Archived Events 2023

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

Joe Bennett
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Adient
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t see" still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
Leading the Charge in Managing Cloud Security Risks as a CISO

Moderator:

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

Andy Ellis
Advisory CISO
Orca Security
Biography

Max Garcia
CISO, Global Banking Division
NCR Corporation
Biography

Chris McFarland
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Biography

The financial climate has shifted, making an intentional cloud security budgeting strategy more important than ever. As the CISO, it’s your responsibility to enable security while keeping your eyes on the big picture. Join us for an engaging discussion as we unpack four budget scenarios your organization may be facing: tightening, business as usual, more funding, or even an unknown budget. We will explore how each situation requires different approaches, allowing you to walk away with clear steps you can take to reach a state of security and preparedness.

Attendees of this ISE® Fireside Webinar are eligible to earn 1 CPE credit upon its conclusion.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Daniel Goldenberg
Director of Information Security
Plymouth Rock Assurance
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Ensuring SaaS Security Without Disrupting Business Productivity

Andy Ellis
Operating Partner
YL Ventures
Biography

SaaS applications have become deeply embedded in every business function within forward thinking organizations, from sales and marketing to R&D. They are designed to facilitate business productivity and efficiency and empower business users to adopt them at scale without involving IT. The downside is that security teams are left without visibility into the often-indiscriminate adoption of cloud services, risky SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, ungoverned user identities and privileges, SaaS misconfigurations, and the external over-sharing of data. Join us for an engaging discussion as we explore how to mitigate these SaaS risks and share best practices on how security teams can engage with business users on proper SaaS application security hygiene without impeding business productivity or the velocity of SaaS adoption.

Additionally, T.E.N. will be providing a car service that is unique to the event for each reconfirmed executive. This will ensure a safe method of transportation to and from the event for all of our guests.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Explaining the Unknown: How to Communicate Evasive Threats to the C-Suite

Branndon Kelley
Sr. Vice President Strategy & Innovation
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
American Municipal Power
Biography

For years, communicating effectively with the C-suite and board of directors has been an ongoing exercise for security leaders and their teams. While we haven’t reached nirvana, tremendous strides have been made. However, there are still significant communication challenges that present themselves when it comes to certain topics, such as the single biggest unknown cybersecurity threat; Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). While ransomware tends to make headlines and capture your C-suite’s attention, it’s HEAT attacks that make those possible. Join us for an insightful discussion where we explore what HEAT attacks are and how they drastically increase business risk, but most important, what can be done about them. We will also explore how to maximize security investments in the face of economic downturns and how to augment existing security stacks to prevent HEAT attacks.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Protecting What Really Matters Most—Your Data and Applications

Michael Dent
Chief Information Security Officer
Fairfax County Government
ISE® North America Executive Award Finalist 2014 - Academic/Public Sector Category
ISE® North America Executive Award Winner 2015 - Academic/Public Sector Category
Biography

In today’s digital world, applications have become mission-critical for organizations looking to drive rapid growth and to stay connected with customers. As technology evolves, the attack surface becomes more sophisticated offering threat actors a range of vectors to target and compromise. Combined with stagnating budgets, fluctuating economic trends and limited team sizes, these challenges cause security leaders to feel the pressure to consider the increased threat landscape to include sensitive data that's exposed through APIs.

Join this insightful discussion to participate in a conversation about how security leaders can enable and empower their teams to safeguard sensitive data using modern security platforms that protect your applications, continuously scan for APIs that expose sensitive data and shield them, and provide automation tools that let you achieve increasingly complex tasks without growing your team. We will also explore how a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database is essential to reducing the risks created by third-party code.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Transforming the Enterprise with Pervasive, Empowering Deep Observability

James Carpenter
CISO/CTO
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Dallas, TX
ISE® Central People's Choice Award Winner 2009
Biography

Modern enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives to gain agility and maintain a competitive edge. No matter how many times you’ve heard it, the cliché “you can’t secure what you can’t” see still remains true. As organizations move to increasingly complex hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, the need to gain and maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West, encrypted and container traffic – becomes more critical. Join us for an engaging discussion on how the deep observability enables organizations to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud and set the stage for delivering significant value. With the uncertainty of today’s economy, we will also explore how to minimize the expenses that are associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures by identifying and eliminating security and performance blind spots, breaking down silos, and containing runaway complexity.

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Recapturing the Competitive Edge on the Global Stage: Does STEM Give Us That Advantage?

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

An event focused on presenting a wide array of topics to discuss current practices and how change can help, show off ground-breaking innovations to propel us forward, and a whole other variety of topics to inspire those who are looking to make a change.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Putting Customer Trust at the Center Point of Competition

Bob Varnadoe
Chief Information Security Officer
NCR
ISE® Southeast Executive Award Finalist 2018
Biography

It’s no secret that trust is the cornerstone on which all lasting relationships are built. With information literally at our fingertips from anywhere and anytime, customers, partners and employees alike can freely move from task to the next via the toggle of an app, a swipe or click of a button. With the digital age being front and center bringing forth a plethora of competitive advantages and a new threat landscape, protecting the information flow is essential to preserving brand reputation and ensuring trust. Join us for an engaging discussion on why enterprises across every vertical will need to prioritize data privacy and security to safeguard their relationships with customers by being transparent about the dangers of data in the digital age. We will also explore the challenges that associated with an exponential rise in data, share the best practices for business process alignment to keep the data safe, and what platforms are available for securing your data whether on-premise and in the cloud.

ISE® FIRESIDE WEBINAR
With More Collaboration Comes More Phishing: How Cyber Criminals are Upping their Threat Game in a Big Way.

Moderator:

Marci McCarthy
CEO and President of T.E.N.
CEO and Chairman of ISE® Talent
Biography

John Fokker
Head of Threat Intelligence & Principal Engineer
Trellix
Biography

DJ Goldsworthy
Vice President of Security Operations & Threat Management
Aflac
Biography

Dr. Yonesy F. Núñez
Chief Information Security Officer
Jack Henry & Associates
Biography

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs and Slack are now an integral part of everyday working life where online communications with team members, vendors, partners and customers are par for the course. However, in today’s hyperconnected world, collaboration tool communications were not designed with security in mind. And phishers have taken notice where they can now attack one of the companies in your supply chain with the ultimate intent of getting past your own company’s protections. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the range of security gaps and most active cyber threats that are associated with collaboration tools ---ranging from cryptomining malware, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. We will deep dive on how these simple endpoint attacks are evolving into complex, multi-stage operations giving an easy foothold into company networks. We will also explore how security teams can thwart massive data leaks and expensive ransomware payouts as well as take a look at the vast, new, complicated threat landscape and how we’re seeing phishing used in cyberwarfare.

Attendees of this ISE® Fireside Webinar are eligible to earn 1 CPE credit upon its conclusion.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Ensuring SaaS Security Without Disrupting Business Productivity

Andy Ellis
Advisory CISO
Orca Security
Biography

SaaS applications have become deeply embedded in every business function within forward thinking organizations, from sales and marketing to R&D. They are designed to facilitate business productivity and efficiency and empower business users to adopt them at scale without involving IT. The downside is that security teams are left without visibility into the often-indiscriminate adoption of cloud services, risky SaaS-to-SaaS integrations, ungoverned user identities and privileges, SaaS misconfigurations, and the external over-sharing of data. Join us for an engaging discussion as we explore how to mitigate these SaaS risks and share best practices on how security teams can engage with business users on proper SaaS application security hygiene without impeding business productivity or the velocity of SaaS adoption.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Building Digital Trust – a Security Leadership Perspective

Peter Tse
Information Security Officer
CTBC Bank, New York Branch
Biography

In an era of data proliferation, supply chain convergence, and an expanding attack surface, how are CISOs and security leaders responding? Join us for an engaging discussion on how enterprises are adapting their approaches to build digital trust and resilience both inside and outside the business.

Additionally, T.E.N. will be providing a car service that is unique to the event for each reconfirmed executive. This will ensure a safe method of transportation to and from the event for all of our guests.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
The Stakes Rise as Lateral Movement is the New Cyber Battleground

Drake Cody
Head of Global Cybersecurity Operations
Gallagher

Enterprises are facing an unprecedented level of threat and complexity as they operate in today’s multi-cloud and digital world. Consequently, the stakes in security continue to rise and lateral security has become the new battleground. Join us for an engaging discussion on how to best defend against the broadening attack surface where security teams can garner an improved level of visibility across workloads, devices, users and networks to detect, protect, and respond to cyber threats. We will also explore how security teams can make more informed decisions to detect and stop lateral movement of attacks that are stymied due to the limited context of their systems.

ISE® PRIVATE DINNER
Staying Ahead of the Curve: How Cybersecurity Executives Can Focus on Preventing Evasive HEAT Attacks

Kannan Perumal
CISO
Applied Materials
Biography

Just like any business or industry, cybercriminals are continually on the lookout for ways to innovate and remain relevant as trends and market dynamics evolve. The shift to remote and hybrid work and acceleration of cloud adoption has transformed the daily routines for most workers, with most of it revolving around the browser. It only makes sense from an attacker’s perspective to cast a line where the majority of fish are swimming because they can evade detection from traditional security tools. It then comes as no surprise that Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT) represent an important evolution in attacker techniques to exploit key gaps in traditional security defenses. Join us for a forward-thinking discussion on how organizations can focus on three key tenets to limit their susceptibility to these types of attacks: shifting from a detection to a proactive mindset, stopping threats before they hit the endpoint, and incorporating advanced anti-phishing and isolation capabilities. We will also explore how HEAT attacks evade existing security defenses where hackers exploit the weaknesses of the existing security stack, are building sophisticated delivery mechanisms to evade detection as well as how to prevent them.