Francesco Chiarini

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.

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