Charlotte CISO Community
Virtual Executive Summit

The CISO role is now recognized as a critical business function by most organizations, and the test of the recent pandemic only highlighted that importance amid the rapid pivots to remote work and new digital business models. Yet looking to the future, what must the CISO do to further elevate their roles, augment their skills and energize themselves to lead into a new era?

Join your peers in this virtual boardroom to discuss:

• The arc of evolution for the CISO role, and the skills needed for what’s coming next
• Enduring leadership lessons learned from the COVID-19 era
• Strategies to remained engaged, energized and focused during turbulent times

IT and security leaders face a constant tension between enterprise agility and enterprise security, and in today’s world, this dynamic often plays out in the context of cloud services. With the security and success of the organization at stake, leaders must know how to ask the right questions and “talk cloud” with the rest of the organization – all while avoiding being seen as “the office of ‘no.’”

Join this session to learn:

• The latest solutions for effective security in the cloud
• Strategies to transfer legacy information security governance to a cloud paradigm
• Frameworks to evaluate hybrid on-prem and cloud approaches where appropriate

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

The timeline for adopting strategic technology and security trends rapidly increased in recent months, and now CIOs and CISOs are on the forefront of leading innovative business opportunities.

Join a C-level executive from our community as they share:

• Dynamic leadership in a volatile world
• Remastering your brand in times of transition
• Practical examples of adaptive strategy in action

Many CISOs would agree that human error remains a huge challenge in a cohesive information security strategy. Employees, vendors and even customers all have a role to play when clicking one malicious link can put the organization at serious risk. The CISO must instill discipline, responsibility and buy-in across a huge swath of users – no easy task.

Join this session to learn:

• How today’s society informs security awareness training needs and objectives
• Training techniques that work at scale and resonate with audiences
• How to measure success and hold users accountable

Some organizations lack resources to help them track and govern their data at scale. With large segments of the workforce now remote, data protection is more critical than ever. How can leaders work to combat this problem and ensure the data is properly managed and secured in the era of increasing privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA?

During this peer conversation, you will uncover:

• Advances in automated processes that will improve efficiency
• Strategies to map and govern data
• How to ensure data compliance in a remote or hybrid workforce

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