In-Person

Boston CISO Community

Inner Circle

December 8, 2021 | Hampshire House

December 8, 2021
Hampshire House

Collaborate with your peers

Join Boston's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:

Strategies for a risk-aligned, resilient organization

Developing and investing in the security workforce of tomorrow

Creating business value and supporting agile business operations

Boston CISO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Kevin Brown

SAIC
SVP, CISO

Lawrence Jarvis

Iron Mountain
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer

Holly Ridgeway

Citizens Bank
Chief Security Officer

Ravi Thatavarthy

Rite Aid
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Agenda

December 8, 2021

4:00pm - 5:00pm  Executive Networking Reception

5:00pm - 6:30pm  Discussion Topics

Manage Risk — Build Resiliency

Joe Burgoyne headshot

Joe Burgoyne

Sr. Director, Cyber Security

GE Healthcare

Kevin Burns headshot

Kevin Burns

CISO

Draper

Jim Kottas headshot

Jim Kottas

Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer

Idemia North America

Mark Nardone headshot

Mark Nardone

CISO

Babson College

Larry Shields headshot

Larry Shields

Chief of Information Security Services

MITRE

Glenn Strickland headshot

Glenn Strickland

CISO

Boston Partners

In today's shifting and complex risk landscape, and the need for faster strategic decision making, CISOs are supporting evolving information risk decisions more than ever while facing increased visibility from regulators, executive teams, and boards of directors. To enable risk decisions and deliver value while protecting the business from security threats and data breaches, security leaders must develop processes, build relationships, and strengthen risk culture to continue to embed risk management into the organization.

In this interactive conversation among peers, CISOs will discuss their role in proactively balancing organizational risk.


Topic 1: Enabling risk decisions to prompt business agility

  • How are you setting the risk management strategy and enabling risk decisions in your organization?

  • What areas of risk do you own in your role, and what would you change or enhance in the future?

  • What metrics do you use that effectively quantify and describe risk within, and outside of, security?


Topic 2: Fostering a risk-ownership mindset 

  • What communication strategies around risk have been most persuasive as you discuss information security with other business units?

  • How do you feel the conversation around information risk is evolving, and what does that mean for the sorts of skills you will need in your teams going forward?

  • How would you describe the perspective of your board of directors when it comes to risk appetite? Is this constructive for your goals?

6:30pm - 7:00pm  Networking Break

7:00pm - 8:00pm  Summary Discussion & Dinner

8:00pm - 9:00pm  Social Hour

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

Location

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Parking & Transportation

  • The Boston Commons Garage is available for attendee parking.
  • All guests will receive a special parking rate after 4pm. Please visit the registration desk to collect your voucher.
  • Prepare for a 7 minute walk from the parking garage to the Hampshire House


Health & Safety Local Guidelines

Our host venue, Hampshire House, requires all guests to wear a mask in all public spaces. Masks will be provided for your convenience.

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For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Cat Hogan

Program Manager

512-757-9044

cathleen.hogan@evanta.com