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08/27/2026

Meet our Platinum Sponsor, Lumifi!

Join us at the 23rd Annual SynerComm IT Summit to learn how Lumifi is helping organizations strengthen their security with AI-powered threat hunting, advanced threat intelligence, and 24/7 security operations.

Register Now: https://hubs.li/Q04vBgqq0

08/25/2026

🎤 Speaker Spotlight | 23rd Annual IT Summit 2026

We are thrilled to welcome our next speaker, Dylan Reuter, Sr. Information Assurance Consultant at SynerComm.

Dylan Reuter is a senior pe*******on tester with a strong software engineering background and over eight years of professional experience spanning application development and offensive security. He conducts a wide range of engagements, including external-to-internal network testing, web application and API assessments, wireless and physical security testing, adversary simulations, and large language model (LLM) security evaluations. He brings a deep understanding of application internals, programming, and attacker tradecraft to execute realistic, end-to-end attack scenarios using custom tooling and tailored malware.

Session: Prompt Injection: Attacking AI Applications

This talk will walk that escalation ladder with examples, explain why input filtering and prompt hardening consistently fail to stop it, and cover the architectural controls that actually reduce risk when the model itself cannot be trusted to refuse.

Register to secure your seat for IT Summit: https://hubs.li/Q04vcfw10

📅 October 6 + 7, 2026 📍 Potawatomi Casino Hotel, Milwaukee 🎓 CPEs Available

08/24/2026

Meet our Elite Sponsor, CrowdStrike!

Join us at the 23rd Annual SynerComm IT Summit to learn how CrowdStrike uses AI-powered protection across endpoint, identity, and cloud environments to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats.

Register Now: IT Summit 2026 (https://hubs.li/Q04tXyFT0)

08/18/2026

🎤 Speaker Spotlight | 23rd Annual IT Summit 2026

We are thrilled to welcome keynote speaker, Rick Howard, CEO and co-founder of The CyberCanon Project.

Rick is the CEO and co-founder of the CyberCanon Project, an all-volunteer nonprofit dedicated to curating timeless cybersecurity wisdom for the infosec community. His previous roles include CSO at N2K and Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, General Manager of iDefense, Global SOC Director at Counterpane, and Chief of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ACERT). He was a founding organizer of the Cyber Threat Alliance and advises multiple companies.

Session: Beyond the CIA Triad: Finding the Atomic Essence of Security.

After decades of spending buckets of money on implementing cybersecurity frameworks, tools, compliance mandates, and best practices, do you get the sense that we are actually making our organizations safer? What if the problem is not that organizations are failing to implement the accepted cybersecurity model? What if the model itself is wrong?

In this provocative keynote, three-time CISO and cybersecurity author Rick Howard challenges the industry’s conventional wisdom. Drawing on first-principles thinkers from Euclid to Descartes to Elon Musk, he examines why familiar tactics like patching, malware prevention, incident response, and regulatory compliance cannot, by themselves, define the purpose of a cybersecurity program.

Howard proposes a more precise foundation: reduce the probability of material impact from a cyber event over a defined period. If that’s the absolute cybersecurity first principle, then every resource spend, in terms of the people-process-technology triad, can be justified by the amount of risk reduction those measures bring to the organization. Attendees will leave with a practical way to connect security investments to business risk, concentrate limited resources on what truly matters, and judge cybersecurity strategies by measurable risk reduction.

Register to secure your seat for IT Summit: https://hubs.li/Q04tnxh60

📚 Free books are available to the first 150 session attendees, courtesy of SynerComm! 📅 October 6 + 7, 2026 📍 Potawatomi Casino Hotel, Milwaukee 🎓 CPEs Available

08/17/2026

At a recent partner enablement session with Illumio, we discussed an important challenge: How do we contain an attack when prevention fails?

Illumio addresses this challenge through breach containment and Zero Trust Segmentation. Their platform maps communication across workloads, endpoints, data centers, cloud environments, and operational technology, allowing organizations to define policy at the workload level.

What differentiates Illumio is how they use that visibility for practical enforcement. Instead of relying on hardware-centric segmentation or introducing another firewall, Illumio translates policies into instructions enforced through native controls. This allows organizations to avoid risky services, separate IT from OT, protect critical applications, and quarantine compromised workloads while preserving access for incident response.

The deployment model is equally important. Organizations can begin in visibility mode, progress to selective enforcement, and expand toward full segmentation over time. This approach helps make microsegmentation a manageable security program rather than an all-or-nothing infrastructure project.

Illumio is also building intelligence on top of its security graph data. Its Insights capabilities look for indicators of lateral movement, command-and-control activity, unusual data transfers, and other suspicious behavior. Agentic AI helps prioritize findings, map activity to MITRE ATT&CK, recommend actions, and give security teams clear direction.

By combining contextual visibility, granular segmentation, scalable enforcement, and AI-driven insight, Illumio helps organizations reduce the impact of attacks and strengthen cyber resilience. We’re proud to partner with Illumio as organizations rethink what effective breach containment should look like.

08/14/2026

CMMC Phase II is paused, but CMMC is not going away.

Our latest blog breaks down what the pause means for defense contractors, what obligations remain in place, and what organizations should be doing now.

https://hubs.li/Q04t2ZKH0

One important deadline: Industry feedback on the CMMC Reform Task Force’s RFI is due TODAY, August 14, 2026.

Read Part 1 to understand what’s changing and what isn’t.

A four-part SynerComm series addressing the Phase II pause, continuing cybersecurity obligations, False Claims Act exposure, and the actions defense suppliers should take now.

08/12/2026

We’re grateful to everyone who joined us for SynerComm’s 3rd Annual Scramble at The Bog! ⛳

The day brought great conversations, friendly competition, and meaningful connections with customers, partners, and friends.

A special thank you to our partner sponsors for helping make this event possible. Your support and partnership play a huge role in making the Scramble such a memorable experience each year.

Blink Ops | Cato Networks | Concentric AI | Cribl | CrowdStrike | HPE I Illumio | InfoBlox | Recorded Future

And of course, thank you to everyone who came out and hit the course with us. We’re already looking forward to next year!

08/06/2026

Cybersecurity platforms are most effective when networking, security, visibility, and policy work together. That was one of the key takeaways from our recent session with Cato Networks.

Cato’s cloud-native SASE platform unifies SD-WAN, SSE, ZTNA, CASB, threat prevention, and global connectivity into a single architecture. Because Cato owns and operates its global network, organizations can apply consistent security and performance policies across offices, remote users, and cloud environments—without managing multiple disconnected solutions.

Cato is also advancing AI security with capabilities designed to help organizations safely adopt AI:
• Inspect AI prompts for sensitive information before they reach the model.
• Automatically redact policy violations while allowing approved interactions to continue.
• Record AI activity to provide security teams with the visibility needed for governance and continuous improvement.

Beyond AI governance, Cato continues to innovate across the platform. New capabilities like Agentic Threat Prevention help organizations predict attack paths, adapt defenses as threats evolve, and stop AI-powered attacks before they become breaches. Their AI Security Enablement resources also help security teams confidently address emerging AI risks while identifying new opportunities to protect customers.

Another recent enhancement is the Cato MSASE Business Center, which streamlines customer onboarding, provisioning, and lifecycle management through guided workflows and self-service automation—helping managed service providers deliver services more efficiently.

These innovations come as Cato Networks has once again been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms, reinforcing its commitment to delivering a unified, cloud-native security platform that helps organizations simplify operations while strengthening protection.

True convergence happens when networking, security, AI, and management all operate from the same architecture, context, and policies. That’s where Cato continues to deliver value, and we’re excited to grow our partnership together.

Read the full announcement here:
https://hubs.li/Q04s64Rr0 (https://hubs.li/Q04s6_Qm0)

Cato Networks, delivering the converged network and security cloud for the AI era, has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms for the third consecutive year.

08/05/2026

Meet our Platinum Sponsor, Corelight!

Join us at the 23rd Annual SynerComm IT Summit to learn how Corelight helps security teams detect threats faster with AI-powered analytics and deep network visibility.

Register Now:
https://hubs.li/Q04r_v8Q0

08/04/2026

We were grateful to spend the weekend at Road America with so many of our clients, friends, and the JBR Motorsports team.

Over two days, our guests experienced racing from inside the action: watching practice from the pit, meeting Jaxon and the team, walking the starting grid, cheering on the No. 23 SynerComm car, and taking in the races from some of the best locations around the track. Just as meaningful was the time between the racing: sharing meals, catching up, and enjoying an experience together outside of the typical business setting.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and to all those who helped make the weekend possible. We truly appreciated the opportunity to share it with you.

Our final racing event of the season is coming up at the Milwaukee Mile. Please reach out to your SynerComm contact if you are interested in joining us!