Archived Events 2023

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Reducing Security OpEx and Generating ROI. Microsegmentation with MFA to the Rescue!

Frank Aiello
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer
MAXIMUS
ISE® Northeast People's Choice Award Winner 2016
ISE® Northeast Executive Award Finalist 2016
Biography

Today’s data-driven, hybrid environments has become an increasing target for hackers as the traditional firewall on the perimeter and EDR are no longer enough. While security leaders are being asked to do more with less, they are also challenged that virtualization and cloud initiatives have caused impairment with their visibility and an inability to maintain strong policy enforcement controls. Pair this with the high costs of legacy and traditional network segmentation when firewalls are expensive, deployment is lengthy, and ongoing maintenance heavily relies on professional services for continuous, manual rule updates. Join us for an engaging discussion on how microsegmentation can be deployed with minimal maintenance to generate an exponential cost savings. We will also explore how this approach can apply when MFA is deployed on every port, protocol, and application and be regarded as a key defense mechanism against stealthy attacks and data breaches.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Simplifying Security with Data-first SASE

Jason Abraham
Global Security Operations Leader
Verizon
Biography

In the age of the hybrid workforce where people are working anywhere with data that is everywhere, organizations must enable safe access to resources. This means delivering access to websites, the cloud and private apps whether employees are working from home, in the office, on the road or over any device. Add in new technologies like ChatGPT and other Generative AIs that hold the promise of tremendous improvements in productivity but also bring forth the threat of loss of control of sensitive information. With the world becoming a very different place, join us for an engaging discussion to explore how you can simplify security and provide consistent security for users anywhere, who are accessing digital resources everywhere. We will also explore the best practices of going down the path to SASE one step at a time, effectively deploying capabilities or swapping legacy products on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, we will share how to attain a best-in-class data security program, a best-in-class data security program that implements Zero Trust principles efficiently.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Simplifying Security with Data-first SASE

Dennis McDonald
Chief Information Security Officer
Jack Henry and Associates
Biography

In the age of the hybrid workforce where people are working anywhere with data that is everywhere, organizations must enable safe access to resources. This means delivering access to websites, the cloud and private apps whether employees are working from home, in the office, on the road or over any device. Add in new technologies like ChatGPT and other Generative AIs that hold the promise of tremendous improvements in productivity but also bring forth the threat of loss of control of sensitive information. With the world becoming a very different place, join us for an engaging discussion to explore how you can simplify security and provide consistent security for users anywhere, who are accessing digital resources everywhere. We will also explore the best practices of going down the path to SASE one step at a time, effectively deploying capabilities or swapping legacy products on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, we will share how to attain a best-in-class data security program, a best-in-class data security program that implements Zero Trust principles efficiently.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
How Can We Protect Our Organizations from Web Threats Now, and Tomorrow

Almon Tse
Chief Information Security Officer
Saks Fifth Avenue
Biography

Web threats have continued to grow in frequency, impact and sophistication – with the potential for a step-change in severity as generative AI techniques become more accessible to attackers of all skill levels. Will today’s ‘best practice’ controls be able to keep up? This rapidly-evolving threat calls for a fundamental mindshift in cybersecurity. Join us for a forward-looking discussion on promising approaches for addressing these threats, exploring for example, shifts from detection to prevention and allow listing rather than block listing for internet access. Can new approaches succeed, can we match the attackers’ step-change with a greater leap of our own, and what hurdles will need to be overcome?

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR FOR SALES & MARKETING PROFESSIONALS
The Insider View of How to Maximize Cybersecurity Sales Opportunities When Being Told to Do More With Less

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Xavier Ashe
SVP, Cybersecurity Operations
Truist
Biography

Kevin Morrison
VP, Chief Information Security Officer
Driven Brands
ISE® Southeast People’s Choice Award Winner 2015
Biography

With today’s ever evolving threat landscape paired with an uncertain economy and volatile geo-political world, no security leader would dare work in vacuum. The most successful security leaders stay ahead of the curve while aligning with their business goals and what their security team members require to protect the enterprise. Join us for engaging discussion to hear first-hand how to stand out in a crowded playing field, receive valuable knowledge about the best ways to connect with future clients and foster long-term relationships with them. We will also explore what the top buying priorities are for the 2024 - 2025 term and will get an insider view of how to maximize sales opportunities when security executives are being told to do more with less.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Why a Data-first Approach to SASE Matters

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Sujeet Bambawale
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
7- Eleven
Biography

Vince Spina
Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Engineering
Forcepoint
Biography

Peter Tse
Information Security Officer
CTBC Bank, New York Branch
Biography

For years, “digital transformation” has been all the rage. Now, people work anywhere with data everywhere. Join us for an engaging conversation on how to increase workforce productivity, even with BYOD, so that your enterprise can be seamless, faster, competitive – and secure! We will also explore how and where to cut costs, improve the economies-of-scale and reduce risk by replacing fragmented and outdated infrastructures. Our discussions will also reveal how a Zero Trust approach to security can stop threats and continuously protect sensitive data in cloud, web, private apps.

ISE® WEST PRIVATE WELCOME DINNER

Tanweer Surve
CTO Cloud Control Management
Wells Fargo
Biography

The Risk vs. Reward of Generative AI: Securing Your Most Sensitive Data
Security and technology leaders, from the boardroom to the war room, are grappling with the potential security risks that generative AI represents. Yet despite the potential for leaking sensitive data, business leaders recognize that they must find a way to harness the transformative power that the technology represents. Gather with local technology leaders for an intimate dinner and interactive discussion sponsored by Cyera, where we will discuss the strategic risk-management challenges enterprises are facing with the adoption of generative AI, and how to effectively manage this generational shift. Discussion topics will include:

• The strategic impact generative AI is having on enterprises, and discuss the risks and rewards the technology represents
• Technologies that allow security leaders to harness the positive potential while mitigating the most damaging risks
• The technology management principles that should be embraced to advance enterprise innovation and business transformation

ISE® WEST SUMMIT AND AWARDS 2023

The ISE® WEST Summit and Awards 2023 will be held on October 24, 2023 at The Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center in Plano, TX. The ISE® West Awards are held in conjunction with a one day Executive Forum which includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the nation to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Simplifying Security with Data-first SASE

Duane Dobbins
Corporate VP, Business Information Security Officer, Risk Management
New York Life Insurance Company
Biography

In the age of the hybrid workforce where people are working anywhere with data that is everywhere, organizations must enable safe access to resources. This means delivering access to websites, the cloud and private apps whether employees are working from home, in the office, on the road or over any device. Add in new technologies like ChatGPT and other Generative AIs that hold the promise of tremendous improvements in productivity but also bring forth the threat of loss of control of sensitive information. With the world becoming a very different place, join us for an engaging discussion to explore how you can simplify security and provide consistent security for users anywhere, who are accessing digital resources everywhere. We will also explore the best practices of going down the path to SASE one step at a time, effectively deploying capabilities or swapping legacy products on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, we will share how to attain a best-in-class data security program, a best-in-class data security program that implements Zero Trust principles efficiently.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Enabling Your Security Investments to Work in Concert as One Coordinated Symphony

      

Leon Florentin
Director – Data Security
Watsco
Biography

As threats grow more sophisticated and span across a greater variety of attack vectors, ensuring consistent detection across your environment has never been more critical. In today’s hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-vector landscape, complexity is the biggest challenge. Security teams must protect an ever-expanding ecosystem, running operations across dozens of tools with inconsistent integration. IoT and hybrid work have led to an expanded attack surface. Phishing, malware, and ransomware are doubling and even tripling year over year. At the same time, businesses are more hyper-connected than ever before. A security breach to one company can impact a company’s suppliers, partners, customers and even whole sectors of the economy.

Join us for an engaging discussion on how the new normal calls for cyber security resilience — the ability to protect the integrity of every aspect of the business to withstand unpredictable threats or changes and emerge stronger. Additionally, we will explore from an executive perspective how an XDR solution that is open, extensible and cloud-first, will benefit from unified detection and event correlation across your environment instead of adding additional layers of complexity.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

Darrell Wright
Associate Vice President, Information Security
Molina Healthcare
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t see” still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Reducing Security OpEx and Generating ROI. Microsegmentation with MFA to the Rescue!

Walt Carter
Chief Digital Officer and CIO
Homestar Financial Corporation
Biography

Today’s data-driven, hybrid environments has become an increasing target for hackers as the traditional firewall on the perimeter and EDR are no longer enough. While security leaders are being asked to do more with less, they are also challenged that virtualization and cloud initiatives have caused impairment with their visibility and an inability to maintain strong policy enforcement controls. Pair this with the high costs of legacy and traditional network segmentation when firewalls are expensive, deployment is lengthy, and ongoing maintenance heavily relies on professional services for continuous, manual rule updates. Join us for an engaging discussion on how microsegmentation can be deployed with minimal maintenance to generate an exponential cost savings. We will also explore how this approach can apply when MFA is deployed on every port, protocol, and application and be regarded as a key defense mechanism against stealthy attacks and data breaches.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Zero Trust: Migrating From Conceptual Model to Comprehensive Framework

Mike Lamberg
VP, CISO
Ion Group
Biography

Most organizations are now engaging in a Zero Trust journey as they prepare for more flexible, hybrid models of working. Protections around identity and devices are necessary and must cover both managed and unmanaged users, assets, resources and workstations. The lack of full visibility into these unagentable and unmanaged areas will prevent you from realizing the extent of your attack surface, leaving you unable to implement effective Zero Trust policies. Join our conversation where we will discuss how to take your Zero Trust roadmap from a conceptual model to a comprehensive framework that protects data; enables the principles of network isolation, segmentation and security; automates and orchestrates controls and processes; and more.

INFOSEC NASHVILLE
Ensuring Trust and Data Privacy in a ChatGPT and AI World

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Nathan Kennedy
AVP, Security
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
Biography

Joey Johnson
CISO
Premise Health
ISE® Southeast Executive of the Year Award Winner 2017
ISE® North America Executive: Health Care Award Finalist 2017
Biography

When many people hear the phrase “AI in the workplace,” they may think of being replaced by robots or machines. While machines may not take over the world, AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, have become more prevalent in our daily lives. For security executives, these next-generation, automated technologies have become a savior and nemesis when tackling an ever-evolving threat landscape and end-user profile. Our industry experts will explore strategies and measures for ensuring trust in AI systems while safeguarding data privacy. Furthermore, this panel will explore how stakeholders can work together to build a trustworthy and privacy-conscious AI ecosystem by focusing on transparency, accountability, privacy by design, user empowerment, and the development of legal frameworks. We will also explore how behavioral analysis requires a multi-layered defense inclusive of AI and machine learning to protect against fileless and other advanced attacks and how data can be safeguarded against the insider threat.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Doing More With Less: Improving Your Security Posture on a Budget

      

Mark Burnette
Practice Leader
LBMC Advisory Services
Biography
ISE® Southeast Executive Award Winner 2005

Every security executive faces the challenge of keeping their business secure while managing budget constraints in the face of a rapidly expanding threat landscape. Not every organization is positioned with all the right skills, or the scale, required to provide 24x7x365 defense across an ever-expanding set of security technologies. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to do more with less, enhance your security posture and accelerate your incident response. We will also deep dive on how your organization can ruthlessly mitigate cyber threats before they begin to represent a real problem and continually shape an ongoing plan for cyber resiliency.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Is ChatGPT (and other AIs) the New Shadow IT?: Enable the AI/ChatGPT World Without the Risk

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Mike Towers
Former Chief Digital Trust Officer
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
ISE® Northeast Executive of the Year Award Winner 2015
ISE® North America Executive: Health Care Award Winner 2015
ISE® Northeast Executive Award Winner 2020
ISE® North America Executive: Health Care Award Winner 2020
Biography

Manny Rivelo
Chief Executive Officer
Forcepoint
Biography

In the race to compete leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) and tools like ChatGPT, a long-standing problem is reemerging with renewed force – Shadow IT. Join us for an engaging discussion on how you can enable your organization to leverage this revolutionary technology, without the risk. AI tools could potentially expose organizations to various security and privacy risks because employees are turning to them for an array of applications, from drafting sales and marketing emails to analyzing sensitive financial data. During our program, we will explore how enterprises can make ChatGPT and other AIs safe to use to include how to limit access to groups/users authorized to test Ais. We will also share the best practices in how to coach users on how to use the properly the platform while developing data security policies can block sensitive info in queries. For organizations that would like to take their fight against AI-related risks to the next level, we will discuss the available frameworks and the ongoing collaboration with the wider industry and government agencies to develop standards and best practices for the responsible use of generative AI.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Protecting Your Organization From Web Threats Now, and Tomorrow

Michael Dent
Chief Information Security Officer
Fairfax County Government
ISE® North America Executive Award Finalist 2014 - Academic/Public Sector Category
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2015 - Academic/Public Sector Category
Biography

As generative AI techniques become more accessible to attackers of all skill levels, traditional detection-based security techniques may struggle with an increase in both the sophistication of attacks and the proliferation of signature permutations for malicious code. This rapidly-evolving threat calls for a fundamental mindshift in cybersecurity, moving from detection-based protection and response algorithms to a prevention-based approach, whereby non-trusted content is not given the opportunity to attempt to compromise the corporate network. Join us for a forward-looking discussion on the threat that generative AI poses for cybersecurity defenders and whether prevention, rather than detection, is the optimal approach to cybersecurity in this environment.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Simplifying Security with Data-first SASE

Jeff Streelman
Director
Citigroup
Biography

In the age of the hybrid workforce where people are working anywhere with data that is everywhere, organizations must enable safe access to resources. This means delivering access to websites, the cloud and private apps whether employees are working from home, in the office, on the road or over any device. Add in new technologies like ChatGPT and other Generative AIs that hold the promise of tremendous improvements in productivity but also bring forth the threat of loss of control of sensitive information. With the world becoming a very different place, join us for an engaging discussion to explore how you can simplify security and provide consistent security for users anywhere, who are accessing digital resources everywhere. We will also explore the best practices of going down the path to SASE one step at a time, effectively deploying capabilities or swapping legacy products on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, we will share how to attain a best-in-class data security program, a best-in-class data security program that implements Zero Trust principles efficiently.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

Damian Chung
Business Information Security Officer
Netskope
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

Dirk Maxwell
Chief Information Security Officer
LKQ Corporation
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

Nate Smolenski
Head of Cyber Intelligence Strategy
Netskope
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

James Christiansen
VP and CSO Cloud Strategy
Netskope
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

Bob Gilbert
Vice President and Chief Evangelist
Netskope
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Most Important Shift for Cybersecurity Leaders in a Generation

Xavier Ashe
SVP, Cybersecurity Operations
Truist
Biography

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT and Generative AI tools as when something is so pervasive that it becomes the dominant topic of conversation in business and technology. In many of the conversations inside and outside of the board room, security leaders are grappling with the decision to allow or block ChatGPT given the risk of leaking sensitive data and how to effectively manage this generational shift without adding to the chaos. Join us for engaging conversation on how enterprises can safely enable the use of ChatGPT with application access control, real-time user coaching, and data protection. We will also explore how to create a culture of empowerment where enterprises can embrace this technology without putting the business at risk.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Data, Devices and People Are Everywhere: Preventing Sensitive Data Loss Across ALL Egress Channels

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Vince Spina
Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Engineering
Forcepoint
Biography

Eric S. Green
Business Operations Protection
TikTok
Biography

Travis Farral
VP & CISO
Archaea Energy
Biography

It is hard to ignore that the lines between home and office being blurred and unmanaged devices leaving your company’s infrastructure vulnerable. “Democratization of Data, making data available to everyone all the time across websites, cloud apps, and private apps adds a whole level of challenge to the ‘risk reduction equation’. A simpler approach is warranted as the old portfolio of point products wasn’t built for this type of extended enterprise.

Join us for insightful discussion on how to unlock simplicity to bring forth comprehensive data security cross more channels into one set of policies, one console, one agent. We will also explore how to combine Zero Trust principles with a SASE architecture and advanced security to protect data across any website, cloud application, and web-based private applications to keep your data secure everywhere your people work and anywhere your data resides.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Zero Trust: Migrating From Conceptual Model to Comprehensive Framework

David Billeter
Chief Information Security Officer
Travelport
ISE® North America Commercial Executive Award Winner 2011
Biography

Most organizations are now engaging in a Zero Trust journey as they prepare for more flexible, hybrid models of working. Protections around identity and devices are necessary and must cover both managed and unmanaged users, assets, resources and workstations. The lack of full visibility into these unagentable and unmanaged areas will prevent you from realizing the extent of your attack surface, leaving you unable to implement effective Zero Trust policies. Join our conversation where we will discuss how to take your Zero Trust roadmap from a conceptual model to a comprehensive framework that protects data; enables the principles of network isolation, segmentation and security; automates and orchestrates controls and processes; and more.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Reeling in the Spiraling Cost of Data Growth

Ajay Gupta
SVP & Chief Information Security Officer
AmerisourceBergen
Biography

Security and observability teams need centralized visibility into event data to identify and automate responses to vulnerabilities and deliver a flawless end-user experience. However, security and performance data often remain siloed in point solutions, compelling companies to duplicate and transfer data to traditional SIEM or log management solutions. Using these solutions as a data lake becomes cost-prohibitive since they were developed in the pre-cloud era and fail to leverage the latest innovations.

Join us as we discuss how enterprises can explore modern data lake solutions to capture and unify all data leading to better outcomes while significantly reducing costs when your data volume may be exceeding the pace of your budget.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Doing More With Less: Improving Your Security Posture on a Budget

Ray Lipps
Managing Director, Cyber Risk and Information Security
Ernst & Young
Biography

Every security executive faces the challenge of keeping their business secure while managing budget constraints in the face of a rapidly expanding threat landscape. Not every organization is positioned with all the right skills, or the scale, required to provide 24x7x365 defense across an ever-expanding set of security technologies. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to do more with less, enhance your security posture and accelerate your incident response. We will also deep dive on how your organization can ruthlessly mitigate cyber threats before they begin to represent a real problem and continually shape an ongoing plan for cyber resiliency.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
The Evolution – More Intelligence and Insight for More Advanced Protection

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

John Fokker
Head of Threat Intelligence & Principal Engineer
Trellix
Biography

Thomas Dager
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
Biography

Ryan Reynolds
Senior Vice President | Director, Security Incident Management
U.S. Bank
Biography

As the number, type, and sophistication of threats evolve, organizations require more intelligence and insight than traditional endpoint security provides. More threat actors are shifting their aim to weaknesses created by user behavior, poor cybersecurity hygiene, and shadow IT. The dramatic increase in the types of endpoint devices—including smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, and more—has overpowered first-generation endpoint security. The increasing number of potentially vulnerable endpoints can also exhaust security team resources that are relying on traditional cybersecurity defenses. Depending on separate software processes to handle the security and security management of endpoints can result in potential disconnects. And maintaining and updating blacklists of malicious codes requires more and more resources. And these legacy products still leave organizations susceptible to zero-day exploits, data theft threatening to slip through among too many false positives.

Join us for an engaging discussion on how next-generation, automated technologies can examine every process on every device to counter potential attacks have become necessary to better lock down endpoint security while investigating every phase of an attack campaign. We will also explore how behavioral analysis requires a multi-layered defense inclusive of AI and machine learning to protect against fileless and other advanced attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Reeling in the Spiraling Cost of Data Growth

Daniel Dubowski
Chief Information Security Officer, USIS
Equifax
Biography

Security and observability teams need centralized visibility into event data to identify and automate responses to vulnerabilities and deliver a flawless end-user experience. However, security and performance data often remain siloed in point solutions, compelling companies to duplicate and transfer data to traditional SIEM or log management solutions. Using these solutions as a data lake becomes cost-prohibitive since they were developed in the pre-cloud era and fail to leverage the latest innovations.

Join us as we discuss how enterprises can explore modern data lake solutions to capture and unify all data leading to better outcomes while significantly reducing costs when your data volume may be exceeding the pace of your budget.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: Tackling the Weaponization of Communication Apps

Eileen Bridges
Senior Vice President
Sr. Cyber Business Information Security Officer, Wholesale Technology
Truist
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Reeling in the Spiraling Cost of Data Growth

Vikrant Arora
Chief Information Security Officer
Hospital for Special Surgery
ISE® North America Executive Award Finalist 2014 - Health Care Category
ISE® Northeast Executive of the Year Award Winner 2016
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2016 - Health Care Category
Biography

Security and observability teams need centralized visibility into event data to identify and automate responses to vulnerabilities and deliver a flawless end-user experience. However, security and performance data often remain siloed in point solutions, compelling companies to duplicate and transfer data to traditional SIEM or log management solutions. Using these solutions as a data lake becomes cost-prohibitive since they were developed in the pre-cloud era and fail to leverage the latest innovations.

Join us as we discuss how enterprises can explore modern data lake solutions to capture and unify all data leading to better outcomes while significantly reducing costs when your data volume may be exceeding the pace of your budget.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Bridging the Gap of Converged IT/OT in an Ever Evolving Threat Landscape

Ken Foster
VP of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
FLEETCOR
ISE® East People's Choice Award Winner 2022
Biography

The convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) has become a critical focus for businesses with dual infrastructures, as it presents new opportunities and challenges. One serious consideration is how cybersecurity plays in this this converged environment. Join us for an engaging discussion on how this critical focus for businesses can present new opportunities and challenges as well as organizational and cultural considerations. Additionally, we will explore the best practices for integrating cyber security into IT and OT systems where operational efficiency and optimization can be garnered in the modern business environment.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: Tackling the Weaponization of Communication Apps

Ely Turkenitz
Sr. Manager
Santa Clara County / TSS (Technology Services and Solutions)
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Enabling Your Security Investments to Work in Concert as One Coordinated Symphony

      

David Nolan
Vice President, Enterprise Risk & CISO
Aaron's
ISE® East Executive Award Finalist 2023
ISE® East People's Choice Award Winner 2023
Biography

As threats grow more sophisticated and span across a greater variety of attack vectors, ensuring consistent detection across your environment has never been more critical. In today’s hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-vector landscape, complexity is the biggest challenge. Security teams must protect an ever-expanding ecosystem, running operations across dozens of tools with inconsistent integration. IoT and hybrid work have led to an expanded attack surface. Phishing, malware, and ransomware are doubling and even tripling year over year. At the same time, businesses are more hyper-connected than ever before. A security breach to one company can impact a company’s suppliers, partners, customers and even whole sectors of the economy.

Join us for an engaging discussion on how the new normal calls for cyber security resilience — the ability to protect the integrity of every aspect of the business to withstand unpredictable threats or changes and emerge stronger. Additionally, we will explore from an executive perspective how an XDR solution that is open, extensible and cloud-first, will benefit from unified detection and event correlation across your environment instead of adding additional layers of complexity.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Protecting What Really Matters Most—Your Data and Applications

Gatha Sadhir
Global CISO
Carnival Corporation
Biography

In today’s digital world, applications have become mission-critical for organizations looking to drive rapid growth and to stay connected with customers. As technology evolves, the attack surface becomes more sophisticated offering threat actors a range of vectors to target and compromise. Combined with stagnating budgets, fluctuating economic trends and limited team sizes, these challenges cause security leaders to feel the pressure to consider the increased threat landscape to include sensitive data that's exposed through APIs.

Join this insightful discussion to participate in a conversation about how security leaders can enable and empower their teams to safeguard sensitive data using modern security platforms that protect your applications, continuously scan for APIs that expose sensitive data and shield them, and provide automation tools that let you achieve increasingly complex tasks without growing your team. We will also explore how a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database is essential to reducing the risks created by third-party code.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Doing More With Less: Improving Your Security Posture on a Budget

Shamoun Siddiqui
VP, CISO
Neiman Marcus
Biography

Every security executive faces the challenge of keeping their business secure while managing budget constraints in the face of a rapidly expanding threat landscape. Not every organization is positioned with all the right skills, or the scale, required to provide 24x7x365 defense across an ever-expanding set of security technologies. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to do more with less, enhance your security posture and accelerate your incident response. We will also deep dive on how your organization can ruthlessly mitigate cyber threats before they begin to represent a real problem and continually shape an ongoing plan for cyber resiliency.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: Tackling the Weaponization of Communication Apps

Peter Tse
Information Security Officer
CTBC Bank, New York Branch
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Robert Wahl
VP, Chief Information Security Officer
PetSmart
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

Mike Zachman
VP & Chief Security Officer
Zebra Technologies
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t” see still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

ISE® EAST PRIVATE WELCOME DINNER
Cyber-Resiliency: Harden your Data Security Posture to Ensure Compliance Across Your Hybrid Cloud

Gary Phillips
Vice President, CIAM Technology
E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley
Biography

For today’s enterprise, security and privacy represent both competitive advantages and prerequisites for doing business. This has made data security a long-standing priority, but an ongoing challenge. Thwarting a wide range of attack vectors across an expansive and continuously evolving threat surface requires a fresh approach in today's modern, cloud era. Join us for an insightful discussion on how security teams can harden your data security posture to eliminate sensitive data breaches. We will explore how security leaders can stay on top of your evolving data landscape using new methods for continuously detecting new or changing data. In addition, we will deep dive into how developing deep data context gives your teams confidence to apply the right controls, maturing your zero trust architecture and assuring compliance and ransomware resilience across your cloud estate.

ISE® East Summit and Awards 2023

The ISE® East Summit and Awards 2023 will be held on May 4, 2023 at The Whitley Hotel in Atlanta, GA. The ISE® East Awards are held in conjunction with a one day Executive Forum which includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the nation to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.
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ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Refine The Wheel – Crafting An Intentional And Goal Oriented Cloud Security Strategy That Tackles The Unknown Threat

Neil Carpenter
Principal Technical Evangelist
Orca Security
Biography

Kevin Gowen
Chief Information Security Officer
Synovus Financial Corporation
ISE® East Executive Award Winner 2022
Biography

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Tanweer Surve
CTO Cloud Control Management
Wells Fargo
Biography

For many security teams embarking on a multi-year cloud transformation journey, the expectation is to hit the ground running before the paint is even dry. But the evolving threat landscape can make it difficult to get started. Join our panel of cyber security thought leaders as they outline strategies and hone in on tactics for creating a cloud security plan that will modernize and simplify your security stack. The panel will also explore how emergent AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will introduce new opportunities and risks in your cloud security work.

ISE® VIP PROGRAMS DURING RSA™ CONFERENCE 2023

Once again, T.E.N. via the ISE® VIP Programs will proudly be at the RSA® Conference with opportunities for you to meet with your executive peers from a cross-section of industries from across the country. Hosted by ISE® Alumni and sponsored by leading security solution providers, the ISE® VIP Programs are exclusive invitation-only programs that offer a unique opportunity to connect, collaborate and celebrate with leading IT and Information Security Executives® throughout the RSA® Conference. ISE® VIP Programs include signature luncheons and exclusive VIP receptions in evenings.

ISE® VIP PRIVATE DINNER
Zero to SIEM in Seconds: Modernize Your Security Operations by Empowering SOC Automation

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Ian Reid
SVP Group Cyber
Truist
Biography

Today’s attack surface is continuously expanding due to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures and more cloud-based applications. Security operations are having difficulties in scaling and managing the volume of data and variety of security tools due to resource constraints and escalating costs. This leads to limited visibility, manual detection, and slow investigation efforts leading to delayed response to complex targeted attacks. Join us for an insightful dinner discussion on how security leaders can adopt an analytics-driven approach that goes beyond current SIEM, XDR and other SOC solutions to reduce alert fatigue, manual efforts, and inadequate response. We will explore the best practices associated with how to improve threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) for security teams.

ISE® VIP RECEPTION
Sensitive Dark Data: Capturing the Elusive Risk

Joe Bennett
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Adient
Biography

Kevin Coppins
CEO & President
Spirion
Biography

Marshall Heilman
Board Member
Spirion
Biography

Nathan Kennedy
AVP, Security
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
Biography

Chris McFarland
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Biography

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Board Member, Spirion
Biography

Multi-cloud networks, new AI applications, and unstructured data systems are often added without the security team’s knowledge, expanding the attack surface without adherence to security policies. While cybersecurity tools have matured and are more capable of detecting threats and vulnerabilities, improving data protection with data discovery and classification is an ever more important priority. Complicating the situation further, regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and U.S. state laws such as the CCPA mandate the protection of sensitive and personal information. At the end of the day, you can’t protect what you don’t know you have. It is time to capture the elusive risk of sensitive dark data.

You’re invited to an engaging evening of networking, best practice sharing, and wine tasting with your executive peers to discuss how to optimize your efforts for security, privacy, and compliance. And no matter how strong your data privacy and security efforts are, planning for and having knowledge of accurate data discovery is essential to protecting your enterprise.

ISE® VIP RECEPTION
Raise Your Spirits - Be Protected from the Unexpected

Tom Fischer
Bourbon Expert and Founder
BourbonBlog.com
Biography

Medha Bhalodkar
CISO, Enterprise IT Risk Officer
Columbia University
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2015 - Academic/Public Sector Category
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2016 - Academic/Public Sector Category
ISE® Northeast Executive Award Finalist 2018
Biography

Tom Gillis
SVP/GM Security Business Group
Cisco Systems
Biography

Gary Hayslip
Director of Information Security (CISO)
SoftBank Group
ISE® West Executive of the Year Award Winner 2015
ISE® North America People's Choice Award Winner 2015
Biography

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Patty Wright
VP CXPM Security & Collaboration
Cisco Systems
Biography

Join us for this by-invitation-only gathering to connect with your executive peers on how end-to-end security with threat visibility brings security resilience across entire the network. An engaging evening, executive guests will also enjoy chef curated dishes, delicious cocktails, and an exclusive bourbon/whiskey tasting from Bourbon expert, Tom Fischer.

Sharing his in-depth knowledge of bourbon and whiskey, Tom Fischer will entertain us with spirited stories as we walk through a hand-selected flight of spirits. This exclusive event promises to turn you into a huge bourbon/whiskey aficionado as we enjoy a private dinner reception at Waterbar, widely recognized for setting new standards of sustainability, variety and excellence in dining.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
THE SEQUEL - More on How Collaboration Comes More Phishing Because Cyber Criminals are Upping their Threat Game in a Big Way

Moderator:

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

John Fokker
Head of Threat Intelligence & Principal Engineer
Trellix
Biography

DJ Goldsworthy
Vice President of Security Operations & Threat Management
Aflac
Biography

Dr. Yonesy F. Núñez
Chief Information Security Officer
Jack Henry & Associates
ISE® East Executive Award Finalist 2022
ISE® East Executive Award Winner 2023
Biography

We heard and listened that there is so much more to cover in how collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack being an integral part of everyday working life in today’s hyperconnected world but they are not designed with security in mind. Join us for an insightful discussion as we deep dive into how phishers can now attack via a variety of methods and techniques into your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. We will also delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with these collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will explore how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also continue how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Unlock Data From Privacy Constraints to Avoid Disruption and Empower Innovation

Kara Schlageter
SVP, IAM Transformation
Truist
Biography

Globalization investments that have built your business are now at risk from the growing complexity of sovereignty, localization, and privacy requirements. Operating at a global scale means sensitive data must be able to move and be processed across complex legal, corporate, geo-political, and regulatory boundaries on a limitless variety of infrastructure and applications. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to overcome these constraints by exploring a new approach that uses simple technology foundations that are built to achieve compliance across an entire enterprise and without borders.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Paul Reyes
Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Cyber Security, Risk, and Compliance
Vistra Corp.
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: Tackling the Weaponization of Communication Apps

Bill Boni
Retired Senior Vice President
Information Security
T-Mobile USA
ISE® Central Executive Award Winner 2007
ISE® North America Commercial Executive Award Finalist 2007
ISE® Luminary Leadership Award Winner 2015
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

Joe Bennett
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Adient
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t see" still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Leading the Charge in Managing Cloud Security Risks as a CISO

Moderator:

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Andy Ellis
Advisory CISO
Orca Security
Biography

Max Garcia
CISO, Global Banking Division
NCR Corporation
Biography

Chris McFarland
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Biography

The financial climate has shifted, making an intentional cloud security budgeting strategy more important than ever. As the CISO, it’s your responsibility to enable security while keeping your eyes on the big picture. Join us for an engaging discussion as we unpack four budget scenarios your organization may be facing: tightening, business as usual, more funding, or even an unknown budget. We will explore how each situation requires different approaches, allowing you to walk away with clear steps you can take to reach a state of security and preparedness.

Attendees of this ISE® Fireside Webinar are eligible to earn 1 CPE credit upon its conclusion.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Daniel Goldenberg
Director of Information Security
Plymouth Rock Assurance
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Ensuring SaaS Security Without Disrupting Business Productivity

Andy Ellis
Operating Partner
YL Ventures
Biography

SaaS applications have become deeply embedded in every business function within forward thinking organizations, from sales and marketing to R&D. They are designed to facilitate business productivity and efficiency and empower business users to adopt them at scale without involving IT. The downside is that security teams are left without visibility into the often-indiscriminate adoption of cloud services, risky SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, ungoverned user identities and privileges, SaaS misconfigurations, and the external over-sharing of data. Join us for an engaging discussion as we explore how to mitigate these SaaS risks and share best practices on how security teams can engage with business users on proper SaaS application security hygiene without impeding business productivity or the velocity of SaaS adoption.

Additionally, T.E.N. will be providing a car service that is unique to the event for each reconfirmed executive. This will ensure a safe method of transportation to and from the event for all of our guests.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Branndon Kelley
Sr. Vice President Strategy & Innovation
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
American Municipal Power
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Protecting What Really Matters Most—Your Data and Applications

Michael Dent
Chief Information Security Officer
Fairfax County Government
ISE® North America Executive Award Finalist 2014 - Academic/Public Sector Category
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2015 - Academic/Public Sector Category
Biography

In today’s digital world, applications have become mission-critical for organizations looking to drive rapid growth and to stay connected with customers. As technology evolves, the attack surface becomes more sophisticated offering threat actors a range of vectors to target and compromise. Combined with stagnating budgets, fluctuating economic trends and limited team sizes, these challenges cause security leaders to feel the pressure to consider the increased threat landscape to include sensitive data that's exposed through APIs.

Join this insightful discussion to participate in a conversation about how security leaders can enable and empower their teams to safeguard sensitive data using modern security platforms that protect your applications, continuously scan for APIs that expose sensitive data and shield them, and provide automation tools that let you achieve increasingly complex tasks without growing your team. We will also explore how a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database is essential to reducing the risks created by third-party code.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

James Carpenter
CISO, CTO
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
ISE® Central People's Choice Award Winner 2009
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t” see still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

TedxMcfarlandYouth HOSTED BY GeorgiaFIRST Robotics CTSO Officers
Recapturing the Competitive Edge on the Global Stage: Does STEM Give Us That Advantage?

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

An event focused on presenting a wide array of topics to discuss current practices and how change can help, show off ground-breaking innovations to propel us forward, and a whole other variety of topics to inspire those who are looking to make a change.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Putting Customer Trust at the Center Point of Competition

Bob Varnadoe
Corporate Vice President, Global CISO
NCR
ISE® Southeast Executive Award Finalist 2018
ISE® East Executive Award Finalist 2023
Biography

It’s no secret that trust is the cornerstone on which all lasting relationships are built. With information literally at our fingertips from anywhere and anytime, customers, partners and employees alike can freely move from task to the next via the toggle of an app, a swipe or click of a button. With the digital age being front and center bringing forth a plethora of competitive advantages and a new threat landscape, protecting the information flow is essential to preserving brand reputation and ensuring trust. Join us for an engaging discussion on why enterprises across every vertical will need to prioritize data privacy and security to safeguard their relationships with customers by being transparent about the dangers of data in the digital age. We will also explore the challenges that associated with an exponential rise in data, share the best practices for business process alignment to keep the data safe, and what platforms are available for securing your data whether on-premise and in the cloud.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: How Cyber Criminals are Upping their Threat Game in a Big Way.

Moderator:

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

John Fokker
Head of Threat Intelligence & Principal Engineer
Trellix
Biography

DJ Goldsworthy
Vice President of Security Operations & Threat Management
Aflac
Biography

Dr. Yonesy F. Núñez
Chief Information Security Officer
Jack Henry & Associates
ISE® East Executive Award Finalist 2022
ISE® East Executive Award Winner 2023
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

Attendees of this ISE® Fireside Webinar are eligible to earn 1 CPE credit upon its conclusion.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Ensuring SaaS Security Without Disrupting Business Productivity

Andy Ellis
Advisory CISO
Orca Security
Biography

SaaS applications have become deeply embedded in every business function within forward thinking organizations, from sales and marketing to R&D. They are designed to facilitate business productivity and efficiency and empower business users to adopt them at scale without involving IT. The downside is that security teams are left without visibility into the often-indiscriminate adoption of cloud services, risky SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, ungoverned user identities and privileges, SaaS misconfigurations, and the external over-sharing of data. Join us for an engaging discussion as we explore how to mitigate these SaaS risks and share best practices on how security teams can engage with business users on proper SaaS application security hygiene without impeding business productivity or the velocity of SaaS adoption.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Building Digital Trust – a Security Leadership Perspective

Peter Tse
Information Security Officer
CTBC Bank, New York Branch
Biography

In an era of data proliferation, supply chain convergence, and an expanding attack surface, how are CISOs and security leaders responding? Join us for an engaging discussion on how enterprises are adapting their approaches to build digital trust and resilience both inside and outside the business.

Additionally, T.E.N. will be providing a car service that is unique to the event for each reconfirmed executive. This will ensure a safe method of transportation to and from the event for all of our guests.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Stakes Rise as Lateral Movement is the New Cyber Battleground

Drake Cody
Head of Global Cybersecurity Operations
Gallagher

Enterprises are facing an unprecedented level of threat and complexity as they operate in today’s multi-cloud and digital world. Consequently, the stakes in security continue to rise and lateral security has become the new battleground. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to best defend against the broadening attack surface where security teams can garner an improved level of visibility across workloads, devices, users and networks to detect, protect, and respond to cyber threats. We will also explore how security teams can make more informed decisions to detect and stop lateral movement of attacks that are stymied due to the limited context of their systems.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Staying Ahead of the Curve: How Cybersecurity Executives Can Focus on Preventing Evasive HEAT Attacks

Kannan Perumal
CISO
Applied Materials
Biography

Just like any business or industry, cybercriminals are continually on the lookout for ways to innovate and remain relevant as trends and market dynamics evolve. The shift to remote and hybrid work and acceleration of cloud adoption has transformed the daily routines for most workers, with most of it revolving around the browser. It only makes sense from an attacker’s perspective to cast a line where the majority of fish are swimming because they can evade detection from traditional security tools. It then comes as no surprise that Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT) represent an important evolution in attacker techniques to exploit key gaps in traditional security defenses. Join us for a forward-thinking discussion on how organizations can focus on three key tenets to limit their susceptibility to these types of attacks: shifting from a detection to a proactive mindset, stopping threats before they hit the endpoint, and incorporating advanced anti-phishing and isolation capabilities. We will also explore how HEAT attacks evade existing security defenses where hackers exploit the weaknesses of the existing security stack, are building sophisticated delivery mechanisms to evade detection as well as how to prevent them.