on 4.19.2023 (in front of the audience at Esterel Resort, Quebec Canada)

Behind the Shield April 2023

Hot Topics: Six arrested in Quebec (closure of a major criminal marketplace on the Dark Web.), Putin’s secret weapon: weaponized ransomware, BYOD habits and how they put their data and organizations at risk.
Extras: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Byron Acohido (lastwatchdog.com): “Network security reborn: Leveraging machine learning, automation to drive legacy defenses into obsolescence.”

Recorded live on 3.16.2023

Behind the Shield March 2023

Hot Topics: Multi Factor Authentication Blind Spots, T-Mobile’s Security Breach (API Attack vector), TikTok ban (US & Canada governments), Return of IceFire Ransomware.
Extras: Branden Williams, VP of IAM Strategy at Ping Identity: “Fostering Collaboration to Build Trust in an Untrustworthy World”.