Toronto CISO Executive Summit

The role of a CISO is a lot like the cyber threats they protect against – unique and often unpredictable. How can CISOs set themselves up for success as the role continues to evolve? Samer Adi interviews Jason Hall about his journey – from entering the role to changing industries – and advice on practical ways to set yourself up for success. 

This engaging keynote will cover: 

• Lessons learned that can help guide security leaders 
• Perspectives on how to navigate today’s security environment 
• Four pillars that make a successful CISO

Digital transformation is like trying to change a tire when you’re driving 80 mph down the highway. No one understands this better than Irene Zaguskin, who brought security to the forefront of business strategy and customer experience.

Learn how she is:

• Driving the next phase of digital transformation within the organization
• Enhancing the customer experience through IoT and automation
• Protecting customer, employee, and organization data

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

The breaches of the past few years continue to show us that organizations are overwhelmed and struggling with patching software vulnerabilities. But what if the you were able to properly pinpoint the vulnerabilities that represent the most risk and align these risks with overall enterprise risk?

Join this conversation to discuss:

• How security, risk, and IT staff can best work together to locate vulnerabilities and remediate cyber risk
• Best practices for strengthening governance, risk, and compliance programs
• Effective methods for communicating cyber risk to the BOD

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 Nick Hall at Nick.Hall@evanta.com or 971-717-6666.

How do you mitigate risk while simultaneously driving productivity and revenue? CISOs need to not only develop high-level risk management strategies, but also communicate business opportunities through a holistic risk lens.

Join this peer-driven discussion, to learn:

• How to define risk within your landscape
• Strategies for creating flexible controls that protect the organization
• Ways to provide business cases that connect profitability to risk reduction

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 Nick Hall at Nick.Hall@evanta.com or 971-717-6666.

Between skills shortages, the escalating sophistication of threats and alert overload, cybersecurity automation is a must. Augusto Barros demystifies ways CISOs can apply orchestration and automation technologies to increase security operations effectiveness and reduce alert fatigue.

Gain best practices-driven insight into:

• How organizations are leveraging SOAR tools to improve their incident response practices
• Determine where and how to automate, and what are the prerequisites to make it work
• Ways to evolve and scale your playbooks as the threat landscape changes

From access management and compliance to virtualization and automation, CISOs must build comprehensive identity strategies as nimble as the businesses they support. Join Davis Arora as he shares his experience implementing a frictionless identity solution across Honeywell that impacts 160,000 enterprise users and almost a million customers. 

Bring your questions to this interactive session where you’ll learn how Davis:

• Made IAM core to the identity of Honeywell
• Created metrics to measure program maturity 
• Automated 90% of requests

Information security leaders navigate an increasingly complex matrix of national and foreign data privacy regulations. GDPR caused organizations to scramble to meet data protection directives and reassess 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:

• The current landscape of data privacy regulation around the world
• Best practices for managing risk associated with data protection frameworks
• Standards and metrics for measuring data protection risk
• Data classification strategies to aid compliance, regardless of regulation

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 Nick Hall at Nick.Hall@evanta.com or 971-717-6666.

Behavioral analytics may help IT predict and understand consumer trends, but they can help CISOs understand potential threats—and catch them before they wreak major havoc. So how do you harness analytics to capture the best data?

Join this session to discuss:

• Using behavior analytics as a framework for detection and response to advanced threats
• Identifying potential insider threats
• Taking a risk based approach to prioritize threats that need immediate action

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 Nick Hall at Nick.Hall@evanta.com or 971-717-6666.