CISO Track – Emerging AppSec Trends in 2022 and Beyond – Randeep Chhabra

Randeep Chhabra, General Manager, AppScan, Asia Pacific & Japan, HCL Software

Randeep spoke about the need for organizations to address security earlier in the software development life cycle. If they prioritize speed without security in app development, it can lead to an uptick in critical vulnerabilities with disastrous results.

While the security technologies across networking and operations are more commonly implemented to high standards, we see unique challenges and trends faced by clients in implementing effective application security programs.

Here are the main key points discussed in the HCL Software roundtable session:

  • How are CISOs improving processes to integrate security into DevOps, and what challenges do they face?
  • What are the practices, techniques and strategies that can be used to achieve better application security?
  • What are the key trends for 2022 and beyond?

CISO Track – CISO Track – Modernising your Application Security Playbook using RASP – Reinhart Hansen

Reinhart Hansen, Director of Technology, Office of the CTO, Imperva

Here are the key topics discussed in this roundtable with Reinhart:

  • Preventing exploitation of application vulnerabilities we don’t know we have
  • How to mitigate falling victim to Software Supply chain attacks
  • Zero-day attacks require better than zero-day mitigation. Moving from reactive to proactive mitigation.
  • Prevention from the headache and cost of emergency application patching cycles.

CIO Track – Innovate from Anywhere: succeeding in the next normal – Michael Niall

Michael Niall, Regional Director, Platform, Salesforce

In this era of digital transformation, as organisations accelerate the shift from information to innovation, they need to be acutely aware of changes in their customer and employee expectations.

In this interactive and very engaging discussion with other Trailblazers, Michael provided insights on some of the keys that contribute to the success of organisations, including:

  • enabling work from anywhere,
  • why culture matters now more than ever, and
  • growing their innovation talent pool

CISO Track – CISOs & Board – Are you speaking the same language?! How to translate your technical cyber language and have an effective risk-based discussion with the Board – Mitra Minai

Mitra Minai, Chief Information Security Officer, Healthscope Operations

 

Here are the main key points that Mitra discussed in this session:

  • Translating the technical language of Cyber Risk and aligning with business strategy and objectives
  • Techniques in presenting the Cybersecurity Strategy and Roadmap to the Board
  • Demonstrating the business value of cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity Metrics and Dashboard reporting
  • Moving the organization from Cyber Defense to Cyber Resilience

CIO Track – Adopting AI to Enhance Your Data and Analytics Capability – Venkata Valluri

Venkata Valluri, Global IT Director, Treasury Wine Estates

 

Venkata discusses 3 main key points:

  • Importance in leveraging AI and advanced analytics in driving value creation
  • Dealing with the data deluge across multiple systems
  • Implementing data governance to break data silos for effective data centralisation

CISO Track – Keeping pace with evolving regulatory and cyber landscapes – Venkata Krishna

Venkata Krishna,Senior Manager Information Security, Salesforce

In this session, Venkata covers the evolving regulatory and cyber landscapes as seen by Salesforce, how they measure their success, how they embed TRUST into everything they do.
He also touches point on what they’ve learnt (from within and their customers), and how they adapt their security and compliance stance accordingly.

CIO Track – Securing Endpoints and Ensuring Compliance – Matthew Burns

Matthew Burns, Associate Vice President, BigFix, Asia Pacific & Japan, HCL BigFix

Entreprises are under increasing pressure to protect data from breaches. Security professionals must re-evaluate their security software to adjust for new threats and risk.

Keypoints discussed in this session with Matthew:

  • How enterprises are dealing with compliance challenges around distributed workforces
  • What are the trends around data breaches, and how organizations can defend against those risks
  • How organizations can consolidate security toolkits and software, therefore reducing complexity

CIO Track – Building a More Resilient and Adaptable Enterprise Through Technology – Ian Padgham

Ian Padgham, General Manager Enterprise Technology, Vicinity Centres

Here are the 3 main key areas discussed in this session:

  • Driving the principles of agile delivery to create a more flexible organisation that’s adaptable to constant change & volatility
  • Rethinking tech funding and governance
  • Empowering both human and technology-centred solutions

CISO Track – Zero Trust – Present and Future – Helen Patton

Helen Patton, Advisory CISO, CISCO Secure

In this roundtable session, participants discussed the present and future of  Zero Trust framework:

  • Where are companies on their Zero Trust Journey
  • What are the barriers to Zero Trust implementation
  • What developments we can expect in Zero Trust capabilities in the next 18 months

 

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