Minneapolis CISO Executive Summit

Join the Minneapolis CISO Governing Body and invited guests for an evening of music, dinner and wine as we kick off this year's summit. Along with a night of peer networking, we'll be working with non-profit "Together We Rise" to pack duffle bags for children entering foster care.

When it comes to enhancing IAM capabilities, it's easy to center the conversation around new tools and platforms. But upgrading your tech stack without also retooling the overall IAM strategy can backfire, increasing the organization's attack surface.

Join this session to hear about finding success in improving IAM by:

• Prioritizing security hygiene and accurately configuring existing controls
• Defining operational metrics to track performance and progress
• Expanding IAM beyond basic authentication and bot detection

The Cyber insurance application process is taking longer and has become more complicated in the last few years. Premiums are rising. Leaders from organizations big and small are questioning the value of Cyber insurance. 

Join this session for:

• Different perspectives on the changing cyber insurance industry
• A chance to troubleshoot your cyber insurance concerns
• Open conversations about the struggles and benefits of investing in cyber insurance

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 session 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

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 interactive boardroom 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

Digital assets are enabling new revenue and growth opportunities, and accelerating transformation across industries. But for CISOs 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 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

Whether it comes from across the globe or down the street, the ever-looming threat of a ransomware attack is always in the back of the IT and security executive’s mind. Get your collaborative and creative juices flowing in this gamified choose your own adventure.

In this interactive session attendees will:

• Collaborate to identify threat responses

• Respond to choices and forces out of their control

• Discuss pitfalls and best practices

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 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

Zero Trust adoption spiked in 2020 as organizations scrambled to solve an unprecedented remote access challenge. Now, looking ahead, enterprises are faced with the conundrum of staying fully remote, returning full-time to the workplace, or more likely landing somewhere in between. But not all Zero Trust solutions are created equal, and many are ill-suited to address a range of use cases or environments.  Join this roundtable discussion to:

• Understand the limitations of remote access-only solutions
• Explore a wide variety of use cases that can be addressed by Zero Trust
• Learn best practices for transitioning to Zero Trust from a legacy solution

Expeditious cloud and digital transformation have considerably impacted organizations over the past two years. It is important to distinguish where enterprises have found challenges and successes along the way. How are CISOs taking advantage of business evolution to better their cloud infrastructure?

 Join this boardroom session to discuss: 

• Cloud-based tools and services that have increased efficiencies and assist cloud adoption
• How cloud and security analytics have evolved with the complexity of threats and challenges
• The resources associated with managing the rapidly changing cloud environments

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.

Businesses will often move forward with mergers and acquisitions despite security concerns, but CISOs can still play a critical role during each phase. How are security leaders securing their seat at the table to fast track well-informed integration plans?

Join this in-depth and candid conversation to hear:

• What adequate due diligence looks like and setting security expectations upfront
• Asking the right questions to inform your plans for integration
• Building a roadmap through each phase that accounts for gaps

The line between IT and security is blurring. Seemingly overnight, a foundational understanding of what devices, users, and cloud instances exist has jumped in priority for CISOs.

Join this roundtable discussion around:

• How asset management – once a pure IT play – matters for cybersecurity
• Why the asset management problem hasn’t been solved yet — and what to do about it
• What approaches to asset management work and don't work in today's enterprise environments

The strategies required to secure IT and OT environments continue to be a challenge for CISOs to address. What does an effective cybersecurity program look like that includes both IT and Operational Technologies (OT)? And how do you evaluate it?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• What’s different between traditional IT cybersecurity strategies and those required to secure Operational Technologies (OT)
• Approaches for security and business partners to collaborate on new OT
• How your existing cybersecurity controls address OT, and what gaps remain

 How do you make the workplace work for everyone? Acknowledging bias is the first step, but there’s so much more that can be done to ensure all voices are heard and amplified. Author Minda Harts shows us ways in which everyone can contribute to building a truly equitable workplace culture.

Join this keynote as Harts discusses:

• Why courage is essential for leaders who are trying to create an equitable culture in the workplace
• The difference between an ally and a success partner
• How everyday actions can help make the workplace better for everybody