
San Francisco CISO Executive Summit
December 7, 2021 | InterContinental San Francisco
December 7, 2021
InterContinental San Francisco
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with San Francisco's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Accelerating security to match the pace of digital business initiatives
Managing the risk created from a landscape of new core technologies
Achieving sustainability for the CISO role without compromising outcomes
San Francisco CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Yassir Abousselham
Splunk
CISO

Selim Aissi
ICE Mortgage Technology
CISO

Krishnan Chellakarai
Gilead Sciences
Head of Information Security & Data Privacy (CISO)

Devin Ertel
Blackhawk Network
CISO

Al Ghous
Snapdocs
CISO

Jeff Trudeau
Chime
CISO
What to Expect
Agenda
December 6, 2021
December 7, 2021
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
Stress and the CISO — Practical Strategies to Mitigate Burnout
Hosted by Illumio

Sheila Hamilton
Mental Health Thought Leader and Author of "All the Things We Never Knew"
Guest Speaker
Today’s CISOs face daunting challenges. It is a balance between fighting off increasingly sophisticated attacks, managing scarce resources, and working with stakeholders that often don't understand the inevitability of a breach. Since there continues to be a knowledge gap about the criticality of the CISO’s role, it is no surprise that they’re experiencing stress and burnout at unprecedented rates. How can CISOs make their careers sustainable and maintain a sense of well-being?
Join this keynote to explore:
- How to recognize the signs and symptoms of toxic stress and burnout
- How to remain engaged, energized, and focused during turbulent times
- Methods to reduce stress at work and how to not let the stress overlap into personal lives
- Mindfulness strategies that can help alleviate burnout
- How to model work-life balance for Gen Y and Gen Z
9:00am - 9:15am Break
9:15am - 10:00am Breakout Session
A New Message for Automating Security Operations
Hosted by Fortinet, Inc.

John Jacobs
Field CISO
Fortinet
Each new system adds another stream of log and event information. These tributaries join the main river, often only to be viewed and processed by the same overburdened security operations staff recovering from the last application installation.
In this session, you’ll discuss:
- New tools to help automate your security operations
- Reducing the burden of repetitive tasks to free your staff to up-level their skillsets
- Applying intelligent machine learning in easy-to-use functions
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Protect your Data or Pay the Price
Hosted by Cloudflare

Joe Sullivan
SVP, Chief Security Officer
Cloudflare

Brad Jones
VP of Information Security
Seagate Technology

Kevin Neely
Director of Corporate Security
Pure Storage
Ransomware is top-of-mind for all organizations today as attacks become more sophisticated and its impact increasingly detrimental. Cybersecurity professionals must have the right strategy and tools in place to prevent, detect and respond quickly to ransomware attacks and to avoid paying the hefty sum.
Join this boardroom to discuss:
- How to reduce the risk of ransomware
- Taking ransomware protection to the next level
- Strategies to defend against ransomware
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, Greg.Winterrowd@evanta.com
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Enabling the Business as a CISO

Al Ghous
CISO
Snapdocs

Jeff Trudeau
CISO
Chime
As business leaders, CISOs also need to position themselves as business enablers. It is important to strategize and stay one step ahead to ensure the business cannot just stay secure, but grow effectively.
Come together with your peers to discuss:
- Tactics for enabling your business whether you are B2B, B2C or B2B2C
- Building a sales enablement playbook to use for your prospective clients
- Ways to gain confidence, trust and transparency with your clients
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.
10:00am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:15am Breakout Session
Taming the Beast: Identities and Access-Based Threats in your Cloud Infrastructure
Hosted by Ermetic

Toby Buschini
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Ermetic

Travis McPeak
Advisory Board Member
Ermetic

Or Priel
VP Product Management
Ermetic
Cloud identities and entitlements are no longer something you can ignore. With the explosion in the numbers of human and service identities across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, uncontrolled access permissions pose an enormous risk.
Excessive entitlements - defined intentionally or unwittingly - can lead to accidental or malicious use, exposure of resources, lateral movement and more. Detecting, prioritizing and mitigating these risks is typically hampered by lack of visibility, lack of manpower, lack of coordination and an inability to scale protective measures.
Please join Travis McPeak, Head of Product Security at Databricks, and Or Priel, VP Product Management at Ermetic, as they explain why identities are the new security beast to tame and why governing access must be core to every security program. They will offer fresh views on using automation to remediate risk.
10:30am - 11:15am Breakout Session
Mitigating New Third-Party Risks

Surbhi Tugnawat
CISO
SRI International

Al Ghous
CISO
Snapdocs
Many third-party risks are identified after initial onboarding and due diligence, suggesting traditional methods in risk management policy fail to capture new and evolving vulnerabilities. As these external partnerships become increasingly complex, the need for a new approach is clear.
In this benchmarking session, uncover answers to your pressing questions, including:
- What strategies are most effective when assessing vendor risk?
- How do you ensure vendors are complying with evolving privacy regulations?
- How do you convey vendor risks to senior leadership and to your board?
10:30am - 11:15am Executive Boardroom
The Art of Managing and Securing Workloads in the Cloud
Hosted by SentinelOne

Jon Anderson
Director of Systems Engineering
SentinelOne

Colin Anderson
SVP, CISO
Ceridian
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 traced 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 workloads in the new era
- Ways you can continuously monitor endpoint metrics and manage system health
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, Greg.Winterrowd@evanta.com.
11:15am - 11:25am Break
December 6, 2021
December 7, 2021
Location
Venue & Accommodation
InterContinental San FranciscoHost Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Intercontinental San Francisco at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 415-616-6500.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $329 (plus taxes) is Monday, November 29, 2021.
Health & Safety Local Guidelines
Information regarding local health and safety guidelines coming soon.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the InterContinental San Francisco at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 1-415-616-6500.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $329 USD (plus tax) is November 29, 2021.
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