Cyber resilience is no longer optional for federal agencies. This session explores how to achieve end-to-end cyber resilience while streamlining compliance management. Discover how to orchestrate safe, isolated recovery environments without the need to purchase dedicated standby hardware. Crucially, learn how to pair rich, contextual network intelligence with your recovery strategy—because it doesn't matter how robust your recovery plan is if you have to guess which systems were compromised. You will learn how to utilize rapid network isolation to instantly wall off affected systems for secure forensics, and how to confidently restore mission-critical services using tamper-proof, immutable snapshots.

Agenda:

• Moving beyond "Prevention" to "Recovery": Aligning your strategy with strict NIST resiliency and federal compliance requirements.
• Eliminating Guesswork with Network Intelligence: Utilizing contextual attack campaign data to pinpoint exactly what needs to be recovered.
• Safeguarding Your Data: Proven strategies to prevent ransomware from compromising or deleting critical backups.
• The "Clean Room" Approach: How to spin up an isolated forensic environment directly on your existing infrastructure without risking reinfection or operational sprawl.
• Q&A and Recap: Achieving secure, intelligence-guided forensics and full service restoration in minutes, not days.

Products covered in this session: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware Live Recovery (VLR) and VMware vDefend.

Chris McCain, Product Management Director, VMware Application Networking & Security Division, Broadcom

Chris McCain, a prominent author and public speaker, is a virtualization expert with 20+ years in IT, including 13+ at VMware (now VMware by Broadcom). He is widely recognized for his deep technical expertise in networking, security, and Private AI security.