Seattle CIO Virtual Executive Summit

A rapidly growing number of security tools have arisen to help organizations better secure their environments and actively protect important data, from SIEM to EDR to SOAR and more. In response, many organizations are purchasing more tools than they can effectively manage or find, train and retain staff for as they struggle to stay protected against the latest security threats. However, a recent study of hundreds of security leaders finds a majority fear they have increased organizational risk levels and decreased ability to respond effectively to threats. In this session, we will detail these findings, then explore how your organization can better measure visibility, efficacy and performance to optimize investments and reduce risk. In this discussion, you’ll learn:

• The state of “tools sprawl” and data showing its impact on security organizations
• Tips to implement immediately to get a handle on tool efficacy
• Apply a new approach to maturing your security posture

As the enterprise workplace changes at an accelerated pace, enterprise and IT leaders are looking to the advantages of 5G to enable their workforce and support a “mobile-first” mindset. Now more than ever, having a network that can meet and anticipate your evolving business needs is crucial for your future success.

In this session, engage in an open dialogue with your peers and T-Mobile’s 5G experts about:

• How mobility will drive digital transformation, enable innovation and support a more mobile workforce
• The ways 5G is powering the new remote work reality
• Setting up advanced network security the enterprise can rely on

As companies evolve to keep pace with a digital world, successful cloud strategies elude many IT departments. Dealing with high operational costs and a talent shortage are just some of many reasons that cloud solutions are often a bigger undertaking than they first appear.

This session will focus on:

• Discovering the right road map for your organization
• Winning the business' trust during transition
• Avoiding common pitfalls

The human element remains a huge challenge in a cohesive information security strategy, as they pose as potential risk as either an accidental or malicious insider. Employees, vendors and even customers all have a role to play when clicking one malicious link can put the organization at serious risk. The CISO must instill discipline, responsibility and buy-in across a huge swath of users – no easy task, especially in a remote working world.

Join this session to learn:

• How today’s situation informs security awareness training needs and objectives
• Training techniques and solutions that work at scale
• How to measure success and hold users accountable

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

At the start of the pandemic, organizations quickly turned to move a significant portion of the workforce to work fully remote. Now, CIOs are at the forefront of supporting a hybrid workforce of in-office and remote employees that will remain sustainable for the foreseeable future. 

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• A new mindset for distributed workers: remote access is now strategic workforce policy
• Evolving technologies to help with business continuity and resiliency
• Best practices on how to implement a safe and secure remote work environment

A strong IAM is one key to preventing data breaches and limiting the blast radius, should a security incident occur. But cloud IAM presents a new set of constructs for organizations to build and manage. Is this the most comprehensive identity and access control out there, or yet another layer of complexity added to your program?

In this session, you will discuss:

• Why managing cloud IAM is so complex
• The challenges cloud IAM creates for IT and cybersecurity professionals
• How leading organizations are governing cloud IAM to reduce risk and the chance of a data breach

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

AI is the main ingredient to help you pivot quickly in today’s environment and ensure a successful digital transformation. To scale AI, you need to overcome the challenges of talent scarcity, data complexity and a lack of trust in AI systems.

In this session, you’ll discuss:

• Common challenges businesses and government sectors face in their AI journey
• Prescriptive approach to collect, organize, analyze, infuse AI, and modernize your data
• Efficient information architectures (IA) for AI

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