Southern California CISO Executive Summit

Businesses stand to benefit from AI in unprecedented ways, but only if IT and security leaders overcome transformation challenges. This includes implementing a modern zero trust architecture to protect data and users, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based approach to security ensures CISOs deliver a secure, phased transformation.

Join this session to:

• Understand how zero trust and AI together, unlike firewalls, provide the strongest cyber defense by stopping threat actors from lateral movement within networks
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how eliminating costly legacy hardware simplifies environments while cutting network and security costs

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Many tenured CISOs started their careers before "CISO" was even a position at most organizations. Now, if you ask 50 CISOs about their reporting structure and responsibilities, you'll likely get 50 different answers.  How do you decide what you want your CISO role to look like? And once that is done, do you play the long game and push for changes within your current position - refining your role?  Or do you opt for a bold move, declare checkmate and find a new organization that matches your vision for your future?

Join this session to learn:

• When to say 'yes' or 'no' to that next job offer
• How to prioritize the right fit
• What the choice between public and private sector could mean

As cyber threats escalate, organizations must build resilience to effectively withstand and recover from attacks. Real-time threat intelligence provides CISOs with crucial insights to understand the company's risk landscape and respond swiftly. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is essential for fortifying resilience and enhancing communication with the C-suite and Board.

Join this session to discuss:

• Leveraging CTI to align cybersecurity strategies with organizational goals
• Using evidence-based threat intelligence to boost proactive defense and recovery
• Improving communication with executive leadership on risk management strategies

AI is the critical differentiator in the evolving battle between hackers and defenders.  CISOs are tasked with defending against AI-powered cyberattacks that humans can't always easily identify and then finding ways to use AI-powered technologies to bolster their organizations’ defenses.

Join this session to discuss:

• The rise of AI-powered threats and responses to those attacks 
• Better detection through automated monitoring
• Improvement of analysis and context of behaviors to combat evolving threats

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

Security continues to find its way into the boardroom and even into headlines.  CISOs are feeling the heat to foster and explain strategic value, opportunities, and implications of key priorities and new innovations. In this workshop, you'll have the chance to pick tables with topics that most interest you and have a dynamic dialogue about them with your peers.

Join this interactive session to:

• Engage with like-minded CISO peers on top-of-mind priorities
• Validate strategies and look at topics from new perspectives
• Share key lessons learned and proven best practices

Table Themes Include: Quantum Computing; AI vs. Talent; Personal Liability; Leading Through M&A; Next-Gen Technology; Passwordless Authentication; Building Your Brand; Life After CISO/Board Membership; Succession Planning

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Security teams are on the front lines of a dynamically changing threat landscape, especially in the cloud. They need to understand their tech stacks while also building resilient processes. Detecting, investigating, and preventing threats in a multi-cloud environment, and ultimately securing those critical workloads starts with visibility.

Join this closed-door conversation with your C-Level peers and:

• Consider the strengths and weaknesses of your current cloud environment
• Evaluate the legitimacy of emerging, newsworthy or trending threats
• Collaboratively address what is and isn't working for modern application security

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CISOs must protect their organizations from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks by preparing now to limit the impact and allow for as quick a recovery as possible. This requires a great defensive strategy that is practiced, communicated and understood throughout the organization well before any incident occurs. Balancing that preparation with what actually unfolds during an event is what fosters true resilience.

Join this interactive session to explore with peers:

• Stories of detection and recovery – what strategies worked and which fell short
• Mutual threat defense – the critical role of collaboration in the cybersecurity community
• Best practices for organizational communication – before, during and after an incident

Wrap up your day at our closing reception with tasty food and drinks hosted by the Governing Body members. Come celebrate all the sharing and learning done throughout the day, all set to some great music.