Networking Breakfast

Meet, Engage & Enjoy Breakfast with fellow Business Leaders, Cyber Experts, Government Officials & Thought Leaders.

Morning Security Briefing with the U.S. Department of Justice: The High Value of Information - National Security Considerations for Industry

A fair and open foreign investment climate, which the United States committed to long ago, and remains committed to today, depends on the rule of law. The “rule of law” requires transparency and predictability. To be as clear as possible about the kinds of concerns the Justice Department has when it reviews the acquisition of a business or the application for a telecommunications license, we will cover the National Security Division’s national asset protection program, the foreign investment review portfolio, some recent investigations illustrating the high value of ordinary data, and efforts at legislative changes. 

Briefing by Sanchi Jayaram, Chief for Foreign Investment and Corporate Engagement, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Morning Keynote with IBM: The Security Implications of Moving to the Cloud

Presented by David Cass, CISO, IBM

CenturyLink Discussion: Be Careful What You Ask For: You Are Now The CISO

PANEL 1: Incident Response Orchestration & Beyond: The CISO and Senior Leadership’s Best Approach to Cyber Defense

Fact: A 2018 report researched by PwC interviewed 9,500 executives from 122 countries revealed that 54% do not have an incident response plan and 44% did not have an overall info security strategy. That indicates that the future of successful cyber attacks is inevitable. This panel discusses “Security Orchestration” which unites the security teams or “human element” with pre-existing automated tools and processes around security incidents. Effective alerts, automated incident response actions with solutions that integrate & communicate with each other can all assist in making sense of the breach and respond in an orchestrated fashion. A proper plan also includes a communication process incorporating the legal, law enforcement, insurance and public relations team. Today’s CISO needs to anticipate, and predict how the security challenges of the future may affect the business and be able to articulate that to the board along with eventually disseminating the breach to the media & public.

• Jack Danahy, Chief Technology Officer, Barkly
• Sean Frazier, Advisory CISO, Duo Security
• Paul Schofield, Director of Partner Architecture and Enablement, enSilo
• Joel White, Senior Director, Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance, AICPA
• Kai Yuan, Manager, Sales Engineer, RedSeal

Pulse Secure Discussion: Effectuating Multi-Cloud Access Security

The transition from legacy data centers to hybrid environments brings an array of usability, visibility and protection challenges as users connect to applications and resources across network, cloud and SaaS domains. With accelerated demands to support a mobile workforce and consumerization of IT, “trust but verify” controls are crucial to mitigate malware, data privacy, breach and IoT threats. How can anytime, anywhere access be seamless while ensuring consistent policy and protection capabilities. Whether your business is fully cloud invested or going on a per app and business case, this session will explore:

• How, why and impact of siloed, work-around secure access mechanisms
• Defining identity, device, security state and information relationships
• Key components of protected connections, appropriate access, and availability
• Considerations to gain intelligence, unify policies and orchestrate workflows
• A reference platform for on-premise and multi-cloud Secure Access

Catered Lunch

PANEL 2: Protecting Your Enterprise from the Human Element: Your Employees and Corporate Spies

With 90% of organizations feeling vulnerable to insider attacks and a majority of organizations confirming insider attacks against their organizations in the past 12 months, insider threat proves to be even more virulent than malicious attacks by actors beyond your network walls. On your payroll in one way or another, these dissatisfied employees, corporate spies and the like, have the means to harm your business. These insiders also have the ability to cause harm without meaning to! This panel will enlighten you on what insider threat & corporate espionage put at risk in your business. You will learn how identify threats inside your business (malicious and accidental) and leave with strong takeaways that will allow you to fortify your company defenses.

Moderated by Ryan Spelman, Senior Director, Center for Internet Security

• Ronald Yearwood, Section Chief of Cyber Operations III, Cyber Division, The FBI
• Paul De Souza, Founder & President, Cyber Security Forum Initiative
• Justin Fier, Director of Cyber Intelligence & Analytics, Darktrace
• John Smith, Sr. Security Engineer, ExtraHop Networks
• Kristina Tanasichuk, Founder and CEO, Government Technology & Services Coalition

PANEL 3: Ransomware: To Pay or Not Pay - That is the Question!

Ransomware sales have increased by over 1,400% over the last two years. The impact of ransomware, destructive malware and related attacks is growing globally as the statistics illustrate. This panel addresses the question of whether your company should pay the cyber criminals with the fact that you may not retrieve your data regardless. Best practices including continually backing up your critical files to multiple locations including the cloud, the use of decryption tools when your assets are held for ransom, keeping your security software up to date and training the employees about the dangers of opening the wrong attachment or link. 

Moderated by Deidre Diamond, Founder & CEO, CyberSN; Founder, brainbabe.org

• Melody Balcet, Director, Global Cybersecurity Intelligence, The AES Corporation; President, ISACA GWDC
• Mary Beth Borgwing, Co-Chair, Uniting Women in Cyber; President, Standish Cyber Corp
• Chuck Brooks, Principal Market Growth Strategist, Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies, General Dynamics Mission Systems
• Emily Gaston, CISO, Privo
• Michael Haag, Director of Advanced Threat Detection and Research, Red Canary
• James Lui, Vice President of Product Management, Ericom Software

Closing Security Keynote with The NSA

The NSA’s Cybersecurity Operations Center (NCTOC) has one of the largest 24*7*365 presences across the US Government, as they defend over 3 million users across the globe, around the clock.  

Mr. Dave Hogue, Technical Director will discuss how innovations in policy, technology, and people can lead to break-through results in this operational environment.'

Presented by Dave Hogue, Technical Director, The NSA, Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center

Cocktail & Cigar Reception and Raffle Winner Announcements