Washington, DC CIO Executive Summit

Open any newspaper or watch any news station — autonomous systems and AI are everywhere. What is your place in the new autonomous world? Are you ready to lead and govern in this uncertain future?

In this keynote, you’ll hear how:

• Social normative behaviors are being redefined
• New technology impacts opportunities, provocations, and threats on and off Wall Street
• Planned change keeps leaders from becoming obsolete

Two pillars of a successful and proactive SOC are threat hunting and incident response. The use of network traffic analysis can help improve performance in these two areas, if you can trust the data.

In this session, you will learn:

• Current attack practices, including abuse of legitimate traffic and encryption
• How hunters hide from attackers to avoid counter IR maneuvers
• Ways to make analysts faster and more effective at validating and responding to threats
• Options for empowering cross-training and on-the-job training to increase analysts' skills
• Clarity on how gaining visibility into cloud and encrypted traffic

Executives know they need to focus on the future to solve the IT skills gap. But developing a talent pipeline takes time, and companies must balance long-term strategies with impactful short-term solutions.

In this session, you’ll hear about:

• Strategies for reskilling your current talent
• Talent pool resources like Virginia Cyber Range
• Creative ways to engage new talent and build out the future pipeline

Information security leaders navigate an increasingly complex matrix of national and foreign data privacy regulations. GDPR caused organizations to scramble to meet data protection directives and reassess risk management through new compliance reporting requirements and potential exposure to financial penalties. Now California has its own Privacy Act set to come into effect, and it’s one of potentially many different pieces of forthcoming regulation and policy. How can organizations create a unified data protection and compliance strategy that meets conflicting requirements?

In this session, discuss:

• The current landscape of data privacy regulation around the world
• Best practices for managing risk associated with data protection frameworks
• Standards and metrics for measuring data protection risk
• Data classification strategies to aid compliance, regardless of regulation

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jordan Guess at Jordan.Guess@evanta.com or 971-717-6668.

Identifying the elements of a comprehensive cyber strategy and putting them into action are very different enterprise initiatives. Join Michael Johnson for a follow-up session about how to implement a cyber strategy to manage cyber risk and handle roadblocks.

In this session, you’ll discover how to:

• Design a cyber strategy that’s right for your organization
• Communicate risk to key stakeholders, including the board of directors
• Navigate the challenges of implementation

As enterprises continue to use next-gen tools to facilitate digitalization, they must consider how technologies like the cloud can drive real-world benefits. Is it time to move away from a traditional infrastructure and embrace hyperconvergence?

In this roundtable discussion, explore:

• Benefits and risks of using a hyperconverged infrastructure
• Strategies for transitioning away from a public cloud infrastructure
• How to use the cloud to agilely drive business needs

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 CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jordan Guess at Jordan.Guess@evanta.com or 971-717-6668.

As executives reach the highest level of their function, they’re forced to ask themselves, what’s next? Discover what the future holds for CIOs and CISOs with Phil Fasano, a former Global CIO himself. After a full career of working as a corporate CIO, Fasano found himself leveraging his experiences as a board member and advisor for 9+ organizations.

In this session, you’ll hear how to:

• Transition beyond the C-Suite
• Interact effectively with the board of directors
• Retain business influence and impact