Philadelphia CISO Executive Summit

Elevating a security program to the apex of maturity is no easy task, nor is maintaining that operational excellence in a shifting landscape of technologies and threats. The trials and tribulations of sustaining a mature security program’s effectiveness are unique, and security leaders must embrace the right strategies to ensure their organizations protect that crucial investment. Learn what it takes to reach strong program maturity, as well as tactics for preserving that success into the future.

Security, privacy, human resources, IT, compliance and operations – when AmerisourceBergen embarked on an effort to comply with new European Union data privacy regulations, leaders knew it would require cross-functional partnerships to succeed. Yet what would it take to get those varied stakeholders pointed toward the same goal? Join Sheila Hawes and Umesh Yerram to learn how AmerisourceBergen’s journey to GDPR compliance inspired a sense of ownership across the business, and how a close partnership between privacy and security helped lead the way.

Understanding and minimizing the greatest security threats no longer comes solely through traditional security infrastructure and technical intelligence. As global adversaries wage hard-to-detect campaigns, security teams must weave political risk and human intelligence into their security operations and cyber threat functions. This peer-to-peer roundtable will focus on techniques such as visualization and global intelligence that CISOs are leveraging to predict and prevent the latest threats.

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Omar Bedran at 971-717-6680 or omar.bedran@evanta.com

The evolution of cloud technologies, advanced third-party solutions and software-as-a-service offerings have been steadily transforming the enterprise, allowing for greater flexibility and advanced customization of the IT environment. The ascendance of these tools has also introduced myriad challenges to CISOs charged with securing critical data. As organizations look to the cloud, they must also weigh the risks of migrating data in an increasingly threatened world. How can data in the cloud be secured? How does the risk-minded organization evaluate and trust the security posture of their vendor partners? In this session, security executives will examine the benefits, threats and challenges of the new cloud business.

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Omar Bedran at 971-717-6680 or omar.bedran@evanta.com

A patient gets the wrong surgery. An appliance receives a dangerous flaw on the assembly line. A packaged food becomes contaminated. In today’s connected world, cyberattacks can be a matter of life and death and engulf operations well beyond IT. With malicious actors now afflicting all areas of the organization, security leaders must broaden their traditional incident-response training programs to involve the key players they will rely on when the firewall falls. Learn how to build effective, cross-discipline security training that will prepare your organization to weather the next major cyber incident. 

The threat of a breach – and the potential of losing customers’ private data – creates an added layer of complexity under new GDPR regulations. The recent requirements place a hefty monetary penalty on impacted organizations that lose personal data, and possible future regulations will only increase the burden. While these rules hold companies to a higher standard, they creates an additional consequences when the inevitable breach happens. In this session, executives discuss ways to ensure data integrity and explore methods for protecting personal data – such as encrypting – that can support future compliance.

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

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Omar Bedran at 971-717-6680 or omar.bedran@evanta.com

Whether it’s Meltdown, Spectre, Petya or WannaCry, today’s major cyber threats and newly discovered vulnerabilities have achieved supervillain status in the popular psyche. The daily digital demon is a mainstay of headline news, and voices from across the organization turn to security leaders with the same question — “Are we safe?” Learn what cyber risks are front-and-center for your peers in today’s threat landscape, and discover the strategies — from communication to mitigation — that are successful.

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Omar Bedran at 971-717-6680 or omar.bedran@evanta.com  

Pick your side! Should CISOs hold the mantle of chief privacy officer? Or should these roles be separate — CISO and CPO? It’s Anahi Santiago versus Mark Eggleston in an Oxford-style debate exploring how organizations should define their executive roles in an era when data represents both the key to success and a perilous regulatory landscape. Join the discussion, as two InfoSec leaders battle for the hearts and minds of the audience, a clash where the most changed opinions will decide the winner!