Insider Risk Summit West

The Insider Risk Summit West is a critical gathering amid escalating insider threats that plague both public and private sectors. With recent high-profile breaches, the event underscores the urgent need for proactive insider risk strategies. Statistics reveal the staggering financial toll: 32% of organizations recovering from insider threats face costs between $100,000 and $499,000, while 21% endure expenses exceeding $1 million, not accounting for reputational damage and lost customer trust. Our aim is to equip professionals with insights into mitigating these risks, from unwitting employee errors to malicious sabotage, ensuring organizations can safeguard operations and prevent catastrophic disruptions in an era of hybrid work and AI adoption.

Tailored for the West Coast’s innovative landscape, the Summit blends timeless themes like data safeguarding, behavioral analytics, and employee wellness with region-specific panels on big tech IP theft, energy risks within the utilities sector, and insider threats in EV and autonomous vehicle development. Attendees will benefit from sessions featuring government perspectives from California-based agencies alongside private sector leaders, chip manufacturers, energy providers, solution providers, and more. This curated content, developed in collaboration with Advanced Onion and informed by past successful iterations, offers actionable strategies to address evolving threats like user activity monitoring (UAM) and continuous evaluation (CE), making it an unparalleled opportunity to stay ahead in insider risk management.

Beyond knowledge acquisition, this Summit fosters invaluable networking among CSOs, CISOs, and threat intelligence experts from diverse industries, including tech, energy, manufacturing, and state government, focusing on genuine peer-to-peer exchanges. Participants can engage in discussions that translate directly to building robust insider threat programs in a world where 83% of organizations reported insider threats in 2024. Attending ensures you return with practical tools to enhance cultural indicators, data security, and overall resilience, positioning your organization to effectively and expediently counter these pervasive risks.

Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the insider risk community.

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogue among all in attendance.

Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments, or ideas.

DSI’s Summit directly supports IC & DoW priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoW and Federal employees, is considered an educational training forum, and is a widely attended gathering.

(Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission.)