Atlanta CISO Executive Summit

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to hold relevant conversations with peers facing similar challenges and opportunities in a specific industry. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your topical table conversations.

Security operations

• What is the maturity of your security operations program?
• What is your process for building an operational playbook?
• What KPIs or KRIs do you use to measure success?

Communication and awareness

• How do you approach security with a holistic lens?
• What are some of the challenges that you face when communicating with the C-suite and/or your business teams?
• How do you evaluate, communicate and demonstrate the ROI of a proposed initiative or tool?

Access and Identity Management

• What strategies and tools are you using to improve visibility into your systems?
• How are you integrating the user experience with security?
• How are you measuring the success of your access management program?

Governance and privacy

• How are you responding to/preparing for regulatory changes?
• How do you balance compliance with business requirements?
• What standards and metrics are you using to measure risk?

Talent and developing leaders

• What are some tangible strategies for creating and developing new talent resources?
• What best practices exist for retaining talent, once secured?
• How are you developing your future leaders? What succession plan strategies do you have in place?

If your company’s information initiatives are requiring you to reevaluate the boundaries for trust and security, you are not alone. Information is the lifeblood of businesses, but in a multi-cloud environment, keeping it secure is complex.

In this keynote, join Lakshmi Hanspal, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Box, and learn how to:

• Rethink your organizations boundaries for trust and security
• Partner with business stakeholders to address trends and challenges we face in the cloud era
• Effectively leveraging machine learning to keep up the speed of business

Gartner estimates that, "By 2022 cybersecurity ratings will become as important as credit ratings when assessing the risk of business relationships." Data-driven security ratings offer an opportunity to translate objective cybersecurity metrics into business risk language that executive decision makers understand.

In this session you will learn:

• How to position data to impact business decisions
• Ways to get ahead of your cybersecurity ratings
• Techniques on ways to communicate with the executives and the board

As the CISO role continues to evolve year-over-year, hear from your peers to see what their reporting structure looks like. Is your current alignment the right alignment or is it time for a change? Hear from CISOs as they highlight how they took charge of their career and made a change.

In this Q&A discussion, you’ll uncover:

• How to feel empowered to speak up
• Security as a culture that is emulated by the leadership team
• Change management when redirecting your structure

This is NOT your typical security conversation. We won’t be talking about how to play better "perimeter defense" at the end of your digital supply chain. Instead, we will be talking about how to play better “innovation offense” at the beginning of your digital supply chain. 

Join us to discuss:

• How to continuously identify and remediate open source risk, without slowing down innovation
• Ways to integrate security guardrails directly within your DevOps pipeline
• The importance of uniting developers, security, and operations on the same team

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Zack Hellmann zack.hellmann@evanta.com.

How are your peers balancing business agility and business security in their identity and access management strategy? Join this roundtable discussion to benchmark your framework and vet future plans, and learn the most innovative tactics security leaders are using for IAM at their organization, including:

• Methodologies that satisfy users while maintaining adequate access controls
• Communication techniques to streamline acceptance of IAM across the business
• Roadmaps for deciding what technology is the best fit

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager Zack Hellmann zack.hellmann@evanta.com.

What happens when you’re able to rewind the clock and analyze what happened? Join this session to hear insights from Bob Varnadoe, CISO at NCR, on what his organization has done and their approaches to solving security analytics, log data and the challenges they were facing.

Hear best practices on:

• Security and big data analytics
• What could happen with a petabyte of security data
• How analytics work the way they do

Step inside and expect to participate as Dan Webber, VP, Technology at UST Global, leads you in an interactive session. All too often, CISOs think – you’ve been breached. In this room, you may be the CEO, the CFO, the CISO or anywhere in between. Come in open minded and ready to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

In this collaborative session you will:

• Work through an action plan of how to react strategically
• Consider opinions and ideas you may not have thoughts of before
• Discover differing views of how to react to the same event

As the number of mobile devices continues to grow, how can we help our employees understand security protocols to keep both company information and personal information safe?

Join your peers to discuss:

• Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) considerations
• Mobile phishing campaigns vs. spear-phishing attacks
• How to scale your defenses to protect your ever-changing perimeter

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Zack Hellmann zack.hellmann@evanta.com.

Cybersecurity regulation is a divisive topic. While some welcome regulations, others reject interference from the government. In order to mitigate the divide, many CISOs are working alongside the federal government to provide insight into the complex nature of information security.

In this panel, you will hear:

• Insights into some of the conversation happening in DC
• Differing opinions on the government’s role in cyber legislation
• How you can prepare for what’s on the regulatory horizon