While cybersecurity remains a top concern and is increasingly handled well at the best run companies, other related factors may now pose an equal or greater security threat or serve to undermine even the most impressive cybersecurity strategy. Clandestine and counter intelligence professionals have long known that employees are vulnerable to being exploited, whether by a competitor, a rogue hacker, or perhaps an international entity. And yet only recently have boards and companies started to recognize that the human factor presents multiple weak links in even the most well established cybersecurity programs. Former US intelligence officers and technology experts will spell out critical issues every thoughtful board should review. This session will discuss the risks that you haven’t even considered and how to address them before it’s too late.
SPEAKERS
Beatriz Infante
Beatriz Infante is an award-winning public and private company Board Director and former 4X CEO with a track record of successfully leading multiple international technology businesses to extremely high levels of growth, profitability and shareholder return. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of BusinessExcelleration LLC and has been CEO of ENXSUITE Corporation, VoiceObjects Inc., and Aspect Communications Corporation. Ms. Infante has served on the Board of Directors of various companies, and is currently on the boards at PriceSmart, Ribbon Communications, and Liquidity Services, Inc.
Bill Priestap
Mr. E. William (Bill) Priestap is a recognized thought leader in national security, with a particular expertise in the growing threats posed by certain foreign nations, especially Russia and China. He was the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division from 2015 to 2018, and was responsible for all aspects of the FBI’s counterintelligence mission, including the development and implementation of the agency’s global strategy to counter foreign nations’ intelligence efforts against the United States.
Ray Rothrock
Ray Rothrock is chairman and CEO of RedSeal Inc., an enterprise cyber security company. Rothrock transitioned to partner emeritus of Venrock, an early-stage tech investment partnership originally formed by the Rockefeller family, in 2013. During his 25-year career at Venrock, he invested in 53 early-stage technology companies. He led both the internet and energy investment programs and was a member of the management committee for Venrock. Mr. Rothrock is an invited speaker on venture capital, startup companies, cyber security, nuclear energy, climate change, and energy policy in general.
Holden Triplett
Holden Triplett is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He led the FBI office in Beijing from 2014 to 2017 and was deputy head of the FBI office in Moscow from 2012 to 2014. Most recently, he was the FBI Faculty Chair at National Intelligence University.
Dan Siciliano, moderator
F. Daniel Siciliano is a successful technology CEO-founder and entrepreneur, as well as Chairman of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and a recognized expert in corporate strategy and governance, capital financial markets, executive compensation, and technological disruption (including fintech, AI and cybersecurity). He is currently Chairman of SVDX and a fellow at Stanford University.