Ransomware and cybercrime have become top-tier threats to organizations in every industry. Securing endpoints, buying cyber insurance, even paying ransom—none of these options can prevent a business-ending attack. One step that is key to operational and business resilience: A dedicated, identity-first cybersecurity plan.
Industry experts from Government Technology and Semperis explain why the ability to protect and quickly recover your core identity systems—Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID, for most enterprise organizations—is vital to successful cyber disaster recovery. Learn:
- The next steps to protect your hybrid AD environment
- The true cost of cybercrime
- Why Gartner recommends an AD-specific security strategy
- Why fast AD recovery is important and why so many companies fail to achieve it
Speakers:
Sean Deuby
Principal Technologist, North America, Semperis
Sean Deuby brings more than 30 years’ experience in enterprise IT and hybrid identity security to his role as Semperis’ Principal Technologist, North America. An original architect and technical leader of Intel’s Active Directory, Texas Instrument’s Windows NT network, and 15-time MVP alumnus, Sean has been involved with Microsoft identity technology since its inception. His experience as an identity strategy consultant for many Fortune 500 companies gives him a broad perspective on the challenges of today’s identity-centered security. Sean is also an industry journalism veteran; as a former technical director for Windows IT Pro, he has over 400 published articles on Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, hybrid identity, and Windows Server.
Alexandra Weaver
Senior Solutions Architect, Semperis
Alexandra Weaver has 20 years’ experience supporting Active Directory in a wide variety of organizations, from government to some of the world’s best-known companies. After 8 years supporting the Bureau of Land Management’s Active Directory, she moved to Intel to support their worldwide corporate and manufacturing forests. After some time in financial services IT, she moved to Nike where she also supported their worldwide production forest.
Her experience includes merger & acquisition projects where she migrated newly acquired companies into an existing Active Directory infrastructure, an Identity and Access Management implementation & migration project, upgrading domain controllers and associated downstream dependent applications and providing Active Directory support. Active Directory is Alexandra’s first tech passion, and she enjoys deep diving into it as associated technologies continue to evolve.
