Overview

October 2

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.

Join industry experts from Government Technology and Semperis for a webinar that explains 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.

You’ll learn:

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
The next steps to protect your hybrid AD environment

Speakers

John Miri — Moderator

President, Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance

John Miri is President of the Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance (EGCA), a global network of utility leaders, industry executives, and government officials dedicated to protecting the world’s electric grids from cyberattack. Miri is a 25-year technology and cybersecurity veteran who most recently served as Chief Administrative Officer for LCRA, a $1.1 billion-dollar public utility in Texas. Miri pioneered cybersecurity at LCRA, leading the team “from worst to first,” in the words of industry analyst Bob Greenberg. Miri was named one of the top 25 “doers, dreamers, and drivers” in the United States by Government Technology magazine and his team was recognized as a global success story by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Before LCRA, Miri was CEO of Bedrock Strategy Group, offering digital transformation and cybersecurity consulting to a wide range of clients. He co-authored Texas’s first statewide cybersecurity strategic plan and established the state’s first integrated Network and Security Operations Center. Prior to entering government service, he served in leadership positions in six tech startups and designed more than ten successful software products. Miri graduated from Harvard College with an honors degree in Physics.

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 (Senior Solutions Architect, Semperis) 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 has included 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.

Webinar

Recovering Active Directory: The Missing Piece in Your Operational Resilience Plan