Atlanta CISO Community
Executive Summit

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 organization.

In this session, we will discuss:

• Revolutionizing 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 organizational operations

Security practitioners are humans and so are their users. But it's also a security practitioner's job to enable the business, wearing multiple hats to successfully secure the organization. How do CISOs prioritize properly to ensure that security and useability become that much easier -- for all parties involved? 

Join this interactive session to:

• Collaborate with your peers to validate best practices and priorities
• Discuss advantages and expected challenges of adopting new tech 
• Analyze case studies and methodologies to identify successful outcomes 

In an era where users are ubiquitous and digital operations sit in the cloud and beyond, it’s key to move beyond a foundational security approach and focus on achieving true cyber resilience. The task involves navigating complexity, upholding visibility and control to ensure uninterrupted operations despite cyber threats.

Join this session to explore:

• Enhancing security and cost-effectiveness across diverse cloud environments
• Leveraging AI innovations while addressing global regulatory and data privacy standards
• Sharing best practices for implementing effective cloud best practices across a global footprint

With the recent NIST 2.0 Regulatory Landscape update, it helps to identify the inflection points that security and risk management leaders can leverage to reduce threat exposure risk and create better working relationships. The evolution of exposure management over the next three to five years will be imperative to how it is implemented, and implemented well. 

Join this session to explore: 

• Benefits of implementing a continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) program
• Recommendations for CISOs establishing enhancing exposure management
• Priorities and migration plans to evolve into the next stage of the CTEM framework

As leaders 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 and CIOs 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

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.

The growing complexity of cyber threats makes developing a skilled cybersecurity workforce more critical than ever. Now is the time to focus on how organizations can build and strengthen their talent pipeline through skills development, partnerships, and diversity initiatives. 

Join this session to uncover:

• Effective strategies for developing and upskilling cybersecurity talent within organizations
• How to partner with educational institutions and industry to create a pipeline of future cyber professionals
• The importance of diversity and inclusion in building a resilient and innovative workforce

Many security operations (SecOps) programs focus on tooling and existing processes to identify new, critical threat activity. However, many of the true unknowns are left missing. How can CISOs enable SecOps performance in today's sophisticated and ever-evolving threat landscape?

Join this session to discuss:

• Enabling SecOps through change and disruption
• Working within resource constraints without compromising security posture
• Elevating threat detection to drive SecOps efficiency

You won’t luck your way into safe and successful third-party relationships. But by thoughtfully developing a cadence of third-party risk identification, assessment and mitigation, CISOs can work to safeguard their own operations, protect key data, prevent reputational damage, avoid financial losses and bring peace to stakeholders.

Join your CISO peers to: 

• Develop new risk-aware relationships, or perfect existing ones
• Share and gather insights on a growing network of third parties
• Confirm the importance of a well-developed third-party risk management plan

Outcome-driven metrics can be a useful tool for cybersecurity governance and advancing cybersecurity maturity. Security leaders need to evolve their approach to cybersecurity metrics to be more aligned with the business rather than doing cybersecurity for the sake of cybersecurity.

Join this keynote with Gartner analyst Patrick Long to learn how CISOs can:

• Rationalize traditional, operational metrics with the outcome-driven metrics approach
• Define a level of cybersecurity that's defensible with key stakeholders
• Find synergy and a better way to show the business value of cybersecurity

Governing Body members host this reception for executives to close out the event with an evening of peer networking, food and drinks.