agenda

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The Subtle art of Sourcing

How most businesses are run have changed dramatically over the years. The age of the do-it-all-inhouse megacorporation are gone, and everywhere we see both private companies and public offices becoming more specialized around core functions - leaving multiple partners and vendors to take care of the rest.

This distributed model and complex value chains can prove a risk to the company if not managed properly. In order to minimize risk and ensure there is a solid foundation to build a partnership upon, it is of uttermost importance that necessary preparations are done in advance. Buyers competence and the Sourcing process might be underway to become one of businesses most important function, going forward.

Takeaways:

1. Common pitfalls with outsourcing
2. How to plan and prepare for procurement of products and services
3. Processes and procedures for for governance and audit

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Establishing Trust Through Digital Ethics & Privacy

With major hacks and breaches, people are becoming increasingly concerned about how organizations in both the public and private sector are using their information. More importantly, there is serious alarm as these organizations that are not proactively addressing these concerns. 

Takeaways: 

1. How to learn from others' security mistakes  
2. Cover the broader topic of digital ethics and the trust of your customers and employees 
3. What steps your organization can take to establish trust

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What is at risk? The importance of translating between understandings of risk

What people know and in what contexts they make decisions about risks, affect their decisions. Large organisations encompass a range of risk cultures or regimes that affect how risks are managed, making it difficult to create a common understanding of cyber and information security risks and priorities.

Takeaways:

1. A perspective on different cultures or regimes within cyber and information security in the Danish Ministry of Defence and how this makes consolidation and transformation challenging
2. Simple tools are important when bridging the divide

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Q&A Panel

Inviting speakers back for Q&A. The audience are free to ask any questions related to previous sessions and the topic in general.

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Automating Cybersecurity

IT security professionals all face one major issue: being asked to do more, with less resources. Automation and integration are a necessity in order to meet the demands of an organization's security needs. Managing risk without diminishing the speed and quality of development is achievable by integrating security into agile processes, like DevOps or CI/CD. Since most security teams are understaffed, automated solutions are becoming a requirement, rather than an option to properly manage the ever-increasing workload.

Takeaways: 

1. Automation is required to meet today's security demand 
2. DevOps can operate more efficiently with CI/CD 
3. IT security staff are responsible for more than ever

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Securing the Human Factor

The biggest fear is not the technology. Who is responsible for mistakes that take place using technology, which can potentially lead to a cyberattack? The majority of CISOs agree that an employee carelessly falling victim to a phishing scam is the most likely cause of a security breach. How do we guard against human error without limiting employee efficiency and productivity?

Takeaways: 

1. Are technologies being often vulnerable to user error?
2. Are phishing scams are the biggest culprits for breaches? 
3. Is training essential to rolling new technologies out at your organization?

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Planning to Manage your Legacy Systems to Mitigate Risk

The risk of an IT project is assessed not so much by critical failures related to new technologies, but by the increased need for hands-on work within legacy systems.  

Takeaways: 

1. Creating automated migration tools 
2. Predicting disk failures to improve IaaS availability 
3. Building trustworthy AI and detecting misinformation