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9:00– 9:30: The Future of Cloud: Microsoft’s Strategy, Key Investments and Future Innovation Areas

• An overview of the core incubations and disruptive technologies shaping the cloud’s future and the next wave of innovation across industry, government and society 
• Tomorrow’s cloud structure & capabilities: A 3 – 5-year horizon  
• How tech will be prepped for changing standards   
• How to gain a foothold today in tomorrow’s key technologies 

– Nick McQuire, Director, Product Development, Strategy & Technologies, Microsoft

9:30 –10:15: This focused session is your opportunity to learn more about the cutting–edge technologies transforming the future of the IT Security market. Each solution spotlight lasts just fifteen minutes.

Spotlight One: Scaling Up from Cyber Security to Cyber Resiliency

• How to make cyber resilience tangible and measurable 
• Gain practical tips on how to implement the right policies, processes, and controls 
• Why the human layer is one of your most important lines of defense 

– Ben Preston, Field Technical Director, Cohesity 

Solution Spotlight Two: Zero Trust Security – It’s Not (Just) about Identity – How to Evolve to Meet Today’s Cloud-first, AI-Embracing World

Join Netskope for a practical guide to adapting security to match today’s cloud based infrastructure, AI adoption and hybrid working user – sharing why and how you can move away from traditional security and networking infrastructure to provide better security and performance. 

– Paolo Passeri, Senior Director, Head of Product, Personal Workspace Software, Netskope 

Spotlight Session Three: Securing Organisations in the AI Era 

Stopping the new generation of bad actors, using ML-driven security techniques to gain efficiencies and protecting the approved AI tools 

– Yaroslav Rosomakho, VP, Field CTO, Zscaler 

10:15 – 10:45 

10:50 – 12:00: 

10:50 – 11:20: Best Practices in moving from Cyber Security to Cyber Resiliency

• The impacts of ransomware and wiper attacks seen across the globe demonstrate that our old “wall-and-moat” approach to prevention and detection isn’t working.  While at the same time many organisations are struggling  build the right operational capability to respond and recover from such a destructive attack in an effective and efficient manner, meaning many simply react rather than respond.  Response and recovery from a cyber incident differs from traditional disaster recovery scenarios and in this session we’ll dig deep to understand proven best practices. 
• How do we ensure we fully investigate a ransomware attack where much of the evidence is now sat encrypted? 
• How can we understand business and regulatory impacts of the data that has been exfiltrated and encrypted? 
• What are the best practices for investigation, eradication and recovery to make sure that we don’t restore artefacts from the attack and we’re protected from reoccurrence 

– Ben Preston, Field Technical Director, Cohesity 

10:50 – 11:20: Driving Diversity in Cybersecurity

This workshop will encourage discussion around gender diversity across the industry, looking at ways we can drive better gender diversity and the benefits of a more diverse workforce: 

Topics to be covered will include: 

• Current barriers to diversity; where are we and where do we need to be? 
• Expanding talent and leadership development opportunities 
• Maintaining the internal dialogue: the benefits of collaboration 

– Amy Stokes-Waters, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Capture the Talent 

11:30 – 12:00: Mid-Market Companies shouldn’t compromise on cybersecurity. SaaS Cyber is here to stay

In this roundtable session we will explore how managed service providers can better partner with mid-market organisations to produce shared security outcomes. Discussion points will include: 

• Security priorities for mid-market customers 
• Desired outputs from MDR providers 
• Achieving true security partnership 

– Poppaea McDermott – Senior Threat Hunter, Detection & Response Team, WithSecure  

11:30 – 12:00: A Six Month Forecast of Data Privacy Challenges

• An insight into the key data privacy challenges and how to prepare 
• How can security leaders enforce a comprehensive privacy standard?  
• Keeping on top of the changing regulatory landscape 

– Cavan Fabris, Lead Partner, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, Deloitte 

12:00 – 12:45 

12:45 – 13:30: This focused session is your opportunity to learn more about the cutting–edge technologies transforming the future of the IT Security market. Each solution spotlight lasts just fifteen minutes.

Spotlight Session Four: Closing the Gap on your Cybersecurity and Business resiliency through Managed Services

• With Cybersecurity becoming more and more a focus, as both regulations and security challenges get more scrutiny and complexity to the field, paired with ongoing Digital Transformation journeys, partnering with a managed services provider can help you to quickly close the gaps, identify improvement areas, and getting help to both faster insights and more efficient and focused resource allocation. 
• Come to find how Stefanini can help you scale your security program, increase resiliency and partner with your teams to scale up your processes, expertise, and improve your overall business resiliency.   

– Nuno Silva, Cybersecurity Portfolio Manager, Stefanini

Spotlight Session Five: A Data Backup Security Perspective: To Help Your CEO Sleep At Night

A CXO typically used to leave the entire aspect of backup and recovery to their IT chiefs. However, after the events of recent years, it is no longer acceptable for an CXO to unquestionably trust their IT Chief that the organization’s data and applications are adequately protected. Instead, more detailed assurances are now required at a higher level. 
This presentation helps IT security professionals to be absolutely sure their organization is effectively protected with backup and recovery – from the executive’s perspective. 
It also discusses the range of questions and topics a CXO is likely to ask of her/his IT department to ensure that, from the backup and recovery perspective, all reasonable and special 
measures are correctly in place to protect their organization. The presentation discusses how to correctly exploit one of the main pillars of security and Business Continuity – advanced backup and recovery software – and what the true value is of that to your organization… including allowing your CEO to sleep at night. 

– Rob Morrison. Co-Founder, Bacula Systems

Spotlight Session Six: The Network: Cybersecurity’s Secret Weapon

The network may very well be the most overlooked and underutilised weapon in the defender’s arsenal. It has unique properties that make it essential to cybersecurity, yet many organisations continue to rely on traditional and legacy security tools that provide much less visibility and far fewer accurate threat insights across their cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.  

In this session we will demonstrate the unique and critical role that the network plays in early detection of advanced threats and in stopping attacks before they do damage. 

– Kat Palmer, Regional Sales Manager, ExtraHop 

13:40 – 14:50: 

13:40 – 14:10: Adapting your Internal Infrastructure in Line with the Evolving Tech Landscape

• From people to process and technology: key infrastructural considerations  
• Security by design to meet changing regulatory requirements 
• How can we enable architect best practices to mirror security best practices without sacrificing agility? 
• When prioritising resources, how can we take a security-minded approach? 

– Edward Conway, Director, Security & IT, Mental Health Innovations UK 

13:40 – 14:10: Reducing Your SOC TCO With Data Pipelines 

Securing your organisation no longer comes down to acquiring the right tools and building the best policies, while managing the flood of noisy, high volume security data and associated costs means the difference between detecting a breach and missing a critical alert. Join Cribl’s round table session to learn how data pipelines put choice and control over data back into the hands of security teams while reducing your SOC TCO. 

– James Todd, Technical Director, EMEA, Cribl 

14:20 – 14:50: Cyber Recovery – Discussing zero trust and legislation

In this thought leadership session, you will be able to exchange best practices and ideas with your peers relating to ransomware protection and zero trust principles. We will also discuss how legislation is impacting your approach to the information security in your organisation. 

• As part of the session, we will address the below questions: 
• What impact is DORA and NIS2 having on your InfoSec decisions? 
• What security processes and practices have evolved with the increase of ransomware?  
• What challenges your organisation has seen in implementing zero trust policy? 

– Richard Brackley, Sales Director – Commercial UK&I, Veeam Software 

14:20 – 14:50: Data Protection Programmes – Secure Executive Sponsorship

In this roundtable session we will discuss how to secure your key stakeholder buy–in for your data protection and compliance requirements.  

How can security support new business initiatives, but ensure that they tick all the data protection and compliance boxes without introducing more risk and crippling themselves with more work?  We’ll answer that question during this roundtable session, and provide answers to these other questions:
 

• What is your greatest data protection concern and business requirement for 2024? 
• How to position the value of a strong cybersecurity posture to organisationalstakeholders: 
• What are your best practice recommendations for identifying your organisation’s sensitive data? 
• How have you balanced the need for security to be an enabler, while reducing the risk of data loss or compliance violations? 
• What strategies have proven to be effective at reducing workload on your security and compliance teams from DLP false positives?

– Nick Hogg, Director Technical Training, Fortra 

14:50 – 15:00 

15:00 – 15:45: This focused session is your opportunity to learn more about the cutting–edge technologies transforming the future of the IT Security market. Each solution spotlight lasts just fifteen minutes.

Spotlight Session Seven: End-to-End Customer Journeys Optimized for Security and Convenience

– Máté Barany, Enterprise Account Executive, Ping 

Spotlight Session Eight: Freeing Endpoint Security from Monitor, Detect, Remediate

– Jack Hicks, Senior Presales Engineer, IGEL Technology UK 

Spotlight Session Nine: Investigate and Recover from Cyber Attacks Faster with Digital Forensics

When handling incident response, internal/HR-related cases and other enterprise investigations, you need to be able to simplify the process and ensure that you’re able to act in a timely manner. Find out how you can make it easier to collect & analyse data from a range of sources as we explore case studies from different providers and sectors. 

– Gavin Hornsey, Solutions Consultant, Magnet Forensics 

15:45 – 16:15: The Future Role of Technology Leaders: Connecting Business Value to Security.

• The C-level role as a digital business leader: promoting the value proposition of information technology and cyber security 
• The increasing importance of diversity in achieving business goals 
• How to articulate cyber and information security’s business value to non-technical stakeholders 
• Minimizing threats and vulnerabilities AND driving business enablement at an acceptable and cost-effective level of risk 
• Talking the language of business in communicating risk 

Moderator:

Alan Jenkins, Principal Consultant, The Cyber Security Navigator

Panelists:

Cavan Fabris, Lead Partner, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, Deloitte 

Victor Murineanu, IT and Cybersecurity Leader, Chelsea Football Club 

Deepan Shah, Network Architect, BT 

Ange Johnson de Wet, Head of Engineering, Commercial and Institutional, Chief Digital and Innovation Office, Natwest Bank 

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