Houston CISO Executive Summit

Join the Houston CISO Governing Body and their invited guests for a welcome reception at the C. Baldwin Hotel's hidden speakeasy-styled bar.

Escape to the Parlour Hidewawy to enjoy an evening of great conversation, dinner, and drinks — including a specialty cocktail menu — with Houston's premier network of C-level security leaders. 

Most CISOs have mixed (at best) feelings about cyber insurance. Questionnaires are becoming more complicated. Premiums are rising. Policies are covering less. Don’t struggle alone. Now's your chance to hear from a panel of CISOs who will share their experiences and insights around cyber insurance.

Join this session to:

• Hear different perspectives on the changing cyber insurance industry
• Have open conversations about the challenges and benefits of investing in cyber insurance
• Share and troubleshoot your own cyber insurance concerns with your peers

Identity is not the new perimeter, but rather identity is a nexus for context and context is the new perimeter. Zero trust principles woven throughout your IAM strategy in today’s work-from-anywhere environments can be the key to protecting the business across people, devices and applications. As context becomes more complex and the perimeter is ever-evolving, how do you build a defense structure capable of protecting users and the business?

In this session, you will explore:

• The role of zero trust in identity and access management
• How to implement IAM tools without negatively impacting the user experience or core business operations
• How to engage other stakeholders and functions on their access needs to move beyond surface-level coordination

Many organizations are challenged with implementing their security programs across widely distributed infrastructure, using an array of tools while often sharing responsibility and control with their service providers. So how can they best maintain visibility into those environments, detect malicious activity and orchestrate effective, business wide, responses? Or perhaps even eliminate much of the noise in that process by identifying and reducing their exposure and risk proactively?

Join this boardroom hosted by IBM to discuss:

• Key industry advances in open interconnectivity of tools and data sources
• How overall exposure and risk can be better managed
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of threat management programs to allow security teams to focus on the what’s most important

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, with seating priority given to CISOs. To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

Your people are your most valuable asset, your greatest weakness, and your best defense. CISOs seeking to prevent data loss from malicious, negligent or compromised users can correlate content, behavior and threats for better insight and streamlined investigations.

Join this boardroom hosted by Proofpoint to discuss:

• Augmenting your data protection program with the right people and processes
• Transforming your employees into effective data defenders
• Managing insider threats and preventing data loss at the endpoint

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, with seating priority given to CISOs. To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. For CISOs and CIOs that must ensure the security and continuity of business, however, they represent an ever-expanding attack surface at a time when the volume of attacks and the threat of ransomware is increasingly driving news cycles and board-level concern.

Attendees of this keynote hosted by Armis will leave with the insights needed to:

• Identify unseen security risks by gaining complete visibility in a rapidly expanding attack surface
• Get ahead of exposure by prioritizing high impact vulnerabilities and threats
• Secure the assets, recover unnecessary CapEx and OpEx and free staff for priority initiatives

Getting privacy right isn’t just an exercise in compliance. Increasingly, consumers expect that organizations are protecting their data while providing more control over its use. Without a robust data governance, security and privacy triad, today’s digital enterprise will find customers losing trust and pivoting to rivals. Is your privacy program creating the necessary foundation of trust your company depends on?

Join this session to hear from a panel of security leaders on:

• How privacy plays into business strategy across industries in today’s economy
• Different reporting structures, roles, and the C-suite responsibility in privacy
• Practical tips and lessons to manage privacy risk

Cybersecurity is no longer a nice to have, it’s a front line defense that protects organizations from targeted attacks and sophisticated threat actors. Security leaders must always be one step ahead and deliver effective cybersecurity through active prevention and defense. How can CISOs mitigate threats against the attack surface, whilst providing the business and technical outcomes to both stay secure and advance business objectives?

Join this boardroom hosted by CrowdStrike to discuss:

• Leveraging proprietary data, analytics and technology to prevent attacks
• Implementing proactive defense for businesses of all sizes to mitigate today’s threats
• Pressure-testing your incident response plan and playbooks

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, with seating priority given to CISOs. To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

Despite their efforts, from phishing simulations to security awareness campaigns, CISOs from organizations big and small keep falling short when it comes to stopping Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. But, if everyone has an email security program, why are the losses associated with BEC still climbing?

Join this boardroom hosted by Abnormal Security to discuss:

• What is working or not working, with existing processes and technology?
• How do we solve the "human factor" in the equation?
• Best practices for preventing loss related to a BEC attack?

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, with seating priority given to CISOs. To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

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.

As the information security profession matures, so too does the demand for security talent. Imagine if you could build a partnership now to cultivate a security workforce with the right skillsets to meet the demands of the future — and the realities of today.

In this session, Joy Wangdi, Cybersecurity Trust Officer at LyondellBasell, is joined by Dr. Dalia Sherif, Executive Dean of Baccalaureate Programs & Partnerships at Lone Star College, to discuss:

• The challenges both employers and educators face when addressing the security talent shortage
• How Lone Star College is helping LyondellBasell build a more sustainable and diverse security talent pipeline
• The need for collaboration between academic institutions and organizations on cybersecurity curricula

As API traffic surges, third-party networks rapidly expand, and the digital business accelerates, the threat of suffering a breach or disruption looms large on the horizon. CISOs managing an ever-expanding attack surface must fortify the foundations of their infrastructure, applications, and teams so that when the next big vulnerability is uncovered…you’re ready to respond.

Join this boardroom hosted by Cloudflare to discuss:

• Replacing static access controls and legacy security perimeters that delay incident response
• Identifying and mitigating the risks of third-party networks and software supply chains
• Trends in data privacy regulations and data protection measures

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

As the adoption of enterprise SaaS grows, high-profile SaaS application data breaches are also on the rise. CISOs are ultimately responsible for the security of their organization’s data, including access by third-party applications, and must implement appropriate security settings and data governance for their environments. The challenge, the most widely used gateway architecture solutions don’t deliver visibility into the complex, unique characteristics of different SaaS applications.

Join this boardroom hosted by AppOmni to discuss:

• How to gain immediate visibility into what data can be accessed by all types of users and integrations, including third-party applications
• How to build the business case for a comprehensive SaaS security program, including funding sources
• How to integrate security into the software development lifecycle to improve DevSecOps during the product development process

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, with seating priority given to CISOs.

To reserve your seat, please contact: Caroline Timothy, Houston CISO Program Manager, at caroline.timothy@evanta.com.

For years, Zero Trust has been THE cyber strategy that everyone — from the boardroom to the marketing team — is talking about, but security leaders sometimes differ on what it really means.

In this session, George Finney, Chief Security Officer at Southern Methodist University and author of Project Zero Trust: A Story About a Strategy for Aligning Security and the Business, will:

• Break down misconceptions about what Zero Trust is, who it’s for, and why it's important
• Share concrete steps for implementing Zero Trust
• Outline a strategy for success in cybersecurity that appeals to the board