Toronto CISO Executive Summit

Delivering business critical applications safely is a delicate balancing act. The user experience is frequently compromised as application, infrastructure, and security teams negotiate the adoption of new services. Unfortunate trade-offs are sometimes necessary to address operational needs for the sake of maintaining security, but these trade-offs can make certain use cases unfeasible or diminish their value to the organization.

In this session, we will discuss:

• Revolutionizing workspaces by balancing productivity, security, availability and user experience
• How quickly new technologies like the enterprise browser can be adopted to provide a competitive advantage
• Strategies for reducing the effort required to deliver applications and enhance organizational operations

It's never a matter of if, but when organizations will encounter attacks or tech outages that have widespread impact throughout the enterprise. Recent events have proven that organizations are only resilient through practice and training. How can CISOs ensure their systems and people are ready for the next instance?

In this interactive session, you will learn:

• Creating proper and prior procedures to limit blast radius
• Understanding critical services and programs to safeguard
• Establishing protocol across the department and C-Suite

80% of breaches occur with a tool in pace that could have prevented it. So, what’s happening? Are CISOs able to unify their security stack to provide visibility into existing defense capabilities against threats?

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Gain better visibility into your security stack
• Where to prioritize action and remediation
• Maximize the ROI of security investments and report progress to executives

An effective security metrics program enhances decision-making and stakeholder communication, offering early issue detection and aiding resource allocation decisions. However, it is imperative for CISOs to take a closer look at metric selection taking into account emerging threats in the quickly evolving landscape.

Join this session to discuss:

• Forward-thinking strategies in interrogating your current metrics program
• The role of emerging technology when considering essential metrics
• Tool recommendations for gathering and generating meaningful metrics for your security program

AI makes creating and consuming data easier than ever, with shadow AI and dark data presenting new challenges to security teams. As the tactics for protecting data evolve, security leaders must adopt a risk-based strategy to protect mission-critical data and safeguard innovation.

Join this session to discover:

• Effective practices for ongoing monitoring to identify risks
• Rapid investigation and response techniques for insider threats
• Strategies for evolving your data protection approach

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.

Security and innovation can often times be seen as opposing forces. But when partnerships are established and security is part of the innovation process, organizations can ensure they are both cutting-edge and resilient to emerging threats.

Join this session to learn about:

• Enabling trust to mitigate risks without stifling creativity
• Developing sustainable business resiliency
• Delivering outcomes with security in mind

You won’t luck your way into safe and successful third-party relationships. But by thoughtfully developing a cadence of third-party risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, CISOs can safeguard their own operations, protect key data, prevent reputational damage, avoid financial losses and bring peace to stakeholders.

Join a your CISO peers to:

• Develop new risk-aware relationships, or perfect existing ones
• Share and gather insights on a growing network of third parties
• Confirm the importance of a well-developed third-party risk management plan

Cybersecurity measures are adept at detecting and responding to incidents across various layers, but the application layer often remains vulnerable. Many organizations have a massive vulnerability backlog that demands timely and effective defense.

Join us to explore:

• Understanding the scale of the backlog and strategies to prevent exploitation
• The intricacies of application and API protection within the security operations ecosystem
• Benefits of having a comprehensive blueprint that reveals attack surfaces, defenses, dangers, and connections

As enterprises move to cloud data infrastructures, safeguarding critical data is vital. Traditional security models struggle with increased complexity and global regulations. CISOs must lead innovative, holistic approaches, collaborating with business partners to ensure alignment and demonstrate value.

Join this session to discuss to:

• Develop robust data security strategies aligned with enterprise goals
• Address business users' data access needs while ensuring compliance
• Enhance data security and identify vulnerabilities in real-time

Disruption, change, and extended uncertainty are hallmarks of our time, but can lead even strong teams to fail. How can some teams outperform consistently in these conditions? The Alchemy of Talent is Dr. Pendakur’s proven model for high performing teams, backed by extensive research and his own experience leading teams across numerous complex organizations. This high-energy keynote will focus on the science and skills of trust and team connection, along with the innovation potential of harnessing team complexity.
Audience members will learn:

• How to harness team complexity as a driver for innovation
• A new toolkit for using trust to unlock team performance
• Innovative new approaches to increasing team connection and resilience

Our evening will conclude with a reception featuring a book signing with Closing Keynote Speaker, Dr. Vijay Pendakur. Executives will have the chance to network with peers while participating in a charity event for SickKids, The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.