Sixty-six percent of CISOs ranked the ability to benchmark their security controls as critical to addressing their challenges. But accomplishing this can be costly and time-consuming. This session will detail how the Gartner Cybersecurity Controls Assessment allows you to benchmark the current state of security controls against your peers, get a baseline for tracking improvements and learn to prioritize controls for greater investment.

Resilience is a goal of every organization and what we consider to be a strategic imperative in today’s complex and turbulent world. But you know when resilience efforts miss the mark or just aren’t there. In this session we will examine four issues: Why is resilience a strategic imperative? How is resilience defined differently? How is the resilience landscape changing? How does an organization achieve operational resilience?

Most CISOs face common challenges as leaders, especially if they are new or taking on the role from another part of the organization. However, Gartner has three key tools which can help a CISO with everything from understanding gaps in their organization to being a more effective leader. Diagnostics tools such as IT Score for SRM, CCA, and ODM Metrics will help CISOs to evaluate and benchmark their current cybersecurity programs and build tangible metrics to measure programs.

Auditors consider auditing the BCM program to be one of their top five initiatives for 2023. This session will provide conference participants an opportunity to share their best practices for managing the audit within their organization.