Washington, DC CISO Community
Executive Summit

With threat levels and vulnerabilities becoming more advanced in today’s hybrid workplace, company leadership is depending on the CIOs, CISOs, CDOs and other information executives to take charge, anticipate attacks and limit risks. Building relationships and successfully wielding the power of your position is crucial in this new, shifting environment.

Today’s CIOs and CISOs should know: 

• How to speak to leadership in relatable, business-focused terms
• How to best utilize the budget and manpower secured inboard negotiations
• What it takes to not only survive but grow stronger, in an ever-challenging business climate

They say you can’t know the impact of a ransomware attack until you’ve lived through one. But what if that’s not entirely true? What if you could gain all the post-breach wisdom of a cyber attack veteran, without putting your company at risk?  

Get ready to learn:

• The keys to a quick and painless ransomware recovery
• How to avoid paying into bad actors
• Real-life tools and techniques for identifying and protecting your most sensitive data

According to Gartner, the challenge for many IT and business leaders today is to instill a culture of data-driven decision-making  across the organization. Those who want to exploit the potential of new data and advanced analytics capabilities at scale typically face numerous challenges. It's critical to develop a strong, clear strategy connecting business, technology, and data and analytics to maintain your competitive advantage and mitigate these challenges.

In this session, we'll:

• Discuss best practices for designing data and analytics programs
• Identify and define quick-win opportunities supporting the business data strategy
• Brainstorm technology and resource alignment

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, Haydn McKee (haydn.mckee@evanta.com).

With an increase in threat vectors comes the increased need for a sound yet dynamic cybersecurity program. CIOs must take a proactive approach in ensuring cybersecurity risk is considered at every step, even in times of rapid disruption. 

Join this boardroom for a discussion on:

• Managing third parties and holding them to cybersecurity standards
• Quantifying, measuring, and communicating risk across the organization
• Upskilling your cybersecurity teams to stay ahead of emerging threats

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, Haydn McKee (haydn.mckee@evanta.com).

SaaS and public cloud services are driving a fundamental paradigm shift and a resulting API explosion. As we do our best to navigate this newly-grown jungle of connectivity, it can be hard to notice system vulnerabilities.

Let’s start talking about:

• Ways to manage and protect these seemingly-endless connections
• Best practices for distributing APIs through Cloud and SaaS
• The public cloud transition process and why it doesn’t necessarily mean starting over

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, Haydn McKee (haydn.mckee@evanta.com).

During the workplace evolution, Howard Spira, SVP and CIO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, was brave enough to commit his ideas regarding a metamorphic work culture to publication. Now, still admittedly mid-journey, he's eager to refine these findings with your help.

Join Howard to workshop:

• Workplace culture maintenance techniques
• Solutions for a tired and risk-susceptible talent pool
• Ways of staying ahead of our new and often-challenging work dynamics

One of the biggest challenges facing the modern CIO is balance. When it comes to business transformation, the sky is the limit…until you run into budget, time and resource constraints. How can CIOs balance these real limitations while encouraging their teams to dream big and come up with outside-the-box solutions?

Join this panel to discuss:

• Crafting a technology and cultural transformational strategy
• Successful frameworks that allow space for a “test fast, learn quick” environment
• Strategies for enabling and securing a hybrid WFH workforce

Identifying, classifying and mitigating vulnerabilities continues to be a cornerstone of CISOs overarching risk management strategy. But how are you prioritizing and mitigating zero-day vulnerabilities? 

Join this boardroom discussion to learn how to: 

• Ensure you have visibility of your organization's assets, threats, and vulnerabilities
• Decrease your time to remediate vulnerabilities by leveraging new approaches, tools, and people
• Profile assets by function, services, environment, and life cycle

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.