CISOs and their teams have been discussion more frequently how to leverage a comprehensive zero trust strategy to improve their organizations' risk tolerance. For many, its overarching business value also is incontrovertible. However, conveying an easily digestible manner to other CxOs and boards of directors just how it strengthens cybersecurity, resilience and privacy postures, as well as the ways it contributes to enhancing and evolving business operations can prove trying at times. We discuss how CISOs of organizations that have or are pursuing a Zero Trust strategy helped management and other internal stakeholders understand the positive impacts to cybersecurity operations, their continuing digital transformations, and their companies' futures, as well as share tactics to getting much-needed support and the buy-in to actually execute and progress Zero Trust.

Learn how zero trust architecture secures users, workloads, and IoT/OT devices by addressing critical security shortcomings of legacy network architecture. This session covers key steps in a phased zero trust transformation journey as well as advice for winning the support of organizational leadership.

Join this session and learn to:

• - Recognize issues inherent to routable networks
• - Identify initial steps and key phases of zero trust transformation
• - Demystify zero trust architecture for business leaders

Come join Corey Smith from Qualys as he walks you through how attackers attempt to use Ransomware in your cloud environments. You will learn a few of the common ways Ransomware gets onto and propagates in your cloud, and Corey will talk about the multi-faceted approach that is required for preventing ransomware in the cloud.

In today’s digital and modernized businesses, simply having visibility in your cloud ecosystem is no longer sufficient. It’s essential for IT and business leaders to have context and a comprehensive understanding of how their data is moving, who has access to it, and the full extent of their digital supply chain. Without this contextual understanding, it’s difficult to effectively manage cloud resources to ensure security, compliance, and cost-effectiveness for 2023. CISOs, CIOs, and CEOs need to be able to make informed decisions about their cloud ecosystem for the business, and this requires visibility and context of their data and systems. Today’s panelists will discuss the challenges businesses face with visibility and no context. They will also discuss how context, observability, and security strategies are helping organizations be successful in the cloud.

Learn how AI will be critical in turning the tables against attackers and how Microsoft is using AI in its security products to make defenders more effective and efficient in hunting for threats and responding to security incidents.

Quantum computers are a reality today. They can already perform computations, deemed impossible or at least very lengthy with classical computers. Having access to improved computing power is great news in many areas. However, this also represents a threat for most of our communications and especially for the Cloud. Indeed, cryptography, which is underpinning the security of our communication infrastructure, is based on some hard mathematical problems, which will become tractable with a quantum computer. Cloud Security has to be revamped.

The Cloud Security Alliance has been a pioneer in promoting awareness about the quantum threat. The Quantum-Safe Security working group was created eight years ago, bringing together industry people and academics from different backgrounds. Today, we continue our educational and awareness program, for example, with our Y2Q (year to quantum) countdown, presented on the CSA website. Based on current estimations, a quantum computer should be able to break our cybersecurity infrastructure in about 7 years. This countdown is aimed at emphasizing the imminence of the threat and the need to find and implement new solutions.

This presentation will start with a brief explanation of the quantum computer and explain the quantum threat. We will then present possible solutions. Some are based on new algorithms, known as quantum-resistant algorithms. They can be complemented with quantum solutions, which utilize the same peculiar properties of the quantum world to thwart the quantum computer threat. Together, they will be part of a new quantum-safe infrastructure, which will recover and even improve cloud security.