Boston CISO Virtual Executive Summit

From AI to quantum computing – innovative technologies can open the door to new solutions that can transform your business. However, they can also create clouds of confusion. How do you wade through the noise to discover what really works? How do you determine what is practical, scalable and secure?

In this session discover how:

• You can introduce security earlier in the development process
• To identify potential areas of risk regarding emerging technologies
• You can effectively communicate with all areas of the business before, during and after the adoption process

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A strong IAM is one key to preventing data breaches and limiting the blast radius, should a security incident occur. But cloud IAM presents a new set of constructs for organizations to build and manage. Is this the most comprehensive identity and access control out there, or yet another layer of complexity added to your program?

In this session, you will discuss:

• Why managing cloud IAM is so complex
• The challenges cloud IAM creates for IT and cybersecurity professionals
• How leading organizations are governing cloud IAM to reduce risk and the chance of a data breach

There is no shortage of data available to the security function, but insights – the signals of a real threat that demands action — are a different story. CISOs who can derive meaningful findings from their environments can better detect threats with fewer resources — a difficult, ongoing challenge as organizations become increasingly digital and complex.

Join your peers to discuss:

• How emerging technologies and evolving digital businesses are challenging security analytics
• Best practices for monitoring user behavior and other dynamic risks
• How to reduce the noise created by the growing number of threat detection technologies and data volume

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. It’s inevitable that SASE implementations and zero trust implementations need to collide to provide a more comprehensive security capability to truly support digital transformation. 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 planning both SASE and zero trust implementations
• Insights from organizations adopting SASE and zero trust today

Hear from ICMCP and your peers as they share actionable strategies to build a diverse cybersecurity workforce. Learn how you can support this non-profit and help tackle the “great cyber divide.” ICMCP mission is to achieve the consistent representation of women and minorities in the cybersecurity industry – it offers scholarships, diverse workforce development, and mentoring programs. Listen, learn, and join them if you want to help drive the mission. Then break for some fun and informal networking with your peers to wrap-up the day.

Your Co-Chairs are thrilled to keep with tradition and invite you to join them for some uplifting networking to kick off this year’s Virtual Executive Summit with the Women’s Coffee Break. Connection is a key component of leadership and we are delighted to create space for you all to bring each other to new heights and share how you’re leading with power and inspiring those around you.

As 2020 changes the way we live and work, cyber criminals are adapting as well. Join us as we examine the biggest challenges security leaders face, and why a people-centric approach to security is everyone’s biggest opportunity to stop attackers and protect their organization.

Join Lucia as she and a panel of CISOs discuss:

• Why social engineering dominates among today’s cyber threat actors
• How remote work and the move to the cloud has changed the nature of threats
• The ways their organizations are building controls to better understand and protect people

As endpoints sprawl and users access systems from across the globe, the challenge of verifying identity has only become more complex. Yet each road block to verify identity is a speed bump in enterprise agility, requiring CISOs to address identity and access management from a strategic risk-management approach.

Join this session to learn:

• Technologies that enable seamless identity management across platforms
• How to right-size identity verification at your organization
• The latest for zero-trust strategy, and where it makes sense

As an organizational capability, insider threat management is changing - again. Firstly, the idea of context has changed the categories of insider threat, and secondly, insider threat programs now maturing – evolving into a more justifiable and friendly, trusted insider program.

Join this virtual boardroom to discuss:

• The evolving landscape of insider threats and its challenges
• The impact of changing behaviors, employee culture and workplace environment on insider risk
•  Practical strategies for improving an insider risk management program

In an era of cloud computing, software-as-a-service and outsourcing, some CISOs have noted that it can feel like every other business process sits in the hands, and systems, of an outside vendor. The key is to bring those partners into lockstep with the organization’s security strategy, a challenge that is both technical and classically human.

Join this session to learn:

• How CISOs are evaluating third-party risk across an ever-growing constellation of vendor services
• How to get off on the right foot, and to maintain strong partnerships with third parties
• Technologies that help manage third-party risk

As the Global pandemic continues, CISOs are reshaping their digital security strategy to strength the enterprise posture against diverse adversary activity. CISOs face a constant tension between enterprise agility and enterprise security, and in today’s world, this dynamic often plays out in the context of protecting a holistic cloud environment. How can CISOs gain a centralized view over cloud security posture and workloads in order to protect against a sundry of new threat activity? 

Join this session to discuss:

• Methodical approaches to securing cloud-based technologies, workloads and products
• Approaches to various adversary and nuanced attacks
• Ransomware readiness and breach prevention in a new landscape

At a time when customer trust is paramount and private data is precious, a major breach can be catastrophic for any organization. Effective security is an essential part of effective business strategy, yet security leaders face an ever-growing challenge to guide their enterprise through the evolving threat landscape.

Join this virtual keynote to explore:

• Strategies for addressing the emerging threat landscape
• The role today’s CISO plays in guiding business strategy to mitigate risk
• Communication strategies for educating users about security – and holding them accountable