Boston CISO Community
Executive Summit

Integrating a complex ecosystem across all security areas can optimize defenses without simplifying adversaries’ challenges. This approach balances robust security with efficiency, crucial for navigating generative AI and tech advancements. Achieving this requires strategic selection and consolidation of platforms to enhance agility, reduce risk, and maintain cost-effectiveness.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The composition of an effective security architecture
• Value you can derive from a converged networking and security platform
• Common consolidation mistakes people make and how to avoid them

When it comes to success, people tend to offer silver bullets or single keys. However, true long-term success is achieved through multiple conversations and continued strategic relationships across the business – which is exactly where the BISO role can add tremendous value to a CISO's team.

Join this session to hear how CISOs are leveraging teams of BISOs to:

• Improve collaboration between business units and the security team
• More effectively identify and mitigate risks
• Ensure its security posture is aligned with the rest of the business

AI risk is quietly creeping into every corner of your enterprise, and you don’t even realize it. As more employees adopt AI-powered tools, applications, and processes, it is becoming deeply embedded in your tech stack — but it’s not just your employees using AI. Attackers are also leveraging AI to enhance their own tactics and sharpen their attacks. The real question for CISOs is: Do you have visibility into the countless ways AI is spreading, and what’s the best way to use AI to protect against AI?

Join this session to discuss:

• The hidden ways AI is entering your enterprise, from third-party tools to shadow AI projects and why it’s slipping under the radar
• How attackers are using AI to improve their attacks and making them harder to detect by both legacy security tools and humans themselves
• Actionable steps for CISOs to gain visibility and control over AI use across the organization

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

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.

Why learn from one peer when you can learn from three? In this unorthodox, but effective, breakout session you’ll hear from multiple members of your community — each taking the floor for 10 minutes to share what they’ve gleaned from their time in leadership.

AI makes creating and consuming data easier than ever, with shadow AI and dark data presenting new challenges to security teams. As the tactics for protecting data evolve, security leaders must adopt a risk-based strategy to protect mission-critical data and safeguard innovation.

Join this session to discover:

• Effective practices for ongoing monitoring to identify risks
• Rapid investigation and response techniques for insider threats
• Strategies for evolving your data protection approach

In an era where cybersecurity incidents often dominate headlines, managing stakeholder risk expectations has become more critical than ever. CISOs must ensure key stakeholders remain informed and confident in the organization’s risk posture.

Join this session to discuss:

• Telling the story of cybersecurity’s impact on people, processes, and technology
• Navigating the complexities of risk management in a highly interconnected digital world
• Articulating the business impact of assumed risk

In today's digital landscape where there are so many tooling options available and the influx of AI in every conversation, it is easy to forget the fundamental basics of your cybersecurity. For CISOs, mastering and enabling these principles as the foundation of your program is not just is a core maturity skill it is transformative as you approach critical areas such as AI, Data Management and IAM. Focusing on these elements can help create a resilient security framework that adapts to emerging threats.

Join the session to discuss:

• How to instill foundational/basic security practices into your cybersecurity program
• How to translate these concepts to the board and your executive team leadership
• How this approach can enable transformation and prepare the organization for adopting new technologies such as artificial intelligence, zero trust

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