
Atlanta CISO Community
Inner Circle
March 14, 2024 | The Mill Kitchen & Bar
March 14, 2024
The Mill Kitchen & Bar
Collaborate with your peers
Join Atlanta's top CISOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CISOs today:
A SOC is not a Silo
Relationships as a Proactive Security Strategy
Atlanta CISO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CISOs, For CISOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Derek Benz
The Coca-Cola Company
Chief Information Security Officer

Tim Callahan
Aflac
SVP, Global CISO

John Dickson
Colonial Pipeline
VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Meredith Harper
Synchrony Financial
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

Bob Varnadoe
NCR
Global CISO

Stacy Hughes
ABM
CISO
Agenda
March 14, 2024
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Security That IT Loves
Hosted by Akamai

Sean Flynn
Director, Security Technology and Strategy
Akamai Technologies

Tamika Bass
Cybersecurity Director
Gannett Fleming

Patricia Bouisset
Head of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
Paramount

Nicole Dove
Head of Security, Games
Riot Games

Caroline Saxon
ISSO/Director, Information Security Compliance
CoreCivic

Trey Tunnell
CISO
Floor & Decor
The mission for today’s CISO - build security that IT (and the business) loves. Traditionally, important strategies like Zero Trust have been seen by IT as a roadblock to success - leading to additional implementation projects, new solutions to learn, and false positives that slow innovation.
Instead, security leaders can cultivate strategies that adapt to future business challenges in ways that empower IT organizations to do their best work and allow them to adopt business-accelerating technologies with confidence. First, explore new SOC strategies to increase efficiencies, decrease risk exposure, and drive the business forward. Second, discover how the effort to make IT’s job easier encourages healthy working relationships across the C-suite to collaborate productively without stepping on each other’s toes, while also maximizing influence across the organization from a security standpoint.
A SOC is Not a Silo
- Many organizations struggle with legacy silo issues between IT and the SOC - how have you overcome these challenges? How do you build close working relationships between the SOC and lines of business?
- How do you ensure that your SOC strategy aligns with the business strategy? What is your SOC doing for you today and how will you use it to move the organization forward in the future?
- What metrics do you use to evaluate the successes and failures of your SOC?
Relationships as a Proactive Security Strategy
- How are you expanding your influence and partnerships with other c-level executives to show the value of security in accelerating business outcomes?
- How do you clarify responsibilities for security incident detection and response distributed across the enterprise and across different functions and infrastructure?
- How have you overcome challenges when IT/security priorities conflict? How do you ensure the same conflicts will not arise again in the future?
6:45pm - 7:15pm Networking Break
7:15pm - 8:30pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:30pm - 9:30pm Social Hour
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Atlanta CISO Community Inner Circle.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue
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Valet parking is complimentary for guests.
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