Houston CISO Executive Summit

Can smart security strategy inspire global business strategy? To Curtis Simpson, it was simply good risk management when he revamped Sysco’s enterprise security operations to become the company’s first global business unit. Yet in streamlining the way he secures international operations large and small, Simpson’s success has also provided a model that is influencing Sysco’s worldwide growth strategy as a whole. Join Simpson as he articulates the evolution of his global security model, and how this approach is inspiring broader shifts in Sysco’s global approach.

How do you fight a limitless enemy that never stops? Armed with finite resources in the battle against a tireless barrage of cyber threats, Genady Vishnevetsky combined automation, prioritization, threat intelligence and a hybrid of internal and external staff for a lean security operations center that is up to the task. Join Vishnevetsky as he explains his roadmap to high-value and effective incident response, from prioritizing key assets on his network to optimizing the operation that keeps those assets safe.

Striking the right balance between data access and data privacy is a key challenge for every enterprise, and effective governance is the fulcrum between these two competing priorities. The specific challenges may vary between organizations and industries, but common themes abound in the overarching strategies that security leaders can employ to protect their organizations and enable business agility. Join Klara Jelinkova as she shares a roadmap to secure a unique operating environment at Rice University, and participate in a peer-driven discussion to discover cross-industry best practices for data access and governance.

There’s an app for everything these days. And a cloud service behind the scenes. From approving expenses in the grocery store line to looking up key customer information in the field, employees are more productive than ever in today’s mobile-cloud world. Yet it also means there’s data everywhere – on devices, in transit and in the cloud. CISOs face the challenge of crafting a security strategy that protects this data no matter where the data is. This discussion will explore how organizations are using mobile-cloud apps throughout the business, risks created through mobile-cloud technologies and best practices for keeping related data secure.

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: 

Pierre Ngung at 503-808-9818 or pierre.ngung@evanta.com

Cloud-based services offer a sight-unseen solution for organizations to manage all kinds of information, including mission-critical data from their growing fleets of connected devices. Yet getting that IoT data to the cloud still requires the support of a robust on-prem architecture, one that communicates smoothly and seamlessly between the enterprise’s devices and the cloud. Join your peers to discuss best practices in managing the secure flow of data between devices and databases, with special emphasis on IoT and the cloud.

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: 

Pierre Ngung at 503-808-9818 or pierre.ngung@evanta.com

Your CEO gets it. Your board gets it. From operations on up –everyone gets it. But how do you challenge the enterprise-wide assumption that“it will all work out” and make IT security incidents real and remembered?Implementing top-notch tabletop sessions can inspire a waterfall of security initiatives from the C-suite, creating alliances across the business and helping middle-management better communicate and act on an incident. In this interactive workshop, small groups will work through an incident and share their experience with the aim of taking the tabletop to the next level.

Managing cybersecurity risk is best done with consistent methodology and the right set of metrics across multiple domains. Rather than a given technology approach, it’s more about defining a repeatable process and method that can assess cyber performance. Join this session to discuss what corporate leaders needs to know about cybersecurity and its necessary metrics and benchmarks. Learn which domains are key for any benchmark and the best ways to measure results against peers and the industry at large.

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: 

Pierre Ngung at 503-808-9818 or pierre.ngung@evanta.com

Your team discovers a potential breach. Now what? For many organizations, it means smart people go into a room and try to figure out what to do. Manual processes for responding to security incidents simply can’t keep up with attackers. Building a security response runbook while layering automation and orchestration where appropriate is emerging as the winning strategy. But how do you get started? What do you prioritize? Join ServiceNow for a discussion on best practices around adding workflows, automation and orchestration to your security incident-response plan.

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: 

Pierre Ngung at 503-808-9818 or pierre.ngung@evanta.com

As organizations embrace new IT environments such as mobile and cloud, priorities shift – often at the expense of increased risk to ever-changing networks where employees still expect “instant gratification” and access to data anywhere, anytime. With threats like malicious nation-state actors on the rise, securing this shifting virtual landscape is a crucial challenge. Join this peer dialogue to discuss how your peers are managing security in the evolving IT environment, from defining the shifting definition of “endpoint” to managing the behavior of 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: 

Pierre Ngung at 503-808-9818 or pierre.ngung@evanta.com