UK & Ireland CISO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Security awareness continues to be a key tool for CISOs in the defense against attacks. Yet, it’s difficult to successfully embed a security culture into your organisation and keep at the top of the business agenda year-round. Security culture needs to be viewed in the same light as health and safety, and for this to materialise, CISOs need to be trailblazers to make it happen.

In this session, you will discuss:

• What does getting a security culture “right” look like?
• Validating your security message has landed and monitoring its progress
• Strategies to change the narrative around CISOs being “cyber police”

Over the past year, we partnered with more than 100 organizations to defeat ransomware attacks. Join our session to find out what strategies worked for these CISOs, and how you can build on their experience to secure your network. Ransomware attacks have evolved, but if you identify the threat early-on, technologies already in place can eliminate it with no need for additional spend.

Join us and discover:

• Real-world case study: The anatomy of a heavyweight ransomware attack
• Key pitfalls commonly overlooked by security teams
• Quick wins for preventing ransomware attacks without investing in additional technologies

Based on Gartner's research, 75 percent of cybersecurity budgets go to preventing initial intrusion and only 25 percent on detection and mitigation. However, the real damage to the enterprise happens once the attacker is already inside the network, working their way toward carrying out a costly breach or extortion.
 
Join this session to discuss:

• Key areas to reduce cyber risk and build resilience
• The advanced attack techniques that bad actors are forced to rely on and how to spot them
• Strategies to increase the speed of detection and mitigation

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

One critical hurdle security teams face when overseeing a cloud migration is managing the plethora of technological benefits offered by cloud providers and the often limited and inadequate data protection. For cloud migration to be a secure success, CISOs must carefully consider how to securely piece together different cloud-security policies in conjunction with the business motivations for migrating their company's digital assets to the cloud.

During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• Justifying the business case for cloud migration and aligning it with wider business objectives
• Discussing the increased risk of cloud migration due to the current geopolitical cyber landscape
• Sharing strategies to overcome blockers on your cloud migration journey

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.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.

Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritise and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

The threat landscape continues to evolve faster than hiring efforts, and CISOs' security teams can’t get left behind. It’s no longer enough to manage your team and hope they stick around. Instead, long-term retention calls for a plan.

Join this conversation to discuss:

• Identifying and addressing skill gaps within internal talent mobility
• Leveraging career development opportunities to attract and retain talent
• Sharing best practices for talent retention and attracting new staff

Third parties expose businesses to strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks. Moreover, leaders have less visibility into third parties than into their own businesses. For many organisations, the pandemic exposed the fragility of the organisation’s third-party network and impressed the need to flex quickly to new third and fourth parties in the extended enterprise to meet demand without increasing risk exposure.

Join this session to discuss:

• Standardising third-party risk management assessments to be used by business units
• Maintaining visibility of all ongoing third-party relationships
• Identifying and mitigating the risks of the third-party network

Demand for security roles is constantly increasing and organisations everywhere are facing the same issues time and again – from difficulties hiring and retaining staff to keeping up with security operational challenges. So how can CISOs make their SOCs run more effectively to enhance their security posture and ultimately evolve their security strategy around their workforce?

Join this boardroom to hear more on:

• Improving data retention through automation and efficient processes
• Amplifying and correlating the right signals while filtering out the noise
• Dealing with complex supply chain attacks, insider threats and vulnerabilities

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

CISOs are under immense stress and pressure, and this is only rising. They are the "silent warriors" who keep their companies safe and don’t seek any recognition for it. But who is looking out for them? CISOs are not an island, and in this session, we’ll explore how CISOs are coping with this pressure, its impact on mental health and emotional wellbeing and tactics to support one another.

Join this panel to discuss:

• Sharing different examples of crises and discussing their emotional impact
• Identifying methods CISOs can support each other’s wellbeing
• Assessing the human side of cybersecurity

The cyber threat has never been greater, and identifying the impact associated has never been easier, yet successfully reporting this to the board remains a critical hurdle to overcome. Operational teams drown in alerts and long lists of technical weaknesses to fix, but can’t see how these all combine to form paths that attackers exploit to disrupt the business.
 
Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:

• Resetting the security function to become an enabler of modern digital business
• Examining how digital business models are driving greater integration with suppliers and partner
• Understanding how current reporting fails to get buy-in from the board

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

The sheer scale and complexity of cyber-threats have meant the challenge of securing your business has gone beyond a human-scalable problem. Security teams are inundated with alerts, while simultaneously trying to monitor data and activity spread across disparate environments, and respond to attacks in real-time. To rise to this challenge, the next phase of security must be automated!
 
During this peer-discussion you will explore:

• Why mounting incidents across organisations is leading to alert fatigue  
• How to trust the efficacy of autonomous response capabilities to stop in-progress attacks
• How automation can help to build cyber resilience and more effectively allocate resources
  
  

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 CxOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Luis Arango Abello at +447736473727 or luis.arangoabello@gartner.com

For any industry to be inclusive, innovative and productive a diversity of voices and perspectives is central to achieving this. It's no secret that IT and cybersecurity have fallen short in this area and those at the top have a central part to play in being change-makers.

Join this keynote panel to discuss:

• Prompting different ways to think about security and wider business objectives
• Clear steps to drive awareness, foster a sense of belonging, and create lasting change
• Strategies for building the next generation of security professionals