Dallas CISO Executive Summit

In this interactive session, CISOs from organizations across the size spectrum will split into small groups to share their most creative solutions for stretching their resources as far as possible. Join this session to collaborate on your peers and share your high-impact initiatives for:

• Retaining, attracting and developing security talent
• Effective incident response
• Impactful security awareness training
• Unique, creative security strategies

Caught in the crosshairs of leadership and information security, CISOs often are expected to act not only as security professionals, but business leaders. How can CISOs effectively become bold c-suite leaders while also juggling their security demands?

Join this interactive session to explore:

• How to tailor communication styles to senior leaders
• Ways CISOs can gain the trust of their c-suite
• How to prepare for stepping into the CISO role
• The leadership capabilities necessary for being an effective CISO

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

When it comes to reducing cyber risk, overcoming vulnerability overload is critical. Find out how predictive prioritization will improve your vulnerability management efforts so you can focus on what matters most to your business. During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• How to use threat intelligence to move the most dangerous vulnerabilities up your priority list
• The resources required to effectively assess your environment and prioritize your efforts in a predictive manner
• Practices that will help you take appropriate actions to make your organization more secure
• How to make your staff more efficient by drastically reducing the number of high priority vulnerabilities they need to remediate

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 Lawrence Figueroa at 971-222-2374 or lawrence.figueroa@evanta.com. 

Whether it’s cybercriminals motivated by profit or nation-state attackers with geopolitical motives, public and private organizations of all sizes have felt the impact of cyberattacks. Enterprise organizations are reeling from the onslaught of massively spread ransomware attacks to surgical pinpointed attacks on their assets from sophisticated state-sponsored actors. How can CISOs best face changing threat vectors?

 Join this roundtable conversation to discuss:

• The current threat landscape
• How to best discover and thwart nation-state attacks
• What security executives can do to build resiliency 

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 Lawrence Figueroa at 971-222-2374 or lawrence.figueroa@evanta.com. 

When an incident happens, things unfold in a frenzy. The board wants to know what happened. There may be financial and legal implications and disclosures required. Your security team wants to know what to do. How do you keep your organization together when the inevitable happens?

In this session, two security leaders discuss:

• Best practices for creating a well-rounded response plan that accounts for legal and regulatory requirements
• How to collaborate with your entire leadership team, including marketing, public relations, HR and legal teams
• Ways to support your CISO peers when they weather a breach

 As intuitive human beings we often somehow sense when things aren’t quite right. When a newborn is “too quiet,” a sixth-sense can be more reliable than a baby monitor. What applies to life also applies to cybersecurity. Machine learning and artificial intelligence can weed out some of the threats, but they won't catch everything. Find out why trusting your gut – knowing when to say something when you see something – is a key part of any organization's phishing defense. In this session:

• Discover security trends, threat-actor tactics and defense strategies across the globe
• Learn the types of actual phishing attacks
• See how attackers evolve their tactics to avoid perimeter controls

When it comes to taking your data from you, cyber criminals never rest. If they can’t get in one way, they will try another. A sound Security Operations Center - staffed by the right people and with the right tools - should be a key part of your cyber defense strategy.

In this session you will discover how to:

• Effectively develop your team
• Automate to reduce workloads and drive efficiency
• Equip SOC teams to operate within BYOD and Cloud
• Create strong KPIs and KRIs to measure success

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 Lawrence Figueroa at 971-222-2374 or lawrence.figueroa@evanta.com. 

In April 2019, the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert citing "New Exploits for Unsecure SAP Systems" after new exploits, termed "10KBlaze" were publicly released. While protecting endpoint access, phishing, and network monitoring is important, nothing else matters if your core business applications are not a primary strategic component. In this session, we will explore:

• Why and how ERP applications are actively under attack
• How cloud, mobile and digital transformations are expanding the attack surface
• Steps you can take to ensure cyber resiliency and mitigate risk

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.