Cape Town Chapter – March 2019

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CISO Alliances Cape Town Alliances 2019 Results

Date: Wednesday, 6th of March 2019

Time: 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Venue: Taj Cape Town

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Overall Theme: Delving into Security, Where are the Lessons?

Areas of focus:

Benchmarking Strategy for Learning:

People
Process
Technology

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This Alliance Chapter will focus on building a decision making and decision influencing community focused on impacting the ICT and Cyber Security division of enterprises and upper mid-market organisations from the Western Cape in South Africa.

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Agenda Community

800
Registration
830
Welcome Remarks & House Keeping
845
Session 1 - Open Forum
Session Leader:

Leigh Thomas – Director – CISO Alliances

Session Title:
- Update on POPIA.
- What is being done to protect our national assets from being hacked? Does the government have concrete plans in place to address this? Failing infrastructure and poor maintenance seems to indicate otherwise. Does anyone have insights into this?
- Security spend and investment: investment vs risk- how much is enough; how do we measure ROI?
- The CISO role-is it a business role or IT role? Who should the CISO report to?
- What part of security strategy is unsourced vs outsourced? How is the security landscape changing? How does cloud impact this?
- A dynamic security strategy: how is it evolving and changing. How dynamic should it be? Who are the core Stakeholders?
1030
Networking Break
1055
Session 2 - Thought Leadership
Session Leaders:

Abdul Baba – Group IT Director – TBWA

Session Title: Cybersecurity vs. Network Security vs. Information Security

Description:

We are in a time where businesses are more digitally advanced than ever, and as technology improves, organizations’ security postures must be enhanced as well. Failure to do so could result in a costly data breach, as we’ve seen happen with many businesses. However; before you can start developing a security program for your organization, it’s critical that you understand the different types of security and how they all work together.
- What is Information Security?
- What is Cybersecurity?
- What is Network Security?
Key Takeaways:
- Determine how to align security strategies with your business objectives and goals – Governance.
- Define the roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of each person to ensure that you are meeting compliance.
- The importance to provide your employees with the necessary training and technology to strengthen your organization’s human firewall and mitigate the possibility of a cyberattack.
- The role of network security to protect the organization’s IT infrastructure from all types of cyber threats
1140
Session 3 - Open Forum
Session Leader:

Leigh Thomas – Director – CISO Alliances

Session Title:
- Can we mentor and increase the pool of security analysts and ISOs? Find good security staff and more importantly hang onto them.
- Resourcing, developing and retaining talent. What does the talent pool look like locally? Linking in with the outsource/Insource topic?
- Governance, and Risk-based security strategies, knowing your Business and what is most important to their success? There so many overlapping points in data and security strategies.
- IT governance and risk management; the adoption of this discipline and how companies are approaching it? Do CISOs assume this responsibility or is there another entity that does?
- Insource/outsource topic. How are companies dealing with establishing universal ICT protocols when mergers and acquisitions happen?
- Africa operations; are there reliable/skilled ICT partners?
- Digital Risk Officer. Can we define a job role?
1225
Networking Lunch
1330
Session 4 - Conclusion
Session Leader:

Leigh Thomas – Director – CISO Alliances

Session Title:

Conclusion from the day, collate, revert, action
1500
Closing Remarks & Networking