2024 San Francisco CISO Inner Circle

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Collaborate with your peers

Join San Francisco's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:

Breaking Down Silos Within IT

Building Relationships to Better the Security Organization

Cultivating Security Strategy for the Business

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Yassir Abousselham

UiPath
SVP, CISO

Sujeet Bambawale

7-Eleven
VP, CISO

Krishnan Chellakarai

Gilead Sciences
CISO, Head of Information Security & Data Privacy

Agenda

August 22, 2024

4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception

5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics

Security That IT Loves — Building Synergy Between CISOs, IT, and Business

Steve Winterfeld

Advisory CISO

Akamai Technologies

Eddie Borrero

VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Blue Shield of California

Prakash Kalaiah

Head of Security

Enphase Energy

Sekhar Nagasundaram

Global Head of Cyber Defense and Threat Management and SVP Technology - Cybersecurity

Elevance Health

Kannan Perumal

Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

Applied Materials

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer is more crucial than ever. However, creating security programs that align with IT operations and business objectives remains a significant challenge. The mission for today’s CISO - build security that IT (and the business) loves. It is a top security priority for CISOs to foster a collaborative environment where security is seen not as a hindrance, but as an enabler of business agility and innovation.

In this exclusive dinner hosted by Akamai, the conversation will be driven around strategies that modern CISOs can employ to implement security measures that not only protect the organization but are also embraced by IT departments and business stakeholders. It is time for CISOs and business leaders to bridge the gap between security, technology, and business success.

Top Security Priorities for the Modern CISO

What are the specific areas of security that you are particularly focused on now? What is front of mind for you from a planning perspective?
With business challenges driving transformation and more core capabilities being moved to APIs, how are you making sure you have visibility on issues like shadow APIs and abuse of deployed APIs?
With changes to PCI DSS 4.0, NIST 2.0, constant updates to privacy laws and the new resiliency regulations coming out of the EU how are you approaching compliance requirements?

Innovative Security Focuses That Impact The Business

As you think about Zero Trust or your security program in general do you believe that vendor consolidation is a priority? If you do, does that include flexibility in the services they can provide?
How do you balance the need for innovative products with the desire to manage the number of vendors you use? With the move to hybrid workforce, how to currently approach user access?
In Akamai’s most recent SOTI report they found web attacks against applications and APIs surged by 49% between Q1 2023 and Q1 2024. How do you leverage research findings like these?