Half Moon Bay / Summit CISO

Registration Opens / Breakfast

Opening Remarks & Keynote

Harnessing AI to Power an Advanced Data Security Strategy

As security and technology leaders, you’re being asked to find ways to securely enable your business to use data for driving innovation. This requires understanding what data you have, where it is kept, who has access to it, and what risks exist. From a practitioner's perspective, this session will provide scalable processes for CISOs and CIOs to build a modern data security and governance program by discovering and evaluating data attack surfaces.

Panel Discussion

Crypto-Agility in the Age of AI and Quantum: Discovery, Automation, and Resilience

The foundations of digital trust are under unprecedented pressure. With NIST’s 2030 post-quantum cryptography deadline, CA/Browser Forum’s move to 47-day TLS certificate lifespans, and an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape, CISOs face strategic decisions that can’t be deferred. The first step is visibility, understanding where and how cryptographic assets are used across interconnected hybrid and multi-cloud environments. From there, leaders must chart a course that balances automation, operational resilience, and business risk.

This panel will explore:
- Why cryptographic discovery is a board-level priority in modern cloud environments
- Executive strategies for aligning PQC migration with digital transformation initiatives
- The role of automation in sustaining trust under compressed certificate lifecycles
- How to frame crypto-agility as both a security and business resilience imperative
- Managing AI-driven threats today while keeping a strategic eye on quantum risks

Attendees will gain peer-driven insights to shape their own strategic roadmaps for protecting digital trust in an era where timelines are shrinking and risks are rising.

Keynote

Back to the Future of Cybersecurity: Fixing Controls That Time Forgot

The foundational tools of cybersecurity — endpoint protection, identity, and vulnerability management — were built for a world that no longer exists. With modern infrastructure evolving faster than ever, many of these controls are struggling to keep up.

Today’s security and IT leaders are navigating an increasingly fragmented landscape: cloud-native systems, SaaS sprawl, non-human identities, and AI-driven operations. These shifts are creating critical visibility gaps and eroding the effectiveness of traditional control points.

In this session, Liz Morton, CISO at Axonius, will explore what’s breaking down — and how leaders can realign their strategies for better resilience, risk reduction, and operational efficiency.

What you’ll take away:
- Why traditional control points are falling short — and what’s replacing them
- The rising importance of asset visibility as a foundation for modern security
- Practical ways to evolve security programs to match today’s dynamic environments
- Whether you're leading security, infrastructure, or risk initiatives, this keynote will help you reframe your approach and build a stronger foundation for the future.

Keynote

Navigating the AI and Quantum Revolution

As AI and quantum computing accelerate innovation, CIOs must lead critical shifts in organizational structures, culture and enterprise architecture to unlock measurable value from rapid innovation. This keynote will provide practical insights for navigating transformation effectively, demonstrating to a skeptical c-suite how modernization drives economic value, resilience and competitive advantage.

Join this session to learn about:

- Prioritizing enterprise architecture modernization to build a resilient, adaptable foundation essential for integrating AI and quantum capabilities.
- Evaluating organizational roles and culture to proactively capitalize on AI and quantum opportunities.
- Translating IT strategy into actionable plans to demonstrate measurable outcomes and gain C-suite support for technology adoption.

Mingle Break

Panel Discussion

Data Security in the Agentic AI Era

In this panel, Nightfall AI Director PM Brian Hutchins will lead a discussion on how modern security tools should leverage AI for advanced threat detection, content classification, and user behavior analysis, while also addressing the new risks posed by AI agents and MCP servers. The discussion will cover strategies for integrating AI-driven security within existing platforms and provide practical criteria for evaluating next-generation AI security solutions that move beyond legacy pattern-matching approaches. Attendees will gain insights into maximizing AI’s defensive capabilities while safeguarding against AI-enabled threats.

Lunch

Keynote

Confident SIEM Migration: Strategy, Pitfalls, and the AI Advantage

SIEM migrations can feel risky, leading many organizations to delay decisions and extend existing contracts. This session breaks down how to approach a migration with confidence, what to expect along the way, and the pitfalls to avoid. Learn how Elastic’s AI-powered tools, including Automatic Import, Auto Migration, and AI Assistant Query Conversion—simplify onboarding, preserve detection logic, and help analysts hit the ground running. Walk away with proven strategies to streamline your migration, maintain visibility, and accelerate value from day one.

Panel Discussion

From Breaches to Breakthroughs: Lessons from the Frontlines of Cybersecurity

Real-world stories of setbacks, recoveries, and leadership lessons that transformed cyber programs

Keynote

Cyber Groundhog Day

We’re told to do the “basics” right to mitigate the majority of our risks and are harshly criticized when they prove impossible to implement at enterprise scale. But some of those orthodoxies no longer make sense, or perhaps never did.

Join this session as we question some of the assumptions that we’ve lived with for decades:

- Patching/alerting - hamster wheels or key controls?
- Data - why classify when no one has succeeded at scale?
- People - are humans destined to remain the weakest link?

Mingle Break

Round Tables

1. Tanium: How will agentic AI reshape operations and security—and what should CISOs do now to prepare?
2. Threatlocker: What’s On Your Endpoints?
3. WitnessAI: Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Visibility, Security, and Governance Challenges
4. Commvault: A Modern Approach to Continuous and Resilient Business
5. Sailpoint: From risk to ROI: The business case of identity
6. Immersive Labs: Proof Over Promises: Building a Resilient Workforce
7. Forcepoint: AI-Native Strategies that Close the Gap Between Data Visibility and Control
8. Cyberproof: Why is CTEM Enablement the connective tissue organizations might be missing?

Closing Remarks

Networking Cocktail Hour