West IT & Security Leaders Forum 2022

Too often, board and committee presentation materials are awash with lots of good information – but are they driving the right dialogue? This session will cover how to structure the materials presented – is it informational? What is your purpose in presenting? Is there a decision to be made? Is approval required? Is a recommendation to another committee the desired outcome? How should the lines of defense be represented in and by the materials? Chris Stoneley, Cathay Bank’s CISO will explore the topic of driving to better board and committee reporting – in a relatively painless fashion.

Speaker: Chris Stoneley, CISO, Cathay Bank

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Speaker: Ralph Johnson, CISO, LA Times

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Speaker: Darrell Bilbrey, Founder & Principal, VantageToYou Consulting

Value Stream Management may be the next big thing but seems like a lot to swallow. Even organizations with mature Agile and DevOps processes are unsure how to capitalize on this proven method of process improvement. To front-load success and reduce risk, you’ll need to see value quickly and then build on that success. Properly implemented, VSM can boost time-to-market and a company’s ability to compete and win in the marketplace by maximizing ROI and unifying your organization’s business and technology objectives.

In this session, you’ll learn how Micro Focus simplifies Value Stream Management by helping organizations track, analyze, and predict resourcing, reduce risk, and identify waste to help you increase value as a product flows from “strategy to delivery” to achieve superior business outcomes:

• Maximize Business Value and Effectiveness: Discover, visualize and manage flow of value from “strategy to delivery” powered by AI and analytics that is easy to deploy
• Accelerate Delivery and Efficiency: Integrates with your existing toolchains to improve productivity and remove friction in the value stream with smart automation
• Gain Competitive Advantage: Differentiate customer experience with high quality value stream insights to manage risk and streamline delivery. Empower continuous feedback, learning and improvement.

Join Micro Focus for this discussion, including why the time for VSM is now and how to capitalize on it the easy way.

Speaker: Parker Reguero, Enterprise Sales Director, ADM West, Micro Focus

Presented by: Micro Focus

• Loosely-couple everything
• Simplify, standardize and then simplify some more
• Build an empowered, resilient and adaptive culture
• Get good at agile principles

Niel Nickolaisen, Director of Enterprise Systems and Security, Utah State University

The definition of work-life balance has changed, and the nature of work has changed. Life, family, and work are all integrated, we need software solutions that allow us the flexibility to live our lives and attract a diverse talent. Solutions that improve experience locally while allowing us to operate globally removing the friction, increasing productivity improving employee experience and in turn positively impacting the customer experience. Focused on retention and customer satisfaction.

Speakers:

Jon House, Solutions Engineer, Enterprise-West, RingCentral

Scott Horner, Solution Engineer, RingCentral

Presented by: RingCentral

With Incident Response as the new normal, ensuring that our systems and processes support that effort and threat hunting are working as expected. We will discuss why and how to establish a Continuous Security Validation (CSV) program within your organization. Specifically, how such a program evolves beyond Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and provides teams a continuous feedback loop to understand their posture and identify gaps as they arise.

Speaker: Jaymin Patel, Solutions Engineer, AttackIQ

Presented by: AttackIQ

30-minute open table discussion followed by a 25-minute panel to present individual table findings

In most markets, there is an abundance of open IT jobs with fewer people able to fill them – and positions are getting more expensive. Working remotely is the norm but not optimal (usually). There is less off-shoring and more resources are focused locally or within the same hemisphere. Additionally, we are still not recruiting enough women and minorities into the rank and file, especially senior IT roles, and we’re losing talent to major tech hubs. 

Join us for a discussion with your peers as we dive into solutions to tackle the following challenges:

Topics include:

• Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about how you ended up in technology and why?
• How do you scale staff/team without losing them to major tech hubs?
• How do you create more diversity – not only among race and gender – but diversity of thought – Old vs New thinking?
• How do we get the buy in from leadership teams (and the entire company) on board with Diversity & Inclusion initiatives?
• Does your organization have a diversity task force? If so, what types of responsibilities does this group take on and how can they improve?
• Did you have a mentor at any point in your career and how did this individual help you?
• Is there a type of education, certificate or membership that helped you that you would recommend to others?
• Do you believe we are doing enough to encourage diversity in technology? What. advice do you have for leaders who are looking to do more?

Moderator: Isaac Sacolick, Bestselling Author, Top Social CIO/CDO, Digital Transformation Influencer, Star CIO

Panelists:

Al Gardner, VP Information Technology, Salud Family Health

Ralph Johnson, CISO, LA Times

Joy Mangrum, AVP, IT Security & Infrastructure, BMI

Helen Knight, Transformation Consultant, Helen Knight Consulting

Fast-moving cyberattacks can strike at any time, and security teams are often unable to react quickly enough. Join to learn how Autonomous Response takes targeted action to stop in-progress attacks without disrupting your business. The discussion includes real-world threat finds.

Explore today’s threats and challenges and learn how advances in AI have been leveraged to allow for very surgical actions to be taken autonomously – where humans can no longer react fast enough

Speaker: Konnor Anderson, Global Vice President | Growth, Darktrace

Presented by: Darktrace

The current “shift-left” mindset to assess, assert, and evidence compliance and to harden the software supply chain are a DevOps antipattern. The impact goes well beyond over-burdening developers with toil that distracts them from innovation, unplanned audits are highly disruptive, and management is left to make decisions without defensible data. We will discuss this impact as a tax and suggest attributes of solutions to do Shift-Left right.

Speaker: Tim Johnson, Product Marketing Director,Cloudbees

Presented by: Cloudbees

Threat actors, Red-Teams, and Ransomware have been abusing Active Directory for years. In fact, attackers have compromised or leveraged AD in 100% of the successful ransomware attacks over the last 3 years. This discussion will discuss new technologies to help you visualize the risk in your AD and add a layer of security around this very important part of enterprise infrastructure.

Speaker: Joseph Salazar, Technical Marketing Engineer, SentinelOne

Presented by: SentinelOne

Everyone’s journey to being data-driven is unique. It’s like making an apple pie. It’s easy to get the ingredients, but you need to know how to put together the right recipe for a great apple pie. In this interactive discussion I will share insights and lessons learned in leading data modernization initiatives and in sharing the journey with customers. Data literacy, culture, governance, quality, technology stack modernization and architecture are all ingredients in driving towards the right data driven recipe. The discussion will include tips and tricks for reducing friction points and how to build the right recipe for your organization.

Speaker: George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, Datastax

Presented by: DataStax

The result of digital transformation: It’s easier to do business with your customers and partners. But with new architectures, web apps and APIs now deployed from on-prem servers to the cloud, it is harder than ever to get a holistic view of all of these potentially vulnerable assets – never mind defend them.

What are your biggest challenges today in defending these diverse assets? What are the known gaps in your current defenses? What are you seeking in the future to defend your apps and APIs?

Topics covered will include:

• How are adversaries preying upon unprotected web apps and APIs?
• How are traditional web application firewalls deployed, and what are they missing?
• What does the future look like with unified web app and API security solutions?

Speaker: Julian Quintana, Senior Sales Engineer, Fastly

Presented by: Fastly

This presentation will give a brief history of legacy interoperability to current day, highlighting the interoperability challenges as we migrate through different methodologies, standards and industry norms including the 21st Century Cures Act/TEFCA and how health information exchange could be drastically impacted by the implementation of a few blockchain concepts in the areas of identity, track and trace and consent to create a wholesale health data marketplace that puts the patient at the center of the equation and allows them to own, manage and profit from their health information.

Speaker: Michael Marchant, Director, Health Information Exchange and System Integration, UC Davis Health

Concerns of a Recession looms whether there results in one or not. With a war raging across the ocean, a potential European energy crisis this winter, and inflation numbers in the US refusing to subside, the macroeconomic environment has caused enterprise IT leaders to rethink their strategies. Learn how your peers are changing their plans to deal with the recession.

Speaker: Guy Guiffre, VP Sales, America – West, Rimini Street

Presented by: Rimini Street

Three forces are colliding to create a perfect cyberstorm: An escalated threat level, a cybersecurity talent shortage and the growing complexity that comes with managing a multitude of security solutions. This storm is driving change, forcing us to break down silos between endpoint, workload, network and identity. It’s driving the need to leverage existing tooling rather than bolting on more. And it is reshaping the focus of managed security services away from “busy work” and toward “expert work.” This session will explore a case study of a new type of MDR service from Open Systems. A new approach that offers shelter from the storm.

Speaker: Kirk Greene, Sr. Sales Engineer, Open Systems

Presented by: Open Systems

As companies grow from startups to global enterprise, their information security organizations often need to undergo rapid transformations to meet the needs and scale of the business and its customers. It can be challenging for information security teams to clearly define and communicate those needs, and obtain necessary executive support, funding, and resources for the program. To address these challenges, establishing a framework can help these teams communicate and gain executive support and buy-in of information security objectives, prioritizing the objectives based on risks and capabilities, and measuring the ongoing effectiveness of the program on a regular cadence.

Join Heather Ceylan, Head of Security Standards, Compliance, and Customer Assurance at Zoom as they discuss “The Zoom Effect”, provide a general framework that can be adapted to rapidly transform, scale, or improve your security program, and share the outcomes, lessons learned and key factors to consider.

Speaker: Heather Ceylan, Head of Security Standards, Compliance, and Customer Assurance, Zoom

Presented by: Zoom