Milwaukee CISO Executive Summit
December 14, 2021 | Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
December 14, 2021
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Milwaukee's top CISOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
Seizing momentum – influencing and leading the enterprise
Thriving through uncertainty - empowering people and delivering value
Advancing and scaling strategic, outcome-based technologies
Milwaukee CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CISOs, for CISOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Richard Flahaven
Harley-Davidson
Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer
Mandy Huth
Kohler Co.
VP, Cybersecurity
Rick Sackett
ProAmpac
Director, Information Security
What to Expect
Agenda
December 13, 2021
December 14, 2021
7:30am - 8:15am Registration & Breakfast
8:15am - 9:00am Keynote
The Path to Alignment — The CIO & CISO Relationship
Mandy Huth
VP, Cybersecurity
Kohler Co.
Paul Ryan
Chief Information Officer
Kohler Co.
CIO-CISO partnerships are built on trust and thrive when leaders invest in each other throughout the organization. IT leaders must set an example, demonstrating a commitment to security, positioning it at the core of IT and enterprise roadmaps.
Join this keynote to hear the success story on how to:
- Strengthen the IT-Security partnership to fuel innovation and accelerate new technology deployments
- Ensure security is represented as a holistic element of the organization
- Collaborate in different business sectors while moving business initiatives forward
9:00am - 9:15am Break
9:15am - 10:00am Breakout Session
Activating a Cybersecurity Force for a New Era
Hosted by Fortinet, Inc.
Renee Tarun
Deputy CISO/Vice President Information Security
Fortinet
With an increase in threat vectors comes the increased need for a sound yet dynamic cybersecurity program. CIOs must take a proactive approach in ensuring cybersecurity risk is considered at every step, even in times of rapid disruption.
Join this session for a discussion on:
- Strategies to prepare for combating the threats of today and tomorrow.
- Quantifying, measuring, and communicating risk across the organization
- Upskilling your cybersecurity teams to stay ahead of emerging threats
9:15am - 10:00am Executive Boardroom
Taking a Strategic Approach to Third-Party Risk
Scott Crouch
Senior Vice President, Information Technology
GMR Marketing
Doug Michelz
CISO
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Chad Steighner
CIO
Clarios
For many businesses, third-party vendors have become an important source of strategic advantage and business value. Yet outsourcing is not without its risks. As these external partnerships become increasingly complex, the need for a new strategic approach to vendor risk management is clear.
Join this session to discuss:
- Ways to partner across the c-suite on third-party risk efforts
- New approaches for managing third, fourth, and even fifth-party partners
- Strategies that will help you make the best choices for your 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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).
10:00am - 10:30am Networking Break
10:30am - 11:15am Breakout Session
Actionable Intelligence — Keeping Pace with Relentless Threats
Amanda Knutson
Supervisory Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bill Nash
Cybersecurity Advisor
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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 security leaders best face changing threat vectors?
Join Amanda Knutson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bill Nash, Cybersecurity Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to discuss:
- Understanding the adversary’s goals and objectives
- How to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure through preparedness, incident response, and mitigation
- What security executives can do to build resiliency
10:30am - 11:15am Executive Boardroom
Building the Identity Platform of the Future
Hosted by Auth0
Mandy Huth
VP, Cybersecurity
Kohler Co.
Michael Weber
Director Of Information Technology
Physicians Realty Trust
Digital transformation has created a convergence of users, devices, and applications that demands an identity-based security approach. With the identity perimeter exposed, CISOs need new and better ways to protect it.
Join this interactive boardroom conversation to discuss:
- Strategies to reach frictionless IAM
- How identity can protect against automated attacks
- The future of IAM including passwordless authentication
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 Jenn St. John (jenn.stjohn@evanta.com).
11:15am - 11:25am Break
December 13, 2021
December 14, 2021
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Hyatt Regency MilwaukeeHealth & Safety Local Guidelines
Information regarding local health and safety guidelines coming soon.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 414-276-1234.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $154 USD (plus tax) is November 19, 2021.
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