Networking Breakfast

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

Morning Security Briefing with The CIA

Presented by Sean P Roche, Associate Deputy Director of Digital Innovation, The CIA

Morning Keynote with Verizon: Focus Security Where It Matters Most

Enterprises are navigating the perfect storm of digital convergence, struggling to enable digitization across every area of their business while also maintaining a secure environment. The attack surface has expanded, increasing internal/external pressure and security program complexity, while making it nearly impossible to prove return on investment or effectively quantify actual mitigation of risk.

Presented by David Ostertag, Global Investigations Manager, Investigative Response, Verizon

Pulse Secure Discussion: Effectuating Multi-Cloud Access Security

Presented by Scott Gordon (CISSP) Chief Marketing Officer at Pulse Secure

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

Competent CISOs are in high demand.  How do you become appointed to the position of the CISO.   The skills that got  you to the CISO position will not keep you there for long. Successful CISOs know how to lead a security and risk management organization that is well regarded and proficient in a number of areas. Dealing with ever increasing and sophisticated attacks, oversight by the Board of Directors, balancing threats versus compliance requirements, thought leadership, enabling digital transformation strategies, and more. There is a way to not just survive but thrive.

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.

Moderated by John Knies, Chief Information Security Officer, CenturyLink

• Stevan Bernard, Former Security Chief for Sony Pictures Entertainment; Now Heading Bernard Global LLC
• Trish Gundy, Security Engineer, ExtraHop Networks
• Juan Hernandez, Engineer, SentinelOne
• Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Wayne Reynolds, Head of Security, Armor Cloud Security

Catered Lunch

Afternoon Keynote: Cyber Collaboration - The New Normal To Combat Coordinated Attacks

Presented by Timothy Lee, CISO, City of Los Angeles, Information Technology Agency

PANEL 2: 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 Richard Greenberg, President, ISSA & OWASP Los Angeles Chapter; Information Security Officer Los Angeles Dept. of Public Health

• Ara Aslanian, President & CEO, Inverselogic, Inc.
• David Ostertag, Global Investigations Manager, Investigative Response, Verizon
• Justin Vallese, Supervisory Special Agent, The FBI
• Miguel Villegas, Senior Vice President, K3DES LLC
• Tracy Wilkison, First Assistant United States Attorney, California, Central District

Darktrace Discussion: AI-based Autonomous Response: Are Humans Ready?

Global ransomware attacks like WannaCry already move too quickly for humans to keep up, and even more advanced attacks are on the horizon. Cyber security is quickly becoming an arms race — machines fighting machines on the battleground of corporate networks. Algorithms against algorithms.

Artificial intelligence-based cyber defense can not only detect threats as they emerge but also autonomously respond to attacks in real time. As the shortage of trained cyber analysts worsens, the future of security seems to be automatic. But are humans ready to accept the actions machines would take to neutralize threats?

Darktrace recently ran tests across enterprises of all sizes in a variety of industries and has subsequently deployed AI-based autonomous response in over one hundred organizations. In this presentation, explore lessons learned and hear several use-cases in which autonomous response technology augmented human security teams.

In this session learn about:

• AI approaches and algorithms for detecting and responding to threats
• How human teams adopt (or resist) automated defenses
• The concepts of ‘human confirmation’ mode and ‘active defense’
• Success stories across Smart Cities, genomics organizations, and industrial control systems
  

Presented by Parker Ashley, Director, Darktrace

PANEL 3: 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

• Andrew Auerbach, Founder & CEO, Zerho
• Ken Bell, Director of IT Security, Forcepoint
• Chris Burchett, Vice President Client Software Engineering, Dell
• Tyrin Ford, Director, Mimecast
• Arthur Press, Cyber Security Manager, Semtech

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