Bridging a Dangerous Gap Between Incidents and Cyber Crises

The number of cyberattacks and breaches rises every year. The complexity and sophistication of attacks is also rising, and businesses have to reckon with extortion, regulatory reporting, and legal implications of each breach. Unfortunately, very few are prepared to deal with major attacks and breaches can produce catastrophic consequences. But there is a way to better mitigate risks: extending your technical incident response program to cover executive teams and their plans for leading through cyber crises.

Join this session to learn:

Cyber crisis that developed into catastrophes

• What went wrong?
• How could it have been handled differently?
• What preparatory steps would enable teams to take control?

Core elements of a cyber crisis plan

• The difference from technical incident response plan

Understanding the critical role executive level plans have

• How to reduce adverse effect
  
• How to save money
• How to have a limiting impact to internal teams

Meet the Presenters

Limor Sylvie Kessem, Senior Managing Consultant, Cyber Crisis Management

Limor Kessem is an Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security. She is a widely sought-after security expert, speaker and author and a strong advocate for women in information security. At IBM, she leverages her over 10 years of cyber risk and security expertise to provide counsel to CSOs, CISOs, and CIOs at the world’s largest corporations and governments. In addition to her work with IBM, Limor is part of the Tel-Aviv University Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, is a founding member of the Cyber Week FraudCon conference, and volunteers in the local chapters of OWASP and BSides. To follow Limor’s security feed on Twitter, please check out: @iCyberFighter