UK & Ireland CISO Executive Summit

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber warfare, where information flows freely and unpredictably, the traditional fortress mentality is no longer enough. As CISOs, we must recognise that the battlefield is neither uniform nor static—it’s constantly diversifying and reshaping. It's time to stop hiding behind excuses of inadequate funding, blaming users, or lamenting organisational silos.

The digital age is driving an unprecedented shift towards consumerisation, intertwining lives and livelihoods with connected experiences. This reality demands that security organisations pivot from merely defending against threats to becoming proactive value creators. To thrive in this new era, CISOs must lead with purpose, transforming their strategies into powerful narratives that build trust and resonate with consumers. We need to get out of our own way!

Join Ash to discuss:

• Redefining Value — How do you shift your approach and organisation as a driver of business value, not just a gatekeeper
• Crafting the ‘Why’ — Discovering the steps to develop a compelling purpose that makes Cyber Trust a key differentiator for your brand
• Stand for Something — Embrace a culture that transcends merely challenging the status quo by creating a security strategy that stands for something meaningful and impactful

Remote and hybrid work models open the door to a new wave of browser-based cyber threats. With sensitive data constantly flowing online, businesses face escalating risks and costly attacks. This session explores how to fortify your business against cyberattacks by securing the browser—the gateway to your sensitive data—all without disrupting the flow of work.

Join this session and hear from your peers about:

• The browser's role in a business's security strategy
• How the browser can secure your workers and company data on managed or non-managed devices
• Managing resources for cybersecurity in a time of economic uncertainty

When users are everywhere and digital operations span cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, a strong security posture becomes paramount. The challenge lies in navigating this complexity and maintaining visibility and control to ensure continuous operation despite cyber threats.

Join this interactive roundtable to discuss:

• Optimising costs and improving security across diverse cloud environments
• Spreading risk across a complex ecosystem to mitigate over reliance on specific tools
• Identifying the right tools while addressing global regulatory and data privacy requirements

Robust and automated identify security is essential to securing your most critical systems and data.  Given the sensitivity of privileged accounts, unpatched vulnerabilities, and an extensive remote workforce, implementing this is a journey, not a quick fix.

Join this interactive boardroom to:

• Discuss the difference between strong identity solutions and simple password management
• Address different approaches to solving Privilege Access Management
• Gain executive buy in from legal, HR and IT on effective solutions

With expanding attack surfaces and the disruptive potential of GenAI, prevention-based security strategies are becoming increasingly implausible. Organisations must adapt by shifting from a prevention strategy to a detection and response strategy at scale.

Join this session to discuss:

• Challenges of managing multi-surface, hybrid attacks and the real-world impact of GenAI tools like Copilot
• Leveraging AI to deliver intelligent, scalable attack detection and response
• Maximising cost efficiencies of security developments and communicating their effectiveness

Delivering business critical applications safely is a delicate balancing act. The user experience is frequently compromised as application, infrastructure, and security teams negotiate the adoption of new services. Unfortunate trade-offs are sometimes necessary to address operational needs for the sake of maintaining security, but these trade-offs can make certain use cases unfeasible or diminish their value to the organisation.

In this session, we will discuss:

• Revolutionising workspaces by balancing productivity, security, availability and user experience
• How quickly new technologies like the enterprise browser can be adopted to provide a competitive advantage
• Strategies for reducing the effort required to deliver applications and enhance organisational operations

You’ve heard it all before: the DBIR tells you people are your biggest risk, your phishing simulations tell you huge numbers of your users fall for social engineering, and simple security measures you deploy are sometimes met with howls of protest if they happen to interact with someone’s workflow. But what if there were a different way?

Join this session to hear from a panel of CISOs on:

• How to instil a culture of risk awareness and data protection across all operations and processes
• New approaches to protecting end users' perception of security controls 
• How to attract and train a cybersecurity-savvy workforce 

In today’s digital world, operational resilience plays a vital function in supporting business continuity. CISOs must focus on the essential roles of discovery and visibility to strengthen their organisation's defences and ultimately protect against cyber threats that can cause intolerable harm. This session will provide the tools to help organisation's anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber incidents, ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Identify and inventory all digital assets to eliminate blind spots, enhance compliance and mitigate threats
• Integrate discovery and visibility to ensure complete and comprehensive monitoring of all IT infrastructure, environments and assets
• Embed these strategies into your cybersecurity framework for continuous operational resilience

SaaS applications power today’s business, and downtime or compromise will pause operations. Despite the increase in SaaS-first strategies, Security teams continue to rely on perimeter-based SASE and IDP solutions which do not match the complexity of the SaaS-native attack surface. This boardroom will encourage you to look inside your SaaS systems to match secure configuration with advanced detection and response capabilities. Specifically, you will discuss how to:

• Bypass Zero Trust strategies and the mitigating controls to consider
• Advance your detection & response programme to maintain a cohesive security posture
• Ensure your metrics to measure SaaS Security are effective to keep up with attack surface