NETCB:ForumX 2025Conferences

Thursday 21 Aug 2025, 08:30 → 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Innovation Centre/001 - Main Auditorium (The Innovation Hub)

Join us at NETCB:ForumX 2025 — a high-impact, one-day summit unpacking the digital future through the lenses of technology, business, and law. Collaborate with CIOs, legal experts, and IT specialists shaping tomorrow’s enterprise.

Briefing Topics Include:

Data Sovereignty & Legal Risk in Cloud Deployments
Understand jurisdictional exposure, cross-border data flows, and compliance implications in cloud architecture.

Privileged Access Governance & Secrets Management
Examine controls required for securing high-risk credentials under POPIA, GDPR, and ISO 27001.

Enterprise Alerting Systems for Regulatory Events
Demonstrate your ability to notify and respond within regulated timeframes.

Hybrid Backup Strategies Supporting Legal Hold & Retention Policies
Align disaster recovery with statutory data preservation requirements.

Building a Cost-Effective SOC Framework for Audit Readiness
Fulfill key compliance requirements through proactive monitoring and reporting.

The event will conclude with a confidential experiential session, reinforcing key themes through a practical lens.

This session is essential for compliance officers, legal advisors, CISOs, and IT governance professionals tasked with ensuring their organisations meet growing regulatory expectations while maintaining operational resilience.

08:30 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:40 Welcoming

Speaker: Matthew Garzancich (NETCB ZA (Pty) Ltd)

09:40 → 10:40 KEYNOTE: Data Sovereignty & Legal Risk in Cloud Deployments

Understand jurisdictional exposure, cross-border data flows, and compliance implications in cloud architecture. Keith Chatsauka, NETCB's Director for Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity and Compliance, will present this keynote session. Apart from a number of academic degrees (CC[SM], LLB(SA)[Cum Laude]) he was also the recipient of the University of the Witwatersrand Postgraduate Merit Award (Class of '24). He is also involved in the following associations and institutions: ISOC Member, IETF Contributor, OpenSSL Academic [University of Cape Town Voting Delegate] and the South African Quantum Technology Initiative Contributor (Wits Node).

Speaker: Keith Chatsauka (NETCB ZA (PTY) LTD)

10:40 → 10:55 Tea/Coffee Break

10:55 → 11:40 Privileged Access Governance & Secrets Management

Examine controls required for securing high-risk credentials under POPIA, GDPR, and ISO 27001.

Speaker: Mr Václav Šamša

11:40 → 12:10 Enterprise Alerting Systems for Regulatory Events

Demonstrate your ability to notify and respond within regulated timeframes.

Speaker: Matthew Garzancich (NETCB ZA (Pty) Ltd)

12:10 → 13:00 Hybrid Backup Strategies Supporting Legal Hold & Retention Policies

Align disaster recovery with statutory data preservation requirements.

Speaker: Cobus Burgers (NETCB ZA (PTY) LTD)

13:00 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:45 Building a Cost-Effective SOC Framework for Audit Readiness

Fulfill key compliance requirements through proactive monitoring and reporting.

Speaker: Cobus Burgers (NETCB ZA (PTY) LTD)

14:45 → 14:50 Introduction for Confidential Experiential Session

Speaker: Keith Chatsauka (NETCB ZA (PTY) LTD)

14:50 → 15:00 Short Break to prepare session setup

15:00 → 16:00 Confidential Experiential Session

East vs West

16:00 → 17:00 Networking