CISO Meet-up | Zero Trust Validation Session

CISO Meetup: Zero Trust Validation

After over fifteen years of implementing Zero Trust with many clients, one of the most important lessons we’ve learned is that you’re never done renewing yourself and your approach. We all know how quickly the IT landscape changes and how important is it to play into that.

We are proud of our Zero Trust Framework, but want to keep improving it. We’re convinced that the best way to do this is by collecting professional experiences, opinions and insights.

What did Zero Trust implementation look like for your company? What issues did you run into? In practice we learn the best lessons and we would like to use these to evaluate and validate our Zero Trust Framework.

The goal of the session

In order to constantly test our Framework and our approach, we’ve set up so-called validation sessions with experienced CISOs. During these validation sessions we can share experiences, talk through common issues (and solutions for said issues), all with the goal of validating the current Framework and finding new ways to constantly improve it.

The target audience

The concept is to get together every month with a max of 10 CISO’s, responsible for security, via a Group Support System (GSS) faciliated session, to exchange and collect opinions, viewpoints and insights about the Zero Trust Framework. We will show you how this Framework helps bring the strategic level closer to the operational level.

We want to enter into discussions with users who are already actively using Zero Trust or who are considering getting started with Zero Trust. Their experiences are valuable feedback to us.

The idea of these sessions is mostly to learn from each other, and therefore active participation is required. We will be sharing experiences and insights, discuss ideas and together get to valuable and useful conclusions.

What’s in it for me?

Validate the Zero Trust Framework

You’ll be given the opportunity to validate the Zero Trust Framework, not just generally speaking, but specifically it’s application for your organisation/situation;

Spar with other CISOs

There’s a lot of room to spar with other CISOs, put challenges on the table and get to solutions together and as such learn from each other;

The session host is professor Yuri Bobbert

The host of these sessions is ON2IT CISO and professor of the Antwerp Management School Yuri Bobbert. Before taking on his CISO role at ON2IT, Bobbert was the Global Chief Information Security Officer at NN Group (Nationale Nederlanden. As a professor at the Antwerp Management School, Bobbert and his team focus on Cyberrisk & Security research and education;

Preview the SOAR platform

You’ll be one of the first to see the ON2IT Security Operation Automation & Response (SOAR) platform and use it to take away useful informationyou’re your organisation;

Practical examples, no endless theorising

We’ll be looking at Zero Trust in ‘The Dutch Way’; or, no endless theorising, but practical examples and cases, focusing on how to link strategy (the board) and the operational level;

Improve your Zero Trust maturity level

The session will provide you with tools to help improve the maturity level of Zero Trust in your organisation;

The session is provided free of charge

You’ll be part of a high-grade, interactive and educational session led by an expert, with no additional costs;

GSS report

You’ll be provided with a GSS generated report directly after the session;

Be part of scientific research

All of this is part of scientific research, in cooperation with the Antwerp Management School. As a participant you’ll also receive the formal publications about these validation sessions.

The results so far

We started in January this year with the first 3-hour long GSS sessions and over 60 CISOs and IT-security specialists have participated so far.

We are grateful for the valuable feedback they have provided and for the appreciation that these professionals have already showed us. The sessions are graded with an average grade of an 8.5.

How can I join?

Are you a CISO, do you work with Zero Trust in practice, or is your organisation about to get started with Zero Trust and you think you can add valuable expertise to our approach? Then fill in the form below and someone will get in touch with you to see if there’s a match.

The CISO meetups take place twice a month, on a Wednesday and a Friday. Because of the current circumstances, the meetups will be happening online, for the time being. Thankfully the GSS tool we use makes this easier and the only thing you’ll need is a laptop/PC or a mobile phone.