Name: The Role of Information Security in Mergers and Acquisitions
Start: 2022-03-10T13:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-10T13:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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A thought-provoking webinar programme developed from over three decades of collaborating with our Members across global business, government bodies, legislators and cyber security experts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come roaring to the forefront of today’s technology landscape. It has revolutionised industries and will modernise careers, bringing numerous benefits and advancements to our daily lives. However, it is crucial to recognise that AI also introduces unseen impacts that must be understood and addressed for your employees and your organisation as a whole. Join James McQuiggan, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, in this thought-provoking presentation where he’ll discuss the unforeseen threats of AI and how to protect your network.

During this presentation, you will:

•        Gain insights into the risks associated with AI and their implications for critical domains
•        Understand the dangers of prompt injection attacks and their impact on data integrity
•        Discover ways to combat the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation generated by AI
•        Learn how training your users to recognise malicious technology is the best, last line of defense

James McQuiggan is a Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4. Prior to joining KnowBe4, McQuiggan worked for Siemens for eighteen years where he was responsible for various roles, including his most recent as Product & Solution Security Officer for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. In this role, he consulted and supported various corporate divisions on cybersecurity standards, information security awareness and securing product networks. In addition to his work at Siemens, McQuiggan is also a part-time faculty professor at Valencia College in the Engineering, Computer Programming & Technology Division.

The Dark Side of AI

What role do we play in our organisation's cyber resilience? What factors influence broader business resilience and what is the relationship with cyber?

In this webinar, ISF Principals Esther Schagen-van Luit and Mark Chaplin explore the business resilience landscape since COVID-19, examine what has changed and highlight the cyber risk consequences for organisations already dealing with uncertainty from multiple directions.

The team will reveal a fine thread that originates at the macro level (political, economic and environmental) and weaves its way through to the micro level (organisational, workforce and the individual). Along the way Esther and Mark will draw upon ISF Research, such as the ISF Threat Horizon, and their work with risk and security leaders in ISF Member organisations. They will present the key factors driving the need for cyber resilience in organisations, and highlight why it remains a #1 priority.

Meet the Speakers:

Mark Chaplin is a Principal at the ISF, and an accomplished risk management professional with over 30 years of experience across various disciplines. His expertise spans risk governance and assurance, business resilience, security standards and oversight, compliance management, and incident management. Mark is dedicated to assisting business leaders in developing and implementing high-performance, assurance-driven information risk management capabilities that showcase tangible business value.

Esther Schagen-van Luit is Principal of Services, Benelux at the ISF, and is responsible bringing ISF research and tools to the Benelux market and helping members make the most of their membership with the ISF. Previously she served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Deloitte Netherlands and Deloitte Belgium, after having had a career in cyber security strategy consulting. Esther is an active speaker and writer on information security governance, diversity & inclusion, and talent development in the industry.

Untangling the Cyber Resilience Thread

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work, and supply chain management is no different. 

With all new technologies it is easy to get carried away with implementation before considering the full consequences. In this session Francesca, ISF Analyst and Supplier Security Product Owner, will be discussing the potential benefits and drawbacks of implementing AI into our third-party relationships.

Meet the Speaker:

Francesca is an analyst in the tools and methodologies team, and is the product owner for the Benchmark and the Supplier Security tool, which are the ISF's security assessment platforms. Francesca led the development of v2 of the Supplier Security tool, which now provides comprehensive coverage of the entire supplier management process. She is passionate about advocating for increased diversity across cyber security, and has been involved in a variety of initiatives to help achieve this, including chairing a panel discussion aimed at addressing barriers of access and encouraging more women to join the industry.

The Influence of AI in Supply Chains

The ISF has recently published a major update to the Standard of Good Practice for Information Security 2024 including all the latest topics in information security (Artificial Intelligence, Cyber resilience, Zero Trust and many more). 

In this interactive session, we’ll be joined by one of our valued ISF Member and explore the new features of SOGP 2024 and how they can be used in multiple ways such as:

- Input into security policies, standards and procedures
- Providing a comprehensive reference library of controls
- Supplement existing control frameworks.

Meet the Speakers:

Benoit Heynderickx is a Principal Analyst at the ISF specialising in supply chain, cloud security and quantitative risk analysis. He is also the project lead for the ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. Passionate about information security and risk management, Benoit has a wealth of knowledge and practical experience implementing large scale information security and risk programmes such as ISMS, SOX IT Compliance, and third-party risk assurance programmes.

Ross Johnston is a customer focused technology leader with over 18 years financial experience delivering architectures and solutions enabling senior level stakeholders to visualise a new and innovative way of meeting and exceeding existing and future customers needs. In his current role at the Bupa, he serves as Group Security Patterns and Architecture Lead

SOGP 2024: All-encompassing Standard of Good Practice for Information Security

Cloudflare set out to build a better understanding of the threat landscape facing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams across Europe, interviewing more than 4,000 cybersecurity professionals from 13 markets across the region. The report includes new findings on security preparedness and outcomes, revealing how organisations are coping with rising volumes of cybersecurity incidents, their levels of preparedness and the outcomes experienced. The results are both illuminating and alarming, with the survey revealing that across the region attacks are increasing, and yet not all organisations are sufficiently prepared.

Key findings:
• 39% of the respondents experienced at least one cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months. 
• Of those that experienced cybersecurity incidents, 43% experienced more than 10, and 19% experienced more than 30.
• Only 29% of organisations think they are highly prepared to address a cybersecurity incident.

Join Grant Bourzikas, CSO and Trey Guinn, CTO at Cloudflare to learn more of the threat landscape facing security experts in Europe and how to cope with rising volumes of cybersecurity incidents.

Meet the Speakers:

Grant Bourzikas joined Cloudflare in 2023 as the company’s SVP, Chief Security Officer. Grant is a seven-time CSO with over 20 years experience that spans the private sector at a Fortune 500 critical infrastructure company, financial services organisation, and a gaming company.

Trey Guinn is Field Technology Officer at Cloudflare. In this role he advises key customers on strategies to secure and optimise distributed workforces and computing architectures. Trey has spent over 20 years working with multinationals, national governments, and Fortune 500 enterprises from a range of industries to help them plan, build, and develop robust, agile, and secure computing architectures.

Shielding the Future: Europe's cyber threat landscape report

The cyber threat landscape has become increasingly challenging, impactful and unpredictable. With remote access and corporate networks changed by the COVID pandemic, and risks compounded by geopolitical incidents, building a security strategy that can handle this dynamic threat landscape without causing operational disruption, has become a business critical solution. 

In this webinar, the ISF will explore why Zero Trust is not all hype. Participants will:

1. Identify the core components of Zero Trust and how it is different to current security strategies
2. Understand how to either embark on a Zero Trust journey, or adapt current approaches to minimise risk
3. Take a deeper-dive on how ISF Members have established a Zero Trust Framework.

Zero Trust Strategy: Why your organisation should adopt it

90% of the code in Apps today comes from Open Source Software. Whether through infiltrating the software delivery pipeline, deliberately uploading malicious components to popular repositories, or taking advantage of existing vulnerabilities in open source components, attackers are leveraging gaps in supply chain controls to compromise organizations. 

With GenAI quickly becoming a popular tool for developers to generate code, a new threat has emerged. AI package hallucinations is one of the more recent attack types within supply chain that is easy to execute and can have devastating effects. During this presentation we will give an over view of Supply Chain Security with some examples of the current threats, discuss AI package hallucinations, and preventative measures.

Meet the Speaker:

Tzachi is the head of supply chain security at Checkmarx, and was the co-founder and CEO at Dustico, a software supply chain security startup that was acquired by Checkmarx in 2020. Prior to Dustico, Tzachi built custom solution for automating malware analysis, SOC automation, securing micro services, and designing network sensors at Palo Alto Networks.

Everything You Need to Know About Software Supply Chain Security

Building on the ISF’s previous research, Lee will assess how artificial intelligence has evolved in recent years and discuss his upcoming AI Insights series of papers. With offensive and defensive AI already on the agenda, he will outline other areas of potential research for Members to consider, including governance, data privacy, ethics, and the need for transparency.


Meet the Speaker:

Lee Munson is a Principal Research Analyst at the Information Security Forum (ISF). Lee has over fifteen years’ experience in and around the information security industry. Prior to joining the ISF, he set up and ran a security awareness program for one of the world’s largest media groups before moving into threat intelligence, focusing on crimeware and nation state threat actors.

AI Insights: Opportunities and Challenges

This discussion explores the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on information security and data protection, highlighting the dual-edged nature of AI as both a tool for enhancing security measures and a potential threat due to its ability to be used by an attacker.

We’ll delve into:
• The evolving landscape of data privacy, examining how AI's capabilities in data processing and analysis pose new challenges for data protection
• An analysis of recent guidance and legislation aimed at ensuring the safe and ethical use of AI
• A detailed review of international and national regulatory frameworks that address AI's unique risks

Dave Barnett has worked in the cloud security space for over ten years. Previously he was a Director of strategy at another leading organisation where he co-authored PAS555 (the first nationally certified cyber security standard) and collaborated with academia on a number of important research papers. In Dave’s current role he leads the business strategy team for Cloudflare’s EMEA SASE, Zero Trust and email security portfolio.

AI Frontiers in Cybersecurity: Navigating Opportunities and Threats

The cybersecurity landscape is always evolving, and in 2023 Cofense saw the volume of malicious email threats reaching end user inboxes increase by over 300% compared to 2022. 

With the volume and variety of threat campaigns continuing to develop exponentially, join Josh Bartolomie, VP of Global Threat Service, to take a look at some of the latest tactics being adopted in business email compromise (BEC). We’ll explore the overarching trends in BEC, and ways to counter this worrying trend from both a technical and people centric approach. 

Key takeaways will include: 
• How attackers are bypassing traditional email security
• Why finance themed emails are still the most popular tactic
• The costs and impact of BEC attacks for organizations
• Ways to identify your most targeted people
• Risks and concerns with BEC attacks leveraging AI
• Top tips and practical advice that you can implement quickly!

With over 25 years of information technology and cybersecurity experience, Josh has designed, built, and managed security operations centers, incident response teams, and security architecture and compliance groups for large, global organisations such as Exelis, L3Harris, and Cognizant. Throughout his career, Josh has maintained a passion for continuous innovation with a focus on designing solutions that address real world gaps and provide immediate value to cybersecurity defenders and organisations around the world.

This Time it's Personal: The latest trends in business email compromise

Email security risk remains high. From credential harvesting and compromise in the supply chain to data loss and exfiltration, almost every organization has had email security incidents in their Microsoft 365 environments. Egress polled 500 cybersecurity leaders and found that the majority have concerns about the traditional technology they use to protect their organization over email.

Join Jack Chapman, VP of Threat Intelligence at Egress, as he discusses findings from the 2024 Email Risk Report for insight into the threats that organizations face, including:

• How both inbound and outbound threats continue to evade traditional approaches to email security.
• Why traditional technology cannot protect against data loss and exfiltration.
• Threats that secure email gateways (SEGs) fail to detect and why 87% of leaders are considering replacing their SEG or already have.

Email Security in 2024: The Urgent Need to Adapt Your Approach

We all have a role to play in the advancement of women in cyber.

ISF's Esther Schagen-van Luit, Principal of Services; Hui Shan, Senior Analyst; Shreya Tiwari, Zero Trust Product Lead; and Francesca Williamson, Analyst, share their reasons behind their commitment to the field. 

Listen as they reflect on:
Their individual career trajectories 
The role models who have shaped their paths and the invaluable resources that have aided them along the way
The various perspectives on thoughts on technology developments such as AI within the industry.

Why Women Stay in Cyber

In an era where the vast majority of financial services companies embrace public cloud, a pressing issue has surfaced: how do you manage a growing and diverse set of cloud services? 

Join security leader -  Ryan Kazanciyan, CISO at Wiz, as he and Vlad Nikolov, Security Architect at Intuit, spotlight the critical need for enhanced visibility across cloud, data, and AI domains.

In this webinar , Ryan and Vlad will:

- explore practical strategies for maintaining compliance across diverse regions
- delve into the resilience benefits of adopting a unified approach to fortify against threats. 

This webinar is not just about identifying problems—it's a hands-on playbook for actionable solutions.

The Cloud Security Playbook for Financial Services

This presentation delves into the alarming role of artificial intelligence (AI) in supercharging the spread of mis- and disinformation. We'll discuss the importance of this topic by showing how AI has the potential to amplify the reach and impact of false narratives like never before. 

Through automated content generation, AI-driven social media algorithms, and the manipulation of audio-visual media with deepfakes, deceptive information can be disseminated at an unprecedented scale. This phenomenon poses significant risks, including the erosion of trust in reliable sources, the manipulation of public opinion, and influencing the credibility of entire organizations.

In this talk, we'll dive into:
- the destructive power of mis- and disinformation.
- ways AI is being used by bad actors to influence the masses.
- how to protect against false AI-generated content.

Our Speaker:
Jelle Wieringa has over 20 years of experience in business development, sales, management and marketing. In his current role as Security Awareness Advocate for EMEA at KnowBe4, he helps organisations of all sizes understand why more emphasis is needed on the human factor, and how to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering. His goal is to help organisations and users increase their resilience by making smarter security decisions. Previously, Jelle was responsible for building an AI-driven platform for security operations at a leading managed security provider.

The superpower of AI: Unleashing mis- and disinformation at a horrific scale

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), there's been an explosion of innovation in AI being applied to nearly every domain, from generating beautiful art, to summarizing huge bodies of text, automating sales outreach and customer service, performing scientific research, and more.  

Clint Gibler, Head of Security Research, Semgrap and guest speaker from Wiz, has spent hundreds of hours following how AI is being applied to cybersecurity.

In this webinar, Clint distills the best articles, papers, and talks across cloud security, web security, AppSec, offensive security and more into one talk so you can rapidly understand the lay of the land.  

You'll leave this webinar with a solid understanding of:
- The current landscape
- Open problems
- Where things are headed

Disclaimer: This is a pre-recorded webinar

AI & Cybersecurity: The current state of the art and where we're headed

With 2023 coming to an end and 2024 on the horizon, we find ourselves confronted by a landscape characterised by economic downturn, social disillusionment and escalating regional tensions.

Amidst these turbulent macro-economic, geopolitical, and social fronts - trust will crumble as organisations learn that regulators can introduce new risks, technology does not always achieve desired outcomes, and data itself is more susceptible than ever to manipulation.

To prepare security leaders for the challenge ahead, Chief Executive of the ISF Steve Durbin returns to the virtual stage to deliver our annual Emerging Threats webinar. Secure your place for early insight into the prominent information security threats to expect in 2024 and crucial guidance on how to fortify against them.

ISF Annual Threat Update: Emerging threats for 2024

With more than 20% of all interactive intrusions associated with the exploitation of public-facing applications, the security of your organization’s data and publicly facing assets is more critical than ever. 
 
During this session Will Barlow, Senior Manager, Professional Services at CrowdStrike will share five tips to reduce the risk of exposure in an increasingly connected digital landscape.

How Well Do You Know Your Attack Surface?

As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, organizations are aligning with industry standards and frameworks to support their operational, compliance and audit requirements.

Whilst security leaders are aware of the considerable advantages this strategic adoption brings, budget constraints, shifting priorities and a shortage of cyber security expertise are leaving security teams grappling with organizational and technical roadblocks.

Join us for the opportunity to engage with ISF experts and discover how the ISF Standard of Good Practice (SOGP) is supporting leading global organizations in managing compliance across multiple standards and jurisdictions.

In this session, we explored how to:

- integrate up-to-date best practice into business processes, risk management and information security programmes 
   and policies
- minimise effort and investment when looking to comply with international industry standards and frameworks
- build a strong foundation for resilience based on ISF security controls frameworks.

A Unified Approach to Compliance

On Thursday 10th March at 13.00 GMT, Richard Absalom, Principal Research Analyst at the ISF, will discuss key findings from his latest research on how to consider security requirements during highly sensitive and often fast-moving merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

The session will explore:
• the risks and implications of not considering security at an early stage of any deal
• how information security leaders can build relationships and ‘shift left’ to influence decisions at an earlier point
• recommendations for embedding security into each step of the M&A process.

Richard Absalom is an experienced research analyst: his work involves investigating, clarifying and sharing best practice with ISF Member organisations. His research at the ISF has covered topics as varied as M&A, supply chain security, artificial intelligence, security assurance, secure agile development, mobile app security, and identifying future information risks for the flagship ISF Threat Horizon report series.

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