Global CISO Community
Executive Summit

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Though they're regularly cast as the C-Suite's resident reactionary, CISOs are capable of rising to the level of enterprise contributor. The journey starts with becoming familiar with the business's top objectives and intentionally communicating the relationship between those goals and security.

Join Andy Kirkland, CISO at The Walt Disney Company and learn:

• The long-term benefits of identifying and simplifying your business's offerings
• To openly and regularly demonstrate security's importance to other business functions
• How security can inform and influence business priorities through clarity and context

From 30,000 feet up, your succession plan probably looks fine. Perspectives from that high on the org chart, however, are sometimes obscured. One plan certain to reveal first-class talent and benefit the business - Talk to your team and build to their needs.

Join your Global CISO peers and their invited team members to candidly tackle:

• Why today's cyber leaders so often miss the connection between succession and success
• How investing in the next generation upgrades culture, engagement and retention
• What those in their ascent to the role still need from leadership

CISOs navigate a high-stakes paradox - driving innovation at speed while defending against AI-powered threats. From deepfakes to synthetic fraud, adversaries are faster and more adaptive than ever and expose the limits of fragmented, reactive security strategies. Resilience at scale isn’t a security issue alone, it’s a C-suite imperative. Building the capability to adapt, recover, and grow in the face of disruption requires coordinated leadership across technology, risk, compliance, and business functions.

Join this session to learn:

• Using AI, Zero Trust, and compliance automation to secure innovation without slowing growth
• Detecting insider misuse and AI-enabled fraud using behavioral analytics
• Coordinating resilience as a C-suite strategy with shared accountability and unified metrics

In an era where international regulations are continually evolving and digital ecosystems are becoming increasingly intricate; compliance transcends the traditional check-the-box approach. Global CISOs are at the forefront, embedding compliance into the core of their security strategies to fortify resilience, optimize operations, and drive sustainable business growth across diverse markets.

Explore strategies to transform compliance into a global competitive advantage:

• Critical systems focus to minimize audit fatigue and enhance efficiency
• Automation and AI insights for seamless, continuous compliance
• Daily operations integration to bolster resilience and streamline responses

Third-party access has become the leading attack vector, with most breaches ironically stemming from those very third parties and business partners we rely on for solutions. How can identity security strategies be leveraged to reduce supply chain risks while still enabling secure collaboration?

Discover how to:

• Apply least-privilege access for third parties to ensure productivity
• Detect real-time anomalous access in hybrid environments
• Quantify risk reduction to engage business leaders

Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Spotlight Presenters from: 

• Mitiga
• SquareX
• Tuskira

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

AI offers transformative potential for businesses—but reaping its benefits requires that IT and security leaders navigate complex transformation challenges. This means adopting a robust zero trust architecture to protect users and data, embracing AI while managing its risks, and handling the technical and financial implications of ever-expanding environments. A risk-based security strategy empowers CISOs to lead a secure, scalable transformation.

Join this session to:

• Explore how combining zero trust with AI creates a more resilient defense posture, which–unlike firewalls–blocks lateral movement
• Learn strategies for protecting AI applications developed in data centers and the cloud, while preventing data leaks from public AI applications
• Discover how zero trust significantly simplifies environments while cutting network and security expenditure by eliminating costly legacy hardware

Especially at the global level, the scope of a modern cyber leader's role requires at least some awareness of broader threats – be they physical, political, or otherwise. They can be difficult to address but ignoring these issues could hinder the organization's development of comprehensive security.

Join your peers for a discussion on:

• How business-wide threat identification is being handled across multiple industries
• The CISO's role in eliminating non-cyber security issues
• Common difficulties and remedies among those tasked with protecting the organization

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Traditional security practices are struggling worldwide against modern threats and the rapid pace of software development. The solution lies in leveraging production data, which enables effective Application Detection and Response (ADR) by integrating real-time insights into code behavior, vulnerabilities, and attacks. This approach empowers development and operations teams across borders to collaboratively enhance security.

Join this roundtable discuss:

• Enhancing vulnerability scanning with real production insights
• Improving risk management through dynamic telemetry
• Strengthening attack protection with contextual awareness

Organizations must proactively secure their data, especially as AI tools reshape the landscape of data risk. With CISOs prioritizing data protection amid tightening regulations, strategies must evolve to effectively address insider threats and inadvertent exposures.

Join this session to explore:

• Leveraging AI to strengthen data loss prevention strategies
• Effective insider risk management through shadow data identification and exposure mitigation
• Building a culture of security awareness to prevent insider threats

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Doing more than you thought you could or outperforming yourself is always something to be proud of. Having to "do more with less," isn't as exciting. Yet, the odds of eventually receiving fewer funds makes tight budget preparedness a cyber security imperative.

Gather with your Global CISO peers and learn:

• Executive practices for enabling success on any budget
• Why awareness is the cornerstone of cost-effectiveness
• The difference between being thrifty and tactical

Despite robust identity solutions, many organizations remain in reactive identity security states, relying on periodic access reviews, static role-based controls, and manual provisioning to manage risks. However, identity security posture management can help you gain actionable insights, correct access and policy drift, and prevent identity risks before they become incidents. 

Gather with your peers and hear how security leaders can:

• Continuously understand and reduce identity attack surfaces
• Improve the effectiveness of governance control postures
• Enhance compliance and audit readiness

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Vulnerabilities remediation doesn't need to take months. Equipped with advanced AI tools and the right developer's time-tested security expertise, it could only take minutes. Join your C-level peers in discussing: 

• Realistic and ideal remediation timelines (and why they're different) 
• Where artificial intelligence succeeds and fails in subbing out human wisdom 
• What kind of AI-focused training or upskilling developers might need in 2025

Across the globe, organizations are grappling with the challenge of securing sensitive data as it traverses web browsers. Many acknowledge that their current IT and security frameworks increase the likelihood of data breaches. This highlights the intricate task of protecting data while managing outdated systems, inefficient application delivery, and obsolete security measures. What innovative strategies can streamline enterprise operations, enhance security, and adapt to a global landscape?

Attendees will discover:

• Identifying and addressing technical debt caused by fragmented IT and security solutions
• Communicating the broader business impacts of technology and security challenges
• Adopting new methods for enterprise application delivery to improve productivity worldwide

We’re told to do the “basics” right to mitigate the majority of our risks and are harshly criticized when they prove impossible to implement at enterprise scale. But some of those orthodoxies no longer make sense, or perhaps never did. 

Join this session as we question some of the assumptions that we’ve lived with for decades:

• Patching/alerting - hamster wheels or key controls?
• Data - why classify when no one has succeeded at scale?
• People - are humans destined to remain the weakest link?

AI is reshaping enterprise security, exposing organizations to a surge in Non-Human Identities from tokens and API keys to autonomous AI agents. Most remain unmanaged. With regulators and threat actors moving fast, executives face mounting risks and compliance gaps.

Join Danny Brickman, CEO & Co-Founder, Oasis Security to uncover:

• Where your environment is most exposed to AI-related identity risk
• How to continuously discover and govern NHIs at scale
• How leading enterprises unify human and non-human identity security

The global threat landscape is ever-changing, especially in light of AI advancements and an unprecedented geopolitical climate. CISOs must keep pace with threats and understand how these factors directly affect their equities, or their security programs will simply become obsolete.

Join this boardroom with moderator John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, to discuss:

• The latest state and criminal threats
• The technical, geopolitical and other forces driving these threats
• Forecasting future risks using this insight

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Be among the first to see what’s new and next in the security solutions landscape. Three early-stage providers will get the chance to showcase their innovative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Spotlight Presenters from: 

• Jazz
• Twine
• VulnCheck

While it's rarely easy, reaching a certain level of legitimate organizational resilience doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, the entire resilience journey could be summarized in just a few steps. Those steps might be difficult to take, but at least they're straightforward.

Join Chris Lugo, VP, CISO at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association for:

• A guided walk through the stages of cyber resilience development
• Practical advice for overcoming the common obstacles of each step
• A look at process-altering industry demands and organizational needs

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Experience the magic of New Orleans at our Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala Dinner. Enjoy an evening filled with jazz music and let the vibrant spirit of Mardi Gras enchant you in a night of celebration. 

Daymond John, Founder/CEO of FUBU and star of ABC’s Shark Tank, has been a phenomenally successful business person for over 25 years. Along his entrepreneurial journey, through his many successes as well as failures, he has learned a few things about getting the best out of business and life. The keys to success include learning how to establish the right mindset and following a few fundamental principles Daymond calls his "S.H.A.R.K Points”.

Members of the Global CIO and CISO communities will receive exclusive access to:

• Live and unrecorded insights on developing your unique brand of executive leadership
• Guidance on identifying, cultivating and managing powerful business partnerships
• Post-keynote meet and greet opportunities