Phoenix CISO Community
Executive Summit

Achieving optimal health and wellness requires more than drinking enough water and taking a certain number of steps each day. As a leader, your emotional and mental well-being is vital for success. Join guest speaker Dr. Sheri Riley, as she discusses the importance of personal development in achieving professional growth.

During this keynote, you'll discover powerful strategies to:

• Boost your productivity by sharpening your focus
• Overcome obstacles that are impeding your progress
• Fine-tune your vision for the future, so you can achieve even greater success

We live in a world where everything is hybrid and the blend between personal, corporate, private and public is ever-changing and presents us with a host of new challenges. This has increased and complicated the attack surface and the pressure to converge tools and do “more with less” is at peak levels. We must meet this watershed moment with the right team, plans, and technology.

Join this interactive session to learn:

• How to build an effective plan for change without adding to the chaos
• What consolidation approaches save money without sacrificing security
• Use cases that deliver immediate value and efficiency while improving user experience

To lead resilient and innovative organizations, CIOs and CISOs must stay up to date with emerging technology. How are you communicating opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when news of new trends hit the headlines?

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• How new technology movements will impact key stakeholders
• Ways to bring your business partners through the innovation cycle
• Strategies for collaboration across the organization

Over 500 million new cloud native applications will be developed by 2025, enabling widespread adoption of cloud native application architectures. However, these microservice-based architectures also massively increase your attack surface and expose your applications to new vulnerabilities and threats. How do you protect your business from these growing risks?

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying organizational exposure to Cloud Application risks
• Pitfalls peers faced in their cloud adoption journey
• Educating your workforce on cloud security procedures

In today’s environment, it is even more challenging for security leaders to communicate and measure their cyber risk and program to their executive board. Being fully transparent about an organization’s weaknesses, strengths, and investments as it relates to cyber risk can be an uncomfortable conversation to have, but it is essential to the overall health of the business.

Join this session to learn: 

• Metrics that quantify challenges & risks
• How to create trust with dialogue delivery and engage leadership with non-security terms
• Using data to communicate and explain the risks and how to best leverage this data

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.

To lead resilient organizations, CIOs & CISOs must support transformation while communicating with various stakeholders across the c-suite. Rapid changes makes collaborating across departments even more essential to operating a successful business. 

Join this interactive session with CIOs & CISOs to debate and collaborate on influence with various scenarios including:

• Building emotional connections with key stakeholders through stories
• Overcoming resistance by seeking to understand and acknowledge
• Earning a seat at the table by recognizing politics within the c-suite

Managing cyber risk across an enterprise IT infrastructure has never been harder. Remote workers, advancing attack methods, and an ever-expanding vendor network are challenging every firm, as total visibility into threats has become nearly impossible. As digital business strategy matures, more organizations are becoming dependent on the cyber posture and protection of third parties. Third-party risks present a unique challenge because you are depending on vendors and partners to operate securely to keep your data and information safe. How are you mitigating the associated risks and demonstrating this to the business to ensure effective security programs?

Join our session to hear about:

• Common failings across TPRM programs that led to breach events
• How executives can provide strategic direction for third-party risk teams
• Key practices being implemented by leading vendor risk firms to maintain strong supply chain risk management