Toronto CISO Executive Summit

Today’s CIOs & CISOs face daunting challenges. As the business leader in charge of adding value to the company, finding the right talent and inspiring technology innovation, there’s an incredible amount of pressure. It’s no surprise that CIOs & CISOs are experiencing burnout at unprecedented rates. While taking care of employees is important, how can CIOs & CISOs make sure they are taking care of themselves to help make their careers sustainable while maintaining a sense of well-being?

Join this keynote to explore:

• Evidence-based strategies that can help alleviate burnout
• How to recognize the signs and symptoms of toxic stress and burnout
• How to remain engaged, energized, and focused during turbulent times

Prioritizing and eliminating the cyber risks that matter most is the ultimate goal of security leaders. But how do you validate that your efforts are hitting the mark? It all comes down to well-crafted measurements: metrics that are reliable and easily understood by all stakeholders across the business.

In this session, we will discuss:

• Cybersecurity risk assessment essentials and which risks truly carry weight
• Concrete approaches to determine effectiveness of security capabilities
• Creating simple "metric cards" to communicate across stakeholders

The importance of a 30, 60, or 90-day plan is a message largely reserved for incoming executives. There's a lot to say, however, for their benefit to more comfortable, veteran CISOs.

Join this interactive conversation to consider:

• How writing a 30, 60, or 90-day plan could impact your program, new or established
• Ways to ensure your plan isn't just effective, but excellent
• When and how to check your plans in-practice effectiveness

Economic trends have tightened purse strings everywhere, leaving CISOs and security leaders to demonstrate ROI and defend their budgets. But ROI is notoriously tough to quantify when the primary return for security investment is reduction in risk. As a result, bridging the gap between security investments and actual business impact can be easier said than done, particularly if your cybersecurity spend doesn’t clearly map to organizational goals.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying the right metrics for quantifying security ROI and business impact        
• Positioning security as a business enabler, rather than a cost center
• Aligning security investments to organizational goals

The complete entanglement of cyber risk with business risk is becoming increasingly more visible. CISOs now have an opportunity to better pinpoint third parties that present a threat to the organization. Yet the increasing complexities of third party, and even fourth party, risk management, prompted by a wide range of evolving threats, demands heightened attention. How can CISOs ensure they have a clear overview of the threat landscape and vulnerabilities across ecosystems and supply chains?

Join this session to discuss:

• Identification of vulnerabilities across your vendor landscape to prioritize response efforts
• Best practices for mitigating a new wave of sophisticated attacks to keep assets safe
• The role threat intelligence plays in risk management strategies to safeguard your digital ecosystem

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 a security leader you’re being asked to find ways to securely enable your business to use data to drive innovation - and become a data master. But this takes a fundamental understanding of what data exists within your environment, where it's running, its risk level, who has access to it, and how it's being used. This interactive discussion will cover the challenges and solutions CISOs use to discover their data attack surface, monitor, detect and respond to data threats - including the scope of breach identification - and ensure data compliance.

Join this session to discuss:

• Gaining data visibility as a foundation for data governance
• Managing the evolving landscape of laws, regulations, and industry standards around data security
• Working with the right tools and teams across a shared responsibility model to ensure compliance

As the spotlight on security grows, so does the pressure to understand your organization’s unique security demands. Split into groups by industry, Toronto security executives will have a chance to hash out their goals and challenges with a select few who truly get it.

Join this interactive session to:

• Engage with your most similar CISO peers
• Validate strategies and uncover new ways of thinking
• Gather proven, industry-specific, practices

From content generation to data analysis, generative AI is transforming the way people work and drastically improving productivity. However, the benefits do not come without risks, and the technology has the potential to do more harm than good when placed in the wrong hands. So what do security leaders need to know about the risks of generative AI, and how do they mitigate them?

Join this session for an insightful discussion on the latest cybersecurity challenges associated with generative AI, including:

• How the threat landscape is changing as a result of generative AI
• How businesses can ensure the privacy and security of sensitive data used in generative AI applications and govern them appropriately
• What tools and capabilities are necessary to protect organizations from malicious uses of generative AI

These days, it doesn’t take much to breach a system. Most attackers just need the right login info. From allowing sloppy password hygiene to poorly distributing access privileges – there are plenty of missteps threat actors are ready to exploit.

In this peer-led, roundtable discussion, you’ll consider:

• The strengths and weaknesses of your existing defenses
• What security cornerstones your peers are building upon
• How to gain leverage put a stop to breaches