Define your strategy for agility and resilience in uncertain times:

• Effectively balance the increasing volume, variety and speed of security and risk decisions.
• Successfully communicate security risks, challenges and opportunities to senior executives.
• Assess and transform security programs to become digital business enablers.
• Prepare for continuous change in the technology and threat landscape. 
• Overcome the barriers of organizational culture, resources and talent to grow and scale your digital initiatives. 

Develop security programs to respond to emerging threats and advanced attacks as you:

• Balance real-world risks with business drivers such as speed, agility, flexibility and performance
• Develop and maintain effective security governance across the organization
• Establish key metrics and indicators to measure the effectiveness of security programs
• Anticipate the emergence of advanced attacks that evade traditional security

Target the risks that matter most in the race to the digital future:

• Build an effective risk management program when investing in digital business.
• Evolve your risk management practices to stay on top of emerging and enterprise risks.
• Successfully align risk appetite with business objectives.
• Use metrics effectively to understand changes in risk exposure.
• Effectively manage third-party risk.

Gain critical insights to sustain effective identity and access management (IAM) programs to provide the right access to the right people — and identify the leading providers of IAM products and services to benefit the organization.

• Align with business expectations to get buy-in and continued support for IAM programs and policies. 
• Measure and communicate the value of the IAM program and move from cost center to revenue generation. 
• Integrate IAM initiatives with established business processes and policies that affect customers and the workforce. 
• Understand the fast-evolving IAM technologies and vendors, and cut through the hype of artificial intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things to leverage the right solutions. 
• Manage the complexity and specific risks associated with cloud migration and cloud-based IAM solutions. 

Select and architect effective security and risk solutions:

• Understand how the characteristics of digital business impact security architecture practices.
• Enable a tighter alignment between security and business.
• Develop security architecture frameworks to address compliance demands and evolving IT.
• Gain insight into the increasingly complex market for security and risk management technologies and services.

Protect critical assets:

• Develop new best practices to secure new enterprise network edges.
• Keep pace with the changing technology application landscape and evolving data protection regulations.
• Balance the imperative to rapidly modernize applications with the requirement to protect them.
• Respond to the challenges of securing sensitive data while expanding the use of cloud services.