Boston CISO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Compared with academic pursuits like history, philosophy or mathematics, the field of cybersecurity is still in its infancy. The word cybersecurity itself is barely three decades old, and by some estimates, the global cybersecurity workforce needs to grow at a blistering 145 percent each year simply to keep pace with the demand for skilled talent in the near future.

Join Julie Fitton and Gary Gauba as they discuss: 

• Strategies for developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
• Expanding diverse talents
• How to successfully educate cohorts of underprivileged and underserved students about cyber technologies

Most CISOs feel comfortable managing the minor security incidents with standardized processes, but what about major incidents that shake the very foundation of your organization like the Solar Winds attack? Such crises can be career-changing.

Join this workshop to:

• Learn the basic building blocks of effective cybersecurity crisis response
• Share challenges and best practices in managing major security events
• Benchmark against your peers and identify lessons learned

IT leaders across the globe are asking themselves that question as ransomware grows increasingly prevalent and as attackers continue to raise their demands. It may seem difficult to prioritize building out your recovery plan when you could spend that time focused on increasing defensive measures but recovering from ransomware is not a process you want to wing.

Join this session to discuss:

• Step-by-step guidance for navigating ransomware response protocols
• Key pitfalls most organizations make when attempting a ransomware recovery and how to avoid them
• How to build a foundation for developing a thorough, practical, and well-documented plan of action

As the world continues to shift, the most common security challenges faced in the cloud stem from misconfigurations, the need for continuous compliance, and an exploding set of cloud infrastructure services. Whether you are migrating to cloud or building up cloud-native applications, getting basic hygiene right is the first step to building in the cloud with confidence. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices for securing your infrastructure, applications, and data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• How to operate your cloud environment without misconfigurations
• The most common attacks and how do you protect your business from application security threats

Most likely your risk management program has evolved due to outside influences such as client contract requirements, board requests, and/or specific security incidents. What you may not realize is that your risk program should be far more holistic, based not only on your business’ enterprise-wide risks but built around the unique assets critical to your organization's ability to deliver services.

Join Robert Sullivan, VP, Technology Shared Services and CISO at Agero as he discusses:

• How you can quickly reorient your risk program to be based on your enterprise’s unique assets
• Defining the cyber risk, potential for loss, disruption, exposure, or corruption of those assets, measured in terms of annualized loss expectancy
• How to complete an initial asset valuation and business discovery without investing months of work

What would it mean for the world of business if an organization could fully and effortlessly manage the access of its users? Every enterprise requires safeguards to ensure that the right people are accessing the right systems and information, and finding that balance between agility and security is a unique challenge for any CISO. After so many years spent tackling this issue, has a new way forward revealed itself?

Join this session to discuss:

• Prudent approaches to right-size the balance of security controls and agile access
• Ways your peers discuss strategy for trust and access with other senior leaders
• New technologies that are improving the world of IAM

Companies are under intense pressure to quickly expand their reliance on distributed, remote teams. But standing up this kind of capability isn’t easy: It means access and device challenges, communication and collaboration challenges, and new security and compliance concerns.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Enable productivity without compromising on security
• Unify access across your cloud and on-prem apps for all users, ensuring they have access to only the resources they need at the right time
• Ensure business continuity and resiliency for your remote workforce