Eastern Iowa Security Conference

The Benefits of Attendance

Raise your skillset to the next level. With hundreds of traditional and interactive sessions covering a wide range of topics, you’ll learn about the newest trends, threats, and solutions that can be applied immediately in your job.

Extend your industry connections. It’s a rare opportunity to have so many revolutionary thought leaders together at one time. There will be plenty of opportunities to interact and exchange ideas with professionals who have been through challenges you maybe didn’t even realize you had.

Connect with pioneering innovations. The Expo opens the door to cybersecurity technology from some of the world’s leading vendors.

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration and Sponsor Visits

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Keynote! – Alison McCauley, CEO – Unblocked Future

The Impact of AI: Navigating the Next Tech Revolution This presentation examines how AI is already reshaping our present reality and projects into an AI-driven future. The discussion will address both the transformative potential of AI and the practical frictions we’ll face.

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Identity & Network Security Segmentation Platform and Roundtable Discussion – Crystal Chadwick, Senior Customer Engineer – Zero Networks

Automate network segmentation by learning network connections and creating accurate policies, which are applied to all host-based firewalls to allow only essential traffic. (followed by a roundtable discussion on how Iowa companies are using microsegmentation)

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

3 Hours and 30 Days: How Two Organizations Achieved Microsegmentation with Zero

Two attending organizations are cracking open their microsegmentation field notes in this interactive session. Learn how their small but mighty teams overcame common network security obstacles and enhanced their security postures in record time, satisfying insurance requirements and “sleeping better at night”

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

A New Era in Security Testing – Autonomous Security Testing – Jake Mickley, Senior Engineer – Horizon3

Go Hack Yourself: More War Stories from ~100k Pentests. Discover how autonomous pentesting helps find unknown weaknesses in your infrastructure that could quickly result in ransomware exposure.

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Human Centric Cyber Security – Joshua JD Linkenhoker, ITPM & Enterprise Security Advisor – Proofpoint

With Human Centric Security we will dive into how to adapt current controls to provide broad context and visibility that allows organizations to adapt to the real threats to their data today and to get proactive against those and future threats.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Security Automation and AI

Secure everyone and everything from the latest threats in every location. Built for Zero Trust and powered by AI, the Strata™ Network Security Platform proactively monitors, analyzes, and prevents sophisticated threats in real time with less complexity, enabling secure growth and innovation for your

3:15- 3:30 PM

Closing remarks and door prize selections

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Happy Hour

Alison McCauley

CEO, Unblocked Future

Alison McCauley is the CEO of Unblocked Future, and a best-selling author, social scientist, and digital transformation strategist focused on advancing human potential through technology. For over two decades, she has guided business leaders in harnessing emerging technology and helped tech pioneers develop new market categories, including a decade of collaboration with AI pioneers. Her most recent book, How to Think with AI, emerged from a year of research studying hundreds of early adopters of AI to decode their secrets of success. In the book, she transforms these powerful insights into a clear, proven framework that anyone can use to turn AI into a cognitive advantage. A frequent keynote speaker at global innovation forums, her insights have appeared in Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and her executive education course has reached over 100,000 learners.

Crystal Chadwick

Senior Customer Engineer, Zero Networks

Crystal Chadwick brings 15 years of infrastructure expertise to the Zero Networks engineering team, with a diverse background spanning industries from finance to professional sports. Her prior experience includes building data centers and optimizing Active Directory at leading tech companies such as Proofpoint and Okta.

Jake Mickey

Senior Engineer, Horizon3

Jake Mickey brings more than 10 years of hands-on security expertise to his role at Horizon3.ai. He is exceptionally proficient in many security approaches that range from advanced threat defense and cloud data protection to behavior analytics, red teaming exercises, and autonomous penetration testing.

Josh Linkenhoker

ITPM and Enterprise Security Advisor, Proofpoint

Josh Linkenhoker is a leader in the Information Protection space that works with organizations to build comprehensive Information Protection programs. He is a partner and educator, elevating the understanding of those he works with by building trust and confidence.

Josh is an experienced enterprise leader having held multiple director roles(Fortune 500) focusing on information Protection, Cloud Security, and Email Security.

Josh has worked with dozens of enterprises as a consultant and is focused on successful program building for Information Protection, Insider Threat Management, and Cloud Security.

At Proofpoint, Josh plays a senior role engaging as an advisor with many of the largest clients. He leads and educates both staff and clients on the Information Protection space, being an active speaker for Proofpoint Events, Power Series, and Certification Courses.