It is a pleasure to invite you to Fortinet Security Day Digital Edition for the Nordic and Baltic region.
More and more organizations are addressing Digital Innovation initiatives to accelerate their businesses, reduce costs, improve their efficiency and offer better experiences to their clients. The most common initiatives involve moving applications and workflows to the cloud, implementing new devices within the corporate network, or offering all the organization’s services also in the branches.
This supposes an evolution in the infrastructure, and in turn, new security risks. Organizations must cope with attack surface growth, advanced threats, increased management complexity and only an advanced cybersecurity platform that offers visibility and management of the entire environment can help them manage these challenges and achieve the best results.
Agenda Details
| 10:00–10:05 | Opening words and introduction by moderator Sandra Gaverud, Sales Director Sweden & Iceland at Fortinet and Katarina Strömberg, Executive Event Editor & Moderator at IDG |
| 10.05–10.25 | Accelerated security for accelerated digitization is the new normal by Bjarne Lauritzen, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe at Fortinet |
| 10:25–10:45 | Security as a business enabler by Alain Sanchez, Senior CISO Evangelist at Fortinet |
| 10:45–11:05 | AI enabled cyber security by Patrick Grillo, Senior Director Security Strategy at Fortinet |
| 11:05–11:25 | Cloudifying the Enterprise by Ricardo Ferreira, Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Fortinet |
| 11:25–11:45 | Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) –or– Stuff Always Strangely Evolving by Patrick Grillo, Senior Director Security Strategy at Fortinet |
| 11:45–12:00 | Closing remarks by Sandra Gaverud, Sales Director Sweden & Iceland at Fortinet |
Our exciting program:
Read more
Sandra Gaverud
Sales Director Sweden & Iceland, Fortinet
Sandra Gaverud is Sales Director for Sweden & Iceland at Fortinet. As our moderator, she will guide you safely through the digital event, introducing our executive speakers, and make sure questions get answered.
Sandra Gaverud, Sales Director Sweden & Iceland, Fortinet, is our moderator and will guide you safely through the digital event, introducing our executive speakers, and make sure questions get answered.
Read more
Bjarne K Lauritzen
Regional Vice President, Northern Europe, Fortinet
Bjarne Kaiser Lauritzen is heading Fortinet’s sales and marketing operation in the Northern Europe Region. Bjarne has more than 30 years’ experience from high-tech companies such as Cisco, Juniper, F5 and AT&T. He has global experience having run sales teams in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and China. Prior to Fortinet his most recent role was as Director of Cloud and Service Providers Europe, Middle East and Africa for F5. Bjarne has a Business Administration education from Copenhagen Business School and MBA training from Cisco.
He is 56 years old and is based in Copenhagen with his wife and 3 children. When not working Bjarne enjoys tennis, skiing, paddle tennis, mountain biking and Italian cooking.
Accelerated security for accelerated digitization is the new normal
By Bjarne Lauritzen, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe, Fortinet
Enabling Digital Innovation is this year’s theme. How can we make this a reality and how can you enable a secure digital transformation at the same time as you keep up with the speed?
In today’s environment, security investments are the new normal, not exceptional. Hear Bjarne talk about how you can enable your business by using cutting edge technology without being concerned about security risks. Make sure your network is secure and be enabled to take part of the digital journey – in fact, turn security into an advantage and not a risk.
Read more
Alain Sanchez
EMEA CISO and Senior CISO Evangelist, Fortinet
Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the network and telecommunications domain, advising the board of Fortune 500 companies and Tier 1 Service Providers.
Alain held executive positions in Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, BT-Global Services and Nortel. He graduated from the University of Technology of Compiegne with a degree in Engineering complemented by a Master degree in industrial processes.
Security as a Business Enabler
by Alain Sanchez, Senior CISO Evangelist, Fortinet
Cybersecurity is not just an insurance policy to prevent bad things from happening, it can be a valuable enabler for digital innovation. With good security built-in, organizations can feel confident in their digital initiatives.
Read more
Patrick Grillo
Senior Director, Security Strategy, Fortinet
As Senior Director, Security Strategy, Patrick is responsible for creating and evangelizing key messages about Fortinet’s network security solutions. Through his in-depth understanding of the complexities of network security, Patrick is able to cut through the half-truths and myths surrounding the subject to provide clear and concise information to Fortinet’s customers and partners.
Prior to joining Fortinet, he has worked for a number of small to medium size organizations as well as larger companies such as Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Hughes Network Systems and Comtech Mobile Data Communications in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, holding a range of senior level international sales and marketing roles.
Patrick is based at Fortinet’s EMEA office in Sophia Antipolis, France.
AI enabled cyber security
by Patrick Grillo, Senior Director, Security Strategy, Fortinet
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is one of those topics which generates one of two reactions – it’s either the greatest or the scariest thing in the world. Somewhere in between the adoration and loathing that AI brings is the real question – what is the real value of AI in cyber security?
This session is attempt to answer this question and keep to a minimum the number of times that Skynet is reference.
Read more
Ricardo Ferreira
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect, Fortinet
Ricardo Ferreira is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Fortinet, where he advises customers on how-to securely adopt Cloud at scale. During the last years, he authored whitepapers on microservices and serverless security, helped create Cloud business units from scratch, and consulted in Cloud Risk, Compliance, and Governance, for some of the most significant global banking leaders.
Cloudifying the Enterprise
by Ricardo Ferreira, Principal Cloud Solutions Architect, Fortinet
As organizations onboard the digital journey, Cloud is the most common accelerator, enabling cost-savings, cross channel consolidation, and new ways of working. But as with any new environment, it brings its own set of challenges.
Join us for an informative session on current Cloud trends, risks, common pitfalls, and how an enterprise can leverage Cloud and security partners to enable a security posture at scale.
Read more
Patrick Grillo
Senior Director, Security Strategy, Fortinet
As Senior Director, Security Strategy, Patrick is responsible for creating and evangelizing key messages about Fortinet’s network security solutions. Through his in-depth understanding of the complexities of network security, Patrick is able to cut through the half-truths and myths surrounding the subject to provide clear and concise information to Fortinet’s customers and partners.
Prior to joining Fortinet, he has worked for a number of small to medium size organizations as well as larger companies such as Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Hughes Network Systems and Comtech Mobile Data Communications in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, holding a range of senior level international sales and marketing roles.
Patrick is based at Fortinet’s EMEA office in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) – or Stuff Always Strangely Evolving
by Patrick Grillo, Senior Director, Security Strategy, Fortinet
The latest blockbuster from Gartner burst on to the scene just about a year ago and as expected has disrupted the status quo. Looking at the Gartner definition of SASE shows that the principles behind it are spot-on – converging networking and security into a single operating model and provide equivalent services regardless of who or what is connecting to the network. A contentious point of SASE, however, is that Gartner advocates that all security services must be delivered from the cloud.
This session will take a look at how SASE can be implemented in a network but not necessarily for the entire network.
Attend a digital morning about Enabling Digital Innovation. Meet the experts via your computer or mobile. Listen, learn and ask your questions.
Gain insights on how to build a dynamic security strategy that enables digital innovation.
Contact us
Charlotte C Blix-Nilsen
Field Marketing Manager, Nordics & Baltics, Fortinet
cblixnilsen@fortinet.com
+47 970 11 400