Thursday, October 23rd 2025
Improve Detection and Response Without Adding Headcount
5:30 -8:00 PM CT | Chicago, IL
Event Overview
As global economic concerns grow headed into 2026, cybersecurity teams find themselves in a bind: Budgetary and human resources are constrained, but adversaries and threats are not. In fact, the threats are growing exponentially each year, and now adversaries are leveraging automation and efficiencies of AI.
How do organizations reduce costs when security challenges are growing at a historic pace? Are legacy tools and relationships adequate to address current threats? How do
security teams find and retain talent necessary to improve incident detection and response? What role can AI play in improving detection and response?
Among the discussion topics:
- What are the cyberthreats of greatest concern to your enterprise today?
- How do you describe your in-house ability to detect, respond to and remediate these threats – and what role does AI play?
- How has your cybersecurity budget kept pace with escalating threats?
- Is your SOC in-house or outsourced?
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Moderator
Sean D. Mack
Managing Director
ISMG
Robert Willis
Executive Vice President of Global Cyber Operations
Deepwatch
Speakers
Attendees will discuss growing threats, tighter budgets, the costs to maintain and staff a modern SOC, and how security teams can improve detection and response – without adding headcount.
This session will be:
- Chatham house rule
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Robert Willis
Executive Vice President of Global Cyber Operations
Deepwatch
Robert Willis is the EVP of Global Cyber Operations at Deepwatch. Robert is a visionary global cybersecurity executive with over 20 years of experience in fortifying the defences of enterprises against threats and vulnerabilities, boosting the effectiveness of security operations, and inspiring teams to innovate, collaborate, and deliver service excellence. His diverse experience ranges from building out and leading global security practices within IT consultancies to advancing enterprise security operations and programs within multinational corporations.
Subject matter expert
Dennen Monks
Field Tech Strategist
CrowdStrike
Monks has 20 years of cybersecurity experience across network, data, cloud and applications. He helps
companies achieve streamlined operational states across people, process and technology. Monks
previously spent 10 years in professional services, five years at Skyhigh Networks in sales engineering,
and served as lead solution architect at Bionic.
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Venue
Smith and Wollensky
318 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Underwritten by
Deepwatch is a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, empowering enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience through continuous threat monitoring, rapid response, and expert-guided security operations. Founded in 2019, Deepwatch combines its Guardian MDR Platform™, advanced analytics, and named security experts to deliver tailored protection as an extension of customer teams. Recognized as an industry innovator, Deepwatch partners with organizations across sectors to safeguard digital assets, reduce risk, and outpace evolving threats.
Splunk is helping to build a safer and more resilient digital world by equipping customers with the unified security and observability platform they need to keep their organization securely up and running — no matter what digital disruptions come their way.
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