Boston CISO Executive Summit

For the last 20 years, security leaders have reactively implemented security solutions that are little more than a layering of outdated products. The result? An inefficient and unnecessarily complex defense. Like the attackers that threaten their enterprises, security leaders must constantly rethink how they approach security in order to stay on top.

In this keynote, Jason Clark challenges CISOs to:

• Rethink their approach to enterprise security.
• Prepare to drive fast-paced change.
• Build a new security blueprint that can be used for years to come.

Pitching to the board is a skill that must be mastered. CISOs are tasked to use visuals, communicate business value and synthesize complex information in a way that makes sense. Join this interactive session to identify the holes in your board pitch—and improve them for the next time you’re in the hot seat.

In this interactive session, you will work in a group to:

• Create and deliver a board pitch.
• Receive real-time feedback on your pitch.
• Learn best practices and strategies for communicating with your board.

Protection, detection, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies are crucial when it comes to managing cyberattacks. But are they truly effective? Clearly they have not been able to stop, nor reduce the astounding losses associated with these incidents.

Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, shares:

• How to maintain confidence in the face of ongoing attacks
• Which approaches are most effective
• How to evolve your strategies to be more resilient

Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can CISOs best face changing threat vectors?

Join this roundtable conversation to discuss: 

• The current threat landscape
• How to best discover and thwart nation-state attacks
• What security executives can do to build resiliency 

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.

Regardless of whether a breach results from employee negligence or an attacker, it only takes one click for bad guys to begin wreaking havoc. However, education, employee engagement and new technology can help avoid these disasters. 

During this session, discuss ways to:

• Bolster your endpoint security strategy using deep learning
• Understand the differences between machine learning and deep learning
• Identify your most vulnerable endpoints

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.

Organizations seek to drive responsible innovations and earn the trust of customers and partners in the digitized world. With 160,000 employees across 100+ countries, Schneider Electric takes “digital” seriously and has embedded privacy and security into hundreds of digital offers and internal applications on a global scale.

Join this session to learn:

• An actionable and scalable framework that delivers secure and compliant applications on a global scale
• Practical lessons on how security and compliance can empower digital innovations
• The importance of earning the trust of customers and employees in a digital era
• Strategies to overcome barriers within your organization and among partners

How are your peers balancing business agility and business security in their identity and access management strategy? Join this roundtable discussion to discuss your framework and vet future plans, and learn the most innovative tactics security leaders are using for IAM at their organization, including:

• Methodologies that satisfy users while maintaining adequate access controls
• Communication techniques to streamline acceptance of IAM across the business
• Roadmaps for deciding what technology is the best fit

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.

When it comes to reducing cyber risk, overcoming vulnerability overload is critical. Find out how predictive prioritization will improve your vulnerability management efforts so you can focus on what matters most to your business. During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• How to use threat intelligence to move the most dangerous vulnerabilities up your priority list
• The resources required to effectively assess your environment and prioritize your efforts in a predictive manner
• Practices that will help you take appropriate actions to make your organization more secure
• How to make your staff more efficient by drastically reducing the number of high priority vulnerabilities they need to remediate

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.

To truly safeguard an organization, CISOs mustn’t merely focus on existing threats, but future ones, too. They have to ask themselves – what types of attacks should I be prepared for?

In this interactive session, prepare to:

• Listen to a panel of CISOs predict the biggest threats of 2020
• Share your own threat predictions for 2020
• Discuss how to predict threats and – more importantly – how to prepare for them
• Put your predictions in a time capsule, which will be opened and discussed at a 2020 Boston CISO Summit