Detroit CISO Executive Summit

Effective communication isn’t just important when approaching the board – it’s important when approaching senior leaders and employees. Preston Jennings knows that gaining buy in from the board is much easier when you already have leadership and employee support.

In this session, you’ll learn strategies to:

• Communicate your message at different levels of leadership
• Give senior leaders visibility into your security program
• Present appropriate executive level staff and board metrics

CDOs and CISOs often have conflicting goals regarding data — one wants to glean insights from it, while the other wants to protect it. How can you enable a data-driven business while still safeguarding valuable information?

In this session, CDOs will discuss:

• Strategies for CDO and CISO collaboration
• What questions CISOs should be asking their CDOs
• How to effectively manage data

Between skills shortages, the escalating sophistication of threats and alert overload, cybersecurity automation is a must. Augusto Barros demystifies ways CISOs can apply orchestration and automation technologies to increase security operations effectiveness and reduce alert fatigue.

Gain best practices-driven insight into:

• How organizations are leveraging SOAR tools to improve their incident response practices
• Determine where and how to automate, and what are the prerequisites to make it work
• Ways to evolve and scale your playbooks as the threat landscape changes

As organizations increasingly turn to cloud-based services to enable the next phase of digital transformation, security leaders face the challenge of ensuring the enterprise’s data remains secure. Join this session to learn the emerging best practices your peers employ to secure the cloud, including:

• Automation, orchestration, AI and machine learning strategies
• Information governance in the cloud
• Ways to incorporate the cloud into a fully articulated 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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Kenzie Howard at Kenzie.Howard@evanta.com or 971-978-5041.

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 Rebecca Bell, Content Manager, at rebecca.bell@evanta.com if you are interested in this exclusive session. 

As cyberattacks get worse security operation centers need to stay ahead of these evolving threats. No one understands that better than Alex Padilla, who has matured Domino’s SOC from a level one to a level four center.

In this session he will share:

• The importance of staffing your SOC effectively
• Strategies to show that your SOC enables the business
• How to move beyond technology and focus on people and processes

Since its enforcement date, GDPR has changed the way CISOs think about privacy risk management. In addition, it became a catalyst for new data protection laws and regulation. Compare best practices for your industry, business and regulatory environment in this interactive discussion, including:

• How to interpret the implications of regulatory requirements
• Strategies to stay ahead of ever-changing privacy regulations
• Methods to optimize your data privacy program

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 C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Kenzie Howard at Kenzie.Howard@evanta.com or 971-978-5041.

Any given gesture — a nod, a point of the finger — unconsciously communicates powerful ideas and feelings that have tangible consequences. Top executives are generally proficient in their ability to interact with others, but the stakes are raised during high-level negotiations, reporting to the board, inspiring and empowering senior managers or dealing with tricky internal matters.

Join body language expert Chris Ulrich as he shares:

• Why every movement and action is magnified in high-level situations
• Tools and techniques to build rapport quickly
• How executives can communicate more effectively