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Dave Cowan

CISO

Link Group

Throughout the last few years, different executives across the industries have met in intimate groups in a safe space, to share their challenges, seek each other as a soundboard on different approaches, sharing case studies on what has worked, and perspectives on industry trends.

 

 Previous executive gathering dates: 24th July 2023 | 21st June 2023 | 18th May 2023 | 25th Aug 2022

27th July 2022 | 9th March 2022 | 23rd Sept 2021 | 16th March 2021| 20th August 2020

18th September 2019 | 13th May 2019 | 28th March 2019

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Some highlights of the CISO group discussions include the national cybersecurity strategy, security budget, collaboration across the different sectors, to defense in depth, security resilience, board-reporting, shifting conversations at the executive board level when it comes to BCP, reframing security conversations focusing on the user experience, all the way through to enterprise ransomware.The group has also focused on challenges and different approaches related to staffing, SOC operations, security strategies, technologies, roadmaps along with vendor management. and forces of impact on the CISO role.

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Feedback on the CISO workshops:

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"It was a great night! Thanks so much for getting the group together face to face. Great food, great company and great speakers with awesome content. Can’t wait until the next one!' - CISO, Edu sector

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"Thanks for getting us together, great to meet so many security professionals in person and share ideas and stories. Looking forward to the next catch up." - CISO, Healthcare

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"Shamane, you're e a fantastic host, thank you. We had some interesting conversations and it was a really useful night, thanks for organising." - CISO, Government agency

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"It was a great night. It was good to see some old faces and meet some new ones. Amazing conversation with lots of sharing." - CISO, Engineering sector

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"Loved the session - it's one of the best CIO workshops I've ever attended." - CIO, Health Insurer

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"Thank you for organising this wonderful event. I truly enjoyed it and it was well-worth the use of my time as I benefited much from the discussions there. Thank you, you're truly doing amazing stuff for our cyber leaders community!" - Global Head of Cyber, Logistics sector

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