ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Summit and Awards
October 16, 2024
W Dallas – Victory in Dallas, TX
The ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Awards recognize the information security executives and their teams who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in risk management, data asset protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and network security. The ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Awards are held in conjunction with a one-day Summit which includes keynote speakers and 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 to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.
ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Executive Award Winner 2024
Arif Basha
Vice President
Collectors
ISE® Central-West Executive Award Winner 2024
ISE® Central-West People's Choice Award Winner 2024
Biography
ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Project Award Winner 2024
AI SOC Use Cases
Executive Sponsor: Kevin Kennedy, Managing Director, Security Operations Center
Project Team: Connor Shields, Christopher Johnson, Anthony Prezenchuk, Christopher Cammilleri
Through the implementation of three innovative AI use cases - Project Guru, Scribe, and Codex - the Blackstone SOC has transformed traditional operations, enabling streamlined threat identification, incident resolution, and detection documentation.
ISE® CENTRAL-WEST People's Choice Award Winner 2024
Arif Basha
Vice President
Collectors
ISE® Central-West Executive Award Winner 2024
ISE® Central-West People's Choice Award Winner 2024
Biography
ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Executive Award Finalists 2024
Eric Freeman
CISO
Leidos QTC Health Services
ISE® Central-West Executive Award Finalist 2024
Biography
Robert Pace
VP, Information Security & CISO
Invitation Homes
ISE® West Executive Award Finalist 2022
ISE® West People's Choice Award Winner 2023
ISE® Central-West Executive Award Finalist 2024
Biography
ISE® CENTRAL-WEST Project Award Finalists 2024
GuardianEye: Security Data Lake For Centralized Collection of Log, Alert, Telemetry, and Cyber Threat Intelligence
Executive Sponsor: Arif Basha, Vice President
Project Team: Arif Basha, Amin Tora, Urfan Ahmed
GuardianEye is a serverless security data lake using python-based detection rules, SQL/Spark and ML anomaly identification using Apache Iceberg and ECS. It is compatible with various analytics engines without vendor lock-in.
The Matrix
Executive Sponsor: Gabriel Lawrence, Vice President, Cyber Protection
Project Team: Kell Rozmang, Sylvia Huang
Create a Cyber Security Data Storage and Analytics platform in AWS cloud using serverless solutions and Microsoft Sentinel. This provides a working pipeline to collect data from instrumentation on premises and cloud event data sources at TMNA and shared service for other Toyota affiliates.
Modern Authentication
Executive Sponsor: Shashank Kapoor, CISO
Project Team: Sivaraja Dhanapal, Kyle Johnson, Amy White, Shawn Rasmor, Jamie Morgan, Jessamy Carruthers, Simon Urbina, James Alves, Jim Smeenge
Modernize authentication across products to reduce risk & fraud for our customers. Create a single login for all products, force MFA and ID verification. Provide customers with indicators that help them make better informed decisions around risks of a transaction or who they are working with.