The future of the CISO role is relationship focused and business aligned. Historically, the role has been setup as either a dead end or a scapegoat. However, with growing awareness of the concerns around security and privacy as well as the skills gap within the industry, the role will need to evolve. Providing your organization with strategic advantage that is business aligned is of critical importance. The most successful CISOs will have identified and mastered a relationship focused mindset as vital to their ability to be an effective leader in the information security space. While it is possible to maintain the status quo and survive, be encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity to develop in the current environment and solidify your position as a trusted advisor who fully understands the business they are charged with protecting and promoting.

World is on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. It is quite different than the prior three Industrial Revolutions —steam & water power, assembly lines, and computerization, as it will challenge the enterprises on not only their business operations but also on how efficiently they adapt to the evolving human behaviors. This revolution is expected to impact all industries, disciplines, economies and ultimately societies. In this new era of revolution, only those enterprises or people will survive and thrive who will adapt to Industry 4.0 by correctly adopting the Digital Transformation strategies and the technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, IOT, Cloud, Digital Twin, Augmented Reality, etc.

Aflac’s threat intelligence program provides decisive operational insight into what threat actors are doing right now and how threats are trending over time. By combining deep visibility into threat actor techniques with automation supported by millions of data points that are integrated into an adaptive security framework, Aflac’s systems and environments are significantly more resilient to attacks. Learn how a clear understanding of your adversaries’ motivations, methods and capabilities, enable you to make effective decisions regarding how you prioritize your efforts and investments to protect your organization.

Visibility to lateral movement and the ability to neutralize the attacker without them knowing. Reduction of mean time to detection with quantifiable results, often for hours or days to minutes, so there is less time in the network to cause damages. Prevention of privilege escalation and lateral movement for visibility of attackers in the network, reduction of the attack surface, and prevention of attackers from succeeding

Cloud strategy and integration within the organization. Remote workers and how to collaborate and accelerate business objectives.

Please join the Vice President, Data Science & Engineering, Deepna Devkar in this Executive Interview where she will discuss the importance of leveraging data and AI in a time of digital transformation.

Now that we have all been working from home for a few months, how has your security program held up? Are you still using the same metrics? Have you shifted anything? If your program was built on a framework and started with the basics, remote workers should not change much. Join me as we discuss the key points of a successful security program and how to gain buy-in and budget even during an economic downturn.

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If we’ve learned anything in the past year, it’s that the term “insider threat” brings on new meaning when employees go remote. And even though the vast majority of these threats are unintentional, and a result of lack of due diligence versus malice, they are threats none the less and must be addressed. How do we address, educate and plan to expect the unexpected in our employees’ home workplace environments? In this session I’ll answer this fundamental question, specifically addressing:• Considerations for all connected at home devices, from desktop printers to listening devices like Alexa and how to protect against related threats.• Educating employees on the differences between at home and corporate networks and what they need to do, on a regular basis, to ensure connections are secure. • Tips for ensuring employees are accountable and following security protocols. I’ll also share tips from rolling out remote work for Ricoh USA, Inc. employees along with considerations for managing hybrid and agile workplaces where some employees remain remote and others are in the office.

Problem solving should be a core competency for Information Technology teams but it seems only a handful of star players are blessed with the ability to just "get it" while many other can't see through the fog. Whether troubleshooting service desk calls, resolving design gaps or finding answers to strategic questions, solving problems is what IT does. I believe everyone can become a problem solver and the more problem solvers on your team, the fewer problems you have, this presentation will introduce tools and methods to improve problem solving.

Innovation is all about creating measurable, quantifiable, and demonstrable value to both your customer and business. It is your ability to build the right product, for the right market, build it right with the right tools, processes and resources, and build it fast so you do not miss the market window. This presentation will introduce the innovation ecosystem and provide valuable lessons from practice to help you establish an effective culture of innovation to reward the right behavior with a maniacal focus on the customer.

Security program improvement should be tied to security risk which changes frequently. This session will cover the reasons security risk is fluid and the benefits to approaching security program improvement through small incrementation changes (I.e. Kaizen). This proposed approach turns compliance driven change and traditional approach of program maturity on its side.

Data is exploding and it is necessary for every organization to make sense and monetize this data in a timely fashion. Cloud makes it possible to try out and iterate quickly with many different solutions and allows access to highly scalable compute and storage demand.. This presentation will highlight the main advantages of the cloud in the Data and Analytics space.

Given that change is constant (and even disruptive) it is mission critical for organizations to embrace and drive digitalization to stay ahead of the curve and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This session will provide an example eco-system of how this can be orchestrated at an enterprise level with a particular focus on data in tandem with process, people and technology.

While operations, deployment, and quality are key focus areas of DevOps, continuous improvement of application performance and reliability once deployment is done can fall into a lower priority. That’s where a Site Reliability Engineering team can provide a critical set of eyes and hands to focus on improvement after deployment. Ensuring the right strategy for how DevOps and SRE work together and build off of each other’s core strengths and focuses.

A review of O365 security from a CISO user's perspective - 6 months in.

The webinar is about NCOA’s two-year digital transformation journey that started in 2018 and that focused on our knowing our customers as individuals with individuals with their individual needs and on delivering the right digital products at the right time in their lives and through the right channel. The webinar describes our journey of building an omnichannel platform and how we decomposed our digital products from monolithic into more of business objects and API based. In addition, the presentation describes the phases of the digital transformation that started with migration to the AWS cloud and some lessons learned.

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The workplace as we know it will never be the same again. As we look to a future where a return to the office will be the exception rather than the norm, how can IT professionals best prepare to manage the new hybrid work environment? In this session, Maarten Van Horenbeeck will explore how Zendesk has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss stages the company went through to identify an (ever-changing) path forward.

In today’s world, most security professionals will say it is not a matter of if it is a matter of when a breach happens. In this presentation we will discuss how the City of West Palm Beach is building an organization-wide information security program that centers on a strong technical platform, a robust administrative tier and a solid compliance infrastructure. Discussion points will include reducing liability, leveraging audits, engaging the organization and building a culture of security awareness. Additionally, we will highlight some of the compliance tools used to ensure long term results.

Data mining to determine profitability of our customer engagements in a highly dynamic environment.