Briefing the board : Lessons learned from CISO's and Directors (RSA Conference 2017)
Communicating effectively with the board of directors can make or break a security program. Across 2016, John Pescatore and Alan Paller of SANS talked with dozens of CISOs and several members of corporate boards and distilled down a set of best practices and lessons learned. This session will present the findings from that effort, with lessons learned from real-world board sessions.
Detailed Presentation:
(Source: RSA USA 2017)
Speakers:
Alan Paller, John Pescatore (@john_pescatore)
Alan Paller founded SANS, a college and training school that has trained more than 165,000 cybersecurity technologists in 72 countries. Paller oversees a global program that celebrates people responsible for remarkable improvement in cyber-risk reduction. He has testified before the Senate and House and was a charter member of the President’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council. In 2010, the Washington Post named Paller as one of seven people “worth knowing in cyber security.” He serves on the NASA Advisory Council, chaired the DHS 2012 Task Force on Cyber Skills and headed the FCC Task Force on Best Practices in Cybersecurity. Earlier, Paller helped build one of the first large software companies, took it public and merged it into a larger company listed on the NY Stock Exchange.
John Pescatore joined SANS in January 2013 with 35 years’ experience in computer, network and information security. He was Gartner’s Lead Security Analyst for 13 years, working with global 5000 corporations and major technology and service providers. Prior to joining Gartner Inc. in 1999, Pescatore was Senior Consultant for Entrust Technologies and Trusted Information Systems. Prior to that, Pescatore spent 11 years with GTE developing secure computing systems. Pescatore began his career at the National Security Agency, where he designed secure voice systems, and the United States Secret Service, where he developed secure communications and surveillance systems. He holds a BSEE from the University of Connecticut and is a NSA Certified Cryptologic Engineer.
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