Dallas CISO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this reception for attendees to open the event with an evening of peer networking and and an opportunity to fill backpacks with supplies for foster children in the Dallas area.

As the role of the CISO becomes increasingly business-oriented, the skill set of today’s IT leader must become business-technology centric. CISOs are now challenged to identify and mentor those on their teams who possess both the technology skills and business leadership necessary to drive their organization into the future. Leaders have a responsibility to prepare their teams as they face an increasingly complex business and threat landscape.

Join this session to learn:

• How to elevate the team you have
• Tactics to upskill and mentor the next generation of talent
• Sourcing and developing a robust and diverse leadership bench

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:

• The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
• Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
• Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

In an effort to establish agility and flexibility, the modern CISO must prioritize cloud maturity while securing traditional resources in the datacenter. Yet, resiliency opportunities continue to evolve in protecting, observing, and remediating your organization's most precious data resources, regardless of where data may reside.

Join a room of your executive peers and discuss how today's CISOs:

• Manage critical data and plan to recover it in times of cyber distress
• Capitalize on cloud benefits, while avoiding cloud pitfalls
• Protect and secure on-prem and cloud apps without ignoring cost

Whether you are just moving into the cloud, researching more options within the public cloud, or building your own private cloud, most leaders agree that this is the future of infrastructure as a service. But can CISOs have it all – both increased productivity and cost benefits within a secure cloud?

During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• Prioritizing attack path remediation
• Controlling risks impacting digital transformation
• Ways to incorporate the cloud into a fully articulated security strategy

Digital transformation is a powerful business enabler that is compelling leaders to fundamentally change their technology ecosystems. The potential of technology to unlock value and drive progress has never been greater and the imperative to transform your business, securely, has never been more urgent. With data, users, and devices everywhere, how can CISOs reimagine cybersecurity in a world without boundaries?

Join this keynote sponsored by Zscaler to hear strategies on:

• Accelerating transformation with innovative security services, and communicating their value to the business
• Scaling and simplifying security across the organization, minimizing risk and gaining agility
• Protecting today's cloud-first, hybrid workforce with a proactive, intelligent, and radically simple security architecture

The most effective means we have available to protect ourselves when it comes to cybersecurity is prevention. And the most effective strategy for prevention is Zero Trust. In this session, George Finney, Chief Security Officer at Southern Methodist University, will give concrete steps on how to implement Zero Trust based on SMU’s Zero Trust journey and strategies for preventing breaches that encourage efficiency and cost reduction.

Join this session to hear insights from George's book "Project Zero Trust: A Story About a Strategy for Aligning Security and the Business" as he:

• Breaks down misconceptions about what Zero Trust is and why it's important
• Shares who Zero Trust is for. (Hint: everyone in IT)
• Builds a strategy for success in cybersecurity that appeals to the board

Understaffed teams, inefficient processes, alert overload — this is a typical day for a SOC team. The result? Analysts so consumed with tedious, repetitive tasks leading not only to higher risk of burnout, but also human error that could cost millions.

Join this data-driven session, hosted by Tines, to:

• Learn the tasks consuming the most time, plus the top 3 tasks analysts enjoy least
• Understand what prevents security teams from doing their best work
• Break down causes of burnout and how to improve retention

A Security Operations Center is at the heart of a security function and plays a vital part in keeping an organization secure. You can outsource the tactical effort for security, but not the responsibility, liability and accountability. For those reasons, it is critical that your MSSP provider continues to align with your business goals, risks and risk tolerances.

Join this session as your peers discuss:

• Improving governance of an MSSP provider
• Defining expected outcomes and required deliverables to the supplier
• Measuring the success of a program

Information security leaders navigate an increasingly complex matrix of national and foreign data privacy regulations. The SEC have even proposed new rules to force public companies to add skilled cybersecurity members to their boards, a tactic that worked 20 years ago for financial expertise. But can it work again? It’s not going to be an easy shift, corporate governance requires specialized expertise, deep operational competency, an understanding of business value and how to manage exposure to risk.

Join your peers as they discuss:

• Creating a cloud infrastructure that meets security and compliance requirements
• Building compliance into development
• Automating compliance documentation

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify threat responses
• Respond to choices and forces out of their control
• Discuss pitfalls and best practices

Building applications in the cloud and running your business on cloud native architectures is a constant evolution that requires a new approach to security. How does a security organization partner with cloud engineering, DevOps teams, and developers to secure their applications?

Join this session to learn:

• How to maintain visibility across a dynamic, potentially multi-cloud attack surface
• Achieving and maintaining compliance at scale
• Responses to critical risks and constant cloud evolution

There’s no question that SaaS apps have become the default system of record and an inseparable piece of enterprises. As more organizations increase their dependency on business-critical SaaS apps to run their operations, new security challenges emerge.

Join this boardroom to:

• Gain insights into the challenges of SaaS app security
• Hear how risks can be addressed through Misconfiguration management, SaaS-to-SaaS access monitoring, Identity and Access Management Governance and Device-to-SaaS risk management
• Understand how technology is adapting to new trends

CISOs can turn metrics into actionable, communicable data that protects the organization. Whether the metrics are used on the operational or executive sides of the organization, they can serve as important benchmarks. Metrics must also be packaged correctly and be consumable to effectively bridge communication gaps.

Join this roundtable discussion to:

• Determine which metrics to prioritize
• Share progress or roadblocks with peers
• Gain a better understanding of the relevant numbers and data

As organizations strive to drive DEI initiatives, CISOs have an opportunity to lead the way in creating employment and advancement opportunities for underrepresented groups within security. In this session, Mary N. Chaney, a former senior security executive and founder of the nonprofit Minorities in Cybersecurity, will discuss how CISOs can play a critical role in diversifying talent in the cybersecurity space.

Join this session to learn:

• How having more diverse teams helps throughout the organization and brings fresh perspectives
• Strategies for communicating and demonstrating commitment to your workforce
• How having accountability partners can improve the success of your team