You need an increased budget? -- No way!!! How many times have you been rejected when asking for a budget increase. It seems that security budgets are decreasing in some organizations while peers at other organizations are getting millions. During this one hour session we will explore the art of selling security to peers and executive management. Topics will be broken into three sections:
- Persuading & Influencing Peers
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Learn how to work with your peers at your organization to get support for your security initiatives. Together we will explore the ability to get support for security initiatives by just presenting your ideas in the best manner possible. How do we get our peers to go ask for the funds in a team manner?
- Methods for Acquiring Budget Increases
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By combining proven sales techniques with our security experience can lead to positive results. Your ability to accurately assess each situation can lead to major budget increases. Come learn valuable techniques used by CISOs to acquire enhanced budgets while making a valuable security contribution to the business.
- Pulling Budget from Thin-air
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When we can’t get additional budget, how do we review our current security expenditures and pull budget from thin-air without affecting our current security posture? How can we get more from our current budgets without compromising our security?
Attending this session with help you understand what you can do to help prevent your company from being easily attacked and compromised.
Mr. David Sockol, CISM,CRIC, is currently the President & CEO of Emagined Security, a professional services company he founded in 2002. Prior to Emagined Security, Mr. Sockol built and managed the West Coast operations for Global Integrity/Predictive System and the Northern California security consulting practice for Arthur Andersen.
Emagined Security was founded to provide executive level security consulting services to Fortune 100 companies enabling a secure working environment with reduced risk. As the President & CEO of Emagined Security, Mr. Sockol provides executive advising services to Fortune 100 CSOs guiding them through challenges in information security and compliance. Emagined Security’s commercial clients cover a wide range of global organizations, including the financial, energy, healthcare, high tech, manufacturing, and insurance industries with recent successes including providing direct assistance to a major credit card company on their PCI compliance programs and working with Energy companies to meet regulatory standards for compliance and reporting.
Mr. Sockol has over 20+ years’ experience in numerous security engineering disciplines including Corporate Information Security, Compliance Program Design, Architecture Design, Application & Platform Controls, Penetration Testing and Network & Physical security. Mr. Sockol has managed and designed cutting edge security programs and services and has developed enhanced security architectures for numerous enterprise commercial corporations, the Air Force, and the Navy. Emagined Security has helped many enterprise corporations establish robust security infrastructures and compliance & security strategies.
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