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JOIN US  February 25, 2026

CISO Financial Services

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If you lead security in Financial Services, this is your room — filled with people who live the same reality you do and talk about it. 

When we launched CISO New York last September, the response from teams at HSBC, Wells Fargo, and the New York City Council was: “This feels built for us.” “You don't usually hear these conversations on stage.” “This is a community.” 

On February 25, 2026, we’re bringing that same energy, but this time, it’s Financial Services. 
  • The new attack patterns targeting financial data right now
  • Securing cloud + multi-cloud when nothing is standardized
  • AI that cuts SecOps noise instead of adding more
  • The fraud and insider threats everyone is feeling, but no one is openly talking about
You don’t need another event filled with long lectures and generic sessions- you need the community, and the formats that give you answers. 
  • Ask-Me-Anything —unfiltered answers from veteran CISOs
  • Yes / No / Maybe —fast gut checks on the topics no one agrees on
  • Quick Wins or Just Noise — tools + tactics that your peers say work
  • Live Poll Debate — the entire room votes in real time
  • The CISO Challenge Hackathon — one live cyber crisis, solved together
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WHO'S JOINING US

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Confirmed speakers 2026

Noreen Fierro

Noreen Fierro

Enterprise Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer

Principal Financial Group

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Jessica Wilson

Business Information Security Officer

Bank of America

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Albert Laweh Tetteh

CISO

GCB Bank Limited

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Alex Dickson

Chief Information Security Officer

GCM Grosvenor

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Matthew Hyland

Executive Director, Cloud Security Risk Management

WELLS FARGO

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Nishit Mehta

Vice President, Analytics Solutions

JPMorganChase

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FEATURED SPEAKER

Join us for an engaging session where we delve into the evolving threat landscape in Australia and explore the impact of malicious cyber activities on organizations nationwide. Discover effective strategies to build robust cybersecurity measures and prevent incidents and exploitations. Learn how government, industry, academia, and citizens can collaborate to safeguard our country and communities. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your cybersecurity knowledge and contribute to a safer digital environment!

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Who: Andrew Charlton MP – Special Envoy for Cyber Security and Digital Resilience – Parliament of Australia
Title: Opening Keynote: Government and industry partnering up and strengthening our cyber resilience
When: 9am, 11 February

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What's being said about us?

“CISO stands out as an exceptional event, bringing together brilliant minds and insightful perspectives. This gathering is an indispensable experience for security professionals and practitioners alike.”

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Henry Huang, Head of IT — Digital Services
Delivery & Operations, Angle Auto Finance

 

What you'll get out of the event

Our Key Themes for 2026

Cyber & Business Reality

Incident & Crisis Management

We’re all under board and regulator pressure to balance growth with resilience. This theme is about how CISOs are navigating risk appetite, culture, and compliance without slowing the business down.

Not just playbooks. Real case studies on ransomware, insider threats, and fraud under regulator scrutiny. How CISOs are embedding detection, response, and recovery so boards, customers, and auditors trust the plan.

AI, Fraud & Emerging Risk

Cloud & DevSecOps

AI is moving faster than policies. From AI-enabled fraud to liability questions, we’ll share what’s working (and what isn’t) in managing the upside of AI without opening new front doors to attackers.

Every Financial Services firm is multi-cloud, buried in tools, and under audit pressure. We’ll tackle zero trust, automation, tool fatigue, and how teams are proving resilience with evidence regulators will actually accept.

Threat Intelligence & Resilience

Culture & Teams

The threat landscape doesn’t stop. Here we cut through noise: what intel is actually shaping decisions, how peers are proving resilience to regulators, and what “maturity” really looks like in practice.

Burnout, retention, succession planning — it’s not just a people problem, it’s a resilience problem. This theme dives into how CISOs are building (and keeping) teams strong under constant pressure.

What you'll get out of CISO Sydney

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Why attend?

Because this isn’t a typical conference. It’s a community space built for CISOs in financial services, shaped by your peers, not vendors. Here, the conversations you normally only have behind closed doors happen live: board pressure, regulator demands, AI-driven fraud, burnout, cloud chaos. You’ll leave with insights that are raw, practical, and tested -not theory, not sales pitches.

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Who will be there?

The FS cybersecurity circle: CISOs, CROs, CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Cloud & DevSecOps, Compliance and Fraud leaders. Senior decision-makers who carry the same weight you do - board reporting, regulatory scrutiny, resilience proof. An invite-only group that values honesty over polish and community over noise. If you’re part of the FS security leadership, this is your room. 

Our Sponsors

Silver Sponsor

Forescout

Forescout

Forescout Technologies, Inc., a global cybersecurity leader, continuously identifies, protects and helps ensure the compliance of all managed and unmanaged cyber assets – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT. For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies have trusted Forescout to provide vendor-agnostic, automated cybersecurity at scale. Visit website
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The Portal26 GenAI Adoption Management Platform provides enterprises full visibility and control of all Generative AI usage to enable them to securely embrace and accelerate its competitive promise. For CISOs and security teams, they can in real-time isolate and prevent risk, discover ShadowAI, protect data and IP, allow for rapid audits and forensics, and support rigorous governance. For CIOs, CFOs and Dept. heads, their access to wide and deep employee GenAI consumption analytics provides valuable insights to determine GenAI use cases, strategy, adoption, and ROI, to achieve program objectives. Regardless of your current stage of enterprise GenAI adoption, Portal26 rapidly enables your buildout of a trusted, responsible GenAI program that lifts long-term organizational competitiveness and productivity.  Learn more at Portal26.ai.  Visit website

Bronze Sponsors

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Fastly

Unsurpassed online experiences your clients can trust

Fastly provides the critical infrastructure needed to extend visibility and maintain comprehensive control. Our platform was designed from the ground up to be an extension of your network, giving you the competitive edge to deliver experiences that are fast, engaging, and secure.

 

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Exhibitors

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Aikido is the no-nonsense security platform for developers, covering you from code to cloud. Get security done fast with centralized scans, aggressive false positive reduction, risk triaging, bundling, and automated fixes. Aikido makes security simple and seamless for developers - helping teams win customers, scale, and ace compliance. Don’t just work through security; automate it.

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Cloud security today is mainly reactive, with issues only being addressed after they emerge in production environments. This reactive approach not only burdens engineering and security teams with resource-heavy resolution processes but also leaves organizations exposed to organizational risk. The result is an ongoing cycle of inefficiency, with high MTTRs, a flood of unresolved issues, and inter-team friction.

Aryon breaks this cycle by introducing a new prevention-first approach to cloud security. Its Cloud Security Enforcement Platform enforces security policies at deployment, providing the same level of security regardless of how the cloud infrastructure is managed (IaC and Clickops) and ensuring that issues are prevented before they ever reach production. This approach reduces organizational risk, streamlines security-engineering workflows and enables teams to focus on actual improvement rather than putting out fires.

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Industry & Media Partners

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CIO Review
CIOReview is a leading technology magazine that is at the forefront of guiding enterprises through the continuously varying business environment with information about the solutions and services. The magazine serves as a trustworthy knowledge source as well as a platform for the C-suite executives, industry experts, technology buyers, and other decision-makers to share their valuable insights about new technology trends in the market. Visit website
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Cybersecurity Dive provides in-depth journalism and insight into the most impactful news and trends shaping cybersecurity. The newsletters and website cover topics such as breaches, vulnerability, threats, and more.

Cybersecurity Dive is a leading publication operated by Informa TechTarget. Our business journalists spark ideas and shape agendas for 14 million decision makers in competitive industries.

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Our name tells you where we are - at the intersection of financial services and Information Technology (IT).

Arguably these are the most important global industries. Financial services provides credit (and much else besides) that is essential to the rest of the economy. Without IT, financial companies (i.e. not just banks) are unable to cope with the present, the future or with each other.

What we do is to provide a voice to the technology companies that are serving the broadly defined financial services industry. We are a forum in which technology providers - and other key protagonists - can tell their stories.

Because we not a technology company and we are not a financial services organisation, we provide neutrality and transparency. That is why the material that we publish is worth reading. Even if you fundamentally disagree with what is said - whether in our own content or that of others - you will find valuable insights.

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Help Net Security is an independent publication, focusing on cybersecurity since 1998.

We don’t cater just to people searching for breaking news. We explore a wide range of content and tackle technical security challenges, management issues and other concerns of importance to people working in every department of an organization.

Many of our contributors are industry leaders, renowned for their management, technical and hands-on experience, which ensures that our readers receive the most seasoned advice.

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How can we help?

We carefully craft our events from scratch, tailoring them to support your business needs and facilitate industry growth. Our team oversees the whole process from research to post-production and are happy to answer any questions you have. We look forward to seeing you at the event!

Monika Dincheva

Event Director

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