Cybersecurity Online Summit 2019

Aug 14th, 2019

COMPLETELY ONLINE AUGUST 14th THEN ON-DEMAND: Join a diverse group of integrators and solution providers for a full day of online education, best practices, and training on protecting your clients with profitable security offerings.

Fact: Experts believe cybercrime will do $6 trillion of damage a year worldwide by 2021

Fact: Global security spending will total $103.1 billion this year and $133.8 billion in 2022

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If you’re not offering security services to your clients now, you’re putting your customer relationships at risk and missing out on one of the largest and most profitable opportunities in IT today.

The 2019 Cybersecurity Online Summit has the proven best practices, practical instruction, and specific recommendations you need to create, sell, deliver, and profit from expert security services. Better yet, we bring it all to you in a flexible, totally online format that’s a perfect fit for your busy schedule. Join ChannelPro and IoT Playbook editors as we host integrators and solution providers for a full day of online education, best practices, and training.

Who should attend the Cybersecurity Online Summit?
Any integrator, solution provider, and MSP who wants to learn about dealing with the threats and leveraging the opportunities in the cybersecurity landscape. Topics include Internet of Things (IoT), generating recurring monthly revenue from security services, how to specialize in security services, becoming an MSSP, and more.

Sessions & Networking

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August 14th

Be Afraid: A Tour of Today’s Threat Landscape

If you think ransomware, DDoS attacks, and business email compromise scams are scary, wait until our panel of security insiders give you their take on current and emerging exploits. It’s a sobering visit to the cybercrime front lines filled with information you can use to help customers understand exactly why—and how badly—they need cybersecurity help from channel pros like you.

Presenters:

Ian Thornton-Trump, Jayson Ferron

Edge-to-Core IoT Security

The Internet of Things is a huge and growing market menaced by an equally huge and growing range of security risks. Fortunately, our IoT security experts are here to provide concrete advice on protecting IoT solutions at the edge of the network, in the cloud, and everywhere in between.

Presenters:

Richard Stiennon, Syed Zaeem Hosain, Todd Weber

The Ideal Security Stack

Looking to launch a security practice? You’ve probably got plenty of questions. What solutions should you offer? How to package Security and BDR Solutions? Should you partner with a security specialist or go it alone? What kinds of packages and pricing models should you use? Drawing on his real-world experiences as a security service provider, channel pro Joshua Liberman will provide the answers you need to get a thriving security business up and running.

Presenters:

Joshua Liberman

Turning Security Vendor Partnerships into Security Practice Profits

An exploration of the unknown, underutilized, and underappreciated ways vendors and distributors can help your security business grow faster and go further.

Presenters:

David Bennett, Tim Brown, Alex Ryals , Dan Tomaszewski , Keith Wilson

How To Sell Cybersecurity Without Being A Security Expert

Join consultant and managed services pioneer Erick Simpson for a guided step-by-step tour of a proven process for generating leads, uncovering end user security needs, and creating high-profit security service bundles.

Presenters:

Erick Simpson

Peer-to-Peer: Partner Stories on Winning in Security

Listen in as ChannelPro’s Colleen Frye talks one-to-one with three of your channel pro peers about proven best practices for launching a security practice, selling security services, and more.

Presenters:

Frank Bravata, Mike Bloomfield, Karl Bickmore

Profiting from Compliance

For end users in regulated industries, regulatory compliance is an unavoidable fact of life. For you, it’s a chance to generate stickier customer relationships and enjoy higher security margins. Let our panel of experts show you how to use compliance assessments and consulting as the cornerstone of a profitable, end-to-end cybersecurity service practice.

Presenters:

Mike Semel, Robert Boles, Paul Redding

Spotting Today’s 5 Hottest Security and Compliance Opportunities

Channel pros who know how to identify and qualify security and compliance opportunities make more money. From regulatory requirements to supply chain vulnerabilities and beyond, security expert Steve Rutkovitz has the lowdown on how to dramatically increase your security and compliance revenue by focusing on these top 5 drivers.

Presenters:

Mark Smith, Steve Rutkovitz

Selling Backup: What Leading MSPs Do Differently

Backup is a multi-layered security strategy’s last line of defense. It can also be a serious money-maker if you know the right ways to package, price, and position it. Join SolarWinds MSP’s Chris Groot for an in-depth look at the techniques best-in-class MSPs use to turn BDR from just another managed service into fuel for growth.

Presenters:

Chris Groot

Windows Update Crisis: Taming the Patching Beast

Support from Microsoft for Windows 7 ends soon. Do you know everything you need to about keeping Windows 10 properly patched? Join Susan Bradley—a security expert in Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program and moderator on patchmanagement.org, the only community site dedicated to patch management—for an in-depth, inside look at best practices for safeguarding the OS all of your customers should soon be running.

Presenters:

Susan Bradley

The Fast and Easy Route to New Security Solutions

Join Larry Meador of ChannelOnline for a look at how building security solutions online can be a fast, easy, and effective process for channel pros and their customers.

Presenters:

Larry Meador

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Agenda

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Wednesday, August 14th
Time	Activity
12:00pm to 3:55am	Be Afraid: A Tour of Today’s Threat Landscape
12:00pm to 3:55am	Edge-to-Core IoT Security
12:00pm to 3:55am	The Ideal Security Stack
12:00pm to 3:55am	Turning Security Vendor Partnerships into Security Practice Profits
12:00pm to 3:55am	How To Sell Cybersecurity Without Being A Security Expert
12:00pm to 3:55am	Peer-to-Peer: Partner Stories on Winning in Security
12:00pm to 3:55am	Profiting from Compliance
12:00pm to 3:55am	Spotting Today’s 5 Hottest Security and Compliance Opportunities
12:00pm to 3:55am	Selling Backup: What Leading MSPs Do Differently
12:00pm to 3:55am	Windows Update Crisis: Taming the Patching Beast
12:00pm to 3:55am	The Fast and Easy Route to New Security Solutions

Presenters

Session Speakers

Todd Weber

Todd Weber is the chief technology officer for Optiv Security. Todd joined Accuvant in 2005 and held the positions of senior security consultant, sales engineer, solutions director, vice president of managed security services, and vice president of partner research and strategy. Todd has worked with some of the largest companies in the world... more

Tim Brown

Tim Brown is currently the Vice President of security for SolarWinds, overseeing internal IT security, product security, and security strategy. As a former Dell Fellow and CTO, Tim deeply understands the challenges and aspirations of the person responsible for driving digital innovation and change.Tim has over 20 years of experience developing and... more

Syed Zaeem Hosain

Syed Zaeem Hosain is responsible for the architecture and future direction of Aeris’ networks and technology strategy. He joined Aeris in 1996 as Vice President, Engineering and is a member of the founding executive team of Aeris. Mr. Hosain has more than 38 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries... more

Susan Bradley

Susan Bradley has been patching since before the Code Red/Nimda days and remembers exactly where she was when SQL slammer hit (i.e. trying to buy something on ebay and wondering why the Internet was so slow). She writes the Patch Watch column at askwoody.com, and manages a fleet of Windows Servers, an Exchange Server, desktops, a few Macs, several... more

Steve Rutkovitz

Steve Rutkovitz is the co-founder and CEO of Choice Cyber Solutions. With over 20 years of experience in the managed services industry, specializing in regulatory compliance-specific technology, Steve’s unique, proactive approach to managed services gives him the edge you need to differentiate your business and protect your organization in today’s... more

Robert Boles

Robert Boles is the founder and president of BLOKWORX, an organization built on three foundational tenets: security, reliability, and a positive user experience. Robert has designed infrastructure for hundreds of companies ranging from small businesses to large corporations to municipalities. With over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity and... more

Richard Stiennon

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 2,200 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He is the author of "Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey and Surviving Cyberwar" (Government Institutes... more

Paul Redding

Paul is CEO of Carlin Bradley, a business solutions provider based in Memphis, TN. Paul has been in the IT and Managed Services arena for over 10 years, launching Carlin Bradley in 2013. In recent years this "MSP" startup has evolved into its current incarnation- a "BSP" focused exclusively on delivering a comprehensive compliance and security... more

Mike Semel

Mike Semel is the president and chief security officer of Semel Consulting, focused on regulatory compliance and business continuity planning. He is recognized as a thought leader in the IT, compliance, and business continuity industries. In 2021, of more than 20,000 certified professionals, Mike served on a small committee to update the... more

Mike Bloomfield

Mike Bloomfield is president of Tekie Geek, a managed service provider in Staten Island, N.Y. An IT expert throughout the IT community, he is regularly published in numerous IT publications including Tech Decisions, ChannelPro, Channel Executive, and others. In 2020, Mike was recognized three times as an Amazon bestselling author for his books,... more

Mark Smith

Mark Smith is the business development director of The ChannelPro Network, the premier resource for growing IT service companies. Mark was was the founder of Windows NT Magazine, with a reach of 1.5M unique enterprise IT professionals in 160 countries. Mark sold Windows NT Magazine to Penton Media for $100M. EH Media has helped customers generate... more

Larry Meador

Larry Meador is the channel manager of GreenLink Networks, a channel-only business VoIP services company. Larry is a veteran of both the retail and the reseller/MSP channels. From a retail perspective, Larry has experience on “both sides of the table,” having managed a $100 million computer peripherals category for a national retailer and then... more

Keith Wilson

Keith has been an IT channel pro for over 25 years and brings all his experience together to lead the charge for ChannelOnline. To break away from the day to day demands of work, he likes to hike, garden, rock climb, sail, or hide with a good book.

Karl Bickmore

Karl Bickmore currently serves as the CEO of Snap Tech IT, with locations in Atlanta, Phoenix, and San Francisco. He is a longtime partner advisory council member for ConnectWise and Sophos. Karl has served as the facilitator of the Aftershock regional IT user's group with over 1,000 IT companies in membership. He has spoken at industry events on... more

Joshua Liberman

Joshua Liberman is president and founder of Net Sciences. He started PC Services in 1990, providing Novell networking and becoming a Master CNE. Since starting Net Sciences in 1996, Joshua has built and secured hundreds of networks in New Mexico and the area. Joshua has been a rock and ice climber, martial artist, and lifelong... more

Jayson Ferron

Jayson Ferron is CISO/CEO of Interactive Security Training LLC. Jay is a multi-certified information security subject matter expert with more than 40 years of professional experience, which includes security and compliance, integration and transformation initiatives, IS management process, and operational metrics definition and documentation.... more

Ian Thornton-Trump

Ian Thornton-Trump CD is an ITIL certified IT professional with 25 years of experience in IT security and information technology. From 1989 to 1992, Ian served with the Canadian Forces (CF), Military Intelligence Branch; in 2002, he joined the CF Military Police Reserves and retired as a Public Affairs Officer in 2013. After a year with the RCMP... more

Frank Bravata

Frank Bravata is a technology expert, serial entrepreneur, public speaker, best-selling author, podcaster and Veterans’ supporter. His company, Cyber Brigade, leverages his military experience to bring cutting-edge cyber security and technology solutions to his clients. He has been interviewed and written for outlets such as Reuters, The New... more

Erick Simpson

Erick Simpson built and sold one of the very first MSPs in the industry and co-founded MSP University, where he grew and coached a channel of 30,000 IT solution providers through their MSP transformation. He is the creator of the MSP Mastered® Methodology for business performance improvement that has been licensed by numerous IT channel... more

David Bennett

David Bennett is the Chief Executive Officer at Axcient. Bennett brings more than 20 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, including senior executive positions with leading IT companies. He is a proven leader with the ability to take technology companies to the next level of revenue growth and innovation.Prior to Axcient,... more

Dan Tomaszewski

Dan Tomaszewski came to ID Agent after working for 4 years as CEO of a small MSP business. Dan was able to successfully take his MSP from 0 customers and 0 dollars in revenue to 1.675 million in revenue in just 3 years. Dan attributes much of his success to the resources and insights gained from industry peer groups ASCII and Robin... more

Chris Groot

Chris has worked with SolarWinds Backup since 2010, from its early launch into the North American MSP market. Chris has 16 years of SaaS-based business experience, focused on bringing innovative products to market. His familiarity with MSPs provides valuable expertise in helping end customers understand the importance of MSP-provided... more

Alex Ryals

Alex Ryals serves as vice president, Security Solutions, North America for Tech Data. He was appointed to the role in February 2017 upon the completion of Tech Data’s acquisition of Avnet’s Technology Solutions division. In this role, he is responsible for accelerating the sales of security solutions through the Tech Data partner ecosystem.... more

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Cybersecurity Online Summit 2019

Check out our sponsors for this event.

Main Group

Sessions & Networking

August 14th

Be Afraid: A Tour of Today’s Threat Landscape

Edge-to-Core IoT Security

The Ideal Security Stack

Turning Security Vendor Partnerships into Security Practice Profits

How To Sell Cybersecurity Without Being A Security Expert

Peer-to-Peer: Partner Stories on Winning in Security

Profiting from Compliance

Spotting Today’s 5 Hottest Security and Compliance Opportunities

Selling Backup: What Leading MSPs Do Differently

Windows Update Crisis: Taming the Patching Beast

The Fast and Easy Route to New Security Solutions

Cybersecurity Online Summit 2019 Sponsor Award Winners

Diamond

Emerald

Ruby

Media Partner

Session Speakers