Minneapolis CISO Executive Summit

In a landscape where everyone is turning to the same products and tools to keep safe, the likelihood of becoming mired in the predictable is high. To combat this dangerous stagnation, leaders must look inward at the valuable resources that can spring from their teams. Join Rich Agostino, Bill Scandrett and John Valente as they discuss turning security teams into sources of disruptive innovation and creativity. Examining this idea through the lenses of the individual, the environment and expectations, the group will explore unique ways to stretch the scope of what a team can produce.

Bring up cybersecurity to CIOs, and you’ll see a narrow range of reactions — fear, frustration, furtive glances for the compliance officer. But the idea of security as “necessary evil” doesn’t square with Mike Musto. As a former head of IT, Musto understands that security can be a tool for empowerment and competitive advantage far beyond IT. By driving alignment through a lens of risk management and strong governance, security can strengthen strategy, bolster the bottom line, and facilitate better collaboration throughout the organization. In this important session, Musto adds the language of security to the lexicon of business, helping you to craft impactful communication, deliver necessary tools and educate leaders from the boardroom to every level of the organization.

While you invest time, resources and millions of dollars in protecting endpoints and network perimeter, are you addressing one of the largest footprints of your network? You may be allowing hackers and malware to take the easy route to your organization’s network and data. Jason O’Keeffe will share real-world breach examples of how some of the most secure organizations are still lagging in overall security for critical endpoints like printers. O’Keeffe will share best practices on how to secure these valuable endpoints in the most effective way.

Never has the statement been more true: it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Combining the unprecedented rise in the frequency, sophistication and impact of a cyber attack, the likelihood of companies being attacked has never been higher. By testing incident-response and crisis-management capabilities in a safe environment, you can help your teams identify and proactively fix gaps. Join in a conversation with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Brad Maiorino, to discuss trends in the threat landscape and share lessons learned in how to prepare an organization for crisis response.

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: 

Christopher Brown at 971-222-2378 or christopher.brown@evanta.com

Machine learning continuously transforms in both size and scope, making it more valuable to organizations each day. For many companies, keeping up with these advancements is the difference between preventing a data breach and falling victim to a multi-faceted malware attack. For some, machine learning technologies is an idea for the future. For others, it's an agile security defense that can help them quickly adapt to the changing environment. In this boardroom discussion, CISOs across the spectrum share how machine learning can set the stage for the advancements of tomorrow.

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: 

Christopher Brown at 971-222-2378 or christopher.brown@evanta.com

When it comes to quantifying risk with a small team, it’s a cross-discipline conversation. Pulling from a variety of methods, including pen-testing, engineering, monitoring, traditional risk management and threat modeling, Mike Jackson says an organization can be continuously assessed through an organization-specific framework — no vast team of people needed. Join him as he explores a more-with-less approach that translates risk management into specific and tangible deductions for business leaders.

It has never been easier for bad actors to build and deliver malicious software. Today’s world of coders-for-hire and software-as-a-service has made malware an exponentially growing issue, and CISOs are racing to keep up. Against these challenges, Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a tool that could turn the tide for resource-constrained security programs. This session will trace the history of AI and machine learning, and explore how artificial neural networks can operate as part of security operations.

There’s an app for everything these days. And a cloud service behind the scenes. From approving expenses in the grocery store line to looking up key customer information in the field, employees are more productive than ever in today’s mobile-cloud world. Yet it also means there’s data everywhere – on devices, in transit and in the cloud. CISOs face the challenge of crafting a security strategy that protects this data no matter where the data is. This discussion will explore how organizations are using mobile-cloud apps throughout the business, risks created through mobile-cloud technologies and best practices for keeping related data secure.

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: 

Christopher Brown at 971-222-2378 or christopher.brown@evanta.com

Historically, enterprises have relied largely on the intuition and talent of their technical teams to manage cybersecurity risk. But with annual, global, cybercrime-related costs reaching $500 billion, board members’ expectations of enterprise security teams are changing. Technical teams must now learn to speak the language of business. What KPIs are your team using to measure the effectiveness of your cybersecurity strategy, and how are you obtaining the data? Join this conversation with your peers to discuss how enterprises can begin to eliminate the obscurity associated with cybersecurity.

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: 

Christopher Brown at 971-222-2378 or christopher.brown@evanta.com