San Francisco CISO Executive Summit

Join the San Francisco CISO Governing Body and their invited guests for an evening of peer networking, food and drinks in the Upper Dining Room (second floor) at Fang Restaurant in SoMa.

Fang embodies both modern and authentic Chinese cuisines in a fine dining setting. The menu for this welcome reception will showcase Fang's signature fresh, local, and seasonal dishes, including favorites like lotus chicken and five-spice whitefish, as well as fun additions like a "make your own" dumpling bowl station. 

Address: Fang Restaurant | 660 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94105

Parking: Parking is available across the street, with access on 3rd Street between Howard and Folsom. The entrance can be found on the right-hand side. 

Dietary restrictions: If you plan to attend the welcome reception but have dietary restrictions that we should be aware of, please ensure to fill out the "dietary restrictions" section of your profile in the Evanta App, or send an email to San Francisco CISO Sr. Program Manager, Samantha Flaherty, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com. 

Compromised login credentials account for more than half of all network breaches. Eliminating username and passwords by moving to a Zero-Trust architecture is universally accepted as an inherently more secure framework. But, after initial authentication, how do you ensure that the user who first authenticated is the person still at the endpoint?

In this session, Lucas Budman, Founder and CTO of TruU, invites Krishnan Chellakarai, CISO of Gilead Sciences, to join him to discuss:

• How Gilead Sciences adopted a passwordless authentication paradigm as the first step in the journey of active authentication with a continuous authentication deployment on the horizon
• Challenges of migrating to a passwordless and continuous authentication, and how the team overcame the challenges
• How developments in AI, ML and biometric behavior analytics are allowing organizations to deliver frictionless access management

Many organizations are challenged with implementing their security programs across widely distributed infrastructure, using an array of tools while often sharing responsibility and control with their service providers. So how can they best maintain visibility into those environments, detect malicious activity and orchestrate effective, business wide, responses? Or perhaps even eliminate much of the noise in that process by identifying and reducing their exposure and risk proactively?

Join this boardroom hosted by IBM to discuss:

• Key industry advances in open interconnectivity of tools and data sources
• How overall exposure and risk can be better managed
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of threat management programs to allow security teams to focus on the what’s most important

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com.

Your people are your most valuable asset, your greatest weakness, and your best defense. CISOs seeking to prevent data loss from malicious, negligent or compromised users can correlate content, behavior and threats for better insight and streamlined investigations.

Join this boardroom hosted by Proofpoint to discuss:

• Augmenting your data protection program with the right people and processes
• Transforming your employees into effective data defenders
• Managing insider threats and preventing data loss at the endpoint

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com.

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. For CISOs and CIOs that must ensure the security and continuity of business, however, they represent an ever-expanding attack surface at a time when the volume of attacks and the threat of ransomware is increasingly driving news cycles and board-level concern.

Attendees of this keynote hosted by Armis will leave with the insights needed to:

• Identify unseen security risks by gaining complete visibility in a rapidly expanding attack surface
• Get ahead of exposure by prioritizing high impact vulnerabilities and threats
• Secure the assets, recover unnecessary CapEx and OpEx and free staff for priority initiatives

What does “life after CISO” look like? For many security executives, the natural next career step is to transition from presenting to the board to serving on a board of directors – particularly as more public companies look to bring cybersecurity expertise to their boards in light of the SEC’s proposed requirements around cybersecurity oversight and disclosures.

Join this session to hear from a panel with a wide variety and depth of experience as board members, who will discuss:

• How they landed their first board seats, and what they wish they knew then
• How the SEC’s proposed requirements are creating more opportunities
• What organizations are looking for from a board member with a security background

Zero trust adoption spiked in 2020 as organizations scrambled to solve an unprecedented remote access challenge. Now, looking ahead, enterprises are faced with the conundrum of staying fully remote, returning full-time to the workplace, or more likely landing somewhere in between. But not all zero trust solutions are created equal, and many are ill-suited to address a range of use cases or environments.  

Join this boardroom hosted by Appgate to:

• Understand the limitations of remote access-only solutions
• Explore a wide variety of use cases that can be addressed by zero trust
• Learn best practices for transitioning to zero trust from a legacy solution

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com.

As attackers become increasingly sophisticated and the threat landscape continues to explode, understanding how to maintain resiliency is critical – and it all hinges on the ability to measure the effectiveness of your security program. Foundational to this is understanding the reliability of your processes, identifying security gaps, and addressing compliance issues – with the ultimate goal of communicating your organization's risk posture to the board.

Join this boardroom hosted by Qualys to learn about:

• Approaching security program effectiveness from a risk perspective
• Share successful strategies needed to maintain and measure resiliency
• Gather feedback from your peers on the best methods for communicating your security program to the board
  
  

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, 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.

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify threat responses
• Respond to choices and forces out of their control
• Discuss pitfalls and best practices

APIs fuel digital transformation and are core to every SaaS, web and mobile application. As API use attacks are becoming more frequent and complex, how can CISOs ensure protection for sensitive data, applications, and customers?

Join this boardroom hosted by Cequence Security to learn:

• How to gain visibility to understand exposure and risk
• Ways to answer the “so what” for API security, including OWASP API Top 10 impacts
• How security and development teams can find balance

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com.

The cost of cyber insurance is skyrocketing. In response to a string of high-profile attacks, record-setting ransomware numbers and government regulations, insurers are being forced to significantly increase premiums for cyber coverage. It’s not matter of “if,” it’s a matter of “when” (or even “when again?”) you’ll need protection from cyber insurance carriers.  

Join this boardroom hosted by Mimecast to discuss:

• Strategies to understand and quantify your firm’s risk and threat profile
• Techniques to demonstrably reduce your attack surface and enhance your ecosystem of controls
• Methods to communicate your program’s effectiveness in order to maximize cyber insurance coverage

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Samantha Flaherty, San Francisco CISO Program Manager, at samantha.flaherty@evanta.com.

In the right hands, data is one of the most powerful tools an organization has in its toolbox. While in the wrong hands, data can easily become a weapon with detrimental consequences. Intersecting at the midpoint is the powerful partnership between a CISO and CDO, using their strengths to empower the enterprise to protect their most valuable asset – data.  

In this session the CISO and CDO from Blue Shield of California will discuss:

• Building partnerships within the C-suite
• Creating a trustworthy and secure governance framework
• Aligning incentives and initiatives across security and data teams