Make Sense of the Race to the Cloud: Executive Panel Discussion
with Neil Thacker, Chief Information Security Officer, EMEA, Netskope
& Andrew Weston, Chief Information Security Officer (former CISO @ SMBC), Somerford Associates.
- 8:00am - 9:00am GMT
- 30th March
- Virtual


The widespread use of cloud-based applications and the rise in encrypted traffic has created untold complexity for IT and Security teams, with some analysts suggesting that they have lost visibility of up to 90% of their organisations systems. The reality is you need to safely enable thousands of apps, protect data outside of your network, and manage risks, including user behaviour.
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Feel free to forward the invite to anyone within your organisation that you believe will benefit from attending.
Video link details will be distributed nearer the time.
- How do you afford unmanaged devices access to a specific cloud app for collaboration but not allow it to downloading sensitive data?
- What about observing and controlling data movement between cloud app instances?
- What about uploading of sensitive documents and images such as tax forms, resumes, patient forms, passports, drivers’ licenses and screenshots to cloud apps and websites.
Protection of users from phishing attacks using cloud-hosted fake forms (e.g., Office 365 login) to collect app access credentials.