Francesco Chiarini

Francesco Chiarini has nearly 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity and he is the founder of the prestigious ISSA.org Cyber Resilience specialized community with over 2400 associates across the globe. In his day-to-day, he leads cyber resilience for a major financial institution with the aim to continuously assess and evolve the organizations’ defensive posture to sustainably stay ahead of the cyber threat. Francesco has received the global innovation award from the USA Consumer Brands Association in 2018 and is the 2021 volunteer of the year from ISSA.org. Sought-after speaker who presented at global audiences including recent talks at 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.

Francesco promotes and demystifies across all industries and communities the concepts of cyber resilience and threat-informed defense. From the beginning of his career, Francesco has been successful in providing international pedigree enterprises with the abilities to anticipate, withstand, respond and recover from multi-faceted attacks from advanced cyber 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” and developed a methodology to identify assets’ value from an adversarial standpoint.