Name: From Barrier to Catalyst: Transforming Identity Security into an Engine of Innovation
Start: 2025-04-16T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-16T15:00:34.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3.8

Go in depth into CSA's latest research on everything from IoT to containers to blockchain. Webcasts will break down the research, provide use cases, instructions for implementation, and further insights.

As organizations realize security and operational benefits of protecting users with zero trust principles, they are also achieving value for extended environments like office branches, factories, data centers, and clouds. This session will demonstrate how they adopt and operationalize these locations by extending their zero trust architecture to branch offices, cloud workloads, and OT/IoT devices.

Extend Zero Trust to your Branch, Factories and Cloud Environments

With the emergence of AI agents transforming how organizations operate, securing the AI infrastructure itself becomes increasingly central to security leaders. How much of traditional security strategies like shift left and zero trust can be applied to AI security? As organizations integrate AI deeper into their operations, they must determine which established practices remain effective and where new approaches are needed. 

Join Caleb Sima, Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative, and Sysdig's CISO Sergej Epp as they explore the frontlines of AI security. They'll discuss practical strategies for securing and hardening AI workloads, responding to incidents and threats and reflects some misconceptions of AI Security. Sergej will also reveal the pivotal insights that led him from Palo Alto Networks to champion a runtime-first approach to cloud security.

Assume Breach: Securing AI Workloads & Investigating Breaches

Business continuity is top of mind in 2025. With AI-fueled cyberattacks at an all-time high, geopolitical instability in the news, and an ever-growing number of regulations to deal with, organizations are looking for solid foundations on which to build their operations.

In this webinar we will peel back the layers of operational resilience and explore practical ways in to help organizations:
• Remain compliant to regulations covering business continuity
• Protect their brand and reputation in an always-on world
• Look in detail at how to keep its mission critical services online
• Adopt fully managed business continuity cloud solutions

You should expect to come away from this webinar confident in your ability to stay compliant and operational, even during the most trying of circumstances.

Managed Business Continuity Cloud Solutions

Ever wonder what security leaders across industries are focusing on in the GRC space? What are their top priorities, and how should they shape yours?

Join Vanta’s GRC Subject Matter Expert, Faisal Khan, and Daniele Catteddu, CSA's Chief Technology Officer, for a deep dive on building and scaling GRC programs. They will share their take on the role of trust, AI, and automation in strengthening your foundation and preparing for what’s next.

What to expect:
Point of view on top of mind issues for GRC leaders
Role of trust management in scaling GRC 
Where to prioritize AI and automation in GRC

Scaling GRC with Trust, AI, and Automation

Dive into a full year of SOC data to identify trends in infrastructure targets, malware, schemes, and more to uncover strategies for improving your security resilience in the coming year. We’ll cover:
• Security data specific to the FinServ industry, including specific threats to be aware of and remediation tactics
• Comparisons of trends in FinServ versus cybersecurity customers as a whole
• Recommendations for keeping your FinServ organization secure

Analyzing Annual SOC Data to Inform Your 2025 FinServ Security Strategies

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing IT systems, rapidly becoming essential for organizations of all sizes. AI risks differ by industry, organization, country, business problem, and complexity. Managing these risks is crucial for user and data security. Join Charles Cresson Wood, author of Internal Policies for Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, and Illena Armstrong, President of Cloud Security Alliance, for a discussion on AI, the need for new risk management approaches, and the possible establishment of a Chief Artificial Intelligence Risk Officer (CAIRO) role in organizations using AI.

Evolving Your Risk Management Strategy Due to Advances in Artificial Intelligence

With AI dominating security conversations, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. What’s real today, and what’s still just a promise for the future?

Join Jesse Booth, Sr. Director of Security Operations at GoTo, Rex Guo, CEO of Culminate, and John DiMaria, Chief of Staff of Cloud Security Alliance, for a 60-minute webcast where they’ll cut through the noise and share how GoTo is successfully leveraging AI in its SOC right now—delivering measurable security and operational improvements right now—delivering measurable security and operational improvements.

5 Real AI-Powered Use Cases in GoTo’s SOC—What’s Working Today

Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with Oasis Security, where industry experts will share insights, experiences, and perspectives on today’s most pressing topics. This informal yet informative session is designed to provide valuable takeaways in a conversational setting.

Top Cloud Threats within AI Security

The PCI DSS v4.x has some new requirements that go into effect March 31, 2025 and cloud service providers need to be aware and ready. Among the more significant changes, the updated Appendix A1:  Additional Requirements for Multi-Tenant Service Providers will require providers to demonstrate good security of payments environments with clear separation between customers and facilitate logging and incident response.  

Join Troy Leach, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloud Security Alliance, along with a panel of PCI compliance experts, for our next FinCloud Friday webinar. This session will break down key changes, their impact on cloud service providers, and what your organization must have in place before the deadline. Stay ahead of compliance challenges and ensure your security controls align with the latest PCI DSS v4.x standard.

Key Topics:
• Overview of the new requirements for multi-tenant service providers
• Engagement strategies for partnering with cloud service providers
• Expert insights on best practices  to meet PCI DSS objectives

Don’t miss this essential discussion—register today to ensure your organization is ready!

Navigating the new PCI DSS v4.x Requirements for Cloud Service Providers

As businesses rapidly adopt cloud and SaaS technologies, the traditional model of centralized IT control has given way to business-led technology decisions. Rather than fighting this shift, forward-thinking security teams are embracing it by implementing unified visibility and intelligence across their expanding digital ecosystem. This session explores how modern access security and data-driven governance enables organizations to support business-driven innovation while maintaining security control.

Beyond Shadow IT: Enabling Business Innovation Through Unified Access Intelligence

Cloud security teams are inundated with alerts, making it difficult to prioritize what matters most and resolve issues efficiently. While this isn’t a new problem, understanding the scope and scale of the challenge is key to finding solutions. To dive deeper, we analyzed 3,960,090 alerts from our proprietary data to break down the problem at scale. In this session, we’ll reveal the most common misconfigurations and explore the factors behind dangerously long dwell times and high MTTR, some stretching up to 498 days and 285 days, respectively. What’s adding to the complexity? Inconsistent severity ratings across different tools, making prioritization even harder. But it’s not all doom and gloom. We’ll highlight quick wins you can implement today, along with key alert types to prioritize for faster triage and risk reduction. By the end of this session, you’ll learn from our expert services team how they tackle these problems at scale every day, and you’ll take away your data-backed strategies to cut through the noise, tackle high-risk misconfigurations, and improve your cloud security posture.

From Alert to Remediation: Millions of Alerts Analyzed to Shape Your Strategy

Many people still view AI as primarily Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, posing business risks through employee interaction. However, AI now includes various types of language models, productivity platforms like Co-Pilot, and Agentic AI that trains "robots" to perform technical tasks.

These AI agents, driven by specialized language models, operate autonomously and raise cyber risk by using non-human accounts for data access and workflow integration. Despite these risks, they offer benefits in vulnerability management, security operations, and automatic remediation.

Join Illena Armstrong, President of CSA and Rick Dotan, CISO at Carolina Complete Health, as they explore the risks and benefits, current organizational uses, and future developments of this ever evolving technology.

The Risks and Benefits of AgenticAI to Cybersecurity and Your Organization

The integration of Agentic AI and advanced machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector is redefining defensive security practices, enabling organizations to strengthen their ability to respond to cyber threats and ensure regulatory compliance. Agentic AI, with its autonomous decision-making capabilities, combined with ML-driven techniques, is enhancing incident response, policy enforcement, and security operations through automation and real-time adaptation. This abstract explores how Agentic AI and advanced ML are transforming key areas of defensive security, including incident response, playbooks, code reviews, and the creation of security architecture blueprints. These AI-powered solutions facilitate the automation of security processes, such as policy-as-code implementation and the development of configuration baselines that ensure consistency and resilience across complex IT environments. Furthermore, Agentic AI enables dynamic risk assessments by continuously analyzing potential vulnerabilities and suggesting mitigations. By embedding AI and ML into these critical security domains, financial institutions can enhance their proactive defense posture and reduce human error in security operations. The paper also discusses the ethical considerations, regulatory challenges, and best practices for integrating Agentic AI into security frameworks, underscoring its role in creating a more agile, secure, and resilient financial services ecosystem.

March FinCloud: AI in Financial Services for Defensive Security

2025 is already proving to be a dynamic year for cybersecurity professionals, who continue to face a multitude of threats, challenges, and external pressures. This panel webcast, led by Illena Armstrong, President of CSA, will delve into critical issues such as cloud security strategies, AI governance and regulation (including the emergence of DeepSeek), effective board interaction and reporting, and the potential impact of the new administration in Washington, D.C. on the cybersecurity landscape. Join us for discussion and debate on these topics and earn CPE credit for attending.

Navigating the New Year: What to Expect in 2025

Compliance in a global context requires harmonization across borders, regulations, and standards. This session will explore the roles of international cooperation and standardization in building a consistent compliance landscape. We’ll discuss the critical role of regulators and the importance of dialogue between industry leaders and regulatory bodies to foster shared understanding and guidelines. Additionally, we’ll examine the areas where standardization is most needed, from data protection to AI ethics, and consider how global standards can streamline compliance processes for multinational organizations. Participants will leave with insights into the future of compliance on the world stage and the collaborative efforts required to achieve it.

International Cooperation and Standardization

Join Jim Reavis, CEO of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), and Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer at Google Cloud, for an insightful fireside chat announcing the Compliance Automation Revolution. This initiative seeks to redefine how compliance and assurance are approached in an era of exponential challenges, including data and compute sprawl and the rapid evolution of Generative AI. In this engaging discussion, Reavis and Venables will explore key strategies to tackle escalating compliance demands, including: Harnessing Automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency. Promoting Regulatory Harmonization to navigate complex frameworks. Driving Control Framework Normalization for consistency and scalability. Leveraging Real-Time Information Exchanges to enhance collaboration and response. Discover how innovative technologies, evolving standards, and best practices are enabling continuous auditing, monitoring, and collaborative compliance solutions that align with today’s fast-paced innovation landscape. Be part of the conversation shaping the future of compliance, risk reduction, and operational efficiency. This is your chance to contribute to a transformative movement driving quality, security, and sustainability in the compliance space. Don’t miss it!

Fireside Chat: Jim Reavis & Phil Venables on the Compliance Automation Revolution

Resiliency is an increasingly important global business and compliance priority across different jurisdictions and business sectors, particularly financial services and those considered to be critical infrastructure. This panel discussion will provide practical organizational and architectural guidance for leveraging Zero Trust security strategy principles to achieve operational resiliency and regulatory compliance.  Key global regulatory requirements for resiliency will be examined, along with aspects of operational resilience where Zero Trust principles can be beneficial in achieving both operational and compliance objectives.

Building Resiliency: Strategies for Compliance and Operational Excellence

The Road to CSA Summit

Identity security has traditionally been viewed as a critical yet limiting layer of defense—a necessary barrier against evolving cyber threats. But what if identity management could become more than a defensive perimeter? In this session, we'll explore how forward-thinking enterprises are leveraging non-human identities, as a catalyst for innovation, agility, and business acceleration. Join us to discover:
• How proactive identity strategies enable rapid adoption of emerging technologies, from generative AI to automated DevOps.
• Real-world examples where robust management of non-human identities empowered organizations to launch new services and solutions confidently and securely.
• Practical guidance on shifting your organization's perspective from seeing identity security solely as a risk mitigation tactic to embracing it as a strategic enabler of growth and innovation.
• Turn identity security into your organization's competitive advantage.

From Barrier to Catalyst: Transforming Identity Security into an Engine of Innovation

AIOps

Artificial Intelligence

Cloud

Cloud Security

Cyber Security

Generative AI

Information Security

Security

Cloud computing has exploded over the past few years, delivering a previously unimagined level of workplace mobility and flexibility. The cloud computing community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of engaged professionals learning from the latest cloud computing research and resources. Join the community to expand your cloud computing knowledge and have your questions answered in live sessions with industry experts and vendor representatives.

Cloud Computing

The IT security community on BrightTALK is composed of more than 200,000 IT security professionals trading relevant information on software assurance, network security and mobile security. Join the conversation by watching on-demand and live information security webinars and asking questions of experts and industry leaders.

IT Security

Increasing expectations for good governance, effective risk management and complex demands for corporate compliance are presenting a growing challenge for organizations of all sizes. Join industry thought leaders as they provide you with practical advice on how to implement successful risk and compliance management strategies across your organization. Browse risk management resources in the form of interactive webinars and videos and ask questions of expert GRC professionals.

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

As an IT professional, many of the problems you face are multifaceted, complex and don’t lend themselves to simple solutions. The information technology community features useful and free information technology resources. Join to browse thousands of videos and webinars on ITIL best practices, IT security strategy and more presented by leading CTOs, CIOs and other technology experts.

From Barrier to Catalyst: Transforming Identity Security into an Engine of Innovation

Presented by

About this talk

More from this channel