Unit 8 Key Note Adress

Purpose

Fostering a culture of continuous learning is an essential skill of a CISO. You are now at your 2-year mark as a successful CISO. Your challenges and expertise handling your companys recent cyber exercise and the global expansion of your company has made you somewhat known in the CISO community. You are invited to speak at the Global Defender CISO Conference this year. The theme of your talk is A Proactive and Strategic Approach to Cybersecurity Management and Policy.

Instructions

Develop a keynote briefing for this conference highlighting your lessons learned from your experience in your first two years as a CISO. The goal of your talk is to capture your thoughts and help other CISOs learn from your approach and experience. Submit a narrated PowerPoint of your speech (or a video where you have slides). Each member must narrate a section of the presentation. The presentation must be no longer than fifteen (15) minutes.

Keynote Briefing Development:

• Reflect on your experiences and challenges as a CISO over the past two years.
• Identify key lessons learned, strategic approaches, and insights gained from managing cybersecurity within your company.
• Develop an outline for your keynote briefing, organizing key points and themes to be addressed during the conference.
• Craft engaging and informative content that aligns with the conference theme and resonates with fellow CISOs.

Narrative PowerPoint or Video Submission:

• Prepare a narrated PowerPoint presentation or a video presentation with slides, delivering your keynote briefing.
• Each member of the group must brief a section of the speech, ensuring a cohesive and well-rounded presentation.
• Use visuals, statistics, case studies, and real-life examples to support your key points and engage the audience.
• Ensure clarity, professionalism, and coherence in both content and delivery.

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Expectations:

Next each person will be responsible for:

Responding to this email chain with a brief description of their contribution.

Creating one PowerPoint slide with a reference slide and voice over. I would recommend using no more than two references (your choice).

All slides will be provided via email and/or OneDrive for final consolidation and editing.

Deadlines:

Slide deck tone:

Craft engaging and informative content that aligns with the conference theme and resonates with fellow CISOs. Three objectives of your message can be:

Initial reaction

Solution to challenge

Lessons learned or advice to current and/or future CISOs

Theme:

A Proactive and Strategic Approach to Cybersecurity Management and Policy.

I have also provided a list of examples below that you can select from. You are free to select any content/focus area as long as it complements the slide deck tone (stated above).

Possible focus areas:

The First 90 Days: Stabilizing the Foundation

From Reactive to Proactive: Shifting the Cybersecurity Mindset

Incident Response as a Leadership Discipline

Third-Party & AI Risk: Expanding the Risk Horizon

Global Expansion & Regulatory Complexity

Elevating Cybersecurity to the Boardroom

Building a Culture of Cyber Accountability

Metrics That Matter: Measuring What Drives Resilience

Strategic Lessons from Two Years as CISO

The Future of Proactive Cybersecurity Governance