Boston CISO Executive Summit

As AI technologies rapidly evolve, the laws and ethical standards designed to govern them lag behind, creating a mismatch in the pace of innovation and regulation. This misalignment often leads to inadequate alignment with core principles such as trustworthiness, safety, and ethics. For AI leaders, mastering governance strategies that drive alignment with these core principles is key to ensuring the organization’s risk profile is effectively managed.

Join AI, cybersecurity, and IP law expert Eran Kahana as he offers actionable insights on:

• Navigating the Ethics of Cutting-Edge AI
• Deciphering Global AI Legislation Dynamics
•  Mastering AI Governance for Risk Mitigation

In the evolving landscape of risk management, the integration of CROs and CISOs is quickly emerging. This new reporting structure empowers both CROs and CISOs to work synergistically, leveraging their combined expertise to protect the organization's assets, reputation, and strategic objectives in a rapidly changing threat landscape. It also creates a more cohesive and comprehensive approach to ensure that security becomes an enabler for faster, smoother business transactions rather than a bottleneck.

Join this session to discuss:

• Allocating resources for risk management and cybersecurity initiatives
• Aligning risk management strategies along with business objectives
• Unifying to create a stronger Risk Management Framework

The use of cloud technology has become a popular choice for businesses, providing them with numerous advantages but also introducing new threats. Cyber security risks can cause financial and reputational damage if left unmanaged, which is why it is essential to understand all the ways to protect the enterprise.

In this boardroom we will discuss:

• How cyber insurance policies differ
• New insights to cloud-based attacks and the impacts
• Defenses to financial and reputational damage

Establishing trust between security and developers is crucial for successful outcomes, especially as modern development quickly embraces AI. Security and risk leaders need to move faster by adopting dynamic risk governance and use risk governance intensity, but how does the future of innovation hinge on achieving this open trust and communication.

Join this boardroom conversation with Snyk to delve into:

• Communicating risk strategies & ownership to partners across the enterprise
• Applying AI and how it can speed up and secure application security
• Leveraging automation and analytics to safeguard the riskiest components of your digital portfolio

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.

There are two kinds of companies, those that had an AI Security/Privacy Incident, and those that will. Artificial Intelligence brings both groundbreaking opportunities and considerable risks. To effectively manage these risks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a risk management framework. However, this framework does not fully address the pressing question for cybersecurity experts: how to prevent or respond and recover.

Join this session to discuss:

• Applying NIST's Five Functions to AI security
• Protecting Gen AI applications with the OWASP LLM Top 10
• Arming AI Governance with the NIST AI RMF

When users are everywhere and digital operations span cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, achieving cyber resilience becomes paramount. The challenge lies in navigating this complexity and maintaining visibility and control to ensure continuous operation despite cyber threats.

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:

• Optimizing costs and improving security across diverse cloud environments
• Adopting Zero Trust philosophies to protect users, data, and applications
• Innovating with AI while addressing global regulatory and data privacy requirements

Third party relationships are closest and may prove to be the most tangible risks to your business, yet the whole supply chain of your business partners still pose a substantial threat. Most organizations’ vendor relationships extend to the 8th party. CISOs need to understand this web of connectedness in order to better manage and communicate enterprise risk.

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining visibility into risk across the whole supply chain
• Strategies for effective risk management and monitoring business partners
• Overcoming resource challenges to prioritize third-party and extended supply chain risk