Speaker:
Jeff Worthington
Executive Strategist, CrowdStrike
Colonel (Retired) Jeff Worthington, Executive Strategist at CrowdStrike where he provides strategic advisory services related to enterprise cybersecurity solutions for Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local, Higher Education and Healthcare. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he served as the Chief Information Officer for the Joint Special Operations Command and Deputy Director of XVIII Airborne Corps’ Project Ridgway. This capped a career of uniformed federal service spanning 30 years installing, operating, maintaining and defending our Nation’s most vital information network across the globe. He has extensive experience leading cyber, IT, network and communications teams at all levels of military service across the DoD and within both conventional and Airborne Special Operations units from the foxhole to the White House. His leadership and executive operational experiences include Information Security, IT governance & strategy, network/systems operations, and implementation/integration of robust enterprise systems and services.
The cyber threat landscape is unpredictable, growing in sophistication and increasing in their speed of attack. With tools like generative AI, they offer opportunities for the defender and lower the barrier of entry for the adversary. Combine that with organizations adopting cloud technologies to take advantage of the computing power and capability of “as a Service” capabilities offered and our security environment grows even more complex. We will explore what we see adversaries taking advantage of and how your security teams can proactively defend against that. And, since they are extensions of your on-premise environments, how you can better defend and support your cloud initiatives and articulate risk to the board and supervisors.
Dinner Agenda
5:00 PM EST Welcome Reception and Arrivals with Refreshments
6:00 PM EST Leadership Discussion
- Introduction (10 mins) The peer executive will engage the audience for brief introductions and discuss the format and key takeaways from the guided interaction conversation and dinner discussions.
- Guided Interactive Conversation (30 mins) – Topics include:
- What security teams need to know – and do – in an increasingly ominous threat landscape
- How to implement the right combination of security tools to stop an adversary with speed both on prem and in the cloud
- Effective security strategies and practical recommendations to stay ahead of next-level threats and securing cloud infrastructure
- Open Forum Discussion (35 mins) This discussion will be based on the list of challenges discussed already and will take the format of group brainstorming and open discussion to come up with suggestions and solutions to common challenges at the executive level.
7:15 PM EST Dinner Service
9:00 PM EST Conclusion
