Tuesday 22 October 2024, 9.30am – 3pm (BST)

In person – Cambridge, East Anglia
and live stream via Zoom

Resilience is the word on everyone’s lips when surviving in cyberspace. It is often easier to theorise than to implement a practical response. Navigating the challenges in a real-world context is crucial to enable us to prioritise our activities efficiently. When we identify the threats relevant to our business, we can assess the risks they present and take effective action to minimise our exposure. These are often the essential steps to developing a robust resilience strategy and implementing it.

The challenges we face are not unique to any sector. They confront all organisations who manage a complex IT infrastructure, whose people are exposed to the internet and who rely on physical and digital supply chains which often include small and micro businesses. SMEs are often the channel through which criminal gangs and state actors target large organisations. There are lessons for everyone.

Building our collective resilience to mitigate the threats we face is becoming more critical. For this reason, we were delighted to host this event with AstraZeneca. The security challenges facing such a cutting-edge and innovative business should be familiar to all sectors: maximising highly sensitive data to produce life-enhancing innovations whilst ensuring that data remains appropriately protected. This is the great balancing act for all organisations.