• Insightful Discussions: Our guest speaker, Andy Runyan from FifthWall Solutions will delve into the importance of comprehensive cyber insurance. Discover how it can safeguard your business in the face of cyber risks, both before and after a breach. Learn about the latest trends and changes in the cyber insurance landscape.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow Polar Systems MSP clients during our continental breakfast. Share experiences, exchange ideas, and build valuable relationships. Whether you’re a current client or considering our services, this is the perfect chance to connect with like-minded professionals.
• Delicious Breakfast: Start your day right with a delightful continental breakfast. Fuel up while engaging in meaningful conversations with industry peers.

Where:
Well and Good (The Den)
wgdelicious.com
7357 SW Beveland St. Suite 100
Tigard, OR 97223

Date: May 23rd, 2024

Time: 7:30am – 10:30am

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your cyber resilience and connect with fellow industry experts. We look forward to seeing you there! 

FifthWall Solutions is a team of Cyber Insurance specialists that helps the clients of their MSP Partners find the best cyber coverage for the best price. Their mission is to crush the acts and motives of cyber criminals by providing robust insurance solutions. Their access to over 45 carriers ensures that clients will get competitive rates and comprehensive coverage. FifthWall provides insurance policy analysis, loss quantification, price benchmarking, and a cybersecurity gap analysis that is unique in the industry. 

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• New releases of PowerStore OS 2.0
• PowerStore 500
• Use cases around PowerStore T & X
• Brief update on PowerEdge 15G & Use Cases with AI

Mixology Happy Hour
Craft 2 party favorite mix drinks alongside a virtual mixologist

• Award winning mixologist to walk you through drink making process
• Cocktail kits sent to each participant prior to event (Watermelon Basil Margarita, Balsamic Old Fashioned)

PowerStore is a uniquely adaptable infrastructure platform that complements and extends your existing investments. Combining the advantages of cutting-Edge storage hardware with flexibility and simplicity of modern software design. PowerStore gives you unprecedented freedom to evolve your IT, keeping pace with a rapidly changing world.

When: Wednesday July 28th
Time: 3:00PST
Where: Virtual Event

Register Today! **please use the address that you would like the drink kits to go to**

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This presentation will include:

• How to match the right workloads with the right IT infrastructure to maximize your IT investment.  
• How PowerStore Storage and PowerEdge Servers were designed to be data-centric, intelligent and adaptable. 

Dell infrastructure solutions allows you to evolve from traditional transactional computing to an intelligent infrastructure that supports intelligent applications while expanding the capabilities for your computing, delivering the most business value

Virtual Whiskey Tasting – High West Distillery will be presenting on:

• The history of High West
• Why Utah
• Distillation Process
• How to taste and smell whiskey

**We will send you a package prior to the event including two types of whiskey and 2 Polar branded Glencairn glasses. Space is limited. Please try and register as early as possible**

When: Thursday, January 21st 2021
Time: 3:00PST
Where: Virtual Event

Register Today!

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Planning for When Ransomware Hits

Even when you do everything right, things still can go wrong. Cyber-criminals will continue to evolve ahead of solutions on the market today, working to encrypt more data before detection and increase the likelihood that you will pay their ransom. The FBI’s advice is to have a business continuity plan and not pay the ransom.  So how can you get back in business without the payout?

Join us for breakfast to learn how the best practices in business continuity can keep your business running – no matter what!

In this event you will learn:

• How to isolate your backups from Ransomware
• An overview of market recovery strategies
• What combination of technologies is best for your organization and what you should protect.
• Rapid recovery methods for on-premise and cloud solutions

Where: The Den (Well and good Coffee)
Address: 7357 SW Beveland St., Tigard, OR 97223
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 7:30am – 9:30am

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If you are an executive, senior leader or business leader you won’t want to miss session 4 of our educational series around cyber liability.

Of the $86T world economy, $6T of that is cybercrime and it’s growing rapidly. Criminals are investing back into the “trade” as any business would and trading skills to develop new tactics for attacking your business data. What are you doing to protect your own organization? 

The FBI discourages businesses from paying ransom after an attack as it encourages this behavior. Unfortunately too many organizations are left with no other choice. In 2018, 46% of all US businesses hit with ransomware paid the ransom and only 26% of those were able to unlock their files after paying the ransom. How would your business be impacted if you couldn’t unlock your data?

Session 4 (Oct 3): Managing your cyber risk and liabilities

Come join us for breakfast and participate in a discussion around: What happens if you do everything right, and your network security is still breached?

Cyber Basics Key Takeways

• Privacy risks your business may face, if a security breach were to occur.
• Legal, financial, and public obligations you may have to others after a breach.
• Information at risk to your clients, about employees, and business partners
• Internal costs and loses you may not have thought about

Where:  Well and Good Coffee (The Den)
7357 SW Beveland St.
Suite 100
Tigard, OR 97223

When:  Thursday, October 3rd
7:30am – 9:30am

Speaker: Ted Stark
Senior Vice President
USI Northwest

Register Today!

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 Polar Systems is proud to announce that we’ve recently earned our CompTIA Security Trustmark+. The CompTIA Security Trustmark+ validates our use of security processes identified by the IT industry as generally accepted best practices and has been evaluated by an independent third-party assessor as meeting the criteria established by the CompTIA Security Trustmark+.

We are eager to share our more formal rollout of security services, as well as describe the Security Trustmark+ process to attendees of this session. Attendees will receive insight into the audit process, which will be described from a framework-neutral perspective. Whether it is NIST, ISO, FedRAMP, ITAR, or the dozens of potential audit frameworks, you’ll gain insight into some key fundamentals that allow an organization to achieve a successful audit. Polar Systems is also proud to delve into the operative capabilities of the new, real-time network monitoring and protection tool, Perch.

Join Polar Systems and Perch for an afternoon of food, drinks, golf and learn how Perch plays an integral part of our new Security service package.

Learn about the NIST Cyber Security Framework:

• Identify
• Protect
• Detect
• Respond
• Recover

You will also learn about Perch’s web app, sensor and security operations center and how they will help improve your businesses security.  

Where: Topgolf
5505 NE Huffman St.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
www.topgolf.com

When:  Thursday, June 27^th

Time:  1:00pm – 4:00pm

REGISTER TODAY!

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Automating Compliance in the Cloud

Every breach tells a story. And most of them end with the same lesson: we are the problem. Humans, and our static, on-premise, old-school, castle-mentality of security.  It does not work anymore. We make mistakes. Mistakes that hackers quickly exploit. The complexity of information security has outgrown our human capacity.  The only way to get ahead of this expanding threat is to automate. This means letting go of all those racks of NGFWs and SIEMs, and codifying security using the power and scale of the cloud.

Topics Covered:

• How static, on-premise security is a game you will never win
• Benefits of codifying security
• Walk through of cloud automation code

Take a ways:

• The benefits of a fully automated, cloud environment
• How codifying not only dramatically accelerates security, it also makes it more reliable and consistent
• Building blocks for infosec next

Where:  Well and Good Coffee (The Den)
7357 SW Beveland St.
Suite 100
Tigard, OR 97223

When:  TBD (Moved to a later date)
7:30am – 9:30am

Speaker: Andrew Plato , Anitian

Andrew has 23 years of experience in information security. Andrew founded Anitian in 1995, after discovering how to hack websites using SQL injection attacks. Today, Anitian serves thousands of clients worldwide with a suite of security solutions and services especially designed for the cloud. 

Andrew’s career encompasses nearly every dimension of information security. He has participated in thousands of security projects, written hundreds of articles, and advised numerous C-level executives.  Andrew was the primary visionary behind Anitian’s revolutionary Sherlock platform, which automates the deployment, configuration, and management of security and compliance in the cloud.  Being a both a business owner and security practitioner allows Andrew to bring a unique perspective to any discussion regarding security, technology, and governance.

Andrew is well-known for entertaining presentations that seek out creative and practical ways to solve security and business challenges

REGISTER NOW! Space is limited

Small Business Security Series for Business Leaders

If you are an executive, senior leader or business leader you won’t want to miss this extremely valuable educational series.  

Of the $86T world economy, $6T of that is cyber crime and it’s growing rapidly. Criminals are investing back into the “trade” as any business would and trading skills to develop new tactics for attacking your business data. What are you doing to protect your own organization? 

The FBI discourages businesses from paying ransom after an attack as it encourages this behavior. Unfortunately too many organizations are left with no other choice. In 2018, 46% of all US businesses hit with ransomware paid the ransom and only 26% of those were able to unlock their files after paying the ransom. How would your business be impacted if you couldn’t unlock your data?

The FBI discourages businesses from paying ransom after an attack as it encourages this behavior. Unfortunately too many organizations are left with no other choice. In 2018, 46% of all US businesses hit with ransomware paid the ransom and only 26% of those were able to unlock their files after paying the ransom. How would your business be impacted if you couldn’t unlock your data?

Session 1 (Feb 26) COMPLETED:  What are the latest threats and where are they coming from?

We will discuss the new NIST Small Business Cyber security Act signed in 2018 and what it will mean to US small businesses? We will also cover the latest security threats in the US and globally. You won’t want to miss this session as it will provide a great foundation to the 2019 security series seminar.

Session 2 (April 25th) COMPLETED: How cyber criminals use employees to gain access to your company data and how you can reduce your risk

Think you have the best technologies in place to protect your data and that’s all you need? Think again. Your employees are your biggest data security risk and they don’t do it on purpose.  Cyber criminals focus on low hanging fruit, humans. Worst of all it’s no longer just limited to just phishing emails, criminals use other methods and tactics to gain information that allows them access to company data.  

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Where:
Topgolf Hillsboro
5505 Huffman st.
Hillsboro, OR 97124

When:  Thursday, October 25, 2018
Time:    3:00 – 6:00 pm

Come join us for a fun afternoon at Top Golf Hillsboro where we will discuss the key elements of a successful backup and disaster recovery plan and enjoy an afternoon of networking and golf!

As you know, losing business-critical data is not an option- so why do many businesses treat it like a check box? Whether it’s a site-wide disaster, an upgrade that failed, viruses crippling the network or user error, any amount of delay can be detrimental to your business. Getting your business back online can result in monetary loss as well as loss of productivity. Choosing the right solution and managing it properly can be the key to successfully recovering from an incident.

We will discuss the key elements of a successful backup and disaster recovery plan and you will walk away with:

• Tools for picking the right solution
• Focus on recovery, not a checkbox
• Flexible options/solutions
• Provide you the confidence in choosing the right path for your organization
• Managing the solution you pick to ensure quick recovery for any incident

This event will provide you all the tools you need to make a solid business decision for your organization. We look forward to having you join us!

Register Today!

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Come join us for breakfast and participate in a discussion with your peers on the latest security threats and how to protect your organization from them. You will learn about the latest trends and walk away with additional knowledge to protect your business.

Where:
Well and Good Coffee
7357 SW Beveland Road
Ste 200
Portland, OR 97223

When:
May 16th, 2018
7:30am – 9:30am

Key Discussion topics:

• Key findings from 2017
• Malware & Ransomware past, present and future
• How SSL/TLS Encryption is being used and its importance
• Top Affected applications
• Law Enforcement involvement and its effect on Cyber Crime
• Is mobile ransomware next?
• 2018 predictions
• Best Practices & Final Takeaways
• How to further protect you

Presenters: SonicWall and Polar Systems

The modern cyberwar — against governments, businesses and individuals alike — is comprised of a series of attacks, counterattacks and respective defensive countermeasures. Many are simple and effective. Others are targeted and complex.

Yet they are all highly dynamic and require persistence, commitment and resources to mitigate. Unfortunately, organizations large and small are caught in the middle of a global cyber arms race with vastly different resources at their disposal. And while growing budgets do make a positive impact on the effectiveness against known exploits, the threat landscape evolves at such a rate that yesterday’s investment in technology could already be insufficient to deal with tomorrow’s cyber threats. All told, there were more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported in 2017 — 78 percent of which were related to network attacks.

Register today to secure your seat!

Call  503-212-2919 to register by phone.

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