Boston CISO Executive Summit

According to the American Psychological Association, there are an unprecedented number of employees struggling with stress and mental health concerns that negatively impact their work and home life. The skill of stress management is more important than ever for leaders to motivate and support their teams effectively while sustaining personal wellbeing.  

Join this interactive keynote to:  

• Understand the critical role leaders play regarding stress management that can improve employee morale, retention and productivity
• Learn key strategies to reduce stress, overcome burnout and develop resilience in the face of challenges
• Develop a comprehensive stress management plan that will result in long-term wellbeing and enhanced quality of life

The cloud security landscape never stops evolving. Trying to keep pace will only get you so far. You'll need to stay ahead by highlighting risk, compliance, and collaboration strategies.

Join your C-level peers in an interactive discussion and begin:

• Navigating the challenge of prioritization between risk mitigation and compliance
• Evaluating the effectiveness of security tools in complex cloud environments
• Discovering ways to unify security and development teams

When cyber attacks happen to one company or customer it’s not just their problem to solve, the crisis also falls on the shoulders of the whole security community. With the number of attacks on cyber networks growing, it is more important than ever for businesses and customers to work together in predicting, preventing, detecting, and responding to incidents.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Collaborate better in times of crisis
• Unearth roadblocks, legal, contractual & privacy
• Understand insider threats — awareness and prevention

The number of human and machine identities seeking access to data and critical business systems has grown exponentially, in turn increasing the threat landscape and challenging traditional IAM paradigms. How do security leaders keep a pulse on tools and capabilities to assess their organization’s cybersecurity posture?

 Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Managing and securing all identities
• Mitigating risks in multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Balancing high expectations and avoiding burnout

Every digital experience starts with customer identity, whether you’re in the public sector, or selling pizza. Digital teams are trying to create the best user experience and conversions while getting the most data from their consumers and end users. Regulated identity makes it possible to improve the overall experience all while keeping the company and its customers secure.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Elevate user experience and protect sensitive customer transactions from fraud
• Make a business case for investing in the next generation of tools that have a demonstrated ROI
• Identify solutions that provide protection, detection, and response for identity-based threats.

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.

The myth that companies can buy themselves out of risk is false. It doesn’t matter how much money you throw at a risk program, there is never a 100% guarantee that your company is safe from a breach. Keeping security risk to a minimum is the goal, but how do you contain risk when the playing field is constantly changing? Maybe CISOs need to look at risk management through a new/old lens.

Join this session to learn:

• Why a solid framework and effective prioritization is critical
• What is your risk tolerance and how to calibrate investments around it
• How to use risk to further discussions on future business alignment and investment

Companies with greater gender inclusivity are more profitable, more socially responsible, and provide more well-rounded perspectives. So why is it that there are so few women in the C-Suite?  Today, CISOs have a great opportunity to change the narrative by becoming a sponsor and advocate for the advancement of women. Come prepared to share ideas and forge new connections that can help empower each other to make an impact in your organizations and communities.

Join this session to learn:

• Why having women in the C-Suite is so impactful?
• What is the difference between mentor and sponsor
• How CISOs play a critical role in advocating for women leaders

Time is critical in third-party risk decisions and security teams face a balancing act in conducting proper vendor due diligence without being perceived as the impediment to the speed of business. Data is critical to these risk conversations and the time has come to combine generative AI and third-party risk to enhance insights from third-party risk assessments and intelligence to accelerate vendor decisions.

Join this session to discuss the potential of generative AI to:

• Revolutionize the speed at which teams extract insights
• Improve efficiency, decision-making and reducing resources required for assessments and discuss a real-world use case
• Address challenges in the third-party risk lifecycle

Organizations worldwide are being faced with multistage attacks such as BEC, ransomware, and supply chain, that happen with the same basic steps in the same sequence. It’s been a decade since defenders began referring to this as the attack chain, but the attacks continue to successful with the same tactics, from phishing to Active Directory abuse to data exfiltration. So how do we finally turn the tables on adversaries, and take away what they depend across the attack chain?

Join this interactive round table as CISOs discuss:

• Understanding the evolving nature of initial compromises
• The art and science of preventing small compromises from becoming big incidents
• Reducing your team's workload by using the attack chain to prioritize controls