Agenda

Presentations already confirmed include:


►First 90 days of a retail CISO

Zibby Kwecka, CISO, Arnold Clark

  • How to select the right leader of the security function for your retail organisation – Should a CISO come from a technical background, legal, or a Big4 consultancy?
  • Key skills to become a CISO the board will love / What to expect of a CISO in the first 90 days?
  • What does it mean to have a strategy?

►Navigating Cybersecurity Partnerships: A Guide for Retail Businesses 

Anil Kumar, Head of IT Security & Risk Function, Homebase

  • The Art of Selection: Key Considerations in Choosing the Right Cybersecurity Partner
  • Crafting an Effective RFP: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
  • Negotiating Success: Strategies for Securing the Ideal Partnership Deal
  • Third-Party Vendor Assessment: Unveiling Insights and Mitigating Risks
  • Setting the Standard: Establishing Clear Expectations with Your Chosen Cybersecurity Partner

►Fireside chat: a CISOs view

Simon Brady, Managing Editor & Event Chairman, AKJ Associates (Moderator)
Angus Alderman, Information Security Officer, Boden

  • What are your biggest challenges in the day-to-day battle of protecting your customers and organisation and do you think the retail industry has become a bigger target more recently? What threats worry you the most?
  • Security versus resilience: aligning security priorities with organizational objectives. How do you prioritize and do you feel supported and heard when airing concerns?
  • To what extent are you embracing AI in Boden and are you seeing the benefits it can offer? How are you developing responsible, user-centred principles to balance opportunity and risk?
  • With human centric security top of the agenda how do you aim to achieve a robust security culture throughout the organisation? 

►Function, friction and security (FFS) - the fraudsters keep evolving: from automation to big data and why its a full team effort

Nick Harris, Interim CISO, Holland & Barrett
Puneet Ahuja, Cyber Analytics & Information Risk Manager, Holland & Barrett

  • Top themes of online fraud and how its changing: use cases, trends etc. Inside the criminal's mind
  • Why Cyber Security is primed to lead a business wide effort: the ultimate horizontal, already use big data (SIEM), has engineering skills to tie the data together
  • Team effort from across store loss prevention, to payment squad, to PaaS, to Cyber IR, to Risk, automation, customer auth, customer journey. It needs everyone.

►Securing Retail Operations in High risk Jurisdictions

Ashish Khanna, Security & Digital Transformation Leader, Sharaf Group

  • Navigating complex threat environments and risk scenarios in high-risk jurisdictions
  • Crafting a unique response
  • Identifying high-risk jurisdictions and inventory critical assets
  • Identifying vulnerabilities, assessing risks, and identifying the security controls necessary to mitigate those risks