Minneapolis CISO Community
Executive Summit

Integrating business strategy with security is crucial for leveraging opportunities and driving success. By focusing on micro pivots inspired by digital product management, CISOs can mobilize their organizations, scale opportunities, and enhance security mechanisms without massive changes. 

Join Erin Neus-Cheong, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner to:

• Identify ways to leverage digital business building blocks to enhance security and operational effectiveness.
• Learn how to foster a culture of co-leadership that empowers both security and business teams to achieve shared goals.
• Discover techniques to foster shared accountability for security and risk management in an environment of democratized digital delivery, agility and disruptive innovation.

In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, CISOs benefit immensely from sharing savvy strategies that enhance their organization's security posture. By learning from each other's experiences, exchanging insights and successes, CISOs can implement effective program enhancements with minimal time investment and enriches the collective expertise of the community.

Join you peers as they:

• Introduce practical tools and techniques that can be implemented to enhance cybersecurity, and discuss their effectiveness in different organizational settings.
• Identify common challenges faced by CISOs, such as limited resources and evolving threats, and collaborate on strategies to overcome these obstacles.
• Share experiences and successes, promoting knowledge exchange and continuous improvement in cybersecurity practices.

While incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery are unquestionably linked, each is a separate initiative with its own distinct objectives. While it makes sense for CISOs to own IR, business continuity is increasingly also finding its way onto CISOs' already overloaded plates -- but is that where it should be? Since so much of BCP is tied to the service impacts on the organization such as financial, reputation, etc. as CISO do you feel you have sufficient qualifications/expertise to address?

Join your peers for a thought-provoking discussion about:

• Where business continuity should optimally sit in the organization
• What CISOs with BCP under their purview are doing to manage it
• How CISOs are navigating BCP challenges whether they're responsible for it or not

As enterprises rapidly accelerate their digital initiatives, CISOs are tasked with striking a delicate balance between implementing the right structures and strategies to safeguard organizational assets and delivering services and applications faster than ever before. How are CISOs updating their operating models and team structures to keep pace with the changing nature of business priorities and the changing technology landscape?

Join this conversation to hear how your peers are:

• Evolving security operating models to deliver better speed, agility and security while optimizing cost savings  
• Assessing how their business units may evolve in line with new technological innovations
• Positioning their team as security advocates and demonstrating business value

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Security continues to find its way into the boardroom and even into headlines.  CISOs are feeling the heat to foster and explain strategic value, opportunities, and implications of key priorities and new innovations. In this workshop, you'll have the chance to pick topics that most interest you and have a dynamic dialogue about them with your peers.

Join this session to discuss and debate with your peers:

• Hot topics surfacing across industries
• Business impacts of emerging trends
• Key strategies for communicating new trends to non-technical stakeholders

As global tensions rise, coordinated cyber-attacks are impacting organizations globally. Cyber-conflict isn’t just a security problem, it’s a business problem that requires a strategic partnership between CISOs and leaders across the enterprise.

Join this peer-led conversation to discuss:

• Gauging the business’ appetite for risk amidst geopolitical unrest
• Engaging leadership to make informed cybersecurity risk decisions
• Identifying and responding to politically charged TTPs

As the significance of cybersecurity in the corporate world expands and transforms, leaders in cybersecurity need to establish a transparent connection between cybersecurity plans and the company's results and priorities.

Participate in this executive meeting to explore:

• Integrating cybersecurity strategy with corporate aims and targets
• Framing security as a contributor to value rather than an expense
• Cultivating a business-focused mindset within the security department

Mayo Clinic CISO Andrew Coyne had a clear vision in mind when he embarked on launching a state-of-the-art cyber program: redefine cybersecurity standards in healthcare. Within a dynamic timeframe, he is focusing on modernizing cyber defenses, assembling a team of top-tier talent, and making strategic decisions to support expansive infrastructure initiatives.

Join this session to learn about Coyne's journey to ensuring robust cybersecurity alongside hospital expansions and automation advancements, including:

• Propelling the organization to new heights and being a catalyst for change in cybersecurity
•  Addressing and working within the challenges of organizational change management
• Building a strong network of both

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.