Atlanta CISO Executive Summit

If you want to know about crime, ask a cybercriminal. Join "The Original Internet Godfather" Brett Johnson for a one-of-a-kind presentation on security and leadership in the new threat landscape. Considered one of the best social engineers in the world, he will share how he learned to live on the right side of the law. 

In this keynote, Brett will dive into:

• The current state of crime and common flags, from synthetic fraud to account takeovers.
• The power of organized networks – for good or harm – and ways to disrupt criminals.
• What’s next, and what you can do to protect yourself and your business.

As the CISO role continues to evolve year-over-year, hear from your peers to see what their reporting structure looks like. Is your current alignment the right alignment or is it time for a change?

In this panel discussion, you’ll cover:

• How other companies structure their org chart
• Security as a culture that is emulated by the leadership team
• Change management when redirecting your structure

Is your organization prepared to handle the additional threat exposure that comes from expanding business networks? Hear from Marc Moesse as he shares how to determine where you stand on third party risk maturity and next steps in increasing your third-party cyber resiliency.

This session will explore:

• Finding the right balance between depth and breadth of your third-party risk program
• Leveraging all the organization's resources for adoption
• Methods to manage your fourth party risk

For years, we’ve seen attackers target organizations via their people. Now with fewer reliable exploits and more cloud adoption, we’re also seeing a shift toward attacks that exploit people, with threat actors tricking their targets into running their malware for them, handing over their credentials, or simply sending data or money to an impostor. Lucia Milica of Proofpoint will outline strategies for gaining visibility and mitigating risk in a people-centric threat landscape.

Join to learn:

• Why nearly all threat actors have shifted away from technical exploits to compromise their targets
• How organizations can leverage threat data to understand which people and departments are highly targeted
• How to design effective protection for highly attacked, highly vulnerable, and highly privileged users

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 your event Program Manager, Zack Hellmann at zack.hellmann@evanta.com.

Cybersecurity is a never-ending arms race between bad actors and IT and security teams. The attackers haven’t just grown stronger, the attack surface is growing apace. With that, most companies are currently engaged in a digital transformation, but as you invest in new technologies and move workloads to the cloud the threat surfaces are also evolving and expanding.
In this boardroom we will discuss:

• How security can help enable the business transformation your company is undertaking
• Ways to use security analytics to enable your cloud journey
• Challenges with maintaining consistent visibility during the transformation

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 your event Program Manager.

At RaceTrac Petroleum, like most enterprises, the IT workload has not decreased, but the demand for IT to help the business grow has increased. The company’s IT leadership came to a simple conclusion: automate utility tasks they can control and focus resources on initiatives that create value. This session explores:

• RaceTrac’s approach to becoming a more productive IT function and optimizing its value to the business
• How IT enhanced morale across business functions by including managers and senior engineers to determine where automation could eliminate barriers
• How the business and IT are building an effective self-service model to reduce bottlenecks
• What was done to get buy-in from the security side of the house to minimize skepticism around risks related to automation

Two pillars of a successful and proactive SOC are threat hunting and incident response. The use of network traffic analysis can help improve performance in these two areas, if you can trust the data.

In this session, you will learn:

• Current attack practices, including abuse of legitimate traffic and encryption
• How hunters hide from attackers to avoid counter IR maneuvers
• Ways to make analysts faster and more effective at validating and responding to threats
• Options for empowering cross-training and on-the-job training to increase analysts' skills
• Clarity on how gaining visibility into cloud and encrypted traffic

GDPR caused organizations to scramble to meet data protection regulations and reassess their risk management through new compliance reporting requirements and potential exposure to financial penalties. Now California has its own Privacy Act set to come into effect, and it’s one of potentially many different pieces of forthcoming regulation and policy. How can organizations create a unified data protection and compliance strategy that meets conflicting requirements?

In this session, discuss:

• Best practices for managing risk associated with data protection frameworks
• Standards and metrics for measuring data protection risk
• Tools to meet compliance reporting requirements

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 your event Program Manager Zack Hellmann at zack.hellmann@evanta.com.

What tactics and technologies are effective in securing the enterprise without putting up barriers to business operations? In this interactive roundtable discussion, security leaders share strategies that maximize security while minimizing business bottlenecks.

In this session, security leaders will:

• Define shared pain points where security controls are slowing business processes
• Share ideas and best practices for reducing friction from security controls
• Address ways to gain buy-in across the business when bottlenecks are unavoidable

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 your event Program Manager, Zack Hellmann at zack.hellmann@evanta.com.