Thinking Resilience Over Security: The Way to Win

Speaker

Tom Patterson

Managing Director, Emerging Technology Security

Accenture

Tom Patterson’s Biography

CIMA®, CPWA®, CIMC®, and RMA℠ Eligible

Duration: 1 hour

Option 1: Monday, March 22nd at 12:00pm ET

This session will include participant Q&A at the end.

Course Description

Security seems to focus on failures.  Ransomware, outages, thefts, firings— these are the things often associated with the security sector.  That’s because most security focuses on hardening our infrastructures, while minimizing attacks and their impact, but is known to never be foolproof.  Limits of budgets, errors in technologies, human factors with users and operators, skills of adversaries, complexities of infrastructures, and simple bad luck all conspire against the security professional and leave the business not asking ‘if’ but rather ‘when’ disaster will strike.  Now is the time to shift our thinking from a focus on unobtainable perfect security, and replace it with the much more business-friendly goal of resilience.  Learn how to embrace resilience as a directive in the boardrooms and operationally throughout the organization, such that inevitable security incidents allow your organization to bend but not break, and recover gracefully.  Join Tom Patterson, the Unisys Chief Trust Officer and co-lead for the National Cyber Moonshot that is focused on the national strategy to make the Internet safe and secure by the end of this decade, to learn the key guidelines and changes necessary in this shift of thinking that has long term benefits including a more stable business and predicable economy.