St. Louis CIO Virtual Executive Summit

Organizations are feeling a shift in the world of networking and security as they rapidly adopt and embrace the cloud. On-premises private data centers are no longer the place for data and workloads to exist. With this shift, security and networking are brought closer than ever. Enterprises need speed, visibility, security and reliability without compromise. Enter, the secure access service edge, better known as SASE. This evolved concept of cloud security architecture outlines a convergence of multiple security functions to offer identity-based secure access. How can your organization best position itself for the transition?

In this session, you will discuss:

• Problems SASE can address in the modern enterprise
• Benefits of moving to a SASE architecture
• Insights from organizations adopting SASE today

Outsource? Insource? A hybrid model? Finding the right processes and design for an effective Security Operations Center (SOC) is a complex leadership challenge weaving technology, budget, talent management and, of course, risk. Learn what peers are doing and questions you should be asking yourself, and other senior leaders, to ensure your SOC is up to par.

Join this session to learn:

• What other companies are doing to optimize their SIEM and SOC
• Effectively managing and reducing false positives
• Incident response and other SOC automation opportunities
• SOC assessment and benchmarking options
• KPIs for measuring SOC effectiveness 
• Models and economics for effective insource, outsource and hybrid SOCs

The cloud and mobility are powerful enablers of digital transformation, but many organizations are grappling with legacy architectures that haven't evolved much in decades. With most applications in the cloud and employees working remotely, legacy network and security models are not only ineffective, but they hinder your ability to take advantage of the agility, productivity, efficiency, and speed enabled by digital transformation. Network and security architectures need to evolve to securely connect any entities—users, devices, applications—to meet business needs in the digital era.

In this session, Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry talks with Bruce Lee of Centene, who will discuss how Centene's digital transformation has made the company more resilient, enabling its entire staff to work remotely with minimal disruption and no compromising on security.

• “Owning the moment”: IT’s opportunity to accelerate secure digital transformation
• Best practices for securing work-from-anywhere using Gartner’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust network access (ZTNA) frameworks
• What comes next: IT’s new role as strategic business enabler

Toss out the manual on redundancies in the business process; RPA is automating its way to greater efficiencies and a brighter bottom line. This peer-to-peer discussion is a mix of RPA advocates, early adopters and outside observers — joining forces to learn from each other and explore:

• How peers have deployed RPA— what has worked and what needs work
• How to measure the return on investment for automated processes
• How automation is being successfully deployed across the enterprise
• How to overcome human barriers — such as employee engagement ­and leadership buy-in — to realize the full potential of RPA

Information security is now, more than ever, playing a role in the organization’s mission to make security personal and collaborative. How are CIOs partnering with CISOs to help establish a security strategy that is an enabler of the digital business rather than an obstacle?

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• How the security team can enable strategy and be a successful partner with the IT team
• Best practices for organizational change management
• Create a communication strategy that ties security to organizational success

2020 forced technologists to innovate and work smarter [and faster] to meet increased business demands. To succeed, leaders were forced to become flexible and accommodating in delivering new digital and data solutions to their organizations at lightspeed, inciting endless channels of demand. Join your peers in a focused discussion on how to best leverage newfound operating structures/models and manage a rising need for speed, delivery, and value.

Join this virtual boardroom conversation to explore:

• Riding the current momentum to influence and advance the enterprise
• Balancing increased demands with the imperative of tangible business outcomes
• Increasing the pace and reducing friction points in new technology and feature, functionality adoption
• Implementing data and analytic strategies that inform and facilitate desired business outcomes

The most successful businesses today connect digital transformation to business goals using innovative technology and increasing moving more of their enterprise workload to the Cloud. CIOs are charged with clearing adoption hurdles to align mission-critical tasks and business priorities with the multiple cloud environments.

This interactive session explores:

• Examples of transformations using open, flexible, and secure multicloud operating environments
• Fostering digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage through a hybrid cloud strategy
• Accelerating the skills and culture that leverages AI and cloud

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An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups. 

Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can CISOs best face changing threat vectors?

Join this roundtable conversation to discuss:

• The current threat landscape and development on ransomware attacks
• How to best discover and prevent nation-state attacks
• What security executives can do to build resiliency