Minneapolis CISO Executive Summit

Over the past few years, Target has shifted the role of its security team from enforcer to teacher. Along the way, Target asked itself, “Is it possible to give thousands of engineers a single metric for security?” Target’s cyber security team has developed a Product Intelligence model that has transformed how the company manages application security.

Hear from Target’s senior cyber security leaders about:

• Lessons learned and how any company can adopt the Product Intelligence model
• How the Product Intelligence score for applications allows engineers to integrate security into their development process
• How Product Intelligence scoring provides real-time visibility to application security

The benefits of mindful leadership read like a fantasy wish list ­– better self-awareness, wider emotional intelligence, reduced stress, increased clarity and productivity at work. Building upon leadership principles from thought leaders, and sharing their own experiences, Sarah Engstrom and Beth Singer present a compelling case for mindful leadership.

 Join this session to learn how to:

• Practice mindfulness and shape your teams
• Connect your leadership and values
• Reframe how you show up every day

Emerging risks can be unpredictable and disruptive. Fifth generation 5G mobile communications, extended reality, smart speakers, and drones all offer incredible benefits, but they also come with unexpected risks. These are truly the unpredictable unknowns. Anticipating these blind spots can appear impossible in light of the accelerated pace of technology innovations.  

In this session, you will:

•       Learn about emerging risks
•       Identify Impact and Implications of these risks
•       Discover strategies to address them

Mobile devices and cloud services have dissolved the enterprise IT perimeter. Business data flows freely across a wide information fabric spanning a variety of devices, apps, networks, and cloud services. As traditional network perimeters become obsolete, organizations must address these modern security challenges with a zero trust - “always verify, never trust” approach.

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Redefining security strategies to address a perimeter-less environment
• Enforcing corporate security without compromising user experience
• Using mobile-centric technology to drive business innovation

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 Christopher Brown at 971.222.2378 or christopher.brown@gartner.com.

How do you take disparate data points and metrics and turn it into a story to tell the business? Doug DeGrote shares his methodology on combining the end to end spectrum of what’s important to the organization, and what technology can tell security leaders, to create a scientific assessment of risk.

Join this session to learn:

• How to align technology data points to business risk
• How to make security details make sense to the business
• What to watch, weigh and measure

Security threats are growing faster than security teams and budgets cannot keep up. Hackers are leveraging automation in their attacks, increasing the number of targets and the probability of victimizing organizations even in the smallest of windows of opportunity. As a defender, you get a handful of opportunities to detect and block breaches – and finding the proverbial needle in the haystack has become nearly impossible without automation.

This session explores:

• How to best leverage automation in detection and mitigation
• Where automation fits into a modern security strategy
• How to come out on top in the war against cyberthreats

Connected devices provide valuable new functionality and revenue opportunities. They can also become a security nightmare, as many were not designed with security in mind. Cybersecurity leaders must have the right strategy in place to address potential vulnerabilities in the growing Internet of Things.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

• Best practices in managing IoT ecosystems
• Challenges impacting medical devices in particular
• Case studies of successful segmentation

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 Christopher Brown at 971.222.2378 or christopher.brown@gartner.com.