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Cybersecurity - Complexity, Simplicity in Defensive Capability for the Year 3000

The United States accounts for over 50% of theft of intellectual property via cyber intrusions; amounting to over $250B per year. As a nation, consisting of a collective of small to large multi-national businesses and of US academic institutions, we have a call to arms to assure US innovations, ideas, and technologies are no longer stolen to propel those who intend harm to our nation and our future generations. This session will introduce the threats to our cybersecurity as well as discussing solution that you can take back with you.

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Designing the Digital Workplace

Employees are consumers of digital technologies such as IoT, AR and VR. The plethora of mobile devices has enabled them to work where they want and when they want which has raised the bar on employee expectations for tools and capabilities from their employers. In order for companies to retain the best and get the most out of their employees, it is vital to design and continually update the digital workplace. We will discuss the current trends as well as share case studies of successful digital workplace implementations. 

Takeaways: 

1. Highly skilled employees will demand a mobile and efficient workplace. 
2. Keeping these skilled employees fully engaged and passionate about your company is critical to achieving the desired digital transformation.

Presented by:

Jason McKay, CIO, Napec

 

 

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Which "Friends" Do I Trust? Realities of 3rd Party Risk

It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Organizations, more and more, and are outsourcing business activities to 3rd-parties because of cost-savings, revenue opportunities, expertise, etc. Thus collaborating with our business partners early to select the right 3rd-party vendor(s) with the appropriate security posture is essential, especially for vendors hosting, processing and/or transmitting sensitive/regulatory information, or having access to our IT assets.

Takeaways:

1. Regardless of the reasons, outsourcing some business functions to a 3rd party seems inevitable in today's world
2. It is critical to have a proper vetting procedure of 3rd parties before engaging them as business partners who have access to company systems and data

Presented by:

Richard Kessler, Global Director, Cyber Security Services Strategy and Governance, KPMG

 

 

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Driving an Omni - Channel Experience in Financial Services

Maintaining a consistent client experience is key to ensuring a consistent client relationship, which in turn leads to greater client retention and spend. Maintaining that consistent experience is complicated by the fact that clients now interact with all providers, not just financial services ones, through a variety of channels that can number into the dozens. It is essential to not have just consistency of look and feel across all channels, but consistency of experience, and indeed to allow individual experiences to occur sequentially across all channels. 

Takeaways: 

1. Client experience is the primary motivator in client retention and reducing client churn is essential to controlling costs 
2. Client experience degrades when channel experience conflicts or limits client choice or activity so consistency is key 
3. Optimal experience needs a seamless client ?experience ecosystem? that, done well, tightens bonds, reduces costs, and increases spend

Presented by:

Chirag Arora, CISO, Crum & Forster

 

 

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Back to basics- focusing on security architecture & strategy

In a world of increased sophistication, frequency and impact of cyber-attacks, security executives often struggle to juggle through priorities. How to stop the bleeding and staying ahead in the game with bad actors is a question that CISOs are often thinking in their minds. Considering cyber-attack is unavoidable, what should the security executives do to proactively prevent attacks and protect assets? This presentation will explain how going back to the basics and building a strong architecture practice helps cyber organizations to avoid shiny-toy syndrome and build a strategic risk-based controls maturity.

Takeaways:

1. Only running after newer security controls is NEVER THE answer
2. Building a control footprint that is  risk based, absolutely needed for your organization and not driven by industry buzzwords
3. Step by step approach on achieving architectural maturity in security space

Questions to address: 

1. Why focusing on architecture is so critical now?
2. How to achieve maturity in establishing a security architecture practice?

Presented by:

Parthasarathi Chakraborty, AVP- Global Head Of Security Architecture, Strategy & Innovation, Guardian Life Insurance

 

 

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Big Data, Little Data. Secure Data, Lost Data.

If digital transformation is a journey, then data is the fuel that will transport your company from here to there. What data do you have access to? How can you make sense out of the data and thus make decisions from it? How does a company use data to be a disruptor and not a victim? And how do you secure that data to ensure that the digital transformation journey does not end prematurely? 

Takeaways: 

1. Digital transformation without constant access to usable and reliable data will be a slow and arduous journey. 
2. Digital transformation exposes increasing amounts of data potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks and must be addressed.

Presented by:

Peter Kapur, Head of Data Governance Operationalization and Data Stewardship, AIG

 

 

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Cloud Strategy Development

Presented by:

Vasee Sivasegaran, Corporate Director IS Infrastructure, Penn Medicine

 

 

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Moneyball of IT Financial Management

Today, most of the organizations want to fund innovation (AI, Blockchain, AR/VR) and/or digital transformation. CFOs in conjunction with the CIOs must dramatically reinvent their Strategic IT Financial Management Strategy. 

This presentation will introduce certain novel techniques such as the core-satellite approach towards portfolio management. The presentation content would mostly reflect my super-hit post with over 500K+ views at industry leading publication of TBM Council's Emerge.

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