Networking Breakfast

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

Morning Security Briefing with the FBI

Presented by Kevin Brennan, Special Agent, The FBI, Seattle

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

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.

• Steve Bade, Director of Integration and Innovation, BluVector
• Jeff Bird, Senior Security Specialist, Juniper Networks
• Jack Danahy, Chief Technology Officer, Barkly
• Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO, RedSeal

Pulse Secure Discussion: Effectuating Multi-Cloud Access Security

Presented by Jim Hebler, Americas Director of Cyber-Security Solutions Strategies, Pulse Secure

Catered Lunch

Darktrace Discussion: Autonomous Cyber Defense: AI and the Immune System Approach

Presented by Parker Ashley, Director, Darktrace

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 Jim Hebler, Americas Director of Cyber-Security Solutions Strategies, Pulse Secure

• Kevin Brennan, Special Agent, The FBI, Seattle
• John Linzy, Sales Engineer, Bitdefender
• Phil Richards, Chief Security Officer, Ivanti
• Ravila White, Chief Digital Information Security Officer Optum

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 Katie Gray, Partner, In-Q-Tel

• Brett Hansen, Vice President Client Software and General Manager Data Security, Dell
• David Hawkins, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Accellion
• Barbara Kay, Sr. Director, Product Marketing - Security, ExtraHop Networks
• Peter McNaull, Sales Engineer, LogRhythm

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