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ISSA is proud to announce the second annual Cyber Resilience Awareness Day, hosted virtually by the ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG. This free event will deliver clear, actionable insights on what being cyber resilient really means and how to move beyond buzzwords or regulatory requirements to build it into your systems from the start.
Cyber Resilience Awareness Day aims to demystify key concepts by providing a clear and actionable understanding of what frameworks and tools can be used to support implementation strategies. Cyber resilience extends information security and evolves operational resilience. It is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems using cyber resources. While familiar to some professionals, the community’s shared understanding is still developing.
Under this year’s theme, “Resilient by Design,” we will explore how to move beyond reactive security models and instead engineer resilience directly into the architecture, design, and operation of complex digital ecosystems. Examples include fail-safe designs, ensuring systems can fail gracefully and maintain critical operations even when compromised, and resilient architectures, building systems with layered defenses and contingencies (e.g., data vaults) with the ability to continue essential functions even in degraded conditions.
The “Resilient by Design” theme is inspired by the “Secure by Design” concept from the US CISA. We will primarily aim to ensure the community shares implementation examples and use cases following authoritative best practices like NIST 800-160 v1 and v2, the Cyber Resilience Manifesto, and MITRE CREF.
The event will involve best-in-class, world-renowned expert-led webinars and success stories. It is intended for cyber resilience practitioners, disaster recovery and business continuity specialists, threat-informed defense specialists, incident responders, offensive security teams, security architects, business leaders, CISOs, and those just starting out on their journey to build a cyber resilience program.
Moderator
Francesco Chiarini – Chairman ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG, Founder and Lead Instructor Cyber Resilience Academy
Francesco Chiarini is the founder and Chair of the ISSA.org Cyber Resilience Special Interest Group with nearly 2500 associates across the globe, and the creator of the Cyber Resilience Awareness Day worldwide. He is also the founder and lead instructor of the Cyber Resilience Academy, a global pioneer in cyber resilience education that equips professionals with the skills to design and safeguard resilient enterprise environments. Sought-after speaker who presented at global audiences including recent talks at United Nations, MITRE, FS-ISAC, ISACA, ISSA, Microsoft, London Stock Exchange, FIRST, Asia Pacific CERT, Africa CERT and many others.
In 2022, Francesco has co-authored multiple recognized research papers such as the World Economic Forum “The Cyber Resilience Index: Advancing Organizational Cyber Resilience”, the ASIFMA “Data Vaulting considerations for improving data recovery” and the Eurocontrol “Incident Timing Metrics, Reporting Cyber Risk to Boards.
From 2019 when NIST released the 800-160 publication, Francesco specialized in equipping companies with the ability to withstand and recover from multi-faceted attacks from advanced adversaries. He had the privilege to build a best-in-class cyber resilience program vetted -among others- by experts of the US CISA cyber resilience task force. In this capacity, Francesco has coined the concept of “high value target” to identify key assets from an adversarial standpoint.
Francesco currently leads global cyber resilience for a major pharmaceutical organization, where he focuses on assessing and advancing its resilience posture by identifying the core capabilities needed to stay sustainably ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Francesco has 20 years’ experience in IT and cyber security and joined Standard Chartered Bank from PepsiCo where he was in charge of one of the two global Cyber Fusion Centers (Poland), leading globally incident response, red teaming, adversary emulation and cyber resilience.
He has hired hundreds of information security professionals in Poland and won the 2021 Volunteer of the Year award at ISSA.org, won the global innovation award from the US Consumer Brands Association in 2018 among Fortune-100 companies, and founded the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Special Interest Group at FIRST.org group.
See Francesco Chiarini‘s full profile.
Mehdi Azaouioui – Founder and CEO of LimberSecurity
Mehdi Azaouioui, founder and CEO of LimberSecurity, has spent 15 years supporting large and medium organizations across Europe, managing multi-year programs, tackling both the IT and OT sides of cybersecurity. The experience led him to realize that only a few organizations have transitioned to agile tools and methods to support their cyber projects, tools and methods now decades old. Today, Mehdi and his team at LimberSecurity combine applicable techniques of agile methods with practical and technical cyber-security expertise acquired through the team’s collective experiences.
Mehdi is also the Vice Chair of the ISSA International’s Cyber Resilience SIG (Special Interest Group), a community with over 2400 associates across the globe. He has helped to launch the group’s first Cyber Resilience Awareness Day Virtual Global Summit.
He enjoys learning constantly in the cybersecurity industry, and sharing his knowledge as much as possible to help others. His motto is “Providing value first”.
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Recent On-Demand Web Conferences
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