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Is your company prepared for the imminent threat of cyber attack? Attend this session to learn how to better prepare for cyber threats, using a practical approach and robust, NIST-based cybersecurity framework. The presenter will demonstrate how to apply the framework in order to measure cyber resilience and improve resilience overall.

2022 was a landmark year at DRI International. Our community is not only rebounding from the pandemic but also has been growing by every metric. From our popular Cyber Resilience training and certification program which continues to break records, to finding unique ways to serve you through organizational certification and custom training programs to continuing strong demand for our core Business Continuity programs, it is clear that the resilience profession is growing in visibility and prestige. We are continuing to find fresh ways to engage with you across every platform and can’t wait to see more of you in person again in 2023 whether at DRI2023: The Business Continuity Conference, a newlyreturning DRI Collegiate Conference, or an in-person class.

Peter Morris embarked on his journey with disaster recovery, business continuity and now operational resilience over twenty years ago. His “Distant Lands” presentation will offer his observations on crisis events and from his experience comment on what connects them, how their impact ripples across the world and their consequences. He will also share some new thinking which may change the resilience community’s strategic approach to disruptive events.

Cyber resilience and business continuity — both are important and work best when they work together! That’s not easy to accomplish, but not to worry. Attend this mind-blowing session to learn how to establish cohesion between the two at an entity level without sacrificing your sanity. We will tackle typical organizational barriers impacting resilience and what to do about them. Where does business continuity sit in the organization and why does that matter? How do you get the CISO and BCO on the same page? How do you link plans and processes? What about including BC in cyber incident response planning? And how do you bring it all together? You’ll leave this session energized, informed, and with a BC and cyber resilience checklist to help you obtain and maintain cohesion — and calm.

Year after year of unprecedented change has necessitated that organizations be prepared for a crisis situation. What can you expect to happen in 2022? Is your company ready for the next crisis? In this session, Experian provides five predictions from their 9th annual report of what disasters may lie ahead in 2022. They will also provide the latest insights to be released in the annual Ponemon Data Breach Preparedness study – letting you know how others in the industry are faring, the latest threat vectors, and pitfalls to avoid. This is a session you don’t want to miss.

BlackBerry's David Wiseman and Ramon Pinero discuss how AI and machine learning will completely transform the Critical Event Management landscape, what a next-gen critical event management system would look like with a use case to illustrate the dramatic impact AI/ML can have on a cyberattack disaster response. David and Ramon will also provide a visionary roadmap of how BlackBerry sees these capabilities evolving over the next few years to manage modern-day threats.

If there’s an issue bigger than the pandemic, it’s cyber resilience. Take note as our cyber resilience panelists cover current issues and challenges. Panelists: Wade Richmond, CEO, CISO ToGo

If there’s an issue bigger than the pandemic, it’s cyber resilience. Take note as our cyber resilience panelists cover current issues and challenges. Panelists: Lincoln Geode, Cyber Security Consultant, Xcel Energy

If there’s an issue bigger than the pandemic, it’s cyber resilience. Take note as our cyber resilience panelists cover current issues and challenges. Panelists: Rakesh Pande, Founder/Instructor, DRI India

While organizations are overwhelmed meeting the challenges of a pandemic, cyber criminals have found a perfect opportunity to attack. On May 14 at 2pm ET, DRI welcomes Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos of the NYU Center for Global Affairs for an up-to-the-minute look at cybersecurity in the age of COVID-19. The Faculty Lead of MS Global Security, Conflict & Cyber, Dr. Yannakogeorgos will cover recent examples of how hackers have taken advantage of the crisis, how governments and grassroots efforts have responded, and the risks of shifting to remote work without cybersecurity procedures in place, before addressing questions from attendees.

We have fire drills in school and in the work place to prepare: we know who the class monitor is, we know the “safe” place we are supposed to go, and we know with whom we have to check in with … Given that a fire is very disruptive to business operations, businesses prepare. So, why aren’t businesses doing the same BEFORE a cyber incident – or worse yet – breach? Even if you put numbers on paper for your local FBI office, your insurance agent and your cyber attorney, have you sat down with them and ran drills to prepare for the “when” or are you waiting for when your business is already in turmoil? Having established lines of communication before, during and after any crisis is critical for a business to weather the storm and to successfully emerge from the settling dust. Hear from legal experts, law enforcement officials and business executives on how to establish these relationships and how to manage your response and your messaging internally and externally to ensure ongoing operations despite threat actors’ best efforts.

Cyberattacks focused on business disruption are a reality. Traditional recovery solutions protect businesses from physical disasters, but often fall short in the face of a digital disaster. In this session, participants will explore lessons learned from recent cyberattacks and be provided with a risk-based approach to protecting critical services through a cyber recovery capability.

Imagine a railroad track, a solid structure used to guide trains to their destination safely and securely. This track incorporates switches, to move trains from one track to another, controlling the flow of traffic, and mitigating risk. Now apply this same analogy with cybersecurity and business continuity. Two trains carrying precious cargo of tools and techniques which can fortify and build resiliency within the organization. Whether the dinner car has a cybersecurity menu of identify, protect, detect, respond and recover, or a BC menu of prepare, assess, remediate or sustain, the end result is a great meal. How then, can we utilize the structure, cargo and menus from both, to create a superliner or Eurostar type of train that will get us to safety in style! During this session, we will take a look at the framework and methodology for both cybersecurity and business continuity, the challenges requiring a “flip of the switch,” and how these two trains, not colliding, but merging, can create a ride like no other.

Security breaches are an almost daily occurrence. As business resilience professionals, we have a seat at the table. It is becoming commonplace for security groups to include BC professionals in their planning. Now we need to have an active part in the conversation. This session is designed to familiarize you with a few security trends for 2020 and their impacts on our work as business continuity professionals. Topics covered will include passwords and passphrases, browser isolation, security automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, awareness training, and insider threats.

Listen to an impressive panel of MBCPs answer your questions from various industries and with a wide range of expertise during our “Ask the MBCPs” webinar.

Complex and often confounding, all things cyber resilience are challenging continuity and resilience professionals worldwide. We go beyond the theoretical to provide thoughtful answers to your real-world questions.

Cyber-resilience can be thought of as the ability of an enterprise to anticipate, withstand, recover from and evolve to improve capabilities it needs to function brought about as the result of cyber threats and/or attacks. This enhances both the cybersecurity function and the BCM function (e.g. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts). To be resilient, a holistic approach to understand and prioritize entity risk, and implement risk management activities needs to be integrated into day-to-day operations (across all entity functions). But what does all this mean to the CISO? Attend this session to find out as you take a look at t day in the life of a CISO from a cyber-resilience perspective.

Join cybersecurity expert Wade Richmond for an information-packed hour of important information on one of the profession’s hottest topics. Explore aspects of cybersecurity and business continuity, with the goal of integrating the two and achieving the ultimate goal -- cyber resilience. Learn how to talk to top management about these issues and sell them on the concept of cyber resilience.

Organizations today are confronted by a wide range of cyberattacks, so it comes as no surprise that cyberattacks and data breaches have consistently ranked high on the list of key issues identified for the resilience community according to the DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Reports, issued annually by DRI’s Future Vision Committee. This year’s report revealed that although the top issues remain the same, there appears to be an even greater focus on technological risk. Given the development of technologies and the growth of business data, this is likely to remain the case moving forward … which may provide new opportunities for hackers to cause such massive disruptions.

Lou Drapeau, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for DRI International, presents on enterprise risk management and business continuity. How do we define resilience? Why is resilience important? What makes a system resilient? What does resilience mean for an organization? The answers to these questions will be revealed through a discussion of the roles of business continuity and risk management as well as where these functions reside in organizations. You’ll learn about the terminology of resilience, relevant trends identified by DRI’s Future Vision Committee, as well as cyber resilience and developing strategies for resilience.