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Enterprise Risk / Security Management: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

Strategies for reducing risk to the enterprise.

October 8, 2026

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

  

 

Overview

In today’s highly regulatory environment it is essential that you have a clear understanding of risk across the enterprise. A risk management framework can bring visibility to key business and compliance risks and enable a company to make decisions on where to prioritize its limited resources. It is through a risk management framework that real value to the business can be achieved.

With all of these challenges, how do you make this happen?

In this one day conference, attendees will be provided with examples of approaches to managing information and compliance risk through a risk management framework.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Risk Mitigation Strategies – A CISO’s Guide
  • Learning from Risk Management and InfoSec Fails
  • Proactive Defense: Addressing Risks from External Threats
  • Balancing Risk and Innovation in a Cloud-First AI World
  • Adaptive Risk Management: Dealing with Punctuated Equilibrium in Cybersecurity
  • The Critical Nexus of Risk Management in Cybersecurity: A Gap in Professional Training
  • Balancing Cybersecurity Budgets with Business Needs (Panel Discussion)

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: Risk Mitigation Strategies: A CISO’s Guide

Effective risk management starts with understanding how to mitigate threats before they impact the business. This session provides actionable strategies from the CISO perspective.

Includes:

  • Prioritizing risk across people, process, and technology
  • Building a proactive mitigation plan
  • Lessons from successful enterprise programs

10:00am – 10:30am: Sponsor & Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: Learning from Risk Management and InfoSec Fails

Failures provide the best lessons. This session explores real-world risk management and cybersecurity missteps, helping attendees avoid similar pitfalls.

Includes:

  • Common mistakes in risk assessment and compliance
  • How to convert failures into process improvements
  • Strategies for organizational learning

11:30am – 12:30pm: Proactive Defense: Addressing Risks from External Threats

External threats evolve rapidly, and static defenses are no longer sufficient. This session focuses on proactive approaches to anticipate and mitigate risks.

Includes:

  • Emerging threats and attack vectors
  • Integrating threat intelligence into risk frameworks
  • Proactive defense planning

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Balancing Risk and Innovation in a Cloud-First, AI-Driven World

Innovation introduces new risk. This session examines how organizations can adopt cloud and AI technologies while keeping risk within acceptable limits.

Includes:

  • Risk-informed innovation strategies
  • Frameworks for evaluating emerging technologies
  • Managing risk without stifling innovation

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Adaptive Risk Management: Managing Punctuated Equilibrium in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity risk is not linear — sudden shifts require adaptive strategies. This session explores flexible frameworks to respond to rapidly changing threat landscapes.

Includes:

  • Principles of adaptive risk management
  • Responding to unexpected cybersecurity events
  • Incorporating agility into risk governance

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Balancing Cybersecurity Budgets with Business Needs

Panelists will include Enterprise Identity Executives sharing the strategies, tactics, and lessons learned.

This interactive panel brings together risk, security, and business leaders to discuss practical approaches for aligning risk programs and cybersecurity spending with organizational priorities.

Includes:

  • Strategies for prioritizing limited resources
  • Balancing security, compliance, and business objectives
  • Audience Q&A and lessons from real-world programs

 

Conference Price: $349.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.