Name: What are the Top CISO Priorities for 2025?
Start: 2025-06-03T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-06-03T15:00:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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This channel features presentations by leading experts in the field of information security. From application, computer, network and Internet security to access control management, data privacy and other hot topics, you will walk away with practical advice for your strategic and tactical information security initiatives.

Organizations excel at documenting incidents but fail catastrophically at remembering them. Between audits, hard-won lessons evaporate, cultural knowledge resets to zero and enterprises find themselves vulnerable to the same predictable risks that should have been eliminated months ago.

This session reframes security culture as a living control system where organizational memory becomes your strongest defense. Discover how to transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops, quantify learning as risk reduction and embed institutional knowledge into governance frameworks that create compounding resilience rather than cyclical vulnerability.

Join Oksana Denesiuk, Senior Product Manager at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, to explore proven methodologies for building unbreakable organizational memory.

Key Takeaways: 
- Track how lessons learned translate into behavioral change and improved security posture. 
- Build lasting organizational memory through structured post-incident processes that strengthen defenses over time.
- Measure how well your organization learns from incidents and translate that into reduced security risks.
- Transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence. 
- Embed organizational knowledge into leadership and accountability models for sustained cultural transformation.

Transform Security Culture into Measurable Organizational Memory

Since technology cannot keep us completely protected, organizations must embrace a culture of cybersecurity to build true resilience. This cultural transformation is essential to safeguard against risks and ensure readiness to respond effectively when incidents occur.

This session explores how leading organizations are embedding cybersecurity into their values, attitudes, and practices. By fostering a culture of resilience, businesses can strengthen their ability to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from cyber threats. Learn why every manager has a pivotal role in shaping this culture and how to implement strategies that drive lasting change.

Join Dr. Keri Pearlson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, to explore actionable steps for building a culture of cybersecurity that protects your organization and empowers your workforce.

Takeaways:
- Understand cyber resilience thinking and how it differs from traditional protection strategies.
- Discover key mechanisms for fostering an effective cybersecurity culture.
- Gain actionable insights for managers to enhance resilience at work and home.
- Learn from real-world examples of organizations successfully embedding cybersecurity into their culture.

Building Cyber Resilience Through Culture in 2026

Mergers and acquisitions create exponential cyber risk exposure, yet many organizations lack quantified risk frameworks to guide critical business decisions. As cyber threats evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, executives need concrete data to balance growth opportunities against security investments.

Traditional risk assessments fail during rapid organizational change. This session reveals proven methodologies for translating cyber vulnerabilities into financial impact metrics that drive boardroom decisions. Learn to build communication frameworks that align security investments with business objectives while maintaining stakeholder confidence throughout complex organizational transitions.

Join Vincent Amanyi, Founder of Boleaum Inc, to explore actionable strategies for enterprise cyber risk quantification and communication.

Key Takeaways: 
- Develop risk appetite frameworks that identify, prioritize, and absorb organizational risks with minimal business disruption. 
- Master cyber risk quantification techniques that assign tangible dollar values to security threats across all business levels.
- Build structured communication models to effectively convey cyber risk criticality to diverse stakeholder groups. 
- Implement scalable cybersecurity benchmarking practices for growing organizations. 
- Create boardroom-ready risk reports that support strategic decision-making during M&A activities.

Quantify Cyber Risk Impact for Strategic M&A Growth

Breaches have become a daily reality. Dark web activities and emerging threat vectors outpace traditional defenses, creating blind spots that adversaries readily exploit. Without early warning systems, businesses remain vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that could have been prevented.

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) transforms raw intelligence into actionable insights that enable proactive defense strategies. This session demonstrates how to operationalize intelligence, map adversary tactics to business risks, and implement early warning systems that prevent breaches before they occur. Learn to distinguish signal from noise and convert threat intelligence into measurable risk reduction metrics that resonate with executive leadership.

Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence for Proactive Risk Mitigation

Open-source software drives enterprise innovation, but unmanaged vulnerabilities create operational risks and regulatory exposure. As cyber threats evolve and compliance frameworks tighten, executives face mounting pressure to balance innovation speed with robust security governance.

Traditional approaches to OSS security often create friction between development teams and security requirements, leading to shadow IT practices and increased exposure. This session presents proven frameworks for integrating security into OSS workflows while maintaining developer productivity and meeting emerging regulatory demands like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Join Yesenia Yser, Security Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, to explore enterprise-grade strategies for OSS risk management.



Key Takeaways: 

Implement governance frameworks that protect OSS dependencies without slowing development
Create shared accountability between security, procurement, and engineering teams
Apply SLSA, SBOM, and OpenSSF standards to build enterprise-wide security trust
Balance regulatory requirements with collaborative open source community practices 
Turn OSS security management into a strategic business differentiator

Securing Open-Source Dependencies at Enterprise Scale

The current data security and privacy protection landscape is awash with tools, acronyms, buzzwords that promise to make data breaches and privacy incidents a thing of the past. Yet hotel chains, healthcare providers, banks, department stores and even governments constantly fall victim to data breaches, ransomware or nation-state attacks. 

The plain truth is that tools are only as good as the people that use them and the processes that go with it. Two thousand years ago, the Roman empire had better military tools than the nations they conquered. Yet through time, the Romans fell to the barbarians and are merely remembered through their ruins. Likewise, companies with the latest and most buzzworthy technology implemented still manage to fall victim to attacks. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will tap into over 15 years’ experience of data security and privacy protection to show why ultimately, the people behind the tools and the processes they use matter more in securing your organization’s data. 

Key Takeaways:
 - How to best deploy tools in the most cost-effective way to optimize benefits.
 - How to best deploy tools to mitigate data security risks from internal and external threats. 
 - The importance of a balanced and holistic approach to data security that equally considers people, processes and technology.

Tools are Nothing: Why People and Process Matter More in Data Security and Privacy

Data security has entered a new era, one defined by AI-powered threats, expanding cloud ecosystems, and evolving global privacy regulations. 

This session presented by TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores the critical shifts reshaping how organisations must protect sensitive information in a boundaryless digital world. We will break down the top risks, the essential capabilities of modern security architectures, and the must-have tools for protecting data across endpoints, cloud platforms, and AI workflows. From zero trust to automated posture management and advanced data discovery, you’ll learn what’s required to stay ahead of adversaries and maintain compliance. Whether you’re modernising your security program or building one from the ground up, this talk equips you with the insights needed to create a future-ready data protection strategy for 2025 and beyond.

Future-Ready Data Protection: Securing Modern Data Ecosystems in an AI-Driven World

Cyberattacks are continuing at pace and we're regularly hearing of new data breaches. But who is responsible for ensuring the security of personal data? 

Traditional data protection approaches are failing against modern attack vectors. Organizations need future-ready strategies that go beyond compliance checkboxes to create resilient security frameworks. In this session, we'll explore the current risks to personal data & privacy and delve into the range of models that can be used to protect your organizations critical assets.

This webinar will take you through examples of recent data breaches, identifying the challenges being experienced, learning from what went wrong and how best organizations can plan for the future. Such planning will investigate current good practice, adding some “steroids” to them such that organizations can hopefully stay in front of the next “breach”!

Steve Yates – Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience about critical data assets security and protection of user privacy.  

Key Takeaways:

- Be aware of the challenges being experienced in the protection of data security & privacy;
- Understand how best to plan your data resources and capacity to meet tomorrow’s defense;
- Discover the core organizational elements needed for the establishment of a strategic, tactical and operational solution

Strengthen Data Security Strategy for Tomorrow's Resilience Defense

AWS infrastructure offers robust native security mechanisms, but the shared responsibility model places critical configuration burdens on app owners. This creates gaps that attackers can actively exploit through misconfigurations, privilege escalation, and cross-service vulnerabilities which can compromise entire cloud deployments.

Security automation emerges as an essential defense strategy for threat modeling, enabling businesses to enforce security best practices from deployment through ongoing operations. Automated security controls provide continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and optimized remediation across AWS services. This ensures a consistent security posture while reducing human error and response times.

Join Ernesto Marquez, Founder and Project Director at Concurrency Labs, to explore proven AWS security automation strategies for threat mitigation.

Key Takeaways: 

- Implement automated security controls that enforce best practices across AWS services 
- Deploy continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection for multicloud environments 
- Configure automated remediation workflows for common security vulnerabilities 
- Integrate AWS security automation tools into comprehensive threat modeling frameworks 
- Establish governance policies that maintain security consistency across cloud deployments

Deploy Automated AWS Defenses for Threat Prevention

As cloud supply chain attacks escalate in sophistication, traditional SBOMs alone prove insufficient for comprehensive security. While SBOMs provide valuable component inventories, they lack runtime verification capabilities—creating a critical blind spot that malicious actors increasingly exploit. This gap between static analysis and runtime behavior represents one of the most significant vulnerabilities in modern cloud environments.

The "Bill of Behavior" (BoB) approach addresses this challenge by providing vendor-supplied profiles of expected runtime behaviors. Generated using eBPF technology, BoBs codify legitimate syscalls, file access patterns and network communications. This enables immediate anomaly detection without custom rule creation, allowing organizations to verify software integrity throughout the supply chain and during execution, dramatically reducing the attack surface while simplifying security operations.

Join Dr. Constanze Roedig, Key Researcher at SBA-Research and Founder of Fusioncore.ai, to discover how this emerging standard complements existing SBOM frameworks to create verifiable trust in your cloud ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand how Software Bills of Behavior (SBoBs) create verifiable trust between vendors and clients
- Learn practical implementation strategies using existing OCI distribution standards
- Discover how BoBs significantly reduce attack surfaces across both runtime and supply chain vectors
- Explore immediate benefits of receiving vendor-supplied behavior profiles with software packages
- Discover how CNCF Kubescape allows anomaly detection out of the box

Beyond SBOMs: Runtime Verification for Bulletproof Cloud Supply Chains

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI technologies without fully understanding the security implications. This is creating unprecedented vulnerabilities in cloud environments. In turn, with AI accessible to all stakeholders, the human factor has become the weakest link in cybersecurity defense strategies.

This session addresses critical considerations for IT and cybersecurity leaders to balance business innovation with risk management. Learn how to establish ethical AI frameworks, implement proper access controls, and build awareness programs that protect your organization while enabling AI adoption.

Join Kathleen Mullin, vCISO and Consultant, to explore practical strategies for securing AI in cloud environments while maintaining business agility.

Key takeaways:

• Define clear RACI matrices for AI business risk ownership and accountability 
• Assess whether AI solutions truly meet business requirements vs. alternative approaches
• Establish data governance and access controls specifically for cloud-based AI systems 
• Develop comprehensive AI awareness programs for organizational stakeholders 
• Evaluate current and future cloud AI risks within your security framework

Considerations: Securing the Cloud And In Specific AI

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, sophisticated security technologies often create a false sense of protection while the most significant threats emerge from within. Human behaviour continues to be the weakest link in cloud security, not due to malicious intent, but through everyday mistakes that inadvertently expose critical systems.

When they create friction, security measures designed to protect can inadvertently increase risk as users will find shortcuts to achieve their legitimate objectives. This session explores the psychology behind user decision-making and reveals how threat actors exploit human nature to bypass cloud defenses, turning legitimate business processes into attack vectors.

Join Simon Ratcliffe, independent management & technology consultant, to discover practical strategies for human-centered cloud security.

Key Takeaways:

- Identify psychological triggers that make users vulnerable to cloud-based attacks 
- Recognize how security friction drives risky user behaviors and workarounds
- Design user-centric security that reduces human error without compromising protection 
- Develop indicators to detect insider threats before they escalate 
- Build security awareness programs that create lasting behavioral change

Securing the Human Element: Why People Remain Cloud Security's Top Vulnerability in 2025

Insider threats are one of the most challenging security risks in multicloud environments, where authorized users can exploit fragmented access controls and limited visibility across platforms. When organizations lack comprehensive oversight of user activities, data flows and privilege escalation paths, the risk posed by human error and malicious insiders is much greater.



Multicloud architectures amplify insider threat risks through inconsistent identity management, scattered audit trails, and complex permission structures that create blind spots for security teams. Strategic threat modeling designed around insider risks enables organizations to map user access patterns, identify privilege abuse scenarios, and implement behavioral monitoring across all cloud platforms before incidents occur.



Join Sandeep Tripathi, IT Solutions Designer at Daimler Truck AG, to discover systematic approaches for detecting and preventing insider threats in complex multicloud environments.



Key Takeaways: 

- Identify insider risk scenarios across cloud platforms using threat modelling frameworks
- Implement comprehensive user behavior analytics and cross-cloud activity monitoring
- Limit insider threat impact and lateral movement using zero-trust access controls.
- Develop incident response protocols for insider-driven security breaches
- Create governance frameworks for managing privileged access in multicloud environments

Mitigate Insider Threats in Multicloud Through Strategic Modeling

Every minute your cloud infrastructure grows, it creates new entry points for potential attacks. As organizations rush to embrace cloud innovations, they're unknowingly building digital labyrinths where traditional security measures fall short.

Cloud security threats are often perceived as purely technical challenges, but the human factor remains one of the most significant and underestimated risks. Misconfigurations, weak passwords, phishing attacks, and inadequate training open doors to breaches even in sophisticated environments. Employees inadvertently expose sensitive data through social engineering, while administrators overlook crucial updates. Insider threats pose significant risks when cloud systems are accessible from anywhere.

Join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar, Vice President of Cloud DevOps at a leading global bank, to explore human factors in cloud security threats.

Key Takeaways: 
- Human error as the leading cause of cloud security breaches 
- Phishing attacks and social engineering threat vectors 
- Managing insider threats in distributed cloud environments 
- Essential security awareness training and culture development 
- Zero Trust architecture implementation strategies

Managing Human Risk in Cloud Security Operations

AI technologies are simultaneously completely transforming business operations and creating new security vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed by technical safeguards alone. When implementing AI-driven solutions, human oversight is the biggest differentiator between secure innovation and catastrophic data breaches. As such, human intervention is both the biggest vulnerability and most significant defense in organizational security architectures.

To address this challenge, IT leaders can build a security champions program—a network of engaged employees who understand AI-specific threats and serve as frontline defenders. This group bridges the gap between security teams and other business units. They spread security awareness throughout the organization while maintaining operational efficiency.

Join Vincent Amanyi to discover proven strategies for empowering a team of security champions who can help safeguard your organization's AI initiatives and digital assets.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn to assess AI-related security risks across all business functions
- Design a people-centric security strategy that combines technical controls and human intelligence
- Establish and structure an effective Security Champions Committee with clear roles and responsibilities

Fortifying the Human Firewall: Cultivating Security Champions in Today's AI Landscape

In today's threat landscape, where the average data breach costs organizations $9 million, your employees represent both your greatest vulnerability and your strongest defense. As AI-powered threats become more sophisticated and remote work expands the attack surface, traditional security awareness approaches are failing to create lasting behavioral change. The human element remains implicated in over 80% of breaches, yet most training programs still focus on compliance checkboxes rather than cultivating security champions.

Effective security awareness requires a strategic approach that addresses psychological barriers, leverages behavioral science and creates sustainable security habits. By reimagining how we engage employees—from executive leadership to frontline staff—organizations can transform their security culture from a perceived burden into a competitive advantage that measurably reduces incident rates and response times.

Join Ralph Villanueva, with 15+ years leading enterprise security awareness programs, to discover proven methodologies that transform employee behavior.

Key takeaways:

- Implement psychological triggers that convert passive training participants into active security defenders
- Design role-specific awareness programs that address the unique risks of different departments
- Measure training effectiveness beyond completion rates with behavior-based security metrics
- Secure executive buy-in by connecting awareness initiatives to tangible business outcomes
- Deploy just-in-time learning techniques that deliver training when employees are most receptive

Transforming Human Risk: 10 Battle-Tested Strategies for Modern Security Awareness

Organizations are investing heavily in advanced security tools. But the most critical—and vulnerable—component of cybersecurity defense is people. As AI-driven attacks and quantum-era risks emerge, the gap between technological capabilities and human cognitive readiness threatens to widen dramatically.

Security professionals face unprecedented pressure when responding to incidents. Even with robust detection and recovery tools, factors like stress, fatigue and decision paralysis can significantly increase recovery times and amplify damage. This presentation introduces an expanded MTTR formula incorporating the "Human Cognitive Factor"—a groundbreaking approach that addresses the psychological dimensions of security response that technology alone cannot solve.

Join Sandra Estok (Founder & CEO, Way2Protect) to discover why preparing employees will determine your organization's survival in the 2026 threatscape.

Key Takeaways:

- Master the expanded MTTR formula that quantifies how human cognitive factors impact recovery timelines
- Identify early warning signs of team cognitive impairment before they compromise your security posture
- Implement practical strategies to build psychological resilience and decision-making clarity under pressure
- Establish metrics that measure human performance alongside technical metrics for comprehensive security assessment
- Learn how leadership decisions about culture, team structure, and psychological safety directly influence threat response effectiveness

Strengthening Your Human Firewall: Closing Cognitive Security Gaps Before 2026

Both endpoint security and endpoint management are becoming more challenging, largely driven by an increasingly complex threat landscape and a greater number (and assortment) of both managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. This, combined with an overabundance of tools deployed to deal with these threats and devices, has created a false sense of security and the inability to process all the data being collected.

 To combat this, organizations are making efforts to integrate the teams, tools, and processes involved, and these efforts are having a positive impact on visibility and awareness. Similarly, organizations are eager to adopt new tools like Autonomous Endpoint Management to help them achieve their goals.

In this session from Endpoint Management and Security Gabe Knuth, you’ll learn both what research reveals about the challenges facing organizations, the risks associated with the status quo, and the path forward to improving overall endpoint management and security.

Overcoming Increasing Endpoint Security & Management Challenges

Attackers are leveraging AI to enhance the speed, scale, and sophistication of their cyberattacks, posing a significant challenge to traditional defense mechanisms. Amidst a staggering increase of 300% annually in AI-driven attacks, the critical factor lies in their speed, highlighting the urgency for security measures to operate in near real-time to mitigate threats effectively. 

The traditional way of doing security is ill-equipped for real-time defense. We also believe that AI can potentially empower defenders far more than attackers. However, the effectiveness of AI in cybersecurity greatly depends on integrating data and automation within a unified platform.  This session will explore the value of a unified AI, data, and automation platform in enhancing cybersecurity defenses, improving incident response capabilities, and enabling proactive threat hunting. 

Join us to delve into the key strategies for leveraging AI in cybersecurity and learn how a cohesive platform can empower CISOs to stay ahead of emerging threats in the age of AI.

Security Operations in the Age of AI

In today’s threat landscape, a cyber attack is no longer a question of if—but when. The real test is how quickly and confidently an organization can bounce back. Unfortunately, traditional tools often leave teams scrambling with delayed insights, noisy alerts, and outdated assumptions—especially when AI workloads and modern cloud environments are in play.
 
During this fireside chat, you’ll witness an expert deep dive into what happens after a security breach—and how to turn a moment of crisis into a catalyst for security maturity. By watching, you’ll learn how to:
 
• Detect, contain, and mitigate threats in real time
• Prevent AI-specific risks
• Build lasting resilience through continuous visibility and intelligent automation
• And more
 
Tune in now to equip your organization with the strategies needed to bounce back stronger than ever in 2025 and beyond.

Best Practices for Bouncing Back Stronger after a Cyber Attack

The growth of open-source AI in the enterprise has been nothing short of phenomenal. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research found that 99% of organizations are actively using, exploring or experimenting with AI in their environments.

As organizations accelerate their AI initiatives, the adoption of open-source tools has become essential. But there isn’t a commonly known playbook for how to leverage open-source AI, and rapid changes in AI models, tools, and frameworks means there is currently a steep learning curve. 

In this exclusive webinar, open-source visionary and co-founder of Anaconda, Peter Wang, shares insights about the growth and challenges of the open-source AI phenomena with Mark Beccue, ESG Principal Analyst. Tune in as the pair unpack:
• How open-source tools provide unparalleled flexibility, cost-effectiveness and access to cutting-edge tech
• Best practices for operationalizing AI with open-source tools
• How to overcome the AI readiness gap 
• Where & how Anaconda assists customers in their AI journeys

Understanding the State of Enterprise Open-Source AI & Adoption Challenges

Every minute of business disruption costs organizations millions – and cyber attackers know it. As threat actors weaponize AI and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with unprecedented speed, the difference between survival and failure often comes down to how quickly you can recover from an attack.

Modern cyber resilience demands a paradigm shift – moving beyond traditional security measures to create business-aligned defense strategies. By identifying and protecting mission-critical assets through the Minimum Viable Company (MVC) framework, security leaders can ensure business continuity even in the face of sophisticated attacks while optimizing resource allocation and demonstrating clear ROI to the board.

Join Roselle Safran, CEO & Founder of KeyCaliber, as she shares battle-tested strategies for building and implementing a cyber resilience program that directly supports business objectives and ensures operational continuity.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn how to identify and define your organization's Minimum Viable Company (MVC) components to prioritize protection of business-critical assets
- Discover methodologies for aligning cyber resilience strategies with business objectives and risk appetite
- Master techniques for testing resilience capabilities against real-world scenarios without disrupting operations
- Gain practical insights into implementing and measuring the effectiveness of your cyber resilience program through business-focused metrics

Business-Centric Cyber Resilience: Protect What Matters Most

In today’s threat landscape, a cyber attack is no longer a question of if—but when. The real test is how quickly and confidently an organization can bounce back. Traditional tools often leave teams scrambling with delayed insights, noisy alerts, and outdated assumptions—especially when AI workloads and modern cloud environments are in play.

Join CSO & Board Member Rinki Sethi and Upwind CPO Joshua Burgin for a deep dive into what happens after the breach—and how to turn a moment of crisis into a catalyst for security maturity. We’ll explore the critical capabilities security teams need to contain threats, prioritize risk, and rebuild trust—with speed and precision.

You’ll learn how to:
• Use live runtime signals to reconstruct what happened—across cloud and GenAI workloads
• Cut through the noise and focus
• Detect, contain, and mitigate threats in real time, not post-mortem
• Prevent AI-specific risks
• Align security and engineering for a faster, more coordinated response
• Build lasting resilience through continuous visibility and intelligent automation

Whether you’re responding to your first major breach or refining your playbook, this session will equip you with the strategies—and tech stack—to bounce back stronger than ever in 2025 and beyond.

Respond Smarter, Recover Faster, and Build Resilience with Runtime and GenAI-Aware Security

The emergence of quantum computing presents a unique challenge to the cybersecurity landscape. This transformative technology poses significant risks to current encryption methods, particularly for asymmetric cryptography systems like RSA and Diffie-Hellman, which secure most network communications today.
Organizations face a critical challenge: their existing cryptographic infrastructure may soon become obsolete against quantum computing capabilities. 
 
This presentation offers vital strategies for preparing for this transition, similar in scope to the Y2K challenge. The solutions presented are particularly valuable because they follow NIST guidelines rather than vendor-specific approaches, providing a standardized framework for organizations to assess their risk exposure and implement quantum-resistant algorithms systematically.
 
Join John Bruggeman (Virtual CISO, CBTS) to get a roadmap to transition from current encryption methods to quantum-resistant alternatives, ensuring long-term data security.

Key takeaways:
- Quantum Risk Assessment: Learn how quantum computing threatens current encryption algorithms and data privacy
- Strategic Implementation: Discover the essential steps for identifying at-risk data, conducting thorough data inventories, and documenting current cryptography usage across your organization's systems and tools.
- Industry Impact Assessment: Understand how to quantify and document quantum computing risks specific to your industry
- Transition Planning: Master the approach to implementing NIST-guided quantum-resistant solutions through a systematic, long-term project framework

Post Quantum Cryptography: Securing the Future

From data breaches to ransomware attacks, the cost of cybercrime is skyrocketing, demanding a new approach to security. Playing defense is no longer enough. Organizations need to anticipate threats and build resilience into their systems.  

CISOs and security leaders face immense pressure to stay ahead of the curve and build resilient organizations capable of withstanding and recovering quickly from security breaches. A product-led approach offers a proactive, data-driven solution for incident response, transforming security events into opportunities for continuous improvement. 

In this session, Oksana Denesiuk, product lead for billing and payments at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, explores how cybersecurity teams can adopt a product mindset to enhance incident response, leveraging agile methodologies, iterative learning, and customer-centric thinking. 

Key Takeaways
- Embrace a product-centric approach to incident response, treating security incidents as valuable data points for continuous improvement.
- Integrate automated threat detection, secure coding practices, and incident learnings into the product roadmap.
- Use post-incident analytics, telemetry, and threat intelligence to refine security controls, enhance detection capabilities, and reduce the attack surface.
- Implement AI-driven detection, automated remediation workflows, and security orchestration (SOAR) to improve MTTR and MTTD.

Turning Incidents into Insights: A Product-Led Approach to Incident Response

Are you updating or reassessing your email security system to stay ahead in the ever-evolving threat landscape?

To help you make informed decisions to protect your organisation, our cybersecurity experts discuss:

• The findings of the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms report
• The current email threat landscape, the rise of AI and other emerging trends for 2025
• How to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your email security solutions
• Best practice strategies to mitigate email threats and protect your organisation’s sensitive data

Email Security in 2025: analyst insights, the rise of AI and strategic defences

The way employees communicate and collaborate is constantly evolving, and so too are the security threats they face. The rise of generative AI adds a new layer of complexity, requiring CISOs to proactively address the risks of data loss and potential harm to the organization.

Traditional security approaches often fall short in addressing the unique challenges posed by modern collaboration tools and the integration of GenAI. Understanding and mitigating these risks is critical for maintaining data privacy, preventing leakage, and ensuring compliance. We'll share Metrigy's latest research data to reveal actionable strategies for a comprehensive, business-aligned security strategy.

Join Irwin Lazar (President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy)  to discover the key components of a modern security approach, including how to:

- Establish alignment between IT, collaboration, and security teams to address evolving threats.
- Identify emerging threats stemming from new applications and out-of-band communications.
- Understand how generative AI creates new risks for data privacy, leakage, and effective data management.
- Develop a comprehensive security strategy tailored for collaborative environments and the GenAI landscape.
- Evaluate the benefits of third-party platforms optimized for collaboration and GenAI security to enhance your security posture.

Secure Collaboration in the Age of GenAI: A CISO's Guide to Risk Mitigation

Join us for an engaging fireside chat as we explore the evolving cyber threat landscape targeting the financial sector. We'll discuss key insights into the rise in DDoS attacks, AI-driven bot traffic, and sophisticated phishing campaigns.

Learn how attackers are leveraging AI to bypass defenses and execute deepfake phishing, and understand the impact of prolonged DDoS-as-a-Service and hacktivist campaigns. We'll also dive into the credential stuffing economy, revealing the vulnerabilities exploited by attackers.

Discover actionable defenses to stay ahead, such as integrating AI into SOC operations, enhancing authentication and API security, and adopting proactive threat intelligence. This session will emphasize the importance of AI-driven, intelligence-led security approaches to protect your financial institution in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Don't miss this opportunity to stay informed and prepared for the next wave of cyber threats.

Other topics to be discussed include:

1. 2025 Cyber Threat Snapshot: Key Trends Shaping Financial Security
2. Key Takeaways from FS-ISAC 2024
3. Deep Dive: Credential Stuffing Economy & Emerging Attack Vectors
4. Actionable Defenses: How FSIs Can Stay Ahead

Securing Financial Institutions: Navigating the Next Wave of Cyber Threats

In the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps, the paradigm is now shifting - where security is taking the central stage. With vast surface areas including containers, cloud, repositories and third-party components, cyber threats became more prominent than ever before in DevOps.

This presentation will delve into the evolution from traditional DevOps to the advanced usage of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate and optimize the software development and delivery processes. This includes automating code scanning, testing and deployment processes while eliminating the threats in each possible way in the cycle.

In this session, join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar (Vice President - Cloud DevOps at a well-known global bank) as she unravels the stages of integration of AI at each phase of DevOps. Topics for discussion include:
- Types of AI used in DevOps.
- Benefits of using AI in DevOps.
- Implementation of AI in DevOps.
- Best practices for using AI in DevOps.
- Eliminating security threats using AI in DevOps.

Security Risks to Consider with AI Integration: AI in DevOps

Traditional penetration tests often miss the mark, failing to replicate the real-world tactics of today's sophisticated threat actors. In this session, Alex Holden, CISO of Hold Security, cuts through the noise and reveals how to transform your pen testing program with actionable threat intelligence.

You'll discover the latest attack trends and learn practical methods to simulate realistic cyber threats against your own defenses. From vulnerability exploitation to ransomware and social engineering, this session provides a hands-on guide to assessing your security readiness against the attacks that matter most right now. Leave with a clear roadmap to build a more resilient and threat-informed security posture.

Key Takeaways

- Understand the limitations of traditional pen testing and why threat intelligence is crucial
- Learn practical techniques for incorporating real-world attack simulations into your security assessments
- Gain a framework for building a more resilient and proactive security posture based on actionable threat intelligence

Smarter Pen Testing with Threat Intel

It takes valuable time to sift through the ever-increasing number of cyber threats and stop those likely to result in a breach. The faster your team can resolve that unending flow of incidents, the better.

Expert security teams are just one part of the solution. Add the latest AI tools to consolidate and simplify your existing security operations technologies, accelerating time to resolve critical incidents. Finally, prove to your stakeholders that everything is perfectly handled. See how Lumen Technologies is achieving this in this valuable session.

Sign up for our webinar, Empower the CISO’s organization with ServiceNow AI and automation, to supercharge your existing security operations. Lumen Technologies’ Geoff Krahn and ServiceNow’s Julian Azaret will explain how to:

- Apply intelligent workflows and generative AI
- Inspire confidence in your board, company, and customers
- Slash incident resolution time by up to 72%
- Take this simple step to ensure that your security team can be ready for future threats.

Empower the CISO's organization with ServiceNow AI and automation

The transformative potential of AI demands robust security and Google Cloud is uniquely positioned to help organizations accelerate their AI journey by providing capabilities to holistically manage risk across the AI lifecycle. Join this session to learn about how you can securely navigate the evolving AI landscape with new AI Protection capabilities, including Model Armor, our LLM guardrails solution, which allows organizations to apply security and safety controls to gen AI applications.

Managing AI Risk with Confidence

With 98% of organizations experiencing vendor breaches, preparedness is critical. This webinar equips CISOs and security leaders with strategies to effectively manage third-party cyber incidents. Learn how to leverage a robust playbook to move from reactive scrambling to proactive resilience.

Attend to learn how to:

- Stop Scrambling: Implement rapid response frameworks.
- Communicate Clearly: Develop winning crisis communication plans.
- Become Proactive: Discover preventative best practices.
- Ask the Right Questions: Vet vendor cybersecurity effectively.
- Learn from the Pros: Gain insights from real-world scenarios.

Don't let vendors be your vulnerability. Join us to streamline response, communicate effectively, and build a stronger digital ecosystem against escalating third-party threats.

A CISO's Guide to Mastering Cyber Incident Response: Are Your Vendors Your Weakest Link?

A powerful alliance is formed when CISOs and boards unite, paving the way for enhanced digital resilience. However, differences in how to prioritize and measure the impact of cybersecurity can create misalignment. Join to explore the top 5 gaps between CISOs and the board.

Bridge the Gap – CISO and the Board

CISO Summit

To succeed as a CISO in 2025, you first need guts and luck. This year is poised to bring huge disruption. Unless you have been involved in the design, delivery, direction and drivers for an organization’s technology infrastructure, are supported by effective management processes and procedures, and have a large budget and resources, you will need to re-evaluate your strategy.

This webinar will challenge your understanding of good practices and focus on “known, knowns”, identifying the challenges that can arise for the "SHOCKS, HORRORS and EXCUSES" that accompany significant disruptions. It was also explore a need to learn lessons from the past to prepare for the future.

Together we will consider challenges arising for CISOs, by answering:
1) What key areas should CISOs focus on during 2025?
2) Why should CISOs establish an operational resilience strategy? 
3) How would scenarios versus resources assist CISOs in their strategic delivery? 

Tune into this session presented by operational resilience expert Steve Yates, as he explores the challenges faced by CISOs, and why their function is so critical to the survival of organizations and society, especially as nation state actors and other hacker groups seeks to attack our company and personal data.

Viewers will come away from this session with the ability to:
- Form an understanding of an operational risk approach.
- Consider the challenges that exist in adopting a “siloed” approach. 
- Know the need of exercising your organization for a critical scenario.

What are the Top CISO Priorities for 2025?

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