Insights from Security Executives: Optimizing Security Budgets | Moderated by Scott Headington

August 9 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm

ABSTRACT:

Security budgets are growing increasingly difficult to justify or know how to prioritize the multitude of items that need attention. How much should you spend on internal training? the latest hardware to defend against external and internal attacks, penetration testing, red team, security headcount, AI? The list grows every year, but budgets are also getting cut. The task is not for the faint of heart. Ever wanted to know how other security organizations are looking at their security spend year after year? IOActive is hosting a moderated CISO roundtable discussion, to hear directly from other security leaders how they prioritize their budgets, which items get priority, now to de-prioritize some tasks and more. Along with the moderated roundtable, there will be time allowed at the end to ask your questions too.

Scott Headington, Managing Director of Global Services

Scott Headington delivers comprehensive application security assessments and custom training to clients in the public and private sectors.

Scott has extensive experience with application security, performing security assessments, remediating security vulnerabilities, and teaching. He is also an accomplished software engineer with more than 15 years of experience in software system architecture, component design, and Java SE/EE technologies that he draws upon to build applications that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and secure.