Security leaders today are facing a fundamental shift in how attacks unfold. Modern breaches no longer rely on a single perimeter failure. They exploit east-west movement across hybrid infrastructure, moving rapidly between workloads, identities, and cloud environments.
At the same time, organizations are operating across multiple clouds, fragmented security controls, and increasingly automated attack techniques, making traditional detection-centric security strategies insufficient.
This executive dinner will bring together cybersecurity leaders to discuss how organizations are evolving from detect-and-respond models toward containment-focused architectures that can stop attackers from spreading once inside the environment.
Through peer discussion and real-world examples, we will explore how security teams are reducing breach impact by improving visibility into east-west traffic, closing multi-cloud control gaps, and deploying segmentation strategies that limit attacker movement across modern infrastructure.
We will discuss:
- The growing exposure inside modern networks: While most security investment still focuses on perimeter defense, the majority of enterprise traffic now moves internally across workloads, identities, and cloud services; creating blind spots attackers routinely exploit.
- Why modern breaches spread faster than organizations can respond: Once initial access is gained, adversaries move laterally across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments, turning small incidents into enterprise-wide disruptions.
- The operational reality of securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments: Security teams must manage AWS, Azure, on-prem, and Kubernetes environments with disconnected tools and inconsistent controls, making unified visibility and policy enforcement increasingly difficult.
- The rise of machine-speed attacks: As adversaries leverage automation and AI to accelerate reconnaissance and movement, security teams are under pressure to respond and contain threats at a similar speed.
- A strategic shift toward breach containment: Leading organizations are focusing on limiting blast radius, using segmentation and workload-level controls to stop attackers from spreading even when initial defenses fail.
Under the “assume breach” mentality that has been adopted by security leaders, it’s apparent that East-West or Lateral security is the new battleground for many organizations, especially with the inherent complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Today, 93 percent of malware hides behind encrypted traffic. In a recent report, more than 70 percent of the 1,000 IT and security chiefs surveyed said they currently allow encrypted data to flow freely across their infrastructure. Efficiency in dealing with encrypted traffic will be a top priority for security teams this year.
As we enter 2024, the mantra of doing more with less has never been truer. The good news is when organizations prioritize and invest appropriately, technology has the power to maximize efficiencies by extending resources and assisting security leaders in navigating growing complexity. From AIOps to deep observability to threat detection, security innovations have the potential to keep pace with the expanding attack surface and enable SecOps and IT to work together and successfully secure the enterprise.
We will discuss:
- How to gain deep observability, enhance performance monitoring, and strengthen your organization’s security posture.
- How to access and efficiently deliver network-derived intelligence from East-West traffic across hybrid cloud infrastructure to various tools that are being used for security and performance monitoring.
- How to extend the value of your existing investments in security and monitoring tools, in order to make them more efficient and effective.
- Leveraging AIOps to reduce full dependencies on security operations center (SOC) analysts and automate tasks efficiently.
Under the “assume breach” mentality that has been adopted by security leaders, it’s apparent that East-West or Lateral security is the new battleground for many organizations, especially with the inherent complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Today, 93 percent of malware hides behind encrypted traffic. In a recent report, more than 70 percent of the 1,000 IT and security chiefs surveyed said they currently allow encrypted data to flow freely across their infrastructure. Efficiency in dealing with encrypted traffic will be a top priority for security teams this year.
As we enter 2024, the mantra of doing more with less has never been truer. The good news is when organizations prioritize and invest appropriately, technology has the power to maximize efficiencies by extending resources and assisting security leaders in navigating growing complexity. From AIOps to deep observability to threat detection, security innovations have the potential to keep pace with the expanding attack surface and enable SecOps and IT to work together and successfully secure the enterprise.
We will discuss:
- How to gain deep observability, enhance performance monitoring, and strengthen your organization’s security posture.
- How to access and efficiently deliver network-derived intelligence from East-West traffic across hybrid cloud infrastructure to various tools that are being used for security and performance monitoring.
- How to extend the value of your existing investments in security and monitoring tools, in order to make them more efficient and effective.
- Leveraging AIOps to reduce full dependencies on security operations center (SOC) analysts and automate tasks efficiently.
Under the “assume breach” mentality that has been adopted by security leaders, it’s apparent that East-West or Lateral security is the new battleground for many organizations, especially with the inherent complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Today, 93 percent of malware hides behind encrypted traffic. In a recent report, more than 70 percent of the 1,000 IT and security chiefs surveyed said they currently allow encrypted data to flow freely across their infrastructure. Efficiency in dealing with encrypted traffic will be a top priority for security teams this year.
As we enter 2024, the mantra of doing more with less has never been truer. The good news is when organizations prioritize and invest appropriately, technology has the power to maximize efficiencies by extending resources and assisting security leaders in navigating growing complexity. From AIOps to deep observability to threat detection, security innovations have the potential to keep pace with the expanding attack surface and enable SecOps and IT to work together and successfully secure the enterprise.
We will discuss:
- How to gain deep observability, enhance performance monitoring, and strengthen your organization’s security posture.
- How to access and efficiently deliver network-derived intelligence from East-West traffic across hybrid cloud infrastructure to various tools that are being used for security and performance monitoring.
- How to extend the value of your existing investments in security and monitoring tools, in order to make them more efficient and effective.
- Leveraging AIOps to reduce full dependencies on security operations center (SOC) analysts and automate tasks efficiently.
You are invited to discuss emerging trends and challenges of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing, especially in times of limited budget. Join your peers to share insights on topics covering supply chain management and it’s impact on sustainability, cost optimization and risk management.
In today’s global manufacturing landscape, product teams face immense pressure to balance innovation, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, while staying compliant with ever-evolving regulations. At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about the challenges faced by peers in the manufacturing industry with regards to ESG, rapidly evolving regulations, and supply chain disruptions. The event will also focus on how procurement, product engineering, and the CIO can solve these rising challenges with limited resources.
With the emergence of new technologies and data solutions with the potential to drive transformational change within your business, how do business leaders ensure they make the right investments and ensure business partners are involved in the decision-making process. How do they navigate their way through jargon like AI, Digital twins and Industry 4.0?
We will discuss:
- How to leverage IT Infrastructure to solve challenges around evolving regulations and customer demands to avoid falling behind in the market
- How artificial intelligence and multi-output models can help core business teams work together more efficiently
- Explore creative ways on how you balance your sustainability ambitions when budgets for new hires and technology are limited
- The importance of data management to enable collaboration amongst product teams
- The impact on your organizations day to day operations if you get digital invests wrong
IDC predicts that 50% of the global GDP will move to Digital. The digital ‘experience’ becomes the brand experience. The boundaries of competition have changed with digital native playing offense with Software
Leaders engaged in this digital journey are facing a nexus of challenges: grow their topline, accelerate innovation, provide faultless customer experience, transform teams and infrastructure, deliver 100% uptime, lower unit cost and deliver ROI.
Tackling these challenges demands a rigorous data-driven and real-time approach to digital transformation. We will discuss how some digital winners do instrument their infrastructure, software and processes to secure end-to-end observability, intelligence and management of their digital business, creating deep connections between people, software, customer experience and business success.
We will discuss:
- Best practices in real-time software instrumentation and observability
- Mastering your digital value chain and link its performance to business KPIs and outcomes
- Delivering predictable and measurable performance, availability and customer experience
- De-risking migrations to Cloud or new gen software & IT architectures, and mastering cost
- Creating a ‘one truth’ end-to-end view of IT enabling the transition to DevOps at scale
SWS is hosting and exclusive CxO dinner to discuss emerging trends and challenges to keep the client in the center of the Company’s strategy, using innovation and the power of information with fellow C-Level decision-makers at SWS’ exclusive, executive dinner: Winning Your Customers with Innovation and Smart Data.
Firms are emphasizing customer-centricity to compete in the digital era, however, businesses face competition, legacy technology issues, among other challenges. Advanced analytics and emerging technology combined enable greater impact across all customer experiences, increasing business outcomes.
74% of companies are thinking on how to re-invent or improve their customer experience, to attract new clients and serve better existing ones. They will achieve it through new frictionless, multichannel and more intelligent interactions and with immediate response.
Thanks to digitalisation, customers now expect a frictionless, multichannel interaction with immediate response – and it´s because of this change in customer behavior that 73% of firms believe that traditional business models will disappear within the next five years.
Delivering great customer experience and fighting increasingly sophisticated fraud, are just some of the key commercial challenges organizations now face.
Digitalisation also means navigating through huge volumes of data and facing new agile and disruptive competitors
We will discuss:
- Trends and challenges in digitalisation
- Artificial Intelligence for improved customer insight
- Digital Fraud and how to protect online channels
- Experience sharing – Emerging business trends that shape the market
- Experience sharing – latest insights and current case studies
