Chicago CISO Executive Summit

Let's get this summit started right! Join the Chicago CISO Governing Body at Flight Club Chicago, home of "social darts". Half video game challenge and half pub classic, it's the perfect backdrop for a night of dinner, drinks and networking. 

For most organizations, the number of connected, essential devices is growing by the second. In response, the CISO's jurisdiction is changing just as rapidly. Now, in the case of any security issue, the rest of the C-suite may be looking to you for answers. 

Join this session and start understanding: 

• Your new or growing operational technology responsibilities 
• What you can do to smoothly plot and control your OT workload 
• How you can best juggle IT and OT security simultaneously

Don’t make the mistake of separating cyber risk from business risk. Cyber risk is often viewed as something for IT departments to worry about, while business risk is a shared concern. Of course, any company that has suffered a serious breach knows cyberattacks can be as devastating as lawsuits, legislative non-compliance, and fraud. This session offers board members, executives, and technology leaders ideas for cultivating a strong security mindset throughout their organization.

Join this session to learn:

• How to include everyone in conversations on cybersecurity by framing issues in terms of business risk
• Ways to protect your organization from the ground up by integrating security into the CI/CD pipeline and using automation
• How to identify, understand, and prepare for encountering social engineering and AI-enabled attacks

Despite a dynamic threat landscape and constantly changing malicious TTPs, CISOs must prepare their organizations to thrive in growing complexity. From widely distributed infrastructures to high volumes of tools with different levels of control and responsibility, it can be difficult to maintain true visibility across environments. How can shifting from reactive to proactive threat management be incorporated into your security strategy to help achieve this?

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying blind spots due to information fragmentation
• Understanding your full attack surface and the challenges of lowering risks
• Reducing the noise and stress being fed into threat management systems and pressure on teams

In today’s threat landscape, security teams are frequently forced into reactive positions, lowering security program efficacy and sustainability. Strong foundational security program components, including vulnerability and asset management processes, are essential to building resilience in a persistently elevated threat climate.

Join this interactive boardroom to discuss:

• Defining what your emergency procedures and “playbooks” look like.
• How you prioritize CVEs, VPNs and firewalls
• Combatting the challenge of zero-day exploitation

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

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One of the most widely deployed applications in the Enterprise has also become one of the most strategic – yet it was an application that was never built or designed for the Enterprise? The browser has changed the way we work in the modern era, however it is unapologetically based on consumer needs and preferences.  What if the browser was designed for the enterprise? What could that do for security, productivity and work itself? Join us to see how this technology is transforming the way companies do business.   

In this session, we will share details on:

• Innovative features and possibilities for critical application protection
• Creating an employee experience centered on productivity and flexibility
• Reimagining how IT leaders can enable users while creating unique business value

With the majority of cyber security professionals conditioned to believe cyber risk quantification is unrealistic, very few have possessed what data science can achieve.

Join this session to:

• Expose the false assumptions surrounding quantification
• Discuss ways of accelerating your risk quantification process
• Begin arming your executive team with risk decision power

As we continue to evolve our corporate defenses, even the best crisis response plans struggle to account for the human element. The performance of your technology might be a known quantity, but what about your human capabilities? This session will test organization-wide decision-making skills using a realistic cyber crisis.

Join this session to:

• Understand the business impact of technical choices, stakeholder management actions, and more
• See real-time data on the effects of decisions on crisis management and response
• Strengthen your organization's resilience at both the executive and technical levels

Many cybersecurity incidents result from well-known vulnerabilities that went unpatched. Delays in remediation can lead to a cascade effect of higher security risks, breaches and attacks. What strategies and tools are CISOs using to identify, prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities across every computing device?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Significantly compressing the time between discovery and remediation
• Better leveraging threat intel to more aggressively reduce vectors of attack
• Efficiently managing the ever-expanding number and types of devices needing protection

As we move into a cloud native, devops-driven world where agility is key, some of the best security teams are finding it’s time to shed the reputation of being “The Department of No” to break down barriers and embrace change.

Join this boardroom to learn:

• How to implement practical approaches for reducing friction and increasing collaboration
• What areas you can implore the power of “yes” without worry of exposure
• How to keep your commitment to governance, risk, and compliance

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Chanelle Lawrence | chanelle.lawrence@evanta.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.

There's no denying the power and popularity of ChatGPT. For good or for evil, its uses seem endless. Predicting exactly how this advanced AI will impact the future of cyber security might seem impossible but, through collaboration with your C-level peers, you might be able to prepare.

Join this interactive session to:

• Share your thoughts on the future of AI
• Gauge the impact this tech advancement is having across industries
• Plan and prepare for the (previously) unexpected

APIs fuel digital transformation and are core to every SaaS, web and mobile application. As API use attacks are becoming more frequent and complex, how can CISOs ensure protection for sensitive data, applications, and customers?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• How to gain visibility to understand exposure and risk
• Ways to answer the “so what” for API security, including OWASP API Top 10 impacts
• How security and development teams can find balance

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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Chanelle Lawrence | chanelle.lawrence@evanta.com

As a CISO, you think in terms of risk and mitigation. Senior management and the board often do not. Digital transformation presents an opportunity to reframe the importance of security and the role of the modern CISO. You have the ability to impact the speed and costs at which applications are developed, whether they meet regulatory requirements like DORA, and whether or not your organization’s sales teams can convey the quality of your apps in customer engagements.

Join this executive boardroom to discuss and learn more about:

• The role application security plays in understanding and managing risk
• How to balance operational efficiency and risk management while keeping costs in check
• How to promote a security-focused mindset to senior management and 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 CISOs).

To reserve your seat, please contact: 

Chanelle Lawrence | chanelle.lawrence@evanta.com

When it comes to success, people tend to offer silver bullets or single keys. However, long-term success is achieved through multiple conversations and continued relationships – not least of which are those involving your BISO.

Join this closing keynote to hear how BISOs are working to: 

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