Boston CISO Executive Summit

Opening Comments

A long-distance dogsledder is wholly responsible for her dog team's morale, attitude, and motivation in high-pressure situations. Learn how a musher earns and keeps the trust of her dog team — and how those leadership lessons can be just as effective for a human team.

Join this session to learn:

• How a musher leads her team from behind
• How to work through communication barriers
• Go-to steps for solving problems and tackling challenges along the way

Building strong relationships is an integral part of being an effective leader, so how can CFOs and CISOs embrace their unique partnership? Finance and security leaders face challenges that put them in a position to collaborate and magnify their impact.

This session will answer the community’s questions and give you the chance to discuss:

• How CFOs prioritize cybersecurity investments
• What a CISO can do to better communicate with the CFO
• CFO board communication best practices applicable to CISOs

Why do organizations still get breached when they are performing pen tests, auditing networks, following compliance, and implementing the latest security technologies that take advantage of anomalous behavior models, artificial intelligence, and machine learning?

This talk will examine:

• Real-world breach examples
• How cybersecurity failed to keep attackers away
• What could have been done to keep attackers out

For years, we’ve seen attackers target organizations via their people. Now with fewer reliable exploits and more cloud adoption, we’re also seeing a shift toward attacks that exploit people, with threat actors tricking their targets into running their malware for them, handing over their credentials, or simply sending data or money to an impostor. Ryan Kalember of Proofpoint will outline strategies for gaining visibility and mitigating risk in a people-centric threat landscape.

Join to learn:

• Why nearly all threat actors have shifted away from technical exploits to compromise their targets
• How organizations can leverage threat data to understand which people and departments are highly targeted
• How to design effective protection for highly attacked, highly vulnerable, and highly privileged users

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Rebecca Buchanan at +1-971-717-6645 or rebecca.buchanan@evanta.com.

As organizations increasingly turn to cloud-based services, security leaders face the immense challenge of ensuring the enterprise’s data remains secure. Join this session to learn the emerging best practices your peers employ to secure the cloud.

In this boardroom we’ll discuss:

• Nuances for hybrid on- and off-premise systems
• Ways to incorporate security into your cloud strategy
• Automation, orchestration, and next-generation cloud security

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Rebecca Buchanan at +1-971-717-6645 or rebecca.buchanan@evanta.com.

Got a problem you need solved? Got a solution you can provide? This session encourages interaction between attendees to share problems and solutions to pressing needs – from small to big. Leave this session knowing you received or offered a viable solution or resource.

Today, boards have a fiduciary duty to know about the cybersecurity risks of their organizations. We’ve all seen how a cybersecurity breach can have harsh consequences not just for the company, but for the CISO. In this session, learn how to take charge of your organization’s cybersecurity health and shine as a CISO with leading-edge analytics. 

In this session, you’ll explore how to:

• Create a trusted dialogue with your board by providing transparency into cybersecurity posture of your entire risk ecosystem
• Educate, influence, and get buy-in for cybersecurity investments with predictive insights
• Use organizational analytics to develop crystal-clear reporting to enable the board to make informed decisions about budget, people, and tools
• Turn your organization’s cybersecurity posture into a differentiator

It's no secret that hackers are opportunistic. They are constantly looking for the weakest link and are quick to capitalize on one as soon as it's spotted. 

This boardroom will discuss:

• Third-party cyber risk best practices
• New strategies for third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) and how they work
• How to scale your third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) program to evolve with your ecosystem

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Rebecca Buchanan at +1-971-717-6645 or rebecca.buchanan@evanta.com.

A growing concern for privacy protection and the proliferation of both internal and external risks has led CISOs to a critical information governance crossroads. An effective information governance strategy can stop-up potential access points and shield the company from legal and compliance risks but can also be perceived as a barrier to maximizing the value of a company’s data.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

• A proactive approach to the policies, methodologies and controls
• How to find a balance between business and security
• Identifying an appropriate governance direction

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager, Rebecca Buchanan at +1-971-717-6645 or rebecca.buchanan@evanta.com.