VIRTUAL

San Francisco CISO Virtual Executive Summit

May 4, 2021 | 8:15am - 3:30pm PDT

May 4, 2021 | 8:15am - 3:30pm PDT

Collaborate with your peers

Come together with your peers virtually to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the San Francisco CISO Virtual Executive Summit.

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

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Yassir Abousselham

Splunk
CISO

Krishnan Chellakarai

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

Al Ghous

Envision Digital
CISO

Jeff Trudeau

Chime
CISO

What to Expect

Connect with your CISO community through a variety of different session formats at the upcoming Virtual Executive Summit. You'll have the opportunity to listen, engage and create lasting relationships with like-minded peers.

Sessions

Hear from CISO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join intimate, interactive discussions with peers in Boardroom sessions.

Meet the Speakers

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with CISO practitioners and industry thought leaders who shared their insights on the agenda. Come with questions and get ready to meet new friends in this casual session designed to foster peer connections and collaboration in the San Francisco community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. Be sure to opt in when you register and get matched based on your key priorities.

Agenda


9:15am - 10:15am  PDT Virtual Summit Keynote

Innovation Spotlight

Yaniv Bar-Dayan headshot

Yaniv Bar-Dayan

CEO & Founder

Vulcan

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Avi Shua

CEO & Co-Founder at Orca Security

Orca Security

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Lior Levy

CEO & Co-Founder

Cycode

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John Brennan

Partner

YL Ventures

Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Join this session to learn and explore:

  • Vulcan’s risk analytics and remediation orchestration
  • Cycode’s DevOps Pipeline Security, Governance & Integrity
  • Orca Security’s cloud security risk detection in your cloud environment

10:15am - 10:30am  PDT Break

8:15am - 9:15am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Securing the Sprawling Endpoint

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Dan Graney

Head of Competitive Intel

VMware Carbon Black

Yassir Abousselham headshot

Yassir Abousselham

CISO

Splunk

Surbhi Tugnawat headshot

Surbhi Tugnawat

CISO

SRI International

The global health pandemic has forced CISOs into a new era of evolving challenges. With fully remote workforces and assets continuously moving to the cloud, securing endpoint protection has never been more critical. So how are CISOs deploying next-generation endpoint protection to solve these obstacles?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

  • Securing critical applications even in a state of compromise
  • Tactics for monitoring a sprawling attack surface
  • Leveraging new technologies to quantify threats

8:15am - 9:15am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Fostering Innovation in the World of Risk Aversion

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Julian Waits

General Manager Cyber Business Unit

Devo

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Jack Leidecker

CISO

Gong.io

In cybersecurity, the goal is to minimize risk. However, adversaries are agile in their efforts to subvert security measures and innovation is required to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. What must CISOs do to run an efficient SOC while still mitigating risk?

Join this this session to discuss:

  • The biggest risks in cyber today
  • Attacks that have resulted in reactive or proactive changes
  • Strategies to drive innovation in your program

8:00am - 8:15am  PDT Opening Comments

Virtual Executive Summit Kickoff

Join us for a quick welcome and kickoff.

8:15am - 9:15am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Next-Gen Third Party Risk

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Friedrich Wetschnig

CISO

Flex

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Jitendra Joshi

Head of Information Security

BetterUp

In this era of digital transformation, organizations rely heavily on their third parties, however, third-party relationships come with risks. To help mitigate those risks, CISOs must work closely with their partners to ensure security.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Strategies to establish a process for continuous assessment and monitoring of third parties
  • How to create an accurate inventory of all vendors within your ecosystem
  • What to do when your third party gets breached


10:30am - 11:30am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Is Identity and Access Enlightenment Possible?

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Wolf Goerlich

Advisory CISO

Duo Security

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Mahesh Ayyala

SVP Engineering & Technology

Bank of the West

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Michael Wolfe

Principal Cyber-Security Consultant

Blue Shield of California

What would it mean for the world of business if an organization could fully and effortlessly manage the access of its users? Every enterprise requires safeguards to ensure that the right people are accessing the right systems and information, and finding that balance between agility and security is a unique challenge for any CISO. After so many years spent tackling this issue, has a new way forward revealed itself?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Prudent approaches to right-size the balance of security controls and agile access
  • Ways your peers discuss strategy for trust and access with other senior leaders
  • New technologies that are improving the world of IAM

10:30am - 11:30am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Automation for Improved Data Intelligence

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David Tugwell

Senior Director, Information Security/CISO

Agilent Technologies

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Cassie Crossley

Director, Cybersecurity

Schneider Electric

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Roger Hale

CSO

BigID

You can’t protect what you can’t find — so how do you find regulated and sensitive data? How can security leaders accurately classify, inventory, and know their data in a fragmented data landscape of diverse data formats, schemas, content, and metadata types? How can organizations get ahead of today’s data security challenges?

In this session, you will discuss

  • Strategies for attaining a comprehensive data asset inventory
  • Challenges and approaches for continuous compliance
  • Methods of ML & AI to reduce risk, gain context, and find data

10:30am - 11:30am  PDT Virtual Summit Boardroom

Metrics that Matter – Driving Confidence in Your Security Program

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Gaurav Kulkarni

VP of Solutions Architecture

ReliaQuest

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Leda Muller

CISO/Assistant Director of Support Services

Stanford University

Security leaders make large investments in technologies and people to protect the business. However, many leaders find it challenging to measure the effectiveness of their program in reducing the highest risks to the business. How do you confidently measure effectiveness and communicate threat mitigation across your organization’s stakeholders?

In this discussion, you will learn:

  • Why traditional metrics fall short of communicating security risk and value
  • How continuous measurement shows progress over time and the next priority for investment, in either people or technology
  • How the right metrics will benefit the business and win investment for security

11:30am - 12:15pm  PDT Virtual Summit Keynote

Building Better Relationships With Your Board

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Selim Aissi

CISO

ICE Mortgage Technology

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Marina Levinson

Board Member

Grid Dynamics

Do you have a champion on the board who you can trust? Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to have someone to support your ideas even when you aren't present in board meetings. It doesn't have to be such a farfetched thought.

Bring your questions to this keynote that will explore:

  • Tactics on building a better relationship and finding a champion
  • Creative ways to gain trust inside the board
  • Finding the right opportunities to make change for the benefit of the company and shareholders

12:15pm - 12:30pm  PDT Break

12:30pm - 1:00pm  PDT Networking

Giving Back - A Networking Session

Krishnan Chellakarai headshot

Krishnan Chellakarai

Head of Information Security & Data Privacy (CISO)

Gilead Sciences

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Lucia Milica

Global Resident CISO

Proofpoint

 

1:00pm - 2:30pm  PDT Virtual Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues

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