Workshop Details:

Date
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CST)
Location Name
Topgolf Nashville
Full Address
500 Cowan Street
Nashville, TN 37207
United States

Agenda:

  • 12:00 pm Arrivals and Lunch
  • 12:30 pm Welcome / Fortinet OT Overview, Vision and Strategy
  • 1:00 pm Defense in Depth Using the Fortinet Security Fabric
  • 1:30 pm Break
  • 1:45 pm Hands-On Workshop
  • 3:30 pm Move to Golf Hitting Bays for Happy Hour
  • 5:30 pm Event Concludes

What You'll Learn:

  • Traditional and modern segmentation methods for operational environments including the risks associated with a flat network architecture.
  • Segmentation practices to support compliance with NIST, IEC 62443 and other operational cybersecurity frameworks.
  • Applying and enforcing access control policies with the FortiGate Next Generation Firewall.
  • Dynamically assigning role-based controls to group applications, link data, and limit access to specific groups in order to fortify OT defenses providing fine-grained control that adjusts access based on continuously assessing the trust of devices and users.
  • Configure virtual patching through IPS and industrial protocol visibility and security, plus implementing deception techniques to protect OT.

Presenter:

Edward Lopez
Consulting Systems Engineer (US)
Fortinet

Ed Lopez is a member of Fortinet’s Consulting SE team, specializing in Operational Technology. He returned to Fortinet last year, having previously worked ten years at Fortinet as a VP in Technical Sales and Product Management roles. He has three decades of cybersecurity experience, with companies such as Cisco (Former CCIE), NetScreen, Juniper, and as a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon, as well as a host of startups and his own consultancy firm in a variety in networking and security disciplines, notable Zero-Trust and IIoT. At Fortinet he holds six patents for Firewall Scalability and Software Defined Security. He is a co-author of RFC-8329 ‘Framework for Interface to Network Security Functions’.