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.

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.

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.

Today’s businesses must contend with challenges raging from cybercrimes to COVID-19. As a result, organizational resilience is top of mind for many business leaders. Russ Felker, GlobalTranz’s CEO shares proactive steps leaders can take to develop a plan for building and maintaining organizational resiliency in his webinar Supporting Organizational Resiliency. Russ leverages his 25+ years in technology leadership roles to provide organizations an overview of the importance of interconnected technology tools to build a resilient and robust organization as well as steps organizations can take to prepare, protect, respond, and recover from challenges and disruptions.

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.

The session describes a simple method of estimating a development team’s security maturity, i.e. how well they make a secure software product, by looking at 5 key factors. The factors and a simple rating system will be shown coupled with real world samples. Applicable usage scenarios as well as comparison to other security maturity models will be given.

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.

There are similarities between the traditional managed service provider (MSP) we all know and love and the cloud MSP. However, there are differences, and they can be impactful. One effective method to demonstrate differences is to share some common themes and behaviors highlighting where the cloud brings a twist. Taking advantage of clouds elasticity, knowing your cloud configuration is optimal, and keeping an eye on spend are just a few of the themes covered in this webinar.

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.