**NorthEast Annual Cybersecurity Summit (NEACS)** NEACS is the Northeast’s premier community-led gathering for senior leaders across cybersecurity, risk, compliance, fraud, and AI. Built in collaboration with regional chapters of ISACA, ISC2, InfraGard, CSA and others—and featuring participation from federal and state agencies (FBI, US Secret Service, DHS/CISA, CTIC)—the Summit delivers a practitioner-first program with no sales pitches and trusted, peer-to-peer dialogue. Attendance is capped at 150 executives.

**Who Should Attend: CISOs, CIOs, CDOs, CROs, CMOs of Security, Heads of Fraud/Risk/Compliance, public-sector leaders, and board-facing executives.

**Format: Single-track, fast-paced “TED-style” talks (10–15 minutes) followed by moderated, room-wide discussion and live Q&A via the CxO Security Forum online community portal (also providing pre/post materials).

**2025 Discussion Leaders: Nationally recognized authors and practitioners including Richard Stiennon (*Security Yearbook*), Chase Cunningham (*Cyber Warfare*), Kurtis Minder (*Cyber Recon*), and Mark Sangster (*No Safe Harbor*, *Cyber-Conscious Leadership*), alongside local CISOs and agency partners.

**Key Themes:
* CISO evolution: from technical operator to enterprise risk strategist
* Industry complexity: vendor sprawl, AI realities, shifting markets
* Adversary insights: ransomware economies and dark-web dynamics
* Cyber as strategy: breaches as economic events; Zero Trust and graph-driven analysis
* Human & talent: leadership, bias in incidents, and the cyber talent pipeline

**Participation: Executive-only; space is limited. Hot breakfast, lunch, and up to 6 CPEs available for qualified association members.

**Request an invite: cxosecurityforum.com/NEACS