The resilience mindset: Getting CEOs, CIOs and CISOs on the same page

How business and security leaders build a resilient, downtime-ready organisation.

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No organisation can prevent every ransomware attack or tech outage. With growing complexity, fast-moving regulations, and rapid AI developments, prevention isn't the whole story anymore. The real question for your business is simple: when something breaks, how quickly can you recover?  

In this HotTopics C-Suite Exchange, in partnership with Absolute Security, we are reframing cyber resilience as a key business priority. We will address downtime as an enterprise-wide issue impacting revenue, customer trust, and compliance, while evaluating the shared leadership ethos needed to get the boardroom and the CISO on the same page.  

Together, we'll explore how to:

• Make cyber resilience part of board-level strategy and decision-making.  
• Establish a shared resilience agenda across the CEO, CIO, and CISO.  
• Measure the true cost of downtime and security-control decay.
• Shift success metrics from prevention alone to uptime and time to restore.
• Build an organisation that adapts to disruption instead of merely absorbing it.  

"Resilience is simple: no matter what the situation, I want to be able to maintain 60% of my revenue with 40% of my people for two weeks. If I can't solve it in two weeks, I'll be fired anyway."— CISO, Financial Services  

Event details

📍 Location: Virtual

🗓 Date: 30th September 2026

🕛 Time: 12:00 - 1.00 PM BST

👥 The Hosts: Doug Drinkwater, Editorial and Strategy Director, HotTopics

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