Zones Welcome and Security Panel

SECURING YOUR BUSINESS IN THE MODERN IT LANDSCAPE 
The business landscape has changed dramatically in the last two years, especially from an IT perspective. Managing IT in the modern era requires overseeing remote users, hybrid users, and a wide range of devices and endpoints. How do you secure it all? That’s the topic of the day. Join Derrek Hallock, Zones President and Chief Operating Officer, for our opening keynote. Andrew Reese, Cybersecurity Practice Head at Zones, will lead a discussion with panelists Joel Jacobs and Scott Foote that goes in depth on the inherent challenges of cybersecurity today.

Derrek Hallock

President and Chief Operating Officer, Zones

Derrek Hallock was named President in 2020 in addition to holding the Chief Operating Officer role at Zones since 2017. In this role, Hallock leads the company's Partner and Product Management (PPM), Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain, along with Logistics, Integration, Technology Solution Centers, and Service Delivery divisions. In this role, he is responsible for driving innovation and collaboration across the company's partner ecosystem, increasing operational and supply chain efficiency, optimizing costs, elevating the Zones brand, and strengthening global service delivery for Zones clients, with an overarching mission of enabling industry-leading customer experiences and client satisfaction.

Hallock leverages broad industry experience gained at SED International, Tech Data, and CompuCom Systems, where he led a progression of sales management, strategic marketing, and global supply chain organizations. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Supply Chain Management and went on to earn his Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.

Andrew Reese

Practice Head, Cybersecurity, Zones

Andrew is a security and compliance subject matter expert with extensive hands-on experience measuring, assessing, designing, implementing, improving, and managing information security management systems (ISMS) as well as cybersecurity programs. He is well versed in aligning organizational controls with legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements as well as business goals and objectives. Andrew also has consulting experience working with hundreds of organizations of all sizes and verticals, using industry best practices.

Joel Jacobs

Ex-MITRE CIO, CSO, Advisor & Consultant 

Joel is an accomplished Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer with a demonstrated history of success in information technology and corporate operations. He is skilled in Strategy, Operations, Service Management, Professional Services Leadership, and Cyber Security. Joel is a regular public speaker and leader in technology and CIO forums.

Scott Foote

CISO, CPO/DPO, Cybersecurity Exec & Advisor

Bringing "order to chaos" drives every role Scott has played. First as an engineer, then product executive, then analyst, board member, and most recently as a CISO. Scott is an experienced cybersecurity executive, designing security and privacy into digital transformation initiatives for his clients. With more than 30 years of technology leadership experience in cybersecurity and the broader software industry, Scott has an acute ability to understand and map organizational needs to security models, architectures, solutions, and technologies. His primary area of expertise has been information security since the late 1980s; however, Scott’s technical experience ranges from operating system kernel technologies, to the gamut of filesystem / database and info storage, to network engineering, to packaged commercial applications such as SCADA, B2B and CRM solutions; from on-premise to cloud deployments.

Protect Your Business with Security Resilience

Technology has eliminated barriers between companies, customers, suppliers, and partners. Everyone and everything is connected now. This connectivity brings increased efficiency and collaboration—but it also creates an ever-expanding attack surface. Investing in security resilience, also known as cyber resilience, empowers your business to withstand today's unpredictable threats and emerge stronger. Businesses invest in resilience around finance, operations, and supply chain. But without security resilience, all your other investments are vulnerable. What does it take to protect your business with security resilience successfully? Join Zones and Cisco to explore this topic in depth.

Presented by Zones and Cisco

Stanley Leszczynski

Chief Technology Officer - Networking, Office of the CTO, Zones

Stan Leszczynski is an information technology professional with extensive experience in diverse fields dating back to 1997. His work has centered on routing, switching, load balancing, and security. Stan has played a key role in directing major build-outs and upgrades for the NYISO, Onondaga County, New York Department of Tax and Finance, Office of Mental Health, Global Foundries, Key bank, Warner Media (Time Warner), Starbucks, Nike, and many others.  Stan is a hardworking and dedicated team-player who designs, deploys, and troubleshoots complex network and security systems. 

Joe Marshall

Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Talos

Joe Marshall is a security researcher for the Outreach Team with Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world. Joe specializes in industrial control systems, critical infrastructure protection, and IoT device security. Joe has worked with public and private industry around the world to help secure critical ICS and IoT assets from threats both mundane and exotic.

Building A Zero-Trust Roadmap

When it comes to cybersecurity nowadays, there’s really only one strategy that’s truly airtight, and that’s “zero trust.” To keep out any and all unwanted intrusions, your IT infrastructure must trust no one, and authenticate everyone. How can your organization establish a zero-trust approach to security? Join Andrew Reese, Zones’ Cybersecurity Practice Head, for a breakout discussion that will explore that topic, alongside our partners from Info-Tech

Presented by Zones and Info-Tech

Andrew Reese

Practice Head - Cybersecurity, Zones

Intelligently Secure Your Digital Workspace

The workplace today is a truly digital one. Employees are spread out all over the globe, and they’re increasingly operating out of workplaces that are remote, hybrid, and highly mobile. Securing this sort of infrastructure is a major challenge, and your organization will need a strategic approach. Join Zones for a breakout discussion about how you can tackle this endeavor, alongside our partners from VMware and Dell Technologies.

Presented by Zones, VMware, and Dell Technologies

Chance Carlson

Area Vice President, Zones

Physical and Cybersecurity: A Match Made in Heaven

To run any business successfully, you always need to look out for cybersecurity - but it’s also equally important to protect your facility and your physical assets. The good news is that these goals don’t have to be competing - in fact, they can go hand in hand. Zones will co-host this breakout session with our partners from Verkada to discuss how your physical and cybersecurity resources can work together.

Presented by Zones and Verkada

Ken Bobak

Principal Solution Architect, Zones 

Ryan Bettencourt

Vice President of Global Sales, Verkada

Ryan Bettencourt is the vice president of global sales at Verkada. In his role, Ryan oversees all global sales and distribution of Verkada products.

Ryan joined Verkada in early 2018 as a regional sales manager and the company’s third sales hire. He then progressed to director of sales before joining Verkada’s executive team overseeing global sales in 2019. During his time at Verkada, he has helped build the foundation for the sales team that now includes more than 600 team members and has acquired more than 11,000 enterprise customers.

Prior to Verkada, Ryan’s career started in copier sales at Pacific Office Automation, one of the leading resellers in the United States, where he spent almost nine years managing field sales for the company.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Willamette University.

Brandon Davito

Vice President of Product and Operations, Verkada

Brandon Davito is vice president of product and operations at Verkada where he oversees Product Management, Customer Support, and Deal Desk. After joining Verkada in 2018, Brandon has overseen the expansion of the product portfolio from four to 15 camera models and added four additional product lines - access control, environmental sensors, alarms, and visitor management.

Prior to Verkada, Brandon served as Chief Commercial Officer for runtime.io, an IoT device management and monitoring company. He was vice president and general manager of Smart Cities and Streetlights at Silver Spring Networks where he grew sales by 15 times to over $50M in revenue and landmark smart cities projects in Paris, Copenhagen, Singapore, Chicago, and Miami.

He spent more than four years at McKinsey & Company where he led high tech sales and marketing and energy technology client engagements for Fortune 500 companies. Brandon started his career as a product manager for BuildPoint Corporation, a start-up software company serving the construction industry.

Brandon earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA and Masters in Engineering Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Grayson Tonks

Sr Account Executive, Verkada

Grayson is an Account Executive at Verkada where he oversees the Eastern Canada sales territory. He joined Verkada in Jan of 2020, quickly becoming a top performing sales exec who was promoted to Team Lead, and then tasked to pioneer sales into Canada for Verkada.

Prior to Verkada, Grayson worked for Solarcity straight out of college, a company that would enable him to affect real change in the world and make the biggest impact in their marketplace. During his time there held Design and Engineering roles. Thereafter, Grayson moves into sales, taking a role at the largest privately owned tile and stone importer in the US, Emser Tile, which he held for over two years before joining Verkada

Grayson earned his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from California State University, Chico.

Learning to Be Cyber Vigilant

In today’s IT climate, cyberattacks aren’t just common – they’re inevitable. Every organization is vulnerable to attack at all times. To survive in 2022 and beyond, your business needs to have clear visibility into every possible threat, as well as an action plan to deal with attacks if and when they happen. Thankfully, that’s exactly the idea behind Cyber Vigilant services from Zones. Join Tanuj Garg, Global Solution Architect, and Andrew Reese, Head of Zones’ Cybersecurity Practice, as they discuss what it takes to be Cyber Vigilant today.

Presented by Zones

Evolve Your Security With A Modern Approach: XDR

Extended detection and response (XDR) is the new frontier in cybersecurity. With XDR, modern organizations have the chance to improve threat detection by breaking down traditional security silos and enabling detection across multiple data sources. This should offer protection that’s truly holistic. To learn more about this process, join Zones Inside Solutions Architect Jason Gist for this breakout, where he’ll discuss best practices for XDR alongside Brett Golden, the Global Commercial Sales Engineering Leader at Trellix.

Presented by Zones and Trellix

Jason Gist

Solutions Architect, Zones 

Jason Gist is an Inside Solutions Architect at Zones. Jason was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army for nearly 14 years before transitioning into the National Guard. At Zones, Jason consults with customers and partners to architect solutions. He is a subject matter expert in server and storage solutions as well as vulnerability management and cyber security.

Brett Golden

Sr. Director of Global Commercial Sales Engineering, Trellix

Brett Golden is the Global Commercial Sales Engineering Leader at Trellix, focused on delivering security solutions to customers and helping solve today’s cyber security challenges.  He’s been working with corporate customers for the past 20 years helping them protect their companies and intellectual property from hackers and dishonest opportunists.

Brett began his cyber security career at McAfee, one of the two companies that combined to form Trellix.  During his tenure at McAfee, he guided Commercial customers to address and solve security challenges they knew about, and those they didn’t.  In addition to working closely with customers, he also engaged with McAfee’s channel partners, enabling them to provide security expertise to their mutual customers and helping them build organizations committed to the protection of companies across North America and Europe.

Prior to joining McAfee, Brett also ran Sales and Consulting organizations giving him a keen insight to the challenges faced in business today.  With a passion for developing safe computing environments, he’s dedicated to building lasting relationships that go beyond immediate needs and provide lasting partnerships focused on long term priorities for his customers.

Your Guide to Cyber Governance and Compliance

One of the keys to securing your organization is having a comprehensive approach to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). At Zones, this is one of the things we do best. Andrew Reese, Head of Zones’ Cybersecurity Practice, will host a breakout discussion that goes in depth on our approach to GRC as a Service, showing how your organization can leverage Zones’ expertise to master cyber governance. Our partners at TruOps will join in to discuss how their Vulnerability Assessment can help.

Presented by Zones and TruOps

Andrew Reese

Practice Head - Cybersecurity, Zones

From VPN to ZTNA: Managing the Transition

In recent years, we’ve seen zero-trust network access (ZTNA) replace the traditional VPN as best practice for implementing secure networking technologies. ZTNA follows a basic two-step process for managing network access - authenticate, then trust. If your organization is looking to transition from a VPN approach to one based on ZTNA, Zones can help. Andrew Reese, Head of Zones’ Cybersecurity Practice, will discuss that process, alongside the team at Palo Alto Networks.

Presented by Zones and Palo Alto Networks

Andrew Reese

Practice Head - Cybersecurity, Zones

Alex Hostetter

Systems Engineer, Palo Alto Networks

Mastering Ransomware Resiliency

Ransomware attacks are ubiquitous in today’s IT climate - and when they hit, they can be catastrophic. The cost of remediating an attack is frequently in the millions. To keep your business afloat, you need a game plan to be resilient against ransomware. This includes preventing attacks, dealing with them quickly when they do happen, and implementing disaster recovery strategies that will help you maintain business continuity. Zones Solutions Architect Brad Mateski will discuss all of the above in this breakout discussion with our partners at Veritas, Robert T. Thompson, Vice President of Americas East and Canada, and Dan Rodriguez, Solutions Engineer.

Presented by Zones and Veritas

Brad Mateski

Solutions Architect, Zones

Robert Thompson

VP of Sales, Veritas

Balancing the Convenience of the Cloud with the Security of On-Prem

Many organizations now adhere to a cloud-first policy, considering cloud-based technology solutions before all others. They do so because they love the ease and agility of the cloud experience - they can provision services quickly, scale resources on demand, and make payments over time. At the same time, on-premises data storage offers the benefit of enhanced security. That’s why Dell Technologies and Zones look to offer organizations the best of both worlds. Zones Solutions Architect Peter Klipa, alongside our partners from Dell, will discuss how Dell APEX can give your organization the flexibility you need to adapt and thrive.

Presented by Zones and Dell Technologies

Peter Klipa

Solutions Architect, Zones

Peter has 25 years of experience working with complex global networks supporting a variety of services for voice, video, and data communications. He focuses on architecture, design, operations, troubleshooting, optimization, automation, and support. He also works on Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing, network and system design, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, posture assessment, policy development, and threat detection and prevention.

John Murdoch

Advisory Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies

John has worked in IT for over 35 years. After retiring from the military with 20 years of service working with several technologies, to include software and hardware, John went to work for Dell Technologies. He is currently an Advisory Systems Engineer who works with Zones to aid Customers in finding the proper solutions for their business needs, outcomes, and architectures. John's current expertise is in the Datacenter from the Edge to the Core to the Cloud, including software and hardware. He is on his 19th year at Dell Technologies and looks forward to many more to come, as technology continues to change at a record pace.

Protect and Govern Your Most Sensitive Data

Do you know which of your organization’s data is most sensitive - and do you have a plan in place to protect it? If not, figuring that out should be your first order of business. Join Kody Nguyen, Solutions Architect at Zones, for a breakout discussion with our partners from Microsoft Azure. We will cover how Azure Site Recovery could help protect your critical applications and data, while saving your business from a disaster.

Presented by Zones and Microsoft Azure

Kody Nguyen

Solutions Architect – Datacenter and Cloud Solutions, Zones

CASB and the Cloud: Keys to the Kingdom

To help manage their data optimally, many organizations today are turning to a cloud access security broker (CASB), which can serve as a go-between connecting their cloud services and applications to their end users. Together, a CASB and a good cloud solution can revolutionize the ways your business manages data and your users use it. Don Bilbrey, Zones’ Director of Cloud Solutions will facilitate a discussion on this very topic, supported by our partners at Symantec.

Presented by Zones and Symantec

Don Bilbrey

Director, Cloud Services, Zones

Stephen Hearty

Principal Product Marketing Manager, Symantec CloudSOC CASB

Prateek Temkar

Director of Product Management, Symantec CloudSOC CASB

Prateek leads product management for Symantec CloudSOC CASB, focusing on cloud applications security.

Visionary Keynote: The Past, Present, and Future of Cybersecurity, Sponsored by Dell Technologies

Amid the emergence of remote and hybrid work, organizations everywhere are facing an entirely new cybersecurity landscape. On top of that, a number of future developments - including conflict with Russia, an increase in ransomware, and a more complex regulatory environment - only threaten to make security more challenging moving forward. At times like these, it’s helpful to take stock of the situation and assess where you’re vulnerable. In this keynote address, Rachel Wilson, Managing Director and Head of Data Security for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, will discuss how the world of cyberthreats has evolved over the last five years, and what your business needs to do to stay safe.

Rachel Wilson

Managing Director and Head of Data Security for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Rachel Wilson is a Managing Director and Head of Data Security for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. She is responsible for protecting the cybersecurity of Wealth Management systems and the integrity and confidentiality of Firm and client data. Additionally, Rachel advises the leadership of Wealth Management on numerous cybersecurity issues, leads field and client education on cyber risk and mitigations, and drives innovation for new cybersecurity and authentication technology.

Rachel was recognized by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as part of the 2019 MAKERS Class, a program that honors women who serve as groundbreakers, innovators and advocates. She was also named one of the Top Women in WealthTech 2020 by ThinkAdvisor.

Prior to joining the Firm in 2017, Rachel spent 15 years at the National Security Agency (NSA), where she held several key senior executive-level leadership positions. As part of her tenure, Rachel spent nearly five years leading NSA’s cyber exploitation operations as the Deputy and then Chief of the Remote Operations Center within NSA’s Tailored Access Operations. In this capacity, she led the planning and execution of thousands of cyber exploitation operations against a wide array of foreign intelligence, military, and cyber targets, and served as the committing official for many of NSA’s highest risk and most important intelligence gathering activities.