Reimagining the Perimeter: Executive Vulnerabilities as a Corporate Threat

Executive Event

November 20, 2025 - Atlanta, GA

Visionaries

Jose Fernandez Truist
Jose Fernandez

Strategic Threat Intelligence Head

Truist

About Me

Truist Financial is the sixth largest bank holding company in the United States, formed through the merger of SunTrust and BB&T. The company provides comprehensive banking, investment, and insurance services to individuals and businesses across high-growth markets. With an extensive branch network and digital banking capabilities, Truist Financial leverages its combined history, technology infrastructure, and financial expertise to deliver innovative financial solutions. The company focuses on community development and offers a wide range of products including personal banking, commercial banking, wealth management, and mortgage services.

Neil Gallardo BlackCloak
Neil Gallardo

Manager of Client Success

BlackCloak

About Me

Neil Gallardo is BlackCloak’s Manager of Client Success. In this role, he oversees the company’s onboarding, delivery, and nurture teams, ensuring seamless client integration into BlackCloak’s Digital Executive Protection platform and services. As an experienced IT, cybersecurity, and privacy professional, Neil guides clients on privacy and identity theft best practices, as well as develops and implements strategies to foster long-term client satisfaction and loyalty. Before joining BlackCloak in 2021, Neil was an IT Specialist at Boston Consulting Group and served as the North American coordinator for the Information Security Risk Management team. He has also held various IT roles in different fields/industries. With deep cybersecurity and technical expertise, Neil helps continuously enhance BlackCloak’s efficiency and scalability, ensuring the delivery of first-rate experiences for clients. He works closely with cross-functional teams — including security, sales, marketing, enterprise relationships, and product — to ensure a cohesive, client-centric approach.

November 20, 2025

Agenda

All times Eastern Time

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Arrival & Check In


1:00 PM-1:30 PM
Keynote

Executive Protection in the Digital Age: Stories From the Field

The digital and physical lives of executives and their families are increasingly targeted by sophisticated adversaries, creating an expanded attack surface that poses a direct threat to corporate infrastructure.

In this talk, BlackCloak’s Neil Gallardo, a foremost expert on personal privacy and cybersecurity, will explore threat actors’ methods for exploiting personal vulnerabilities and facilitating corporate breaches. He’ll provide real-world examples of attacks on executives that have led to significant data breaches, highlighting the urgent need for a fundamental shift in corporate cybersecurity strategy.

He’ll also discuss how enterprises are adapting to this new normal and the proactive measures that can help secure executives’ personal digital lives. He’ll offer attendees actionable insights for implementing holistic cybersecurity frameworks that seamlessly integrate digital executive protection into the organization’s broader security posture.

Attend this talk to learn how to fortify your organization against modern threats by addressing the critical link between your leaders’ personal security and the protection of your corporate assets.


1:30 PM-2:00 PM

Lunch


2:00 PM-2:45 PM
Panel

Executive Protection in the Digital Age

This fireside chat features BlackCloak’s Neil Gallardo, a foremost expert on personal privacy and cybersecurity, who will be joined by Truist’s Head of Strategic Threat Intelligence and the Enterprise Risk from Fannie Mae. Together, they will explore threat actors’ methods for exploiting personal vulnerabilities and facilitating corporate breaches. They’ll discuss real-world examples of attacks on executives that have led to significant data breaches, highlighting the urgent need for a fundamental shift in corporate cybersecurity strategy. 

They’ll also discuss how enterprises are adapting to this new normal and the proactive measures that can help secure executives' personal digital lives. 

Attend this enlightening discussion to learn how to fortify your organization against modern threats by addressing the critical link between your leaders’ personal security and the protection of your corporate assets. 


2:45 PM-3:00 PM

Break


3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Safety Instructions


3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Driving Experience


4:30 PM-5:00 PM

Outing Concludes


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