Southern California CISO Community
Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

Leaders in every age must decide whether new trends are worth pursuing or distracting hype. In recent years, business success has become increasingly reliant on its IT infrastructure, making advances in this field especially consequential for innovation and accelerated business outcomes. AI and zero trust architecture are two such trends, and their ability to reduce risk, eliminate cost and complexity, and increase agility are well-documented.

Join this session and learn:

• How zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, IoT/OT devices, and business partners by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture
• How to reduce network complexity without exposing your organization to new risks
• How AI/ML adds defensive and business analytics capabilities that have the power to turn IT into the engine propelling business success forward

With an ever-changing security landscape, the role of the security leader is evolving fast.  Cyber threats, an increasing regulatory environment, budget limitations, organizational changes, all balanced with the need to retire technical debt.  This session is about finding the right approach to modern challenges facing companies who look to transform their technology investments and security posture while undergoing organizational change.  

Join this session to gain insight into: 

• Matching technology investments to reduce risk and cost while retiring technical debt
• Pathways to leverage regulations to accelerate the transformation
• How to think about your organization during this process

 When individual politics in an organization conflict with your goals, it can put a halt to the growth and health of a CISOs role.  The influence of other C-level leaders can either strengthen or weaken your position. CISOs should be asking: Am I a true officer of this position? Is my reporting structure effective? Am I seen as a true leader in this organization? If you want a seat at the table, make one.

Join this discussion to learn:

• How to build your visibility and responsibility with top leadership
• Why the health of your relationship with the C-Suite is key
• How CISOs can equip each other to sharpen their position

The use of cloud technology has become a popular choice for businesses, providing them with numerous advantages but also introducing new threats. Cyber security risks can cause financial and reputational damage if left unmanaged, which is why it is essential to understand all the ways to protect the enterprise.  

In this boardroom we will discuss:      

• New insights to cloud-based attacks and the impacts
• Defenses to financial and reputational damage
• Securing cloud and cloud governance

In today’s rapidly evolving security landscape, security programs must possess three indispensable capabilities to be truly effective: speed, scale, and flexibility. But to get to that ideal state, CISOs must overcome a bevy of obstacles, like legacy tools that are continuously breaking and homegrown systems that are challenging to maintain.

In this session we will discuss how to:

• Build a scalable infrastructure by exploring tools, processes and skills
• Share challenges with current SecOps frameworks and ideas for more modern approaches
• Explore solutions for high volume cloud log sources while keeping budget in check

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Companies with greater diversity are more profitable, more socially responsible, and provide more well-rounded perspectives. No organization can drive results without highly adept leadership and a strong bench of successors. So why is it that there are so few women in the C-Suite?  Today, CISOs have a great opportunity to change the narrative by becoming an advocate for the advancement of women in leadership roles. Join Shoaib Qazi, CISO at RXO as he draws from his experience of growing and sponsoring female leadership at his organization.

Join this session to discuss:

• Why having women & diversity in the workplace is so impactful
• How CISOs play a critical role in advocating for women leaders
• Why supporting and growing diverse leaders is paramount for the health of the organization

In these times of rapid technological advancement, data stands as the cornerstone of innovation. As we navigate through the information age, it's evident that data residing in the cloud represents the fastest area of growth. To maintain pace with the agility of cloud operations, it is imperative to discover and adopt strategic approaches and robust architectures.

Gather with your C-level peers to:

• Start solving the challenge of data visibility in the cloud
• Determine who in your organization should own data security (CISO? CDO? CPO?)
• Discuss how automation and agility can be accomplished through tooling or processes

The number of human and machine identities seeking access to data and critical business systems has grown exponentially, in turn increasing the threat landscape and challenging traditional IAM paradigms. How do security leaders keep a pulse on tools and capabilities to assess their organization’s cybersecurity posture?

 Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Managing and securing all identities
• Mitigating risks in multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Balancing high expectations and avoiding burnout

There comes a time when organizations realize they need to enhance their application security beyond the conventional CNAPP workload and supply chain. To do this they’ll need to look forward and combine their current model with the next phase of application security; API security.

Join this session to discuss:

• Roadblocks faced in their current application security journey
• How to combine CNAPP and API security
• Benefits API security applications bring to your security posture

The last few years of global instability and conflict have defined a new threat paradigm for CISOs and their teams. Ransomware groups and bad actors are changing their initial access vectors as the digital attack surface and vulnerabilities shift. Sophisticated toolkits easily purchased on the dark web and “living off the land” techniques are allowing threat actors to penetrate even the toughest of perimeters. Additionally, the changing geopolitical and economic environment have provided state-sponsored attackers with unlimited resources to target NGOs and critical resources.

In this Keynote session we will discuss:

• The foundational measures required to build a strong, multi-layered cyber defense.
• The importance of public-private partnerships for intelligence sharing and shared investment in national security.
• Supply chain risks and mitigations to protect against backdoor attacks