DACH CISO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Venue - Main Tower Restaurant - Neue Mainzer Str. 52-58, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

With remote work, organisations around the world are at a greater risk of cyber threats than ever before, and cybercriminals are taking advantage of the situation. In this session, you will examine the biggest challenges security leaders face, and why a people-centric approach to security is everyone’s biggest opportunity to better protect their organisation.

In this session, you will explore:

• How remote work and the move to the cloud has changed the nature of threats to data
• The ways in which organizations are building controls to better understand and protect their employees
• The impact of changing behaviors, employee culture and workplace environment on people risk

Experts are warning that we are experiencing a “golden age” for ransomware. With new attacks reported almost daily, the pressure is on for CISOs to protect against not only sophisticated networks and Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) schemes, but also outdated security mindsets within their own organisations.

Join this session to learn:

• Key lessons from recent high-profile attacks
• Emerging and evolving trends among threat actors and their targets
• Innovative ways to reduce risk and improve resilience

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

In today’s climate, having a holistic view on API security is key to protecting organisations from the ever-expanding API attack surface. Proactively securing your environment from API security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and design flaws are among the biggest challenges that security leaders face. But how can CISOs identify and eliminate attack surfaces before an attack, and actively test APIs for vulnerabilities throughout the lifecycle, in addition to preventing real-time attacks?

Join this session to discuss:

• Remediating management and configuration issues before they become a problem
• Security testing for DevOps that integrates into the tools your team is already using
• How to build a framework and network architecture to support the rise in remote employees

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

As IT and security teams struggle to manage a complex sprawl of devices, users, cloud services, and software, there is one certainty we can rely on: complexity will only increase. But there's good news.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:

• Deploying a new strategy of asset intelligence
• The emerging Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management capabilities
• Automation for improving security hygiene and remediation

Managing distributed risk is today’s defining cybersecurity challenge. Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers, and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritise, and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

CISOs today are looking for more proactive and adaptive approaches to threat detection, attack surface reduction and response. Understanding what threats are out there by increasing visibility across all data, including endpoint, network, and cloud data, whilst staying ahead of threats are amongst the most vital priorities that CISOs have to address. So, what are the key elements needed to approach threat detection in a truly effective way?

Join this Executive Boardroom to hear how with XDR, cybersecurity teams can:

• Identify hidden, stealthy and sophisticated threats proactively and quickly
• Consolidate alerts and enable teams to do more with less
• Learning what other CISOs are doing to adapt posture with insights and new technologies

Demand for security roles is constantly increasing and organisations everywhere are facing the same issues time and again – from difficulties hiring and retaining staff to keeping up with security operational challenges. So how can CISOs make their SOCs run more effectively to enhance their security posture and ultimately evolve their security strategy around their workforce?

Join this boardroom to hear more on:

• Improving data retention through automation and efficient processes
• Amplifying and correlating the right signals while filtering out the noise
• Dealing with complex supply chain attacks, insider threats and vulnerabilities

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

It’s time to play!

Preparing for a cyber crisis is imperative and can determine whether it becomes a major catastrophe or a manageable incident. What needs to be done in the first hours of a highly disruptive incident? What are the common options, dilemmas and pitfalls? And how can we get it right?

Join our interactive incident simulation, based on a true story. Your decisions as executives will be presented and help shape the future of the victim organisation.

During this session, we will:

• Leverage the wisdom in the room to tackle complex challenges and get ahead of the attackers
• Understand the impact of technical and stakeholder management decisions on the business
• Discuss key pitfalls commonly overlooked by security teams

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.

Cyber wages are inflating at an increasing rate, and new employees are being poached days before they start their new roles. What can a CISO do to compete with these enormous challenges? Recruitment and retention demands require out-of-the-box thinking to stay ahead of the curve. In this discussion, we'll consider ideas to combat this fundamental issue within the industry.

In this interactive session, you’ll come together to brainstorm:

• How CISOs are encouraging their teams and retaining their rosters — what makes your employees happy?
• What can be done to combat staff turnover — overcoming exponential wage inflation
• Rethinking your job requirements — diversifying the entry point to the security profession
• Reviewing automation’s role in alleviating the impact of this crisis?

It’s the data that you don’t know about that represents the most risk. As the volume of dark data expands, so does your attack surface. A data-centric approach shines a light on dark data to give you the visibility and control you need to mitigate risk. In this executive boardroom, we’ll explore how to improve your data security posture management (DSPM) by accelerating visibility, classification, and actionable insight across all types of enterprise data (including dark data). You’ll learn how to proactively reduce risk and take an AI approach to data-centric security.

Join this session to discuss:

• What are the key elements of a data-centric strategy when protecting your data?
• How to leverage AI and automation to shine a light on dark data?
• How to get more from your existing tech stack and close gaps in your data security strategy?

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

The cyber threat has never been greater, and identifying the impact associated has never been easier, yet successfully reporting this to the board remains a critical hurdle to overcome. Operational teams drown in alerts and long lists of technical weaknesses to fix but can’t see how these all combine to form paths that attackers exploit to disrupt the business.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:

• Resetting the security function to become an enabler of modern digital business
• Examining how digital business models are driving greater integration with suppliers and partner
• Understanding how current reporting fails to get buy-in from the board

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

The modern CISO is an ever-changing role, with differing responsibilities per industry and organisation. Fundamental questions still need to be answered about how the CISO could develop, these include: Should the CISO be on the management board? Should IT report to the CISO? Should the CISO be a CSO? Should the CISO focus on the business or technology side? Will a CISO operate across multiple by offering CISO-As-A-Service? Join this discussion to see if there are any answers to these essential questions.

In this closing keynote panel we'll explore:

• Assessing the CISO’s longevity in its current form
• The shifting responsibilities of the CISO over the next five to ten years
• The importance (or lack thereof) of having a clear roadmap for the CISO