Indianapolis CISO Executive Summit

Trust is both a fundamental business issue and the biggest asset of a company. Without trust, companies lose reputations, relationships, and revenue. With trust, organizations enjoy greater creativity, productivity, and results. Through extensive research and experience, David Horsager learned what it takes to gain — and keep — the “Trust Edge.”

Join this session as Horsager outlines:

• The keys to building morale, sales, and customer loyalty
• His Eight-Pillar Framework for building trust in an organization
• Creating successful leaders and organizations centered on the tenants of trust

With rapid digital transformation both in recent years and moving forward into the foreseeable future, there is a need to profoundly address the tech talent shortage. This session will confront the challenges of building out a workforce with the right skills that will translate across decades of transformation. 

In this interactive brainstorming session, we’ll explore:

• Attracting and retaining top tech talent
• Educating the next generation of IT professionals
• Innovating internal development strategies

Whether you love or hate buzzwords, digital transformation is having a major impact on business culture. As more data moves to the cloud and employees, partners, and customers interact outside the traditional enterprise perimeter, security should play an active part.

In this session, we’ll discuss:

• How digital transformation impacts an enterprise’s existing security posture
• The proactive role security should play as applications move to the cloud
• How security leaders can avoid becoming obstacles and instead become catalysts for change

A data-driven organization must have clearly defined governance and business alignment if there is any hope of imbuing their information with meaning. In this discussion, executives examine challenges in taking next steps on the data path and share best practices in driving analytics forward.

Join this peer-to-peer discussion to explore:

• Data trust and confidence in an ever fragmented cloud world
• Efficiency in data management
• Data classification and e-discovery

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 Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

As the number of cloud-based systems continues to increase and more risk solutions become available, the foundations of cybersecurity can oftentimes get lost in the shuffle. Join Dustin Wilcox for a review of the fundamentals of a sound security strategy and how they can be applied to securing the cloud perimeter.

This session will explore:

• Control services of the cloud – what remains the same
• Tactics for achieving your strategy in the cloud – what changes
• Specific examples and how to deploy them

Agile methodologies are an increasingly attractive way for organizations to accelerate the pace of innovation. Yet transitioning to new modes of work can create friction for existing employees, and success depends on buy-in across the organization.

Join your peers in this round table discussion to consider:

• How to take agile dev-ops to the next level
• Challenges to adopting and implementing agile methodologies
• What are some common misconceptions about agile dev-ops

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 Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000. 

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. Therefore, when managing incidents for your enterprise, it is critical to ensure that threats and attacks are properly identified, analyzed, communicated, defended, investigated and reported.

During this boardroom discussion on cyber operations, discover:

• How to develop effective principles and procedures for security operations centers
• How determine what is best to outsource vs what should be kept internal
• How to create effective communication and reporting strategies for the entire organization

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 Chris Carcich at christopher.carcich@evanta.com or 971-978-5000.