Toronto CISO Community
Virtual Executive Summit

From AI to quantum computing – innovative technologies can open the door to new solutions that can transform your business. However, they can also create clouds of confusion. How do you wade through the noise to discover what really works? How do you determine what is practical, scalable and secure?

In this session discover how:

• You can introduce security earlier in the development process
• To identify potential areas of risk regarding emerging technologies 
• You can effectively communicate with all areas of the business before, during and after the adoption process

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With today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, advanced security is not enough to prevent attacks on your users and infrastructure. You need capabilities in place to help you respond rapidly to threats that may breach your defenses. To avoid serious and widespread damage, you need to prevent as much as you can and detect and respond quickly if a threat breaks through. The efficiency of XDR allows resource-constrained security teams to do more with less.

Join Antoine Saikaley as he leads this interactive conversation focused on:

• How XDR delivers on data correlation needed to tell the full story of an attack
• What the pragmatic differences are with XDR in the real world
• How this aligns with MITRE ATT&CK

CISOs face a constant tension between enterprise agility and enterprise security, and in today’s world, this dynamic often plays out in the context of cloud services. How can CISOs gain a centralized view over cloud security posture and workloads?

Join this session to discuss:

• Methodical approaches to securing cloud-based technologies, workloads and products
• Ways to standardize cloud environments
• Strategies to ensure compliance

One oversight, one moment of turning your head the other way is all it takes to alter the course of your entire career. As executives find themselves operating in more gray areas than ever before, how can they find clarity?

Join this interactive workshop to discover how:

• Ethical blind spots lead to global scandals
• Risk factors and individual pressure points put reputations on the line
• Ethical vigilance can support a transparent organization

In this session, Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry and retired 3M CISO John Valente will discuss how IT is evolving to become the driver of enterprise agility and scalability. Once known as “the department of no,” IT’s focus has turned to enabling business objectives, such as guiding the move to work-from-anywhere, securing cloud-first strategies to minimize business risk, and simplifying and modernizing infrastructure to increase efficiency and reduce costs. 

Chaudhry and Valente will share their experiences leading enterprise digital transformation, including: 

• How to retire technical debt to gain a competitive advantage
• The evolution of the CISO’s role from rack-stacker to growth-enabler
• Collaborative best practices for transforming apps, infrastructure, and security

An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups. 

Organizations are feeling a shift in the world of networking and security as they rapidly adopt and embrace the cloud. On-premises private data centers are no longer the place for data and workloads to exist. With this shift, security and networking are brought closer than ever. Enterprises need speed, visibility, security and reliability without compromise. Enter, the secure access service edge, better known as SASE. Its’ inevitable that SASE implementations and zero trust implementations need to collide to provide a more comprehensive security capability to truly support digital transformation. How can your organization best position itself for the transition?

In this session, you will discuss:

• Problems SASE can address in the modern enterprise
• Benefits of planning both SASE and zero trust implementations
• Insights from organizations adopting SASE and zero trust today

Modern network technologies have created an unprecedented spike in productivity, allowing many employees to work from anywhere. With this transition to remote work, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for security teams to know what is on their network, let alone defend it from attack.

Join this conversation to explore:

• How to understand and prioritize risk
• Strategies to maintain a strong incident detection and response process
• Meaningful risk metrics

Digital transformation is taking place at breakneck speed. How can CISOs ensure that cybersecurity for digital transformation is a strategy that’s aligned with business needs and evolving risks, not something that is bolted on?

Join this session and discuss how to:

• Design, deploy and operate a secure digital environment
• Push back when innovation presents too much risk
• Maximize the value of data for the business while ensuring privacy and security

As an organizational capability, insider threat management is changing - again. Firstly, the idea of context has changed the categories of insider threat, and secondly insider threat programs now maturing – evolving into a more justifiable and friendly trusted insider program.

Join this virtual boardroom to discuss:

• The evolving landscape of insider threats and its challenges
• The impact of changing behaviors, employee culture and workplace environment on insider risk
• Practical strategies for improving an insider risk management program

For CISOs, understanding where your peers are at is critical to putting your security program into perspective. As employees settle in to home offices, how have you evolved your security awareness program to fit with the times?

Join this interactive session to:

• Identify at-home best practices for employees to increases their security hygiene
• Discuss why multiple strategies to engage employees produces better results
• Heighten security awareness across diverse and changing enterprises

As 2020 changes the way we live and work, cyber criminals are adapting as well. Join us as we examine the biggest challenges security leaders face, and why a people-centric approach to security is everyone’s biggest opportunity to stop attackers and protect their organization.

Join Ryan Kalember as he and a panel of CISOs discuss:

• Why social engineering dominates among today’s cyber threat actors
• How remote work and the move to the cloud has changed the nature of threats
• The ways their organizations are building controls to better understand and protect people