Business leaders know all too well that companies can suffer significant losses from cyber attacks. However, many CIOs are still finding themselves in the position of educating their senior leadership team as to the necessity of putting security at the forefront of every business decision. Security is not just an IT issue, it must be a central component of every organizational initiative, on every level.  The IT leaders' typical ammunition seems to consist of technical explanations, that senior management doesn't quite understand and some frightening scenarios they don't completely believe. They key to success is presenting arguments that business (executive, financial and operational) leaders will find convincing. This talk will outline ways IT leaders can address this gap, and present cyber security needs in terms of quantitative financial risk.

Scott Borg

Director and Chief Economist
U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit

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Scott Borg

Scott Borg

Director and Chief Economist, U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit

Scott Borg is the Director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, an independent, nonprofit research institute that investigates the strategic and economic consequences of cyberattacks. Widely recognized as the leading authority on the economics of cybersecurity, Borg is responsible for many of the concepts currently used to analyze the implications of cyberattacks in business contexts. His record for anticipating new cybersecurity developments since 2002 is probably unequaled. His technical contributions have included work on the techniques for hiding and finding malware. He comments for NBC, CNN, the BBC, NPR and other broadcast media, served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other leading universities.

FireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways. The FireEye Threat Prevention Platform provides real-time, dynamic threat protection without the use of signatures to protect an organization across the primary threat vectors and across the different stages of an attack life cycle. The core of the FireEye platform is a virtual execution engine, complemented by dynamic threat intelligence, to identify and block cyber attacks in real time. FireEye has over 5,000 customers across 67 countries, including more than 940 of the Forbes Global 2000.

Chris Melde

Senior Security Engineer
FireEye

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Chris Melde

Chris Melde

Senior Security Engineer, FireEye

Chris Melde joined FireEye as a Senior Security Engineer in 2016.  He is a graduate of Kennesaw State.

Hear a frank discussion about the core of security architecture often lost in a CIO’s strategy--humans. During this session, David Carter of Encore Technology Group will demonstrate the need for a comprehensive understanding of the people side of a security architecture. Carter will also show how a simplified architecture can survive all the technologies IT and line of business throw at it. He will also share how Encore’s broad customer base budgets for the human side of security architecture and justifies those costs to the executive suite. The key to developing this architecture is for CIOs to keep user productivity front and center.

David Carter

Director - Technical Solutions
Encore Technology Group

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David Carter

David Carter

Director - Technical Solutions, Encore Technology Group

David Carter has been working in the IT Industry for more than 20 years holding positions from designing software, to constructing data centers, building teams and managing digital transformations. He’s worked within Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, R&D, manufacturing and in the government and education sectors. In his current role, Carter is responsible for the success of Encore’s Enboard security and identity platform.

Everything worth doing involves some degree of risk, and this is especially true when it comes to commerce. Fortinet, utilizing its position as the world leader in installed security devices, has analyzed real-world threat data from around the globe, and the resulting Threat Landscape Report advises customers on the latest threats and risks. Attendees will be guided through these threats, and come away with practical approaches to addressing them.

Sponsored by:

Joe Sykora

VP Channel Sales, North America
Fortinet

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Joe Sykora

Joe Sykora

VP Channel Sales, North America, Fortinet

Joe Sykora is the Vice President of Americas Channels and Enhanced Technologies for Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT), and is responsible for overseeing a channel organization of over 7,400 Americas partners as well as Fortinet's channel sales strategy. Joe and his team work closely with Fortinet’s partners and their mid-enterprise customers to protect themselves from the ever-evolving threat landscape. Joe has over 30 years in IT security, in both the manufacturing sector and as a solution provider, helping customers focus on business priorities while keeping their networks secure.

Learn more about Bitdefender in this engaging interview.

Sponsored by:

Deepak Kolingivadi

Group Product Manager
Bitdefender

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Deepak Kolingivadi

Deepak Kolingivadi

Group Product Manager, Bitdefender

Deepak Kolingivadi is the Group Product Manager for the Advanced Threat Defense portfolio of products at Bitdefender’s Enterprise Solutions Group. He is responsible for formulating the strategy and roadmap for Bitdefender’s enterprise endpoint security solutions. Kolingivadi has spent the last 15 years in the field of Cybersecurity. He has extensive experience in strategic development, roadmap creation, and the management of relationships with strategic partners, CxOs, and teams of developers.

A couple years ago the emphasis for most organizations was on simply starting security efforts to just do something. Nowadays, with attacks unabating, organizations need to not only do something, but must make specific measured progress through the development and operation of a healthy security program.

This interactive session will provide actionable techniques to implement exactly this type of system. One that can measure current state, establish what future state should look like with the plan to get there, and then to execute.  This session is designed for any midmarket organization, with the goal of providing actionable ideas and techniques that participants can bring from the session.

Mike Gentile

Author
CISO Handbook

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Mike Gentile

Mike Gentile

Author, CISO Handbook

Mike Gentile has been building information security programs for more than 20 Years. He has built, in a full-time or consulting role more than 100+ information security programs across every industry in both private and public environments. His first book, the CISO Handbook, was one of the first published works to provide a step-by-step methodical approach to building a security program. This methodology is used as courseware in many advanced teaching organizations on security leadership and has been implemented in thousands of organizations around the world.

 @mikegentile03