EVENTCISO Public Sector Summit | Dec 10, 2019 | Convene - 600 14th Street NW - Washington, DC, USA
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Keynote Presentation
Visionary speaker presents to entire audience on key issues, challenges and business opportunities
Keynote Presentations give attending delegates the opportunity to hear from leading voices in the industry. These presentations feature relevant topics and issues aligned with the speaker's experience and expertise, selected by the speaker in concert with the summit's Content Committee." title="Keynote Presentations give attending delegates the opportunity to hear from leading voices in the industry. These presentations feature relevant topics and issues aligned with the speaker's experience and expertise, selected by the speaker in concert with the summit's Content Committee.
Executive Visions
Panel moderated by Master of Ceremonies and headed by four executives discussing critical business topics
Executive Visions sessions are panel discussions that enable in-depth exchanges on critical business topics. Led by a moderator, these sessions encourage attending executives to address industry challenges and gain insight through interaction with expert panel members." title="Executive Visions sessions are panel discussions that enable in-depth exchanges on critical business topics. Led by a moderator, these sessions encourage attending executives to address industry challenges and gain insight through interaction with expert panel members.
Thought Leadership
Solution provider-led session giving high-level overview of opportunities
Led by an executive from the vendor community, Thought Leadership sessions provide comprehensive overviews of current business concerns, offering strategies and solutions for success. This is a unique opportunity to access the perspective of a leading member of the vendor community." title="Led by an executive from the vendor community, Thought Leadership sessions provide comprehensive overviews of current business concerns, offering strategies and solutions for success. This is a unique opportunity to access the perspective of a leading member of the vendor community.
Think Tank
End user-led session in boardroom style, focusing on best practices
Think Tanks are interactive sessions that place delegates in lively discussion and debate. Sessions admit only 15-20 participants at a time to ensure an intimate environment in which delegates can engage each other and have their voices heard." title="Think Tanks are interactive sessions that place delegates in lively discussion and debate. Sessions admit only 15-20 participants at a time to ensure an intimate environment in which delegates can engage each other and have their voices heard.
Roundtable
Interactive session led by a moderator, focused on industry issue
Led by an industry analyst, expert or a member of the vendor community, Roundtables are open-forum sessions with strategic guidance. Attending delegates gather to collaborate on common issues and challenges within a format that allows them to get things done." title="Led by an industry analyst, expert or a member of the vendor community, Roundtables are open-forum sessions with strategic guidance. Attending delegates gather to collaborate on common issues and challenges within a format that allows them to get things done.
Case Study
Overview of recent project successes and failures
Case Studies allow attending executives to hear compelling stories about implementations and projects, emphasizing best practices and lessons learned. Presentations are immediately followed by Q&A sessions." title="Case Studies allow attending executives to hear compelling stories about implementations and projects, emphasizing best practices and lessons learned. Presentations are immediately followed by Q&A sessions.
Focus Group
Discussion of business drivers within a particular industry area
Focus Groups allow executives to discuss business drivers within particular industry areas. These sessions allow attendees to isolate specific issues and work through them. Presentations last 15-20 minutes and are followed by Q&A sessions." title="Focus Groups allow executives to discuss business drivers within particular industry areas. These sessions allow attendees to isolate specific issues and work through them. Presentations last 15-20 minutes and are followed by Q&A sessions.
Analyst Q&A Session 
Moderator-led coverage of the latest industry research
Q&A sessions cover the latest industry research, allowing attendees to gain insight on topics of interest through questions directed to a leading industry analyst." title="Q&A sessions cover the latest industry research, allowing attendees to gain insight on topics of interest through questions directed to a leading industry analyst.
Vendor Showcase
Several brief, pointed overviews of the newest solutions and services
Taking the form of three 10-minute elevator pitches by attending vendors, these sessions provide a concise and pointed overview of the latest solutions and services aligned with attendee needs and preferences." title="Taking the form of three 10-minute elevator pitches by attending vendors, these sessions provide a concise and pointed overview of the latest solutions and services aligned with attendee needs and preferences.
Executive Exchange
Pre-determined, one-on-one interaction revolving around solutions of interest
Executive Exchanges offer one-on-one interaction between executives and vendors. This is an opportunity for both parties to make key business contacts, ask direct questions and get the answers they need. Session content is prearranged and based on mutual interest." title="Executive Exchanges offer one-on-one interaction between executives and vendors. This is an opportunity for both parties to make key business contacts, ask direct questions and get the answers they need. Session content is prearranged and based on mutual interest.
Open Forum Luncheon
Informal discussions on pre-determined topics
Led by a moderator, Open Forum Luncheons offer attendees informal, yet focused discussions on current industry topics and trends over lunch." title="Led by a moderator, Open Forum Luncheons offer attendees informal, yet focused discussions on current industry topics and trends over lunch.
Networking Session
Unique activities at once relaxing, enjoyable and productive
Networking opportunities take various unique forms, merging enjoyable and relaxing activities with an environment conducive to in-depth conversation. These gatherings allow attendees to wind down between sessions and one-on-one meetings, while still furthering discussions and being productive." title="Networking opportunities take various unique forms, merging enjoyable and relaxing activities with an environment conducive to in-depth conversation. These gatherings allow attendees to wind down between sessions and one-on-one meetings, while still furthering discussions and being productive.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - CISO Public Sector Summit
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Welcome Address & Opening Remarks 
Presented by:
John Suguitan, Director of Relationship Management, CDM Media
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Keynote Presentation
Can U Stix-Shift? The Open Cybersecurity Alliance and Securing the Cloud
IBM and Symantec joined forces with 16 other leading cyberscurity vendors to launch the Open Cybersecurity Alliance on October 8 under the OASIS umbrella. The OCA's goal is to promote an open cybersecurity ecosystem and interoperability between tools via commonly developed code and tooling, using mutually agreed-upon technologies, standards and procedures. The focus of the OCA project is data interchange within cybersecurity operations over the threat management life cycle, including threat hunting and detection, analytics, operations and response.
To this end, IBM contributed the STIX Shifter project to federate security data from disparate sources and tools. STIX Shifter is at the heart of the new IBM Cloud Pak for Security - providing SOC teams the ability to pull insights from their disparate SIEM, EDR, Data Protection and Threat Intel tools into a single platform - while leaving the data where it resides.
How does STIX Shifter work and how can it help you protect your company's hybrid multicloud architecture? What other innovations will come from the OCA members? Find out by attending our keynote.
Sponsored by:
IBM 
Presented by:
Chris Bontempo, IBM Security Marketing Leader, IBM
10:05 am - 10:30 am
Solutions Spotlight
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Morning Networking Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
The Collaboration Security Blindspot
Organizations don't just communicate via email anymore. Slack, OneDrive, Salesforce, Yammer....there are many new channels internally and externally where employees exchange content, that are ripe for cyber attacks. Join us to learn more about this new security challenge and how to close the gap.
Sponsored by:
Perception Point
Presented by:
Zack St. George, Director of Sales, NA, Perception Point
11:15 am - 11:40 am
Solutions Spotlight and Networking
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
From the Outside-In, Instead of the Inside-Out
Seek to create innovation in a space where there is a huge opening and no incumbents. Go where there aren't any current dominant players, precedents, or standards and build something special that captures an entire market. "Swim in the seams" is an analogy that is used to communicate this concept.
Takeaways:
- Setting up a new digital operating model.
- Using the friendly confines of your IT organization
- Turn an internal IT organization into a customer-facing, hyper-focused, product development, marketing machine.
Presented by:
Tim Dickson, VP Digital IT, Laureate International Universities
12:15 pm - 12:40 pm
Keynote Presentation
Identifying and Securing Unstructured Data
Organizations are challenged with how to implement security and privacy requirements across their growing inventory of unprotected unstructured data. Unstructured data in the form of sensitive documents including intellectual property and PII is the "wild west" of data security and privacy as it travels freely internal and external to the organization.
Join your peers in this engaging roundtable discussion to learn how to:
- Recognize the key differences - and complexities - between structured & unstructured data
- Gain an understanding of how to secure data specific to your organization autonomously
- Increase visibility into high risk areas
- Identify what controls and policies should be in place to protect unstructured information assets while maintaining compliance
- Find emerging methods, strategies and best practices for unstructured data security and privacy
Sponsored by:
CyberCentric, Inc
Presented by:
Jeremiah Steptoe, Founder/CEO, CyberCentric, Inc
12:40 pm - 1:50 pm
Working Lunch & Panel
The Revitalizing Change in the Role of the CXO
A CXO's role, goals and objectives have drastically changed over the years as most CXOs supervise teams and units beyond their IT/IT security. Because of these changes in responsibilities, a CXO's success is measured in greater business metrics. As a result, the role of a CXO has become both more attractive and more demanding.
Takeaways:
- What are the significant changes regarding the role of the CXO
- How to keep up with the changing requirements
- How to properly measure a CXO's success
Moderated by:
Geraldine (Gigi) Green-Branch, Former I.T Leader-Strategy, Enterprise Arch., Data Arch., Data Management and Engineering, T. Rowe Price
Panelists:
Don Spicer, Chief Information Officer, University System of Maryland
Chris Clark, CIO, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association
1:55 pm - 2:20 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
IPv6, IoT, Cybersecurity, and the Future of Internet
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, AI, and many other emerging technologies, it is a daily nightmare encountered by organizations from both public and private sectors, big and small, struggling to react to the aftermath of the constant cybersecurity breaches and ransomware attacks. The situation can only get worse in a few more years when the global IPv6 adoption rate will reach 100% running in parallel with IPv4, effectively doubling the overall attack vectors. Thus we must change our cybersecurity strategy dramatically now to efficiently secure and effectively defend the global network infrastructure before the time is running out. It is high time to adopt and enforce an IPv6-only policy worldwide and set a specific deadline to sunset IPv4 globally.
Presented by:
Charles Sun, IPv6 Expert, Government Executive
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
Bringing Intelligence to Cyber Security
Would you like to learn about Cyber Intelligence and the underlying statecraft that can greatly enhance your organization's risk position. The CIA foiled an attempt of the Russians to steal some Intellectual Property. Knowing what the Russians were after allowed the CIA to make it difficult, but not impossible, to steal what the Russians wanted and thought they were getting.
Presented by:
Dean Lane, Senior Vice President, Cyber Intelligence, Institute of World Politics
2:55 pm - 3:20 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
Situational Awareness is Key - Looking Over the Horizon to the Modern Landscape
Situation: Situational Awareness is an important factor for effective cyber defense. What is happening locally, within your vertical and globally. Threats keep resurfacing. Let's review what we have seen this year.
Complication: As we all know cyber threats keep resurfacing. Bad Actors like to make money, and if they can still do that by reusing former attacks, they will.
Resolution: What do we need to do to stop the trend?
Presented by:
Debby Briggs, Chief Security Officer, Netscout
3:20 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Networking Coffee Break
3:35 pm - 4:00 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
The Geopolitical Landscape's Effects on Organizations
The recent U.S. government bans against Russian-based security products and Chinese smartphones are the latest results of suspicion and distrust of competing world powers. Organizations working with government entities must be aware of the geopolitical stipulations regarding their business relationships. Even with the geopolitical landscape, the buying decisions of security products are still based on trust in the supplier. It is important for CISOs and security leaders to incorporate geopolitical risk in all business-critical software, hardware and services purchasing decisions - even if that means considering local alternatives.
Takeaways:
- Review the geopolitical landscape and how it has effected industries and organizations
- What to be aware of with your buying decisions
- What to anticipate and prepare for in the coming years
Presented by:
Rex Booth, Chief Cyber Threat & Risk, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm
Executive Exchange
Think Tank
Think Tank by Stan Stan Kizior, FORMER COO - Department of IT, State of Maryland for the Comptroller
Presented by:
Stan Kizior, FORMER COO - Department of IT, State of Maryland for the Comptroller
4:35 pm - 4:45 pm
What's the Next Stop On the Transformation Journey?
Our Governing Board will summarize the learnings from the day and discuss the path forward for building an ongoing community of CXOs where common issues can be addressed and success stories can be shared.
Takeaways:
- Building an ongoing community with your peers can be an invaluable resource for tackling the digital transformation projects ahead of you
- Sharing stories of success (and failures) is not reserved to a one-day CXO Summit, but should be shared on a regular basis with your peers
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm