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

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Encore Episodes

BEHIND THE SHIELD PODCAST

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”.

Recorded live on 2.16.2023

Behind the Shield February 2023

Hot Topics: Mortgage Broker 8Twelve’s leak (where everything went wrong), Reddit cyberattack, AI in the wrong hands, and clickbait article of the month: “Cyber Apocalypse 2023: Is The World Heading For A ‘Catastrophic’ Event”.
Extras: Mike Britton, CISO for Abnormal Security, brings guest customer Joel Godbout, Cybersecurity Manager at PCL Construction, to discuss “Securing Your Cloud Email Platform from Socially-Engineered Attacks”.

Recorded on 1.19.2023

Behind the Shield Year in Review

Hot Topics: Special “Year In Review” featuring 7 panelists talking the most memorable 2022 cybersecurity hacks and events, followed by their wishes and predictions for 2023.

Recorded on 11.17.2022

Behind the Shield November 2022

Hot Topics: Empire, Maple Leaf Foods breach; Ransomware attack on Boeing; Twitter verified users; Breaches across Australia; LockBit ransomware mastermind arrested.
Extras: Christopher Reynolds, Partner Account Manager at OVHcloud: “Hyper Resilience and the Future of Data Centers”.

Recorded on 10.20.2022

Behind the Shield October 2022

Hot Topics: Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines.
Extras: Brad Stocking, Associate Partner Cloud and Infrastructure Security at IBM Security: “Zero Trust – No Silver Bullets”.

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