Cybersecurity Defense Ecosystem Summit (CDES) + TopGolf

Arrive by 8:00 AM to enjoy breakfast and coffee while networking with local professionals! Build lasting relationships that will help you collaborate, learn, and grow your business even after the event. Don’t forget to ask about joining a local peer group!

Why the Cybersecurity Defense Ecosystem matters to you?

1. Enhance the strength of your cybersecurity defense posture.
2. Optimize your cyber managed services and business operations
3. Boost your cyber sales
4. Enhance your overall profitability
5. Elevate your business's value

We start by exploring some of the freemium benefits for CDE members and a comprehensive cybersecurity roadmap. For more information, visit https://cybersecuritydefenseecosystem.com/. Join for FREE until January 1, 2025. Request the prospectus to kickstart your journey!

We will showcase 5 membership benefits and how each can positively impact your business.

What are the current trends, data points and opportunities in the cybersecurity sector for the Channel. You will get all the important facts so you can fine-tune your plans.

Marketing is too complicated and expensive? Our panel will help you explore strategies to maximize Marketing Development Funds (MDF), and enhance collaboration between marketing and sales teams to improve outcomes and ROI. Attendees will learn how to strategically acquire and allocate MDF towards high-impact initiatives, foster collaborative planning to align objectives, and establish clear KPIs to measure success. Join us to uncover actionable insights that drive growth and strengthen the partnership between marketing and sales.

Get the Most out of Your MDF!

It may seem difficult to get MDF for MSPs/MSSPs these days. Prohibitive paperwork. Scrutinized reporting. ROI requirements you’re not sure you’ll hit. It’s overwhelming. So much so that only 14% of the market development funds earmarked for partners even get used. How can MSPs/MSSPs leverage marketing with limited resources, which can be essential for the growth and success?

What you need to know about the latest government regulations, requirements and how exactly do you and your clients get into compliance as well as stay compliant moving forward?

Third-party organizations can help and there are tools to help you manage the process. In this session you will explore the options and some automated ways to help you manage this complex process.

It's all about protecting the Data!

Staying on top of the latest in data security assessments and classifications are mission critical in cyber risk management, saving time and costs. You have to know what types of data you have, how much of it and where it is - otherwise you cannot protect what you cannot see!

This area is undergoing constant innovations as several vendors try to solve this massive problem.

1. How do you locate, identify and classify all of your data, wherever it lives?

2. How do you analyze and classify the various types of data to determine the level of security protection each requires.

3. How do you perform forensics after a data breach to know exactly what and how much data has been compromised to guide your legal reporting, insurance and mediation requirements.

Automating Cyber Security is the only way forward. With certain tools powered by AI, better integrations and consolidated platforms, this is turning into a reality. In this session will we explore the latest advancements in automation of cyber and highlight some solutions that are leading the charge and the latest in pen testing as a service that any MSP can leverage to test their clients security posture and add a revenue stream. Powered by Kaseya's IT Complete.

What should do and not do after you are breached?

In this session we will explore the "PLAN" that you must have in place to stop the break, comply with the reporting regulations and to fix the problem from happening again. In some cases, you will need to inform your customers and make appropriate amends as well as mediate and social media and dark-web exposure.

Stopping the breach is only one part, but important to mediate the risk. As such, we will be showcasing the Emergency Incident Response as-a-service to help you stop any breach as fast as possible 24/7/365!

Fixing the breach will stem from the forensics discovery and recommendations.

Preventing the next breach from happening will require more analysis as you now know that you are vulnerable.

How do you REALLY know if your current security stack, process and people are producing the optimal cybersecurity protection for you and your clients?

How do you choose the most appropriate and effective technology stack with so many moving parts in maintaining the best possible cybersecurity protection?

It's far easier said than done. The ramifications of selecting or keeping the incorrect stack (even one component) might be catastrophic for both the MSP and the client.

Even if you start with the proper technology stack, as solutions improve and hackers evolve, components of your technology stack may lose efficacy and become obsolete. Other technologies may be a far superior replacement.

How can you determine if your current cybersecurity stack is working properly? Do you base it on whether or not you are hacked? Hacked is bad? Not hacked is good? Maybe run an expensive PEN testing service?

Failure in your technology stack can be a ticking time bomb...

New tools are assisting in the monitoring and identification of possible problems in each component of the technology stack. You will also learn how to "stress-test" your actual cybersecurity technology stack.

Check out 3-minute pitches about solutions. The vendors will all be around for the entire day so you can seek them out to explore further and become a partner.

You will get the "one-mile" high overview of the various solutions and business tools. You will vote for a winner and have a chance to win some cash.

Note which vendors and tools seem to fit well with you then meet them in the afternoon in their golf bay to explore further, have a drink and play some games.

No pressure!

The entire audience is engaged in an open mic discussion to answer any question on the business of cybersecurity.

Exhibitors will be hosting their exclusive golf-bay area to showcase their solutions and do some fun golf games. Everyone will be networking. Drinks and snacks will be available.

Only for those who do NOT want to play Golf Games, you have an option to participate in a Mastermind Peer-Group whereby you collaborate with your peers to solve your pain points.

Usually, whoever is staying back will end up at the bar or for dinner to carry on the conversations.