How to Prepare Yourself and Your Business for a Cyberattack
Category: Event
Event date: 14th March 2023
Time: 17:30
Published: 7th March 2023
Venue: Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Cl, London SE1 9DD
Cyberattacks are increasingly frequent and persistent. Organisations are no longer facing questions on if a cyberattack will happen, but when. This networking event for senior IT professionals will help you prepare for the inevitable.
Our panel of expert speakers will discuss:
Simon Riggs, Chief Security Officer (Interim) at John Lewis
How to prioritise the need for both innovation and security, while keeping up with evolving technology and threats.
Matt Leonards, Information Security Director at Fortis Cyber
Planning for success with an effective cyber resilience strategy and plan.
Sarah Furness MA Cantab RAF
What you can do today to prepare yourself for a crisis. How you can keep calm under pressure and make the right decisions.
Who should attend?
This is a must-attend event for leaders and senior managers responsible for the security of their organisation.
You will leave this event with the ability to better list and prioritise key actions to make your company’s defences against a cyberattack as robust as possible. You will know what a best-in-class cyber resilience plan looks like and understand how to improve your own. Most importantly, you will leave with the confidence to tackle these cyber risk challenges and empowered to handle any crisis.
Our Speakers
Simon Riggs, Chief Security Officer (Interim) at John Lewis
Recognised CISO and risk advisor with extensive cross-sector experience leading successful cyber and risk management programmes in interim, advisory and senior full-time roles.
Matt Leonards, Information Security Director at Fortis Cyber
Matt is the founder and cyber security principal at a specialist cyber security consultancy, Fortis Cyber. Matt brings 25 years of experience working in a range of communications and security leadership roles including: UK Military, signals intelligence, complex communications platform intelligence, UK Special Forces tactical communications and global enterprise information security.
Having broad and deep Cyber/Information Security expertise Matt engages with, and provides security advice to a range of senior, executive level stakeholders. Ensuring that security reporting or metrics must relate to the company’s strategy and business objectives and be presented in language that can be easily understood in those terms.
Matt was responsible for the cyber security of over 450 international financial services hosted trading systems across 22 global trading venues. He created the business functions and led the security architecture team to deliver technology growth initiatives including cyber security aspects on a global scale. Presently, Matt runs a specialist cyber security organisation providing expert level cyber security consulting services to industry.
Sarah Furness MA Cantab RAF
After graduating from Cambridge University, Sarah followed her dream to become a combat helicopter pilot in the RAF. As a Squadron Leader she led on operational combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During her experiences both at home and at war, she made two important discoveries;
– resilience and performance under pressure is NOT instinctive
– BUT humans have an extraordinary ability to thrive and even excel under pressure when they know how.
She now has ONE mission. To share the secret to outstanding resilience, performance and courage “under fire”.
Sarah is the No1 Best Selling author of FLY HIGHER – train your mind to feel as strong as you look. All of her mental training techniques are backed by science and proven in combat.
Registration
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