Executive Summit

Join members of the Toronto CISO Governing Body and their invited guests to launch the Executive Summit with a private networking reception.

Security leaders from Toronto and Eastern Canada's leading organizations, as well as supporting partners and speakers at the CISO Executive Summit the next day, will come together for an informal evening of food, drinks, conversation and fun. 

You'll have the opportunity to take a break from screens and stress, and instead get a little creative with your peers with some literal team-BUILDING — all with Legos! 

Where: Club 43 | Located on the 43rd floor of the Sheraton Centre Toronto

When: May 30 | 6:00-8:30pm

During a breach, it’s easy to feel like your options are limited. But there’s one recourse you likely haven’t tried – offense. With the power of your team and the support of cyber law enforcement, you may be able to permanently shift the threat landscape. 

Join this paradigm-destroying executive session and: 

• Hear why some executives say we’re going too soft on threat actors
• Take a break from goal tending to consider your potential as a striker
• Identify and overcome the political hurdles holding you back

Despite a dynamic threat landscape and constantly changing malicious TTPs, CISOs must prepare their organizations to thrive in growing complexity. From widely distributed infrastructures to high volumes of tools with different levels of control and responsibility, it can be difficult to maintain true visibility across environments. How can shifting from reactive to proactive threat management be incorporated into your security strategy to help achieve this?

Join this session to learn about:

• Identifying blind spots due to information fragmentation
• Understanding your full attack surface and the challenges of lowering risks
• Reducing the noise and stress being fed into threat management systems and pressure on teams

Shift Left? Shift Right? CSPM/CWPP/CNAPP, CDR…  the list of cloud security acronyms and slogans can be terrifyingly long. Terms are often used interchangeably depending upon the prism of the vendor you speak with. At the end of the day, it’s crucial as a security leader to have a clear thought-process on what tools your organization uses, so you aren’t fighting with one arm tied behind your back.   

Join this executive boardroom to discuss:

• What makes up a good set of cloud tools to choose from at your disposal
• Best practices for a modern organization to defend and monitor cloud infrastructure
• Potential differences in the approach for single vs. multi-cloud

Attackers don’t think in silos – they exploit weaknesses in any lateral, adjacent area. At the same time, the cybersecurity industry is on collision course with an ever-growing volume, variety, and velocity of data. To solve for this, many organizations rely on siloed security investments across cloud, containers, laptops, and servers. So now, how do we increase collaboration and reduce silos to yield faster, more effective threat detection and response?

Join this executive boardroom to discuss and share strategies for:

• Getting a fuller picture and answering questions in minutes, not hours
• Identifying and stopping threat actors before they can access crown jewel data/services
• Moving toward a more cohesive enterprise-wide security and compliance posture

Uncertain economic times force leaders to do more with less. The tech industry is going through a period of downsizing and cybersecurity budgets are not immune from cuts. Executives must be creative if they want to maintain or expand their operations with fewer resources. Fortunately, cloud technology offers businesses several ways to maximize their investments.

Join this session to learn:

• How the cloud can reduce security risks while driving greater productivity
• Ways software-defined solutions can securely transform your business into a supercharged connectivity engine
• Tricks for performing simplified M&As and reducing network complexity without exposing your organization to new risks

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 interactive session to discuss:

• New risks organizations are encountering when it comes to identity
• Processes, policies and tools that add value to your IAM program
• Strategies for engaging other stakeholders/functions about access needs

Digital business is driving the continued migration of workloads to the cloud at a greater pace than ever. However, the complexity of securing cloud applications and their development and delivery pipelines across multi-cloud environments are causing many organizations to fall behind or inadvertently introduce security weaknesses. Between misconfigurations, over privileged identities, exposed sensitive data, source code vulnerabilities, and supply chain risks there are a myriad of considerations that have made cloud security humanly challenging to address.

In this cloud transformational session, we will discuss

• How to get a 360° view of cloud security challenges across the code/build/deploy and run lifecycle
• How to harness the power of data, threat intelligence, and AI to detect and prevent cloud threats
• Ways to foster teamwork between developers, cloud ops, and security teams

Today’s business leaders find themselves squaring up against a two-headed monster: more attack surfaces and threats to cover than ever before and macroeconomic challenges loom. Cybersecurity isn’t something that orgs can afford to “cut down on,” so increasingly, leaders are asked to achieve even greater outcomes with the same or fewer resources — from budgets to tech to headcount. As security continues to evolve as a business-critical function, how can CISOs evaluate spend without compromising on risk?

Join this session to discuss:

• Ways organizations are improving ROI on existing security investments
• How leaders can translate risk into business outcomes for leadership and boards, enabled by security investment
• How to overcome challenges security leaders face as they work to scale, grow, and innovate without sacrificing security

Enterprise complexity combined with an exponential increase in vulnerability risk threatens interconnected IT, cloud and application environments and creates an ongoing cyber risk governance challenge for IT security leaders.

Join this executive boardroom to:

• Uncover how the aggregation of billions of vulnerability and asset data points can provide visibility into the security posture of all IT
• Consider new approaches to security risk awareness with attack path modeling
• Discuss the orchestration, automation and measurement of vulnerability remediation campaigns at scale

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.

There's no denying the power and popularity of ChatGPT. For good or for evil, its uses seem endless. Predicting exactly how this advanced AI will impact the future of cyber security is impossible. But through collaboration with your C-level peers, you might be able to prepare.

Join this interactive session to:

• Share your thoughts on the future of AI
• Gauge the impact this tech advancement is having across industries
• Plan and prepare for the (previously) unexpected

Despite the challenges posed by organizational and technological silos, the modern CISO is stepping up to the plate. Impactful digital transformation through intentional technology decisions can minimize organizational obstacles. 

Join this fireside chat to discover:

• Embracing digital transformation to stay competitive and secure in today's business world
• Leveraging SASE to simplify your security architecture, level-up compliance monitoring and improve visibility
• Driving meaningful change with a holistic approach that considers not just security, but also organizational culture, processes, and people

Digital transformation is a top priority for C-suites and boards around the world, creating an opportunity to reframe the role of the modern CISO as securing digital transformation. This positioning offers a chance for greater alignment between security and the rest of the business – and application security has a major role to play in aligning these interests.

Join this executive boardroom to discuss the role of application security in relation to key security priorities, including:

• Cloud Native Development: Processing change management across multiple business functions
• Risk Mitigation: Securing the business amidst unprecedented application complexity and density
• Business Growth: securing digital transformation and differentiating your sales with AppSec

Data is perhaps the most important enterprise asset there is. As companies ramp up their modern hybrid workforce, keeping sensitive data from leaking into the wrong hands has become a top priority for their IT and Risk teams. The modern workplace requires an entirely new approach to security by focusing on data.

Join this session to discuss:

• How to manage data protection in the era of increased data analytics
• Best practices for preventing malicious insiders and well-intentioned accidents
• The continuum between "give me access to everything" and "least privileged" access models

As a CISO once said, "A dog with two owners starves to death." In other words, when mergers and divestitures happen, responsibilities are split and then often neglected - leaving the enterprise vulnerable. The good news is, there are ways to stay ahead.

In this keynote session, you'll hear:

• Ways of securing your operation in moments of division or change
• Real, applicable lessons on living through business separation
• Which key partnerships make the survival process that much easier