St. Louis CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this welcome reception to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. During the evening, we will partner with Cheeriodicals to build gift boxes for kids at Mercy Kids Children's Hospital. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with your fellow CIOs & CISOs, enjoy lovely food and drinks, and give back to your local community! 

 We read about hacks and breaches daily, but what do we really know about these cybercrime groups and how they orchestrate these attacks? Etay Maor explores best practices on how to best protect organizations from these bad actors and gives an understanding of how they operate to allow a forward defense. Demonstrations include phishing, WiFi and USB-based attacks, social engineering, open-source intelligence and more.

In this session, Maor will:

• Dive into basic hacking techniques
• Demonstrate what types of tools hackers are using today
• Examine the scope of these attacks

Collaboration is crucial when it comes to protecting critical infrastructure. To improve cybersecurity, there must be a partnership between business, government and private and public industries. Join this fireside chat to learn how to best collaborate with local government resources, share ideas on how to communicate the importance of security as a team sport, and build a culture of shared responsibility across all lines of business.

Digital transformation has dramatically transformed the enterprise risk surface, automating a vast array of processes while outsourcing a vast array of systems and services. Through this frenetic reshaping, few organizations truly understand the nature of their new risk reality and how to successfully manage it.

In this interactive discussion we will:

• Explore the true nature of the enterprise cyber risk surface
• Discuss threats and regulations driving organizations to better manage their extended enterprise
• Share insights on how to better manage third-party risk (hint: good data!)
  
  

What does your body language say about you? What shifts might you make to change how others perceive you? Join this special one-on-one 25-minute session exclusively for Governing Body members with body-language expert, Chris Ulrich for candid feedback on your in-person and online body language. Sessions are 25-minutes and pre-registration is required.

Please contact Kathryn Martini, Content Manager, if you're interested in this exclusive session.

In 2017, the Emerson Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) began work on several initiatives designed to increase detection and response efficiency through the automated correlation and enrichment of alerts. The goal of these initiatives was to increase alert fidelity through the reduction of false positives and redundancies, allowing analysts to dedicate more time to conduct a deeper examination. The automation of several alert triage processes increased both the efficiency and effectiveness in response, freed up time to conduct deeper root cause analysis, reduced false positives, and decreased the mean time to mitigation.

Join this session to hear about Emerson’s journey in the realm of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR), from concept to reality.  Participants will learn:

• The common myths and misconceptions that arise with SOAR
• Key use cases and primary business drivers behind Emerson’s SOAR
• How Emerson is leveraging a combination of human and machine power to help define, prioritize and drive standardized incident response activities

Everyone knows it’s not “if” a cyberattack will occur, it’s when. This closed-door, roundtable session begins with a walkthrough of a recent cyberattack and reviews the response. We’ll include how partnering with vendors can mitigate the impact and validate that the attacker was removed from the network.

Join this interactive war room session to discuss:

• The realities of incident response
• The importance of cyber breach insurance
• Best practices surrounding vendor professional services
  
  

This is an intimate and interactive session designed to foster dynamic dialogue around this specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs & CISOs). To reserve your seat, please contact Jennifer Cox, Program Manager.

Artificial Intelligence is the biggest trend in business today and may be the biggest technological innovation in human history. Next year will be a key test for AI's business adoption and companies will rise and fall depending on how quickly they can adopt AI. The hype is huge, but the stakes are real.

In this session, Jesse Wolfersberger provides perspective on:

• What it's like to actually adopt AI into your business
• The best and most fun examples of AI in the market today
• How to judge what's real and what's hype in your industry