Adeel Saeed on How to Move from A Reactive to a Proactive Threat Detection & Response Model

Adeel Saeed is VP of Technology Strategy and Execution Management at Kyndryl and is a former CISO/CIO at large financial services companies, aviation companies, and more. 

Adeel is an experienced technology strategist and digital transformation leader with extensive hands-on technology and information security management experience and has led multiple large scale complex technology transformation projects. 

Topics include: 

• How enabling your internal clients with the right tools and tech empowers them to serve their customer-base easier 
• Tool consolidation, risk metrics, reporting analytics, and more of what Adeel is focusing on in the risk management environment
• The experience that taught Adeel the most about practical security 
• Why experience and exposure are the ultimate teachers 
• Actionable steps to going from reactive to proactive in threat detection and response 
• The benefits of fine tuned threat intelligence tools to better make risk-based judgements 
• Why security is not an ivory tower, it’s part of the business
• How security can better partner with business versus just being a component of it
• Why gamification can be a great tool to engage the executive team
• Standardization of all the data and the fundamental data problem 
• What Adeel has been paying attention to in the market around detection
• What true secure data governance looks like 
• Adeels biggest challenge as a CISO, CSO, and overall security technology strategy leader 
• How Covid helped shape business security and where it should be embedded 
• Why it’s critical to position yourself as a business partner to your company 
• Adeels tips for security leaders to succeed in the future of threat detection and response 

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Keep in touch with Adeel on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelsaeed/