I caught up with Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity at AT&T Business, to get a preview of his two presentations for the upcoming 2021 AT&T Business “Business Summit” titled “Reinventing Reality”. AT&T Business are hosting their annual Business Summit in a virtual format this year, on October 27th & 28th, 2021 in American Central Time (CT) time zone. Registration is free! There’s a link below to register. Featured speakers this year include: + Anne Chow, Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Business + Indra Nooyi, former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo + Shaquille O’Neal, American basketball star & philanthropist + Over 60 sessions across the two days. Rupesh is actually presenting two talks this year, which are titled: 1. The Age of Cybersecurity: + Connecting and protecting your business in a digital world + scheduled for October 28 at 11am CT 2. Cybersecurity and Edge Networking: + Delivering the next level of enterprise protection + scheduled for October 28 at 2pm CT Without giving away too many secrets, which given his role is something he’s naturally good at, keeping secrets that is, what Rupesh was able to share both a taste of what we can look forward to at the event. Rupesh also shared some very powerful insights into what Rupesh and his team within the AT&T Business “AT&T Cybersecurity” division offer their customers. There is so much you’ll be able to take away from this fireside conversation in this episode of our podcast Conversations with Dez, both on the two talks Rupesh is presenting, but also broadly across the current trends and challenges organisations of all shapes and size are facing and how AT&T Cybersecurity are helping those organisations address those challenges. A brief summary of what Rupesh and I discuss includes the following key topics: 1. Changes and trends in cybersecurity + Hybrid Work + Multi-Cloud Adoption + Security and Network Convergence + 5G, IoT, and Edge + Pervasive security fabric + End-to-end protection of users + Protection of devices, networks, apps, and data 2. AT&T’s vision for cybersecurity and edge + Customer Edge - Software Defined, IoT Driven + Network(s) - Intelligent, High Speed + Cloud Ecosystem(s) - Multi-cloud, Distributed + Embedded Pervasive Security Fabric - Customer Edge, Network + End to end protection of users, devices, networks, applications & data + Identity / Endpoint, Advanced 5G Security, CDN / DDoS + Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ), Extended Detection & Response + Importance of the Culture of Cybersecurity + Security is not an IT and technology issue, it’s a business issue + Connected economy and business continuity being under threat + Digital trust + The Culture of Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility 3. New AT&T capabilities in the market + Comprehensive view of security is key + Successful adoption of SD-WAN + Shifting focus to SASE + Protecting endpoints with XDR solution 4. Example Use cases from IoT, Enterprise & Data Centres, Infrastructure & Healthcare + Securing Industrial IoT + Zero Trust access with security support for industrial systems + Enabling the future of healthcare + Resilient, low-latency network with centralised security management + Protecting Your Company + End-to-end protection of Devices, Networks and Data, Proactive remediation of Ransomware and DDoS For the full conversation and so many amazing insights, and key actionable takeaways for any organisation facing the challenge of wrapping up the year that is 2021 and facing the unknowns of what the new year in 2022 will bring, you’ll want to push PLAY now, and tune into the full discussion. Register for the AT&T Business Summit here => https://bit.ly/attbizsummit2021linkedin Add both of the talks Rupesh is presenting to your calendars. This podcast was made in partnership with AT&T Business. For more information about AT&T Cybersecurity, please visit: https://bit.ly/att-cybersecurity #attinfluencer #sponsored