Florida CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this session for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us on the pool deck of the AKA Brickell to listen to a local contemporary violin player and sample bourbon from the bar.

Cybersecurity business leaders must demonstrate vision, agility, and flexibility to build truly responsive security operations capable of combating today’s emerging attacks.

Join eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) expert Ryan Westman, as he shares 3 unique cases of leading through crisis, demonstrating how you too can govern with proactivity and confidence in order to reclaim the advantage over new cyber attack methods.

Case studies and discussions will cover:

• How to address targeted and opportunistic threats stemming from global geopolitical tensions
• Evolving your defenses to protect the spectrum of ransomware as a service
• Containing the impact of aggressive extortion attacks

It’s no longer enough to manage your team, and hope they stick around. Instead, long-term retention calls for a focus on well-being and culture. Now, in this era of labor uncertainty, it’s more important than ever to come together and share what’s working.

Join this session to hear:

• How leaders are supporting and engaging their company cultures
• What leaders are doing to support wellbeing
• How to sustain and improve retention amidst volatility and uncertainty

An organization's ability to achieve successful digital transformation is in large part enabled by the security team. Distributed, loosely connected infrastructure and tools, coupled with the demand for almost any-to-any connectivity, complicates the mission. Regularly defined as being delivered by a single "silver bullet" point solution, the term zero trust is now often held in poor regard. It is however, a highly effective conceptual framework, and perhaps even a cultural shift, that many organizations have been working with for several years.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• The broader definition of what a zero trust framework is
• The foundational control required to build a zero trust program
• Strategies for improving the user experience and proving value to get organization wide acceptance

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Kaila Overton at Kaila.Overton@evanta.com

As business and technology teams drive cloud adoption and implement modern application architectures, the security vulnerabilities of the sprawling IT stack multiply as visibility dwindles. Now is the time to explore new applications and API security strategies to proactively reduce risk, secure the environment, and capitalize on cloud-native capabilities to meet these challenges.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Managing the lifecycle of API risks
• Defending against API attacks
• Developer-led API security practices

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: Kaila Overton at Kaila.Overton@evanta.com

Organizations of every size are accelerating digital transformation to become more agile—but in the process, they’re greatly expanding their attack surfaces and exposing themselves to new threats. Once-stalwart castle-and-moat security architectures built on VPNs and virtual or physical firewalls are ill-equipped to address these new challenges. Today’s progressive leaders are turning to zero trust and it is up to CIOs and CISOs to lead the executive and strategic planning requirements to design zero trust throughout the enterprise.

In this session, you’ll hear:

• The essential elements of a true zero trust solution
• How to successfully implement a zero trust architecture across your organization
• How to position zero trust to other C-level executives and the board

CIOs and IT leaders need to stay abreast of key trends across new and emerging technologies, driving innovation and re-shaping the cloud. Discover in this session what advancements are being delivered to accelerate these predictions.

Together we will explore:

• What the future of automation can bring for new types of decision making
• Strategies that are needed to effectively drive digital transformation with multiple clouds
• The most important security issues of our time

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose-your-own-adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify threat responses
• Respond to choices and forces out of their control
• Discuss pitfalls and best practices

Despite their efforts, from phishing simulations to security awareness campaigns, CISOs from organizations big and small keep falling short when it comes to stopping Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. But, if everyone has an email security program, why are the losses associated with BEC still climbing?

Join this session to discuss:

• What is working, or not working, with existing processes and technology?
• How do we solve the "human factor" in the equation?
• Best practices for preventing loss related to a BEC attack?

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 CIOs & CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Kaila Overton at Kaila.Overton@evanta.com

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.

The world is changing. Employees, clients and companies are evolving as we enter the next phase of the pandemic. What are they thinking, where are they going - A Security Leader's point of view.

Join this session to discuss:

• Defining the new “normal” that works for your company
• Providing a modern, flexible and secure experience for employees and customers
• Brainstorming creative ways to keep employees engaged

In today’s fast moving-world, successful leaders must build high-performing teams more quickly than ever. Further, the people and business skills required to be a successful leader may differ from the skills many new executives acquired and exercised throughout their careers.

Attend this session to learn more about: 

• Operational excellence, including system management
• Critical success factors and main challenges that many leaders face
• Frameworks used to build a high-performance team

The key to better customer experiences might be hiding in the data you already have. Auditing your current resources could help you identify useful insights and use them to sharpen your organization’s competitive edge.

Join your peers to discuss:

• Investing in modern data tools
• Determining what data is valuable vs. unnecessary
• Creating buy in and driving data literacy across the enterprise

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 CIOs CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Kaila Overton at kaila.overton@evanta.com

The demands on the CIO & CISO role are diverse and constantly evolving. Many leaders are concurrently building out their functional capabilities, meeting the needs of the business, and keeping an eye on innovative solutions and next-gen threats all at once. Nicole Ford and Shawn Bowen will discuss how to successfully lead on these various challenges without succumbing to burnout.

Join this closing keynote to discuss:

• Common causes of burnout for leaders and their teams
• Ways to address the root causes of burnout
• Future evolutions of the leadership role and how to prepare your teams for what’s next