Houston CISO Executive Summit

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to hold relevant conversations with peers facing similar challenges and opportunities in a specific industry. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your topical table conversations.

Security operations

• What is the maturity of your security operations program?
• What is your process for building an operational playbook?
• What KPIs or KRIs do you use to measure success?

Communication and awareness

• How do you approach security with a holistic lens?
• What are some of the challenges that you face when communicating with the C-suite and/or your business teams?
• How do you evaluate, communicate and demonstrate the ROI of a proposed initiative or tool?

Access and Identity Management

• What strategies and tools are you using to improve visibility into your systems?
• How are you integrating the user experience with security?
• How are you measuring the success of your access management program?

Governance and privacy

• How are you responding to/preparing for regulatory changes?
• How do you balance compliance with business requirements?
• What standards and metrics are you using to measure risk?

Talent and developing leaders

• What are some tangible strategies for creating and developing new talent resources?
• What best practices exist for retaining talent, once secured?
• How are you developing your future leaders? What succession plan strategies do you have in place?

As enterprises grow increasingly reliant on technology for every aspect of operations, CISOs have found themselves in a completely new operations center: the boardroom. Headline-grabbing breaches can draw a lot of attention from business stakeholders and board members, but staying focused on the likely scenarios offers the best protection. In this session Costlow will share strategies for discussing security and technology priorities at the board level.

• Put risk in perspective and focus on your plan for recovery
• Understand the gaps in your program and come with a plan to fill them
• Focus on business risk/reward by mapping core security priorities to business objectives
• Create a roadmap to “Yes” by prioritizing business performance without sacrificing security

Organizations are challenged to strike a balance between security teams who want a Zero Trust approach and employees who desire seamless Zero Touch access. Bridging that gap is Artificial Intelligence and a Zero Trust Architecture.

This session dives into:

• Why the view of endpoints impacts how they’re secured and managed
• How adaptive security and artificial intelligence can protect all endpoints
• The ultimate goal of increasing security while acknowledging other factors

We all struggle to fully understand the adoption of cryptocurrency. As some wait to see what others are doing, some leaders are taking action. Join Linda Marcone, VP & CISO, Conn's HomePlus and learn how cryptoeconomics can work for your business.

In this session, you will:

• Dive into the scale and size of the crypto economy
• Explore case-studies of bitcoin and blockchain
• Discuss what is on the horizon for the crypto economy

Staying up to date on the current threat intelligence landscape is imperative when it comes to protecting against a cyberattack. With new technologies gaining momentum, CISOs must understand new threats that have come up and how these technologies can be used in combative response. 

In this boardroom, you will learn:

• Trends in threat intelligence
• How to use threat intelligence insights to combat threats
• How to allocate resources to maximize risk protection

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Tyler Ward at Tyler.Ward@evanta.com or 971-230-3500.

Recent headlines confirm what CISOs already know — the question is not if, but when an organization will be breached. How can CISOs prepare for the inevitable? In this session, hear directly from the FBI on a real-world investigation into an intrusion of a large network.

Join the conversation and learn:

• What the FBI was looking for in this investigation and what surprise was discovered
• Specific techniques and tactics attackers are using
• Some of the unanticipated results of this investigation
• Legal concerns and ethical issues to be aware of

You are only as strong as your weakest link. To ensure your organization has the strongest defense against cybercrime and protects customer data, information security needs to be part of every employee's life.

In this boardroom, you’ll:

• Explore innovative ways to take your security awareness program to the next level
• Discuss strategies for cultivating security awareness across the organization
• Identify ways to measure success for security awareness

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Tyler Ward at Tyler.Ward@evanta.com or 971-230-3500.

While the stakes are high, improving digital security for industrial environments remains a challenging problem for many organizations. Join this panel of experts as they discuss the latest ideas to tackle several key areas in OT security such as:

• Ways to evaluate your OT security risk
• Tactical ways to secure OT
• Perspectives on the latest threat landscape for OT