Event Schedule

Times for this Event are in Eastern Time (EDT/EST)

The Summit will be open from 8AM to 6PM.

• Welcome / Introductions
• CISO Author Interview - Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future 8:26 am

  The Greater DFW Area is blessed with a great many learned CISOs, and we’re pleased to have George Finney, CISO from Southern Methodist University (SMU) as part of the agenda for the Dallas Cybersecurity Summit.

  Today, we’ll dig into his latest book, “Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future.”  Well Aware offers a timely take on the leadership issues that businesses face when it comes to the threat of hacking. This book examines security challenges using lessons learned from psychology, neuroscience, history, and economics.

  Spanning those habits – literacy, skepticism, vigilance, secrecy, culture, diligence, community, mirroring, and deception – are stories that assert that cybersecurity is not a technology problem; it’s a people problem.

  In this “fireside chat” style Q&A, George will be interviewed by our moderator Michael.  He will share some of the lessons from the book, experiences on learnings from his 20+ year CISO career and talk about his inspirations.

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  Panel Participants:

  George Finney

  George Finney

  CISO at Southern Methodist University

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• Disrupting Lateral Movement by Securing Active Directory 8:42 am

  Presented by Attivo Networks

  Organizations continue to build their security stacks, yet advanced threats and insiders continue to breach networks and extract valuable data. A common tactic among most of these Ransomware and Advanced Threat Actors today involves leveraging Active Directory. AD contains all of the information that an attacker needs to successfully move laterally and accomplish their mission. 

  In this session, Nick Houck will explore a new method for securing Active Directory that can (for the first time) actually prevent an attacker from progressing laterally through your enterprise network. 

  Some key highlights include: 

  • How Threat Actors use AD to accomplish their goals 
  • Why Monitoring Active Directory is not enough 
  • What simple tools you can deploy to dramatically improve your security posture by better securing AD

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  Panel Participants:

  Nick Houck

  Nick Houck

  Senior Security Strategist at Attivo

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• The State of Secure Identity 2021 8:58 am

  Presented by Auth0

  Digital identities control access to an ever-growing number of applications, services, and critical systems. This makes identity an interesting attack vector for threat actors, and highlights the importance of authentication and authorization in preserving trust and security. The 2021 Auth0 State of Secure Identity report highlights the latest trends in identity security, including what types of attacks Auth0 has observed, the characteristics of these attacks, what industries are most affected, and the adoption rates for identity protection technologies. 

  During this session, we’ll provide greater insight into which industries are: 

  – Most highly targeted by credential stuffing attacks 

  – Most highly targeted by SQL injection attacks 

  – Leading the way in MFA adoption to improve overall security posture 

  We’ll also shed light on: fake account creation, MFA bypass attacks, and what defensive measures are being adopted to combat these identity security threats.

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  Panel Participants:

  Jameeka Green Aaron

  Jameeka Green Aaron

  CISO at Auth0

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• Ransomware Decoded: Understanding & Preventing Modern Ransomware Attacks 9:45 am

  Presented by Cybereason

  Learn how to become fearless in the face of modern ransomware attacks. Next-gen ransomware has evolved to better evade standard defenses and targeted attacks stand a high chance of success against underprepared environments, making a behavior-based approach to prevention, detection, and response required for success.

  Join our session to understand how to deploy fearless ransomware protection to detect the preliminary stages of a ransomware attack, fully analyze the scope and scale of the operation, and prevent the execution of the malicious ransomware payload to mitigate future cyber risk.

  WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?

  – Learn about the latest ransomware trends

  – Dissect discoveries from Cybereason’s Nocturnus team

  – Become empowered to defend against ransomware

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  Panel Participants:

  Trevor Eastin

  Trevor Eastin

  Associate Director, Field Engineering at Cybereason

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• Remote Work – The Wild West of Endpoint Management 10:01 am

  Presented by baramundi

  The pandemic forced many of us to switch to working remotely overnight. At the time this was and continues to be an ongoing challenge for IT Departments that need to manage and maintain their remote endpoints. Now that companies are trending towards long-term remote work options, IT Infrastructure has to continue to adapt to the new and demanding ways of working from home. During this session we will cover what remote work has to do with the Wild West and what you need to be aware of to tame these challenges.

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  Panel Participants:

  Axel Peters

  Axel Peters

  VP West Operations, baramundi

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• Expert Panel Discussion: Ransomware Prevention/Preparation, or the Closest You Can Come to it (Pre-Attack Practices) 10:17 am

  Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve seen some big ransomware headlines. Moreover, ransomware-as-a-service changes the way many cyber leaders think about this topic, and changes some of the economics related to it. In this panel, our experts will talk about best practices, tactics and tricks for prevention and preparation. [NOTE: Post-Attack concepts will be discussed separately in a panel this afternoon]  Sensitive data is put at risk, huge sums of money are in the balance, and organizations must struggle between expediency and the bottom line.

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  Panel Participants:

  Brian Smith

  Brian Smith

  CTO, Co-founder at Spyderbat

  Nick Houck

  Nick Houck

  Senior Security Strategist at Attivo

  Jason Jones

  Jason Jones

  Lead Solutions Engineer at ExtraHop

  Anand Singh

  Anand Singh

  Global CISO at Alkami

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• Rise of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) 11:00 am

  Presented by Bitglass

  Secure access service edge has quickly emerged as a hot topic in cybersecurity, but what exactly does it mean and why should organizations care? As cloud migration, BYOD adoption, and remote work have skyrocketed in prevalence, it has become increasingly apparent that organizations need to think differently about security. While legacy tools like firewalls are no longer equipped to handle the modern IT ecosystem, SASE platforms like Bitglass are built for this exact moment. In this presentation, you will learn: 

  * The core components of a SASE platform like Bitglass. 

  * The functionality you need to secure cloud, web, and remote access use cases. 

  * Architectural considerations you should keep in mind when comparing SASE vendors.

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  Panel Participants:

  Jonathan Andresen

  Jonathan Andresen

  Senior Director at BitGlass

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• Introduction to Risk-Based Vulnerability Management 11:23 am

  Presented by Kenna Security

  Organizations have millions of vulnerabilities. And our research has shown that those same organizations, large or small, on average, can only fix one in 10 of those vulnerabilities. 

  But as a security executive you still need to keep your organization secure, so how do you do that when you can’t possibly fix all of your vulnerabilities? The answer is to focus on your highest-risk vulnerabilities first. 

  Join Kenna Security’s CTO and Co-Founder Ed Bellis as he: 

  • Reviews what years of research into vulnerability management data uncovered about the scope of the challenge 
  • Details the findings on how risk-based is the way to get ahead in vulnerability management 
  • Lays out several factors that drive better remediation performance 
  • Provides steps for setting up a successful risk-based vulnerability management program

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  Panel Participants:

  Ed Bellis

  Ed Bellis

  CTO and Co-Founder at Kenna Security

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• Keynote: James Harris 11:42 am

  Insights from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): 2021 Trends

  IC3.gov is the ultimate compendium of cyber-crime related data in the United States, and likely the world. In this riveting keynote, James Harris will further explain the myriad of activity taken by the FBI, in partnership with other agencies and local law enforcement, a complaint reaches the database. 

  Criminal prosecutions,  asset recovery, national cyber threats, and all manner of compromises and internet-facilitated crimes start with the key trends discussed in this presentation.  Look for important metrics used by the Bureau to understand which nation-state actors, ransomware groups, and all manner of threat actors are most lethal today. This data will be shared for the first time at the Summit, with particular focus on some of the aspects most important to cybersecurity leaders in the audience. 

  Data shared will include details from the National Threat Operations Center (NTOC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as Texas Field Offices in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. This previews some of the insights that will be further detailed in the IC3 Annual Report due out next year, and include specific best practices for cyber leaders across the state to better protect their staff, information, and assets. 

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  Panel Participants:

  James T. Harris, Jr.

  James T. Harris, Jr.

  SMAPA at the FBI Cyber Division

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• Lunch Break
• Securing the Modern API Ecosystem 12:40 pm

  Presented by Noname Security

  APIs are central to digital transformation. Public cloud adoption, modern application architectures, and cloud-native designs capitalize on APIs as a foundational building block. Meanwhile, Gartner predicts that APIs will become the most frequently targeted attack vector by 2022. Attendees of this presentation will learn modern API strategies for security and risk management, including how to perform:

  • API discovery and inventory management
  • continuous vulnerability identification and testing
  • runtime prevention and detection

  Importantly, we will focus on orchestration across business, technology, and security teams to empower API-centric business and technology strategies with a shared, complete picture of API risks from code to production.

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  Panel Participants:

  Karl Mattson

  Karl Mattson

  CISO at Noname Security

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• Zero Trust Security for Everywhere Workplace 1:03 pm

  Presented by Ivanti

  As we see pandemic restrictions starting to subside around the globe, the impact of the “Remote” Tech Tsunami that accompanied the pandemic has started to become a reality. From advanced vulnerabilities impacting Edge Technologies, to the Everywhere Workplace, companies are faced with greater security challenges and vulnerability threats now more than ever before. 

  Join Ivanti’s Global CTO, Mike Riemer, as he covers security and control challenges faced by businesses in today’s “new” world as well as how the recent acquisitions of Pulse Secure and Mobile Iron provide Ivanti customers with the most comprehensive Cloud to Edge, Zero Trust Access solution, available in today’s market.

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  Panel Participants:

  Michael Riemer

  Michael Riemer

  Global Vice President, Office of the CTO at Ivanti

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• Expert Panel Discussion: Empowering Users to be the Best Human Firewall in your Organization 1:28 pm

  Your business users, those oft-confused carbon-based life forms normally roaming the halls of your office building, are now at home on their (probably very secure) private networks. Maybe with corporate devices, maybe not. This makes it more important than ever to arm them with tools, training and the sense to look for suspicious activity.

  Our panelists today will talk more about this issue, and what you can do to make your users the best last line of defense.

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  Panel Participants:

  Dan Tyrrell

  Dan Tyrrell

  Manager, Professional Services at Cobalt Labs Inc

  Mackenzie Jackson

  Mackenzie Jackson

  Developer Advocate at GitGuardian

  Ian Hassard

  Ian Hassard

  Senior Manager, Product Management at Auth0

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• How Leaky Can it Git? How Scanning Public Git Repository Commits Uncovered 2 Million Leaked Secrets in 2020 2:09 pm

  Presented by GitGuardian

  Leaked secrets like API keys, security certificates and other credentials are a growing security risk for organizations which has led to many high profile security breaches. The biggest source of leaked credentials is without question within public git repositories. GitHub, the largest host of open-source code, had more than 60 million repositories created in a single year. Public code distribution on this scale brings with it a serious security threat, especially when you consider the many leaks that happen on personal repositories outside of organizations control. 

  With such a vast amount of data stored on GitHub, it has been difficult to quantify the extent of this problem, until now. GitGuardian conducted the largest research project to date on leaked secrets in public repositories. The project scanned 2.5 million commits a day and over 1 billion commits throughout the year uncovering over 2 million leaked secrets. This presentation looks at why secrets and other sensitive information are frequently leaked through git including the type of secrets commonly leaked and where. Additionally, the presentation will look at how to prevent Secrets Sprawl from individual developers, security teams and organizations as a whole.

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  Panel Participants:

  Mackenzie Jackson

  Mackenzie Jackson

  Developer Advocate at GitGuardian

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• The Automation Journey: Where's the Wall 2:31 pm

  Presented by Swimlane

  Gartner says 69% of Boards of Directors accelerated their digital business initiatives following COVID-19 disruption.  This has made organizations shorten the time to integrate technologies, reduce the effort it takes to update them, and reduce development costs.  We will discuss the automation journey and where we are seeing where most organizations hit the ‘automation’ wall.

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  Panel Participants:

  Bryon Page

  Bryon Page

  Director, Solutions Architecture at Swimlane

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• Expert Panel Discussion: DevSecOps: Application Security in Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Environments 2:51 pm

  89% of CISOs say microservices API, containers, and Kubernetes have created application security blind spots. As the application landscape continues to grow, and the increased use of cloud-native architectures challenges traditional approaches, cybersecurity leaders are often looking for new ways to understand potential vulnerabilities. With faster iterations from Agile Development pushing the DevSecOps Teams to move as quickly as possible, there is ample room for gaps to appear. 

  In this panel, our experts will discuss some of the various approaches to address these issues. The discussion will cover challenges faced by teams of all sizes, and processes, tools and methods that are in use to address.

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  Panel Participants:

  Giora Engel

  Giora Engel

  CEO & Co-Founder at Neosec

  Jerry Gamblin

  Jerry Gamblin

  Director Of Security Research at CISCO

  Brianna Leddy

  Brianna Leddy

  Director of Analysis at Darktrace

  George Cassels

  George Cassels

  Director of Technology, Enterprise at Telos

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• Automatic Vulnerability Discovery: False Promise for the DevSecOps World? 3:28 pm

  Presented by Fluid Attacks

  DevSecOps suggests that all security activities should be as automated as possible. 

  Regarding automatic vulnerability discovery: How much can we expect? How many vulnerabilities are discovered automatically? How many are still undetected (escapes or false negatives)? Are automatic tools enough? In this talk, we will answer and teach you how to answer these and other related questions in a quantitative way.

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  Panel Participants:

  Daniel Salazar

  Daniel Salazar

  Lead DevSecOps Engineer at Fluid Attacks

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• The Art & Science of Cloud Security 3:51 pm

  Presented by Lookout

  Come learn about the beauty of the cloud while applying the right “science” to securing your multiple cloud services. We will discuss the journey to the cloud and how security tools all work together to build a unified cloud security strategy work of art.

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  Panel Participants:

  Hank Schless

  Hank Schless

  Senior Manager, Security Solutions at Lookout

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• Guest Keynote: Grounds’ Rules for Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) 4:12 pm

  A Realist’s Guide on Why CRQ is a Prerequisite and How to Do It Right.

  In almost all areas of business and corporate management, we speak in terms of facts, figures and real fiscal currencies. So why do cybersecurity leaders opt for gradients (low, medium, high, critical) and colors (Green, Amber, Red… “traffic light” chart)?

  This keynote will analyze the key reasons why qualitative risk methods and relative ratings are woefully inadequate and do not meet basic business needs; and delve into their weakness as it pertains to the inputs and conclusions.  

  Adding business context and factoring in criticality, potential revenue impact, and likelihood to occur are a start; however, vulnerabilities rated (relatively) based on their technical characteristics and overall exploitability will not build an accurate risk picture.  Gavin will then expand on specific techniques on how to quickly adopt a meaningful quantitative risk management (QRM) methodology and framework that is not exclusively built around minimizing Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE).

  Specific working examples will highlight why ALE-based risk quantification is only a part of the equation. Further, the talk will expand on how using QRM can go beyond risk reduction to deliver measurable and quantifiable analysis to support business enablement and rationalize cybersecurity controls and investment levels. 

  In essence, his session will help business leaders to understand how to factor cyber risk and technology services risk into business risk in a meaningful, quantifiable fashion.

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  Panel Participants:

  Gavin Grounds

  Gavin Grounds

  Exec. Director Cyber Security Strategy and Information Risk Management at Verizon

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• Special Guest Interview - John Kindervag 4:46 pm

  After eight and a half years at Forrester Research where he was a Vice President and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team, John went on join Palo Alto Networks as a Field CTO, and is now at ON2IT.

  Still a DFW-Area local, John is considered one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts. He is best known for creating the revolutionary Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity.

  In this session, join John and George Finney for this brief interview.

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  Speaker:

  John Kindervag

  John Kindervag

  Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy

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• CISO RoundTable 5:06 pm

  Submit your bio for consideration to participate on our CISO RoundTable

  to [email protected] or fill out our Call for Speakers form here.

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  Panel Participants:

  Chuck Springer

  Chuck Springer

  CISO at First American Payment System

  Patrick Benoit

  Patrick Benoit

  Global Head of Cyber GRC / BISO at CBRE

  Dave Belanger

  Dave Belanger

  Chief Security Officer at Bestow Insurance

  Chris Wolski

  Chris Wolski

  Sr. Director Information Security/Enterprise Risk Officer, CSAT Solutions

  Anand Singh

  Anand Singh

  Global CISO at Alkami

  Jeff Kirby

  Jeff Kirby

  CISO at Interstate Batteries

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• Closing Session + Prize Drawing