With the proliferation of access across on-premise, SDN, and cloud environments – the attack surface is continually increasing. At the same time - many enterprises lack a comprehensive access policy, governing who can talk to whom, and what can talk to what – they typically rely on institutional knowledge or manual & cumbersome systems to manage access between systems across networks and in the cloud.

It’s time to build comprehensive, enterprise-wide access policies, that span the entire organization (including the cloud), and leverage these policies to automate security operations. Security can be a digital transformation change agent – if you do it right!

Across the globe, organizations need to be on the cutting edge of innovation to remain competitive in today’s faced-paced, highly dynamic markets. The race to be on top doesn’t come without risk. Adversaries continuously strive to outpace our security efforts and successful cyber-attacks happen in a blink of an eye. Traditional security approaches often leave organizations scrambling to protect their systems and data. This session will provide insight from top leaders on how organizations can be proactive and fight fire with fire.

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Internet and cellular connectivity are critically important for any type of remote or hybrid worker. These employees need easy access to the company’s network and an always-on connection to collaborate with their colleagues and customers. As businesses are preparing for their reopening plans, organizations across industries are rethinking their position on teleworking and are searching for ideal solutions to ensure their business remains agile and productive, regardless of their employees’ locations.

In this session, our industry experts will lead a panel of technology providers through a discussion of industry trends, their future remote work strategies including the latest technologies available for businesses that enable their employees with secure and reliable connectivity from their designated remote work locations.

According to Gartner, the convergence of networking and security into the SASE framework is “the most vigorous technology trend” coming out of 2020. The edge keeps expanding and it is now synonymous with new cybersecurity challenges. Companies that want to take full advantage of delivering fully protected, optimized, and automated access to distributed applications and workloads must consider deploying a robust SASE platform and have an actionable transformation plan in place.

Please join AT&T, an industry-leading edge and cybersecurity solutions provider, to learn more about SASE trends and adoption as well as recommended strategies for implementing this next-gen architecture.

Cost reductions due to organizational network modernization are an easy proposition to sell, however, network modernization should also seek to improve the user experience. As organizations began to modernize their network, Digital Leaders should look to improve user performance and take advantage of multi-broadband channels available while leveraging cloud platform strategies.

This session will describe how the largest waste and environmental services company in the United States strategically completed a network modernization project which supported the transition of 18,000 office-based users who were rapidly transitioned to a remote workforce during a national pandemic.

The devastating impacts of ransomware can cripple or destroy any organization. Executive leaders now find themselves accountable to board members and shareholders to mitigate this risk and ensure continuity of business operations. In this collaborative session, we provide some insights into the ransomware threat landscape, and what organizations are doing to defend and respond to ransomware attacks. We also provide some insights into what may lie ahead.

Amidst escalating threats, tightening privacy regulations, and growing customer concern about how data is used and stored, companies are facing more intense pressure than ever to guard their data vigilantly. Yet adopting overly restrictive postures can cause companies to miss out on data’s potential to transform customer experiences, improve product effectiveness, and open new revenue streams. This session will explore how leading firms are establishing customer privacy by design to create environments where data productization and other innovations thrive.

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Globally, the number of network-enabled devices is growing and enterprise-level information security threats are becoming increasingly pervasive. The nascent sophistication of these attacks has challenged the collective philosophy regarding how to address the risks. As digitally enabled services reveal new challenges to the overall landscape, equally innovative and elegant technologies are needed to combat coordinated threats. Obligations to meet data privacy laws and internal control measures are only a small measure of how businesses will need to adapt.

Join Comcast Business experts to discuss more about how NaaS and SASE are being leveraged to develop holistic, enterprise-grade network security strategies.