
Detroit CISO Community
Inner Circle
March 22, 2023 | Waterview Loft
March 22, 2023
Waterview Loft
Collaborate with your peers
Join Detroit'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:
Strategies for Establishing Cyber Judgment
Effective Communication and Balance of Risk, Value and Cost
Nurturing a Cyber Risk-Aware Culture
Detroit 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

Brent Cieszynski
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Earl Duby
Lear Corporation
VP & CISO

Richard Hook
Penske
EVP & CIO

Fred Killeen
General Motors
VP of Global Information Technology & CIO

Raman Mehta
Johnson Electric
SVP & CIO

Jeff Small
Great Lakes Water Authority
CIO

Sangy Vatsa
FIS Global
EVP, Chief Technology and Digital Officer

Erik Wille
American Axle & Manufacturing
CISO
Agenda
March 22, 2023
4:30pm - 5:30pm Executive Networking Reception
5:30pm - 6:45pm Discussion Topics
Enabling Digital Cyber-Risk Management

John Engates
Field CTO
Cloudflare

Steven Herrin
Director, Cybersecurity/CISO
DTE

Scott Sadlocha
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer
United Wholesale Mortgage

Jeremy Hyland
Director of Cyber Defense
Dow

Bob Bacigal
AVP, Information Security
Amerisure Insurance

Juman Doleh-Alomary
Director of Cybersecurity
Little Caesars

Homyar Naterwala
Business Information Security Officer
GE Aviation
A growing number of companies are willing to increase their risk appetites to get ahead in the wake of unpredictable environments and innovative technologies’ potential to provide competitive advantages. CISOs must evolve more thoughtful risk-based vendor relationships, add requests for evidence of security controls, shift to resilience-based thinking, and work to get ahead of coming regulations.
CISOs should identify and proactively manage future risks by notifying decision-makers about new security strategies, norms, and technologies. It is imperative that relationships continue to evolve with senior leadership outside IT and security to ensure effective communication of organizational risk. Lastly, tracking and addressing skills gaps with creative talent management practices will help cybersecurity leaders stay ahead of the curve.
Strategies for Establishing Cyber Judgment
- How are you equipping decision-makers throughout the organization to independently make informed risk decisions rather than relying on automation?
- Many CISOs have turned toward the organization of cyber fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. What strategies to embed security within the organization have you tried? How are you changing mindsets and workflows?
- What methods have you found effective when communicating the balance of risk, value and cost?
Nurturing a Cyber Risk-Aware Culture
- Have you built a formal security behavior and culture program that targets end-users, executive leadership, and the board? How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing?
- What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? Are they more business focused or technology/security focused?
- How are you involving business leaders around cyber decision making to ensure joint responsibility?
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 Detroit 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
Waterview LoftMore Information
Parking
Paid parking garage across from the venue. Please click here to view.
Community Program Manager
For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.