What's the single most important component of an effective cyber-security program? Here's a hint: It has nothing to do with technology. Dave Grady, Senior Client Partner from Verizon's Security Solutions group, will discuss the importance of stakeholder engagement in cyber-security. Drawing on his 10 years as a security program manager and a previous 15-year career as an internal communications manager, Grady will explore how better communication between security teams and the business lines, executives and customers they support can make for a more effective security program. Better still, effective stakeholder engagement can reduce security-practitioner burnout and contribute to their professional growth.

Join senior executives from BitSight, Tanium, Recorded Future and Cylance for a panel discussion on how cyber-security is taking a bigger seat at the "strategic table" as more organizations look at risk from an integrated perspective. Moderated by Verizon's Dave Grady, this panel discussion will offer into how some of the world's most leading-edge organizations are re-evaluating the role of cybersecurity in enterprise risk -- and transforming their security programs to adapt to a world of complex IT ecosystems and ever-emerging threats.

Today 86% of organizations are in the process of building or already have an existing system in place to prevent/defend against insider attacks; if this statistic proves anything it is that more and more business are coming to terms with the hostilities of our world. Expected or unexpected, an employee with access to company-wide systems, no matter their intentions is a great threat to any organization. An employee with malicious intentions is dangerous, but according to a recent IBM survey, 95% of all breaches involved someone making a mistake. The Insider Threat panel at the Cyber Security Summit will show you how your organization is at risk, as well as showing you innovative & necessary steps to take in order to prevent attacks and increasing your defense systems.

In a world that is increasingly digital, cyber-attack has become the most significant risk confronting today’s businesses, smart cities, and critical infrastructure. Online crime cost the world more than half a trillion dollars last year, while recent attacks have managed to influence the U.S. presidential election and disrupt the Ukrainian power supply. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditional approach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks on a daily basis. Moreover, these attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from responding before their damage is done.

As a fundamentally unique approach to security, cyber AI systems need not predict tomorrow’s attacks based on yesterday’s threats. Powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence, the latest cyber AI security systems instead continuously refine their defenses by learning ‘on the job’ to differentiate between normal and abnormal behaviour in an enterprise, enabling them to flag even subtly malicious activity. Thus, whereas traditional cyber security technologies are blind to unknown threats, self-learning cyber AI systems detect such novel attacks by spontaneously drawing connections that human programmers can’t see. And as ready-to-deploy exploit kits and advanced malware packages spawn new cyber-threats around the world, the challenge of securing the digital realm can only be met with AI security systems that can learn, evolve, and fight back.

In this session, you will learn:

• Where cyber-criminals have found weaknesses in legacy approaches to security
• Why only self-learning security tools can stop never-before-seen attacks
• How to protect your network from machine-speed attacks with Darktrace Antigena
• What gaining 100% network visibility of your entire digital estate — including cloud environments and IoT devices — can reveal about the latent vulnerabilities that advanced attackers are targeting today

Any means access to enterprise apps and resources is the new normal, as is news on advanced threats and massive data breaches. While perimeter controls are not going away, the mantra of Zero Trust dictates a verify before trust approach to safeguard access. As companies continue to migrate to the cloud, organizations are considering per-application access using a software defined perimeter (SDP) architecture. SDP offers simple and secure endpoint to application authentication with stateful access compliance. While the death of firewalls and VPNs has been grossly exaggerated, how, when and where should organizations take advantage of this extended mode of secure access?

This session will explore:

• Hybrid IT trends ushering new Secure Access challenges
• Key tenets of Zero Trust applied to Secure Access
• SDP capabilities, use cases and considerations
• Reference architecture for dual-mode VPN and SDP

Every organization manages about 20 distinct security technologies, with enough staff to operate five of them well. Hiring isn’t the answer — the talent pool is nearly dry. Instead, we must get all our existing security investments to work. Together.

You’ll see:

• How products and vendors are sharing information
• Operational benefits from integrations
• Improved cybersecurity results – a safer, more resilient company