San Francisco CISO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

Managing distributed risk is today’s defining cybersecurity challenge. Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this keynote session hosted by BlueVoyant to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers, and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritize, and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

Data is the primary target in virtually every breach scenario – and protecting data gets harder every day. Mix overly provisioned access rights with a plethora or unknown risks, it is no wonder why data stores are so difficult to control and so susceptible to attack. How can CISOs approach a problem that is so big and complex?

Understaffed teams, inefficient processes, alert overload — this is a typical day for a SOC team. The result? Analysts so consumed with tedious, repetitive tasks leading not only to higher risk of burnout, but also human error that could cost millions.

Join this data-driven session, hosted by Tines, to:

• Learn the tasks consuming the most time, plus the top 3 tasks analysts enjoy least
• Understand what prevents security teams from doing their best work
• Break down causes of burnout and how to improve retention

Software hygiene practices are like handwashing prior to surgery: at one point laughable, now an essential and integral step prior to every procedure. Why are organizations still not putting enough focus on adopting essential software hygiene practices for supply chain management, even though they know they should?

Join this roundtable session hosted by Sonatype to discuss:

• Encouraging developers to adopt a set of security and governance daily routines
• Overcoming the knowledge sharing gap between Security, Developer, and IT Operations
• Positioning software hygiene as a practice that generates not simply risk value, but revenue value

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 Samantha Flaherty at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com. 

Despite the millions of dollars extorted in ransomware attacks each year, leaders outside security still sometimes struggle to understand cyber risks beyond what fits into a morning news alerts, leaving security leaders struggling to explain complex topics to their non-technical peers. While most CISOs feel comfortable managing the minor security incidents with standardized processes, what about major incidents that shake the very foundation of your organization?  

Join this boardroom hosted by eSentire to discuss making critical decisions in the chaotic atmosphere of a cyberattack. You'll leave with insights and advice on:

• New challenges in regulatory compliance, ransom payments and legal liability
• Best practices for strategic communication across the organization
• Lessons learned and examples from attacks that didn't make the headlines

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 Samantha Flaherty at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com. 

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Pitching to the board is a skill that must be mastered. CISOs are tasked to use visuals, communicate business value and synthesize complex information in a way that makes sense. Join this interactive session to identify the holes in your board pitch — and improve them for the next time you’re in the hot seat.

In this interactive session, you will work in a group to:

• Create and deliver a board pitch
• Receive real-time feedback on your pitch
• Learn best practices and strategies for communicating with your board

In this upside-down world, only the resilient will survive. Unsurprisingly, forward thinking leaders are relentlessly pursuing resilience – resilience in the face of motivated cyber-threats, resilience in the face of supply chain and operational risks, resilience in the face of an evolving, volatile technology landscape. If you’re on that journey yourself, maintain confidence – it may feel difficult, but you’re not alone.  

Join a panel of executive peers and leaders, hosted by Vectra, who will discuss:

• What resiliency means to their organization and how they prioritize achieving it
• How they measure success, and both confront and learn from failure
• The risks they see on the horizon and their position on effective preparation

To quantify how they are reducing risk for the business and where to strategically invest, security leaders need effective, actionable metrics. These measures are essential to communicating effectively with the Board and other executive stakeholders.

Join this roundtable discussion hosted by ReliaQuest to gain insight into how your peers are:

• Making informed investment decisions
• Communicating risk to the business at large
• Using data to tell a story to non-technical audiences

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 Samantha Flaherty at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com. 

Staying ahead of the countless, persistent and often well-funded threat actors is a daunting task. A fast-moving security program can mean the difference between preventing a breach or becoming the next headline, but knowing where and how to prioritize efforts and resources can be just as challenging. What are CISOs doing to ensure their threat intelligence programs are on the right track for 2022 and beyond?

Join this peer roundtable hosted by Red Canary to discuss:

• The latest threat landscape, including emerging threats and the most prevalent techniques
• Best practices for detecting, mitigating and simulating attacks
• How to test and validate defenses against common adversary behaviors

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 Samantha Flaherty at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com. 

Within the security function, stress is a given. Between managing vulnerabilities, implementing new solutions, and navigating governance and company-wide risk assessments, it’s not a surprise that security professionals - and especially CISOs - are experiencing such high levels of burnout. What can security leaders do to better support the wellbeing of their teams and ensure their best line of defense against attacks stays strong?

Join this session to hear from a panel of security leaders on:

• How to model the work/life balance you want to see on your team
• Ways to implement your employee wellbeing strategy
• Why trust and openness with your team is key to their mental health