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August 6-11, 2022
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Black Hat - Omdia Analyst Summit

Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

This event will be in-person only and admission is by approval only—and is not guaranteed.


Digital is dominant. As organizations continue their drive towards "digital-first" and become more digitally dependent, so the threat landscape burgeons, taking advantage of these digital dependencies.

As such, organizations require cybersecurity capabilities that are proactive and responsive, with a relentless focus on resilience and development. Security is a function that must support the enterprise in its ambitions for its customers and citizens.

Join this Omdia Analyst Summit at Black Hat USA to hear how security functions are rising to this challenge, as a partner to the business and elevating the role of cybersecurity in modern organizations.

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Attendee Guidelines:

  • Have a cybersecurity focus or equivalent job title, be involved with cybersecurity technology or approaches to addressing cybersecurity issues, or otherwise have responsibility to ensure that cybersecurity is addressed in their organization (including board level).
  • To contribute to an interactive, cooperative atmosphere; we are unable to accept employees of other industry analyst firms.

*The final determination of participants in the OMDIA Analyst Summit rests with Black Hat & Omdia show management


Omdia Analysts

Maxine Holt
Eric Parizo
Fernando Montenegro
Rik Turner
Hollie Hennessy
Curt Franklin
Adam Etherington
Ketaki Borade
Don Tait
Elvia Finalle
Andrew Braunberg

Agenda

Tuesday, August 9

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9:15 - 9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions
  • Bill Morelli, Chief Research Officer
9:30 - 10:00 AM Keynote:
Proactive Security to Manage Digital Dominance

Digital rules much of today’s world and organizations must be digitally resilient so that they can continue to serve their customers and citizens. Security plays a key role in resilience, and organizations require cybersecurity capabilities that are proactive and responsive. Join this Omdia Analyst Summit keynote presentation to hear how security functions are rising to the challenge as a partner to the business and elevating the role of cybersecurity.

  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director, Research
10:00 - 10:40 AM Panel:
Security, Digital Dominance, and the Real World

Digital dominance is a business reality, and while it may present challenges to cybersecurity organizations, it also presents opportunities to build security into new architectures and processes. Omdia Cybersecurity’s research practice leaders discuss how security functions can thrive in the era of digital dominance.

  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director, Research
  • Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst
  • Eric Parizo, Managing Principal Analyst
  • Andrew Braunberg, Principal Analyst
  • Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst
10:40 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 11:40 AM
Zero Trust, for Real, Now?

The zero trust mantra is currently everywhere in cyber, from network security through identity management to cloud and all solution categories in between.

While the concept has gained popularity largely because of the widespread need to limit trusted access and prevent adversaries from executing multistage attacks, in practice the concept has become more difficult to understand. Seemingly every vendor now offers a “zero trust” solution, but many vary greatly. In this session, top Omdia analysts explore what it means to deliver zero trust in the enterprise today, what zero trust success looks like for security organizations, and how enterprises can adopt a zero trust mindset while continuing to meet key business objectives.

  • Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst
  • Don Tait, Senior Analyst
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
The Evolution of Ransomware

Ransomware has evolved from a relatively minor annoyance with negligible costs into a multi-billion-dollar international criminal economy. With the advent of nation-state sponsored support for these evolving campaigns, it's important to understand the various mitigation options so you never have to rely upon the "honour amongst thieves" in order to recover your data.

  • Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst
  • Andrew Braunberg, Principal Analyst
12:20 - 1:20 PM Lunch Break
1:20 - 2:05 PM Breakout 1
XDR: The Supernova of SecOps

Extended Detection and Response technology is not only blazing a new entry point for a wide variety of organizations seeking enterprise-caliber threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities, but also creating a massive ripple effect across the enterprise SecOps solution landscape. This presentation will highlight the current state of the XDR market, the evolution of XDR technology, and illuminate what it takes for vendors and solution providers to compete successfully in the future.

  • Eric Parizo, Managing Principal Analyst
  • Elvia Finalle, Senior Analyst
  • Fireside Chat with Ryan Alba, Sr. Manager of Global Solutions Lead at Secureworks

Breakout 2
Standards Shaping and Driving Demand for IoT Security

One of the key drivers in IoT Security solution adoption is a wave of new standards popping up across the globe; it's clear that governments, regulators and standards bodies are taking notice. That said, the situation is far from perfect and there are gaps that need to be filled. In this session, Omdia will review the current IoT Security standards landscape and how to address the challenges that standards alone can’t solve.

  • Hollie Hennessy, Senior Analyst
  • Fireside Chat with Nadir Izrael, CTO from Armis

Breakout 3
Essential Guidance for Choosing an IT Security Services Provider

IT security service providers offer a wide range of consulting, threat, industry, and managed security services to secure the evolving digital workplace. But what sets them apart, and how do you choose which to partner with? In this session, learn from a recent Omdia Universe global benchmark on essential decision criteria to shortlist the best security services provider for your organization.

  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director, Research
  • Adam Etherington, Senior Principal Analyst
  • Fireside Chat
    with Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism
2:10 - 2:55 PM Breakout 1
The Multi-faceted Challenge of ‘Securing Cloud’

The delivery and consumption of cloud-based services in its many forms is here to stay. Security teams are now tasked with helping secure an environment and delivery model that is in some cases similar but, in others, radically different than before. This session explores some of the key areas of focus for securing cloud, ranging from handling multi-cloud to the importance of cloud permissions management.

  • Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst
  • Ketaki Borade, Senior Analyst

Breakout 2
Will Passwordless Authentication Become Mainstream in 2022?

The humble password is antiquated and a relic of a different era in authentication. In today's digital era, organizations must look at more secure, real-time, proactive and responsive forms of authentication. In this session, we will explore the different passwordless technologies and whether they will become mainstream in the near future.

  • Don Tait, Senior Analyst
  • Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst

Breakout 3
Cybersecurity Awareness & Education: Building the ‘Human Firewall’

Building the "human firewall" begins, ends, and continuously relies on testing and measurement. This means knowing where training starts, understanding how the training is working, and adapting based on how well employees can make use of the training. Content must stretch beyond recognizing threats to include what employees should DO about the threats. Proper response is critical.

In this session, Omdia will review the current state of cybersecurity awareness and education, with an emphasis on how to build or enhance programs to account for contemporary threats and pandemic-related disruptions, as well as incorporating worker productivity trends in the decade to come.

  • Curt Franklin, Senior Analyst
  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director, Research
2:55 - 3:10 PM Break
3:10 - 3:55 PM Legends panel:
Return of the Analysts

What if some of the most legendary trendsetters in the history of cybersecurity came back, just for the day, completely unfiltered? In this fast-paced panel, a well-known group of former cybersecurity industry analysts from across the industry will sound off on everything from the threat landscape, the evolution of zero trust, what’s working (and what isn’t) in cybersecurity solution marketing, and much more. And better yet, we’re making them leave their vendor hats at the door!

  • Eric Parizo, Managing Principal Analyst
  • Tanner Johnson

    Principal Analyst with direct experience in research, analysis, and forecasting, specializing in the cybersecurity, defense, intelligence, and aerospace markets. Interested in a broad range of cybersecurity and defense-related issues and topics.


  • Perry Carpenter

    Perry Carpenter is the author of two books "Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors" and "The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer." He's also the creator and host of the "8th Layer Insights" podcast) and currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.

    Previously, Perry led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research, in addition to covering areas of IAM strategy, CISO Program Management mentoring, and Technology Service Provider success strategies. With a long career as a security professional and researcher, Mr. Carpenter has broad experience in North America and Europe, providing security consulting and advisory services for many of the best-known global brands.

    Perry holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University in Vermont and is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).


  • Diana Kelley

    Diana Kelley is the CSO2 (Chief Strategy Officer/Chief Security Officer) and co-founder of Cybrize. She also serves on the boards of Cyber Future Foundation, WiCyS, and The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF). Diana was Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), a Manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder of SecurityCurve, and Chief vCISO at SaltCybersecurity.

    Her extensive volunteer work has included serving on the ACM Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, Cybersecurity Committee Advisor at CompTIA, CTO and Board Member at Sightline Security, Advisory Board Chair at WOPLLI Technologies, Advisory Council member Bartlett College of Science and Mathematics, Bridgewater State University, and RSAC US Program Committee.

    She is a sought-after keynote speaker, the host of BrightTALK’s The (Security) Balancing Act, co-author of the books Practical Cybersecurity Architecture and Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, has been a lecturer at Boston College's Masters program in cybersecurity, the EWF 2020 Executive of the Year and EWF Conference Chair 2021 and 2022, an SCMedia Power Player, and one of Cybersecurity Ventures 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime.


3:55 - 4:00 PM Wrap-up & close
  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director, Research
4:00 - 5:00 PM Drinks & chat to the analysts
  • All

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