Minneapolis CISO Executive Summit

When CISOs talk about risk, they need to move outside of the scope of information security and focus more on how risk applies to the business. If you don't make the shift, you may miss important priorities that can have a negative impact on business outcomes, in addition to your security posture. 

In this keynote session, discover how you can:

• Bridge the leadership communication gap to have more effective conversations with your business partner
• Reprogram the role of the CISO to create moments of awareness that will embed security throughout the organization
• Explain risk with the probability of it happening vs. the likelihood of it happening

One could say networking and security always follow the compute, but rapid adoption of multi-cloud and hybrid computing means networks are now more distributed than ever before with business value shifting to agility, innovation and software - leading to the rise of the software-defined enterprise.
In this session, you will explore:

• Practical strategies to secure cloud computing while delivering better outcomes and experiences
• New and emerging technology trends
• Automation, orchestration, AI and machine learning cloud strategies

Although most organizations do an exceptional job of layering different technologies to secure their data, breaches continue to occur. So what's going wrong and how can you identify these blindspots? In many instances, the point of failure can be tracked to the user and their endpoint. In today’s changing landscape, CISO must demand a tight hold on the endpoints.
In this session, you can learn about:

• What are the major endpoint management capabilities you can implement
• How you can combat the complex challenges of managing endpoints in the new era
• Ways you can continuously monitor endpoint metrics and manage system health

This is NOT your typical security conversation. We won’t be talking about how to play better "perimeter defense" at the end of your software supply chain. Instead, we will be talking about how to play better digital “innovation offense” as next-generation software supply chain attacks become more sinister with bad actors actively injecting malicious code into open source projects that feed the global software supply chain.

Join us to discuss:

• The prevalence of software supply chain attacks with real-world examples such as dependency confusion and how to continuously identify and remediate open source risk, without slowing down innovation
• Ways to integrate security guardrails directly within your DevOps pipeline
• The importance of uniting developers, security, and operations on the same team

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 your event Program Manager.

In 2020, the multi-decade process of turning the digital enterprise inside out accelerated instantly. We’ve now passed an inflection point – most cyber assets live outside the old “walls” of the organization and cybersecurity controls must be scalable, flexible and reliable. How are CISOs working to establish a security strategy that is an enabler of the digital business rather than an obstacle?

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• Ways your peers discuss strategy for trust and access with other senior leaders
• Re-conceptualizing traditional ideas of how to approach security within the enterprise and shifting the business mindset
• Strategies to adjust and manage security implications of growth through M&A

From minimizing risks to streamlining productivity, CISOs have a few goals in mind when bolstering their security operations centers. Meeting those goals won’t happen without a plan.

Join this session to learn:

• How you can build an SOC blueprint despite aging technology and limited resources
• What security risks are top of mind for CISOs
• The skillsets information security teams will need during a SOC build process

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 your event Program Manager.

Not every story to share is a success.  Take time to reflect on some of the biggest lessons you've learned in your professional career and learn from others on their successful failure stories. Discuss everything from third party utilization to in-house, ad-hoc execution and all the lessons in between.

In this boardroom you will:

• Explore some of the pivotal failures and lessons that others have experienced
• Benchmark your current challenges against those who have gone through it
• Discover opportunities to avoid making the same mistakes peers have already made