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To grow, your company has to outperform the competition — globally. Your customers can’t afford to stay loyal to you if a competitor can meet their needs better, faster, and more cheaply. And meeting that challenge means that your business will likely need to evaluate and embrace more risk, not less.

Security & Risk (S&R) Professionals must also compete on a global scale; we must handle borderless networks of cybercriminals, thickets of contradictory security and privacy regulations, and an ever-more tech-savvy and footloose population of employees and business partners. The solution: Run at the threat. What does this mean? Whenever the business comes to you with a scary but possibly profitable idea, swallow your objections and say: “Sounds exciting. Let’s figure out how to make that work.” Unfortunately, many S&R organizations aren’t ready to run at the threat. We’re running legacy technology designed for a world before the rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud services transformed end user and data center computing, and before advanced persistent threats (APT). We’ve also underinvested in skills and capabilities in analytics, incident management, and forensics.

This year, we’ll dedicate Security Forum to running at the threat. Together, we’ll tackle everything you need to rethink your security architecture, to evaluate and embrace risk safely, and, above all, to leapfrog your global competition.

KEY QUESTIONS THIS FORUM WILL ANSWER

• How can you rethink security to simplify your architecture and your infrastructure while repelling more sophisticated threats?
• How can you understand, evaluate, and treat more and different types of risk safely?
• How can your security and risk efforts help your company differentiate itself from the global competition and win new customers?

IN-DEPTH TRACKS

Rethink Security: Simplify Your Infrastructure; Increase Your Sophistication. Thirty years of throwing technology at ever-mutating threats has left us with a complex, inflexible, and hard-to-repair security infrastructure. Thus, it’s time to rethink and simplify all the elements of our security portfolio, including: a) data security; b) identity; c) security architecture and operations; and d) mobile and cloud security.

Run At The Threat: Embrace (The Right Amount Of) Risk Safely. To understand, evaluate, and treat more and different types of risk, you’ll need to: a) build a strong governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program; b) manage third-party risk; c) build a high-performance S&R organization; and d) improve business continuity.

Who Should Attend?

• Senior-level IT security and information security executives.
• Executives and senior-level practitioners responsible for information risk, compliance, or privacy.
• Senior-level Infrastructure & Operations Professionals responsible for information security operations, cloud, or mobile device strategy.
• Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals responsible for sourcing IT and information security products and services.

Why Attend?

• C-level keynotes from Fortune 1000 companies.
• Role-based track sessions designed to help leapfrog your global competition.
• One-On-One Meetings with more than 30 Forrester analysts.
• Peer networking with 400 attending executives.

THE FORRESTER EVENT DIFFERENCE

• The quality of the Forrester keynotes. Presentations are backed by thousands of interviews with technology leaders, business executives, and vendors.
• Exclusive audiences. Forrester Forum attendees include executives from the highest organizational levels.
• Integration of organizational, technological, and business issues. Forrester Forums provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges ahead and how your company can overcome them.
• One-On-One Meetings with Forrester analysts. Attendees can speak one-on-one with Forrester analysts.

Forrester’s Security Forum attendees receive complimentary access to Forrester's colocated Infrastructure & Operations Forum and Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum. These Events are being held simultaneously to allow you to network with more business leaders, bring additional team members, and access valuable additional content relevant to your challenges and responsibilities.