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Supply and Demand: Closing the Growing Gap in Cybersecurity Skills

At a time when the threat landscape ever expanding, two out of three organizations worldwide claim to have a lack of the IT security staff needed. The need for cybersecurity professionals is at an all-time high. The deficit of qualified individuals has made the need for automated security tools more of a requirement than a desire in order to maintain a strong security foundation. Today's products and technologies can enable even small teams to appropriately secure multiple websites and applications, offering potential answers to the pressing recruitment issues. 

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Bring Your Own . . . Enhancement

Over the next 5 years, it's forecasted that roughly 30% of enterprises will augment BYOD policies to include ?bring your own enhancement? (BYOE) to add focus to augmented staff members. It will be tempting for IT to try and regulate or control human augmentation technology, but the real focus should be to exploit the employee's interest in BYOE to advance the business. We are seeing manufacturing companies currently using wearables to promote worker safety, and companies in both travel and healthcare industries are using these devices to boost productivity. With these technologies constantly evolving, organizations should contemplate how these enhancements can be leveraged in both the personal and professional lives of the workforce. 

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Gregory Ericson, Chief Information Officer North America, Essilor

 

 

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Combating the Rise in Cloud-based Threats

As the cloud migration continues, securing data and critical infrastructure is going to require new approaches. Organizations have struggled to maintain control of critical data and ensure real-time threat intelligence, giving cloud-based threats the ability to multiply. Data buckets being misconfigured, or inadequately secured increases the risk of a breach. Being able to manually manage security for large web application infrastructures has become a thing of the past. As such, organizations are being pushed to reevaluate their approach to web application security. 

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Digital Transformation: Why changing the company culture is mandatory

Everyone talks about Digital Transformation, using digital tools to drive all aspects of the business, to connect with the customer, and to streamline internal processes. Often times these initiatives do not bear the fruit that was envisioned and slowly but surely everyone reverts back to the status quo from before the change. 

Culture is most easily defined as the "collective behavior of everyone in your organization"; and it is most always driven by the example set by the company leaders. So to change the culture, leaders need to change themselves first in action and word, to lead by example and instill the change required in the teams.  

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Presented by:

James Clent, Chief Information Officer, Remington Hotels

 

 

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You've got a Bad Leaver with the Keys to Your Kingdom

The biggest driver to enhancing your insider threat program should be your privileged users. Are you ready to have an IT admin leave your company on bad terms, whatever the reason? Let us chat about what we have seen, actions we would take, and what not to do in order to survive an adverse termination with elevated privileges.

Presented by:

Cindy (Satterfield) Heiner, Director, Security Advisory, Aon Corporation

 

 

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Human Intelligent Experience( The Neiman Marcus effect using Intelligent Automation)

We live in Era, where the average span of human attention is approx. 8 seconds. Cloud Has fueled Big Data and in turn has accelerated A.I .However companies are still struggling to understand the basic tenants of Data. Center's of excellence have become cylinders of excellence . Enterprises need a way to efficiently understand their past data , present and future to provide a holistic picture and empower them to take Actionable insights which are not only effective but also are secure. 

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1. Learn more about how Intelligent Automation is accelerating Digital Transformation & improving CX. 
2. Understand the role of Process Mining and it's impact on Value chain 
3. Understand the TCO & cost-benefits of Approaching Intelligent Automation using COE.

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Keeping Pace with Innovation, Chronologically and Economically

Today's digital evolution will take major enterprises twice as long and cost twice as much as initially anticipated. Companies will struggle with digital innovation as they realize the associated challenges, and the true cost of modernization. As such, leaders in smaller and more agile organizations have a great opportunity to be first to market, while those in larger organizations suffer through uninspiring, and potentially career limiting, short term results. 

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Going Mobile, Securely

The average employee uses at least 3 different mobile devices to access business data. This number has risen and so has the amount of company data that is being stored on each device. Each device represents another endpoint that needs to be secured. While mobile malware threats are low, it's expected that there will be a rise in data breaches directly related to mobile devices. Providing access to company data via a secure web application infrastructure with real-time vulnerability management is one way of reducing risk with mobile devices. 

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Randy Stroud, Information Security Officer, Hunt Companies