Miami CIO Executive Summit

As technological advances become increasingly mandatory for businesses, CIOs and CISOs face dual objectives of digital advancements and system stability. In this session, they will candidly discuss how their roles have evolved with the changing digital landscape, giving you insight into their challenges, successes and lessons for the future.

As technological needs increase and the available talent pool shrinks, companies are left wondering how to meet their staffing needs. Join regional leaders as they discuss how to think outside the box regarding talent. This panel will encourage you to abandon the “unicorn candidate,” realizing that the perfect candidate likely doesn’t exist while real, qualified individuals are right in front of you.  Come explore how to cultivate talent from within, recruit unconventional candidates and retain your skilled employees.

Most criminal syndicates today include a cyber arm, because of the vast amounts of money it can make targeting businesses around the world. Eduardo Cabrera dives into how these organizations are set up, how they pick their targets, their infection routines and how they maximize breach access for the highest profits. Join this session for a better understanding of how cybercriminals work and ways you can guard against attacks.

CIOs and CISOs are increasingly being asked to report on cybersecurity at board meetings. This can mean everything from simply keeping the board members abreast of the current landscape to convincing them a big spend is needed to keep the organization safe. How do executives address cybersecurity across business units and assess whether a business is structured properly to avoid a breach? What is the best way to quantify a company’s risk exposure? In this interactive boardroom session, gain insight from your peers as they talk through effective strategies on what the board actually wants (and needs) to hear.

Unless you live under a rock, you have watched numerous high-profile companies fall prey to hacks and data breaches. With hostile threats becoming faster and less predictable, how do you stay ahead in the threat landscape? As AI and machine learning become key tools for the average company, they are also valuable assets to hackers in attacks. Look at the methods hackers are currently using, how AI and machine learning can be used to breach your company’s firewalls, and ways you can stay ahead of the individuals who are working to breach your security.

“Blockchain” is undoubtedly the year’s biggest IT buzzword, but how are companies actually using this emerging technology? The potential is endless — from increasing product traceability and visibility to simplifying records for audits, blockchain might not be a cryptocurrency, but it can save you time and money. This panel will discuss specific usage cases of how companies are employing blockchain now, while posing relevant questions about implementation and execution.

There’s a saying: Defenders have to get security right every time, but an attacker only has to get it right once. In this session, Bill Swearingen will explore the phases of a cyber attack, identifying points where defenders can make it prohibitively expensive for the attacker to keep going. Learn how changing your perception of the inevitable attack can help you develop techniques to gain the upper hand. Hear about actionable processes that shift power to the defense and allow the good guys to come out on top.

One of the inherent problems for CIOs and CISOs is how too many things run way too openly with too many default connections. This significant issue has led some to adopt a Zero Trust model to simplify security holistically. In other words, Zero Trust centers on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access. In this interactive session, learn from your peers, as they discuss their cloud migration and mobile journeys as it relates to a Zero Trust.  Benefit from case studies on how organizations have rolled out an ongoing Zero Trust ecosystem and how ‘defense in depth’ security models have become too complex for some on this journey.

The hyper-growth of IoT across the enterprise is forcing leaders to reassess how they secure their networks. Recent Forrester research has unveiled some hidden technical and organizational challenges IT professionals should be aware of when managing their overall security framework. There appears to be a dynamic shift in the way organizations are handling security and risk. Join this interactive session, led by ForeScout, to discuss effective strategies for devising information risk and value metrics, as well as security operational metrics, that are relevant to the board and executive team. Come ready to learn and share what organizations can do to better defend IoT-enabled systems from cyberattacks and mature the SOC into an Integrated Cybersecurity Fusion Center.