Date
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Name
Opening General Session
Time
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description
Cybersecurity at the heart of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Over the next 10 years, digital transformation is expected to unlock an estimated $10 trillion of value for business and wider society. Davos 2019 has clearly established security as a strategic contribution for unlocking that value, putting a safe digital transformation at the heart of three major drivers; Education, Ecosystem, and Technology. Learn how Fortinet is delivering unprecedented value on those three domains setting new industry standards and helping our customers and partners realizing their digital initiatives.
 
The Next Paradigm Shift: A Security-Driven Network for a Hyperconnected World
We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is changing the threat landscape. This hyperconnected world will bring together data and computation with billions of devices; distributed through a ubiquitous security-driven network.  This network will become the underlying fabric of an entire ecosystem, made up of fully-connected intelligent sensors and devices that have no boundaries. This paradigm shift requires a third-generation of security that is content and application based and is integrated within the entire infrastructure instead of as a separate overlay.  This third generation of security will be delivered through a security fabric that provides end-to-end protection across the entire digital attack surface. 
 
The Fortinet Security Fabric: Delivering the Third Generation of Security
IoT, IP enabled Operational Technology, Software Defined Networks and Multicloud are key tenants of a hybrid world. However this rapid evolution of the Infrastructure has expanded the Digital Attack Surface, increasing complexity brought on by the implementation of too many independent security solutions. To counter these challenges, Fortinet pioneered and is leading the 3rd and latest generation of Cybersecurity security delivered through its Security Fabric. The Fortinet Security Fabric is the only architecture that provides broad protection with world-class security integrated at every point of the Fabric and with security operations fully automated via a single management console.
 
The Digital Big Bang – A Scientific Approach to Security and the Emerging Digital Age
In this session, a panel of leading security experts will be joining Phil Quade to discuss the Fortinet CISO's forthcoming new book, ‘The Digital Big Bang.’

Most of human history is a story of superstition and survival. It was only when we started paying attention to the core elements of the Universe, and developed the scientific method to understand and leverage how they worked together, that we finally became masters of our world. Likewise, for most of the information age, security professionals have taken a piecemeal approach to securing their digital assets—and like our stone age forbearers, this approach to survival has barely been adequate.

We are now standing at the edge of a new Digital Age, where the principles of speed and interconnectivity are changing our world. What we do next will determine whether we are headed into a dystopia where cybercrime dictates our lives, or a utopia where we become the masters of our future. Choosing the latter requires taking a scientific approach to security, where we identify and understand its core elements and principles, and then map the steps needed to shape the future we want.

Join our panel of security experts—and book co-authors—to discuss the fundamental elements of security, how they are interrelated, and how we can bind them together to intentionally build a new approach to security that will allow us to thrive in the Digital Age.