Denver Executive Briefing and Bruins vs Avalanche Game

Guests will arrive at The Thompson Hotel, gathering in the Mattie Silks Ballroom.

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Speaker: John Franchi, Former Senior Executive of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

John Franchi is a former senior executive of the Central Intelligence Agency, retiring after 29 years of distinguished service that included numerous high-level positions internationally and in Washington DC, as well as with the U.S. military and U.S. Department of State.

His assignments included tours throughout the Middle East and Africa, along with extensive experience in Europe.  John is a fluent Arabist who has developed an expertise in geopolitical and transnational issues related to the Middle East, Islam, counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cyber.

Over the course of his career John oversaw and led all facets of intelligence and operations, to include interfacing with all aspects of the U.S. and foreign governments, as well as the private sector. As such, he maintains deep and broad relationships throughout the business community and governments across the U.S. as well as in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and parts of South America and Asia.

Speakers: Shawn Edwards, CISO, Western Union || Richard Kaufmann, CISO, Amedisys

With an ever-changing threat landscape, expanding attack surface, and need to support digital transformation the role of modern CISO has never been more complex or highly visible.

Hear from CISOs that are leading the way in blending people, process, and technology to close the security achievement gap and ensure a safe and secure digital future for their organizations 

Speaker: Jason Mical, Regional CTO, Rapid7 

There’s no shortage of threat intelligence… In fact, there is often more than any organization can effectively manage. Despite this, most organizations are still unable to effectively track an attack lifecycle. Historically most cyber teams depended on IOCs for threat detection and hunting. Not only is this an overwhelming management task, it’s also no longer effective. Today you need an arsenal of analytics to protect your company, including; brand security monitoring, exploitable data monitoring, executive protection monitoring, data leakage monitoring, phishing campaign monitoring, and TTP analysis.

Does this sound overwhelming? Thankfully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel… a tested playbook for how to do it all without adding numerous resources. There are now technologies that can manage all of this intelligence automatically and weaponize your cyber security stack to accelerate detections and streamline responses.

Similar to hockey players on the ice executing defensive strategies that are called in by their expert management teams, and supporting resources studying probabilities and running analytics of the opponent's strategies. All of these people are gathering intelligence to arm the defensive line with weapons to defend against oncoming attacks. Sound familiar?

Guests will move to the 6th-floor library for drinks, food, and skyline views.