Agenda
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM GST
Cybersecurity can generate massive value for our enterprises, but only if we have the courage to challenge the myths that we as cybersecurity professionals tell ourselves. Our self-deceptions lock us into obsolete principles and practices that prevent us from truly aligning with our executive partners and enabling our organizations. This keynote will unpack the biggest myths we must defeat, highlighting the decisions and practical steps cybersecurity leaders must take to deliver the success they deserve.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GST
William Candrick, Director Analyst, Gartner
This Ask the Expert will focus on sharing experiences in the development (or destruction) of security culture. We will explore the meaning of security culture, examine the tools/techniques to shape culture and delve into how culture can be assessed.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GST
Wayne Hankins, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CISOs are key enablers of digital business and are accountable for helping the enterprise balance the associated risks and benefits. This leadership vision will help CISOs in their planning for 2023-2024 and in presentations to leadership, peers and teams.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM GST
Michael Kranawetter, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Challenging global economic conditions continue to see the digital business evolve. CISOs must identify and execute a mix of new methods and other smart tactics to continuously adjust to business demand and demonstrate the cybersecurity team’s role and criticality as an enabler of the organization’s digital ambitions. Join this session to know tactics CISOs use to shorten the runway to program effectiveness and deliver business value.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 05:00 PM GST
Lorna Trayan, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Despite encouraging progress towards greater female representation in IT, the gender gap remains concerningly steep for women who want to enter this industry and for allies who want to foster greater diversity in their teams. This roundtable facilitates the discussion for all digital workplace leaders, male or female, who wish to share and/or learn from their peers how they have encouraged and succeeded in promoting female talent in IT.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GST
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
We like to lament that "the users are the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain," which means that as security and risk management leaders, you must understand the critical impact of the user community on your programs. From basic anti-phishing simulation through more proven communications techniques to sophisticated approaches based on social science, this presentation provides insight into the latest best practices in the human aspects of security.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM GST
Wayne Hankins, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The real threat is not ransomware itself, but the impact on the business from the sudden elimination or interruption of services or processes. In this Ask the Expert session, attendees will have the opportunity to query Gartner (and one another) on how to effectively protect their business from bad actors and recover in the event of a ransomware attack.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GST
William Candrick, Director Analyst, Gartner
CISOs are losing control as business leaders embrace digitalization, implying a shift in risk landscapes and risk appetites. Based on new primary research, this presentation will share the strategies and practices that CISOs are adopting in reaction to these seismic shifts.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM GST
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Ever struggle with designing a security function that is appropriate for your organization? Join us for an interactive session to discuss the different approaches to structure your cybersecurity function through examples.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GST
Wam Voster, VP Analyst, Gartner
Every year, Gartner collects data from thousands of CIOs and CEOs on what matters most to them. Join this session to learn what’s most important to CIOs and CEOs; how their role is changing; the implications for security and risk leaders; and what to focus on next.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
Arthur Sivanathan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The metrics establish a baseline for peer comparison that is very useful for guiding cybersecurity investments and board oversight. Gartner has defined 16 protection-level outcomes that create a foundation for effective collaboration with boards of directors, CIOs and CFOs. These metrics serve as value levers to manage business-led cybersecurity investments. See early insights from the first-generation benchmark and get a preview of the second generation.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GST
Jie Zhang, VP Analyst, Gartner
Risk appetite fails when expressed in fuzzy, imprecise terms. Repositioning risk appetite in the context of investment and value delivery creates a measurable scale of risk that powers a new type of governance. Concrete assertions of risk appetite make executive decisions binding.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GST
Ant Allan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital identity requirements and importance are growing, as organizations are migrating their infrastructure and apps to the cloud. Enterprises anticipate innovations to enable continuous, dynamic and intelligent IAM controls, while bracing for emerging decentralized identity impact and potential Web 3 business model disruption. This session discusses key trends and IAM outlook in the coming years.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GST
Bart Willemsen, VP Analyst, Gartner
Privacy has been the biggest catalyst for change in data governance over the past five years. This session will dive into the top trends and technologies and separate the hype from the substance. Come get a sneak peek into the future of privacy and what you should watch out for in the coming 12 months.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 05:00 PM GST
Bart Willemsen, VP Analyst, Gartner
As any security practitioner knows, it is better and less costly to bake in controls rather than retrofit them. The same goes for privacy. Join this session to ask your questions about the growing practice of privacy engineering and how it can help your organization embed privacy considerations early in the design phases of processes and applications.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM GST
Jie Zhang, VP Analyst, Gartner
Cyber risk management is a key investment area of interest for organizations. But for security and risk management leaders, it is an on-going challenge to continuously assess the increasing scope of risks as well as mitigate the ones that can maximize protection and innovation to the business. This session offers an overview of the state of art as well as what the future will hold in cyber-risk management.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM GST
Bart Willemsen, VP Analyst, Gartner
Incident response is not just for CISOs. Understanding how you deal with data is one thing, but how to coordinate a response when things go wrong? It's a matter for the whole organization. How to understand the sensitivity and potential impact of your actions? Be a board member for one workshop, and use a given scenario to get comfortable with what the board requests in case risk becomes a reality.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GST
Wam Voster, VP Analyst, Gartner
CPS are becoming more prevalent in organizations across the board, whether as a result of OT/IT convergence or the deployment of new connect assets. What security implications do they have? What best practices are emerging? What does the future portend?
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GST
Arthur Sivanathan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) allows high-frequency and automated management of controls to validate the effectiveness of controls designed to mitigate risk. This session clarifies the most important five things to use CCM for extending automation capabilities, processes and risk culture.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GST
Wayne Hankins, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As Cybersecurity criminals continue to become better organized, Security Leaders need to follow best practices to minimize the impact to their business. This session will cover the Top 7 critical items that all security and risk management leaders should leverage before an event.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM GST
Jon Amato, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ransomware is a unique threat and demands a distinctive incident response plan. Tabletop exercises, or "role-playing games for security professionals," are one of the best ways of creating those plans. In this workshop, we will work through a series of live ransomware-specific tabletop exercises and help you be the dungeon master your organization needs.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GST
Ant Allan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Leaders responsible for IAM generally focus on the technical benefits of an IAM solution rather than its impact on the organization's goals and objectives. They are unaccustomed to recognizing and accommodating the influence IAM has on business outcomes or associating IAM with environmental, organizational or social change. These skills are critical to an initiative with IAM's scope and breadth.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GST
Jon Amato, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Endpoint security has long been a foundational security control, a must-have toolset that no enterprise security program can do without. But the role of endpoint security continues to evolve, covering an expanding portfolio of tools, techniques and devices. In this session, we will explore the current "state of the art" of endpoint and mobile security, and look to the future of how we can expect this crucial technology to evolve.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM GST
Manuel Acosta, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Zero trust network architecture in the federal space must meet particular requirements. Attendees can get answers on those requirements and variables surrounding the federal space, ranging from administrative and development networks to tactical systems.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM GST
Feng Gao, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Security service edge (SSE) is an emerging market that consolidates CASB, SWG, and ZTNA. We will walk through the key capabilities of SSE and how it helps you to secure outbound web and SaaS access, protect your sanctioned SaaS apps, and provides secure remote access to private applications.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM GST
Patrick Hevesi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Come build a security architecture live in this session. This special session will show you how to build your security architecture from the ground up. We will all be a part of the company ACME and build our security architecture together from the ground up. This will be great for new security professionals who are just starting their architecture and seasoned professionals to get tips and tricks to modify their existing architectures.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM GST
Manuel Acosta, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud security remains a top priority. This presentation summarizes the problems, recommended processes and emerging and evolving product types to address three key issues:
- What are the unique risks associated with public cloud service providers?
- What are the unique security challenges of IaaS and PaaS and how can they be mitigated?
- What are the unique control challenges of SaaS and how can they be addressed?
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM GST
Patrick Hevesi, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will help those who want to design security architecture to directly address business needs, addressing all stakeholder needs. The session will cover establishing a strategic architecture upon which logical requirements and specifications can be developed to facilitate security component selection.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GST
Manuel Acosta, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud security remains a challenge; we have to protect data when it is out of our control. This session will address the emerging trends in cloud security, what they bring to your organization and how to use them most effectively. Security is seen as an obstruction to cloud adoption; this will show you how to enable without losing protection.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GST
Patrick Hevesi, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will discuss the reference architecture and dive deep into how to build the cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA). We will discuss the evolution of best of breed to the new CSMA, along with pros and cons of each approach. Finally, we will discuss the vendor landscape from larger security vendors with full stacks to open source or distributed CSM solutions.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GST
Feng Gao, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Users, devices, applications and data are everywhere and so are networks. As organizations rapidly expand their footprint and support a hybrid workforce, how does network security evolve to keep up? Security and risk management leaders must understand the current trends in network security and make business-aligned, risk-focused decisions on where best to use network security today.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
Mark Horvath, VP Analyst, Gartner
AI teams are perceiving risk differently than security teams. Especially given upcoming regulations and guidelines across the globe, things to not overlook include data and model drift, uncontrolled bias and privacy and security concerns specific to AI model training and deployment. This session will explain Gartner's AI trust, risk and security management (TRiSM) market guide and how to coordinate AI issues collaboratively and consistently.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM GST
Brian Lowans, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Bring your questions about DLP, data discovery, data classification and data privacy of both structured and unstructured data.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM GST
Mark Horvath, VP Analyst, Gartner
Dedicated application security resources typically come at a premium, so organizations must seek to scale by using security champions within respective development teams. Attendees at this workshop will put together a plan to build out a security champions program.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM GST
Brian Lowans, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Businesses are turning to data analytics and sharing data with third parties to identify opportunities, improve performance and drive decision making. At the same time the push to the cloud and the fact that structured and unstructured data has been growing exponentially leave lots of room for data theft, compliance violations and waste. In this session we will discuss the top 5 data security challenges facing business today and how to remediate them.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GST
Mark Horvath, VP Analyst, Gartner
Application security is a rapidly evolving and dynamic ecosystem of skills, disciplines, and technologies that work together to support emerging DevSecOps initiatives. This session provides Gartner's industry-wide viewpoint of the state-of-the-art of modern applications security and key factors for success in 2023 and beyond.
Monday, 12 February, 2024 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
Eric Ahlm, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Modern SOCs require proactive and automated capabilities, such as threat hunting, prioritized threat intelligence and automated response. This session will describe modern SOC core capabilities, and guide SRM leaders on how to evaluate whether their current SOC has established those capabilities and processes.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GST
Jon Amato, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
"Threat Hunting" — It's an evocative term to be sure. But what does it even mean? And is it right for your organization? In this session, we will explore the topic of threat hunting, how to do it right and when you should consider not doing it at all.
Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GST
Eric Ahlm, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The ultimate goal of patching everything quickly is unobtainable for any organization. The goal leads to a business risk objective that remains unrealized while impacting operation team morale. This session discusses how to prioritize your VM program to obtain measurable risk reductions for your organization.