How to Create Operational Resilience Together

Too many companies key services go down and cannot be recovered at the speed to meet their business need, often not considering their appetite for business risk or reflecting their IT Risk stance. Consider the retailer who wants their website back up in 5 minutes and yet they have an 8 hour SLA on the hardware and a 16-hour database rebuild.

The impact from outages is real and is often both human and financial. The harsh reality is that we are unable to travel, unable to access money, and even worse, hospitals cannot treat patients and we need to create real Operational Resilience.

This session explores how an operational resilience strategy is used to mitigate the impact of IT disruption on the business. It will focus on the risks you need to identify in order to protect applications and data; exploring how to perform a recovery in a fast, reliable and scalable way.

Discussion Points

• The basic elements of operational resilience to focus on and common deterrents
• The challenges and barriers in achieving operation resilience (e.g Multicloud, skills, security, hybrid IT)
• The root cause of outages with the biggest impact to businesses
• The overall impact of cyber threats in terms of time, cost and reputational damage
• Realistic steps businesses can take to avoid being in the news about a data breach

Speakers:

• Flick March, Security & Resilience Director, Europe at IBM
• Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee
• Simon Langley, CISO at Covéa Insurance
• Dan Burns, Head of Cyber Security Operations at Next
• Lee Howard, Head of IT Security, Risk & Shared Services at N Brown Group