Virtual Roundtable: CISO-DevOps 360 – West Coast
Wednesday 23 September 2020
1pm-2.30pm PST
Secure development during digital transformation – A new approach for a new reality
*There is no cost to attend for in-house practitioners, CISOS, Developers, Heads of Architecture, Networks, Applications, CIOs… Places are limited to 15 guests for this event to maintain the focus of the discussion and to ensure the participation of all guests. Confirmations will therefore be done on a ‘first to confirm’ basis.
You are invited to attend this special virtual roundtable discussion, CISO-DevOps 360 – West Coast, developed specially for CISOs and senior cybersecurity practitioners based in the Pacific Time Zone. The event will be hosted virtually during lunchtime on 23 September 2020 (1pm-2:30pm PST).
During the discussion you will benchmark operational security capabilities with peers, guided by the experiences of your co-chairpersons, Snyk Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, Guy Podjarny and Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer at Oracle. Topics for discussion will look at how we can define and embed an agile approach to security to ensure that we work closely with digital product teams from the outset and how can we, as CISOs, maintain secure development?
The backdrop: Digital transformation is a major change to your organisation and business. It means more software, and that means more software risk. The cloud means that your infrastructure is now part of your application, blurring the lines on who is responsible for security. DevOps has accelerated the deployment of software. But where does this leave your security practice? Overwhelmed, in the way and under-informed. If your security practices are going to keep pace with the digital transformation of your business, you need to throw out the decades-old security playbook, start empowering and trusting developers to be the front-line of your security practice, and employing security tools that suit this bottom-up revolution in how you build secure software.
Hosted by Pulse Conferences, sponsored by Snyk, the core objective of this discussion is to connect peers for an energetic debate on the practical approaches, realities, challenges and successes.
Key questions for discussion:
- Why the old ways of doing security don’t mesh with the way we build apps today
- The dev-first security practices that can cut risk without harming agility
- The new tools and the shift in mindset that these changes demand
- How can we as CISOs maintain security during transformation?
- How can we implement controls without telling anyone what to do?
- How we can define and embed an agile approach to security to ensure that we work alongside, and at the pace of, digital product teams, from the outset?
- How can we prevent vulnerabilities in application security?
- Secure development when working from home — tips and tricks. Read more here!
- How can we mitigate the risks of open source code and containers without hindering your dev team and application delivery?
- What are proven ways we can bridge the gap between projects and operations by using agile techniques in development, project management, and system administration?
Conducted under The Chatham House Rule, participants are encouraged to contribute and be visible if convenient. This is not a watchable webinar, but a live and fully interactive roundtable discussion. It follows the Pulse mantra of being ‘led by, with and for’ CISOs.
Clive Room, Director, Pulse Conferences will top and tail the discussion as your esteemed Master of Ceremonies.
Please see the approximate timings below for this very special event – a unique opportunity to compare. Please confirm your place at the table today! Places are limited.
We look forward to seeing you on 23 September for what promises to be an educational, memorable – as well as entertaining – discussion with peers!
Yours sincerely,
Team Pulse
Timings – Note – All times listed for this event are in PST.
The agenda is relatively fluid to ensure that all participants have the opportunity to contribute – everyone is a speaker! The below agenda provides a guidance.
Sponsored by
Hosted by
Co-led by:
Guy Podjarny, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, Snyk
Snyk builds dev-first security tools, helping the developer community and enterprise alike use open source and containers and stay secure (https://snyk.io/). Guy co-founded Snyk in 2015 with Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz, served as CEO through July 2019, when he brought on Peter McKay to join as CEO, allowing him to focus on the vision, strategy and community leadership.
Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle
Mary Ann Davidson is the chief security officer at Oracle, responsible for Oracle software security assurance. She represents Oracle on the board of directors of the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), and serves on the international board of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). She has been named one of Information Security’s top five “Women of Vision,” is a Federal 100 Award recipient from Federal Computer Week, and was recently named to the ISSA Hall of Fame. Davidson has served on the Defense Science Board and was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency. She has testified on cybersecurity to the US House of Representatives (Energy and Commerce Committee, Armed Services Committee, and Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology), and the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology. Davidson has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She received the Navy Achievement Medal when she served as a commissioned officer in the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps.
Master of Ceremonies:
Clive Room, Director, Pulse Conferences
Clive has worked as a marketeer within cybersecurity since 2000. As the Marketing Manager at Portcullis Computer Security he organised all their bespoke events from seminars to hospitality events like the famous Portcullis Arms during Infosec. He was also responsible for their involvement with conferences and exhibitions all over Europe. His experience in promoting and presenting at cyber security events is matched by his passion for helping people understand the critical importance of mitigating the risks and protecting themselves and their organisations from cybercrime. He believes that in terms of reputational damage and operational costs, security breaches should be a key concern of everyone from the ground floor worker up to board and director level. Clive was Chairman of The White Hat Committee, the charity for the information security industry, which raises money for ChildLine and Barnardo’s throughout the year. This January’s White Hat Ball was the most successful to date raising over two hundred thousand pounds and the next White Hat Car Rally is in September. Clive is proud to be a part of the dynamic team bringing CISO 360 Congress to the marketplace as a game changer in cybersecurity events.
About the Sponsor
Snyk is a developer-first security company that helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Snyk is the only solution that seamlessly and proactively finds and fixes vulnerabilities and license violations in open source dependencies and container images. Snyk’s solution is built on a comprehensive, proprietary vulnerability database, maintained by an expert security research team in Israel and London. With tight integration into existing developer workflows, source control (including GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and CI/CD pipelines, Snyk enables efficient security workflows and reduces mean-time-to-fix. For more information or to get started with Snyk for free today, visit https://snyk.io.
1pm- 1.10pm
Digital House-Keeping and Guest Welcome
Master of Ceremonies: Clive Room, Director, Pulse Conferences
1.10pm-1.20pm
Introduction and insights on the topics
Co-Chaired by:
Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle
Guy Podjarny, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, Snyk
1.20pm-2.20pm
Main discussion: Secure development during digital transformation – A new approach for a new reality
Co-Chaired by:
Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle
Guy Podjarny, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, Snyk
Joined by:
Participants – All Guests are Speakers!
- Why the old ways of doing security don’t mesh with the way we build apps today
- The dev-first security practices that can cut risk without harming agility
- The new tools and the shift in mindset that these changes demand
- How can we prevent vulnerabilities in application security?
- What is best practice when creating and developing containers?
- Secure development when working from home — tips and tricks.
- How can we mitigate the risks of open source code and containers without hindering your dev team and application delivery?
- What are proven ways we can bridge the gap between projects and operations by using agile techniques in development, project management, and system administration?
2.20pm-2.30pm
Summaries and Goodbyes