Recorded:    July 14 | 2022      Attend

Cyber Risk Quantification can help CISOs financially quantify risk for senior executives, identify program gaps, and prioritize areas for improvement. Unfortunately, despite the obvious benefits, many CISOs are struggling to implement cyber risk quantification (CRQ)

Join Jake Olcott, BitSight Vice President, and a featured speaker from Forrester as they discuss challenges and practical actions that CISOs can take to make CRQ a reality for their organizations, including how to:

• Get started on your CRQ journey
• Achieve CRQ without incurring significant cost
• Operationalize CRQ within you cybersecurity framework
• Align CRQ to industry standards

Speakers

Jake Olcott, VP, Communications & Government Affairs at BitSight. For years, Jake has helped organizations create sustainable third party risk management programs. Jake has held a number of leadership roles at BitSight since joining the company in 2015. Prior to BitSight, Jake served as cybersecurity attorney to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Homeland Security Committee. He previously consulted with Fortune 1000 executives on cyber risk management and served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Paul McKay, Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk team at Forrester. He works with organizations to help them shape and deliver their cybersecurity strategies to support the delivery of their core business vision. Paul’s research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions and cyber risk quantification; CISO and security leadership research in the European market; and European security service providers, focusing on managed security service providers and security consultancies. Paul is frequently asked to comment on areas relevant to his research coverage and has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, ZDNet, SC Magazine, Handelsblatt, City A.M., and Infosecurity Magazine.Paul holds an MSc in software and systems security from the University of Oxford and a BSc (Hons) in computer science and mathematics from the University of St Andrews. Paul has been admitted as a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is a registered European and Chartered Engineer through FEANI and the Engineering Council UK.

Dr. Jack Freund, Vice President & Head of Cyber Risk Methodology for BitSight. Over the course of his career in technology and risk, Dr. Jack Freund has become a leading voice in cyber risk measurement and management. He has overall responsibility for the systemic development and application of frameworks, algorithms, and quantitative and qualitative methods to measure cyber risk. Jack has 23 years of experience consulting, building, and leading technology and risk management programs for Fortune 100 organizations. He is also the co-author of Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach, which was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon in 2016 and is the foundational book on cyber risk quantification (CRQ) using the Open FAIR standard.He was awarded a Ph.D. in Information Systems after his research in disaster informatics and cyber resilience at Nova Southeastern University. Jack holds a Masters in Telecommunication, Project Management, and a BS in CIS. He also holds the CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, CIPP, PMP, and NACD.DC designations.