It is not surprising to learn Breach Preparedness is on the agenda of businesses across the globe. There are two main ways to test your company’s resilience, one is to have an incident and the other is to prepare. To be prepared, you need to answer the following questions:

• How could my organisation become the victim of extortion from a data breach or ransomware attack?
• How would we respond?
• Who would respond?
• How would we recover?

Bringing groups of stakeholders together before an incident occurs is extremely beneficial and effective in identifying gaps and issues prior to a ‘real’ event. Coming in May, is an intimate C Level Discussion sponsored by Seccom Global and lead by Cyber Security Leaders, where we will explore:

• preparedness exercises and how to equip your business to respond to a cyber breach.
• addressing the key cultural and technical elements holding back Australian Businesses from enhancing their cyber breach posture.
• a look at the role of breach simulation and its impact on stakeholder management and business engagement.
• an overview of a breach simulation: preparing for it like it has already happened.

Scott Mann

Incident Response Team Lead – APAC, Scott Mann is an industry specialist in digital forensics and computer security incident response with twenty years’ experience providing services to the private sector, government departments and law enforcement agencies.

Prior to joining the private sector Scott was a Detective with the Victoria Police Computer Crime Investigation Squad where he conducted online and offline computer crime investigations as well as supporting other investigators in the search, seizure, and examination of computer-based evidence. Scott has worked in the creation of a national computer incident response and forensic service and has advised many government agencies and public companies on their incident response procedure as well as information management as a proactive approach.

Ashwin Ram

Cyber Security Advisor | Office of the CTO
Check Point Software Technologies

Ashwin is the winner of the fiercely competitive ‘Cyber Leadership Program (2020)’ and the ‘Cyber Strategy and Transformation Program (2021)’ from the prestigious Cyber Leadership Institutes. In Ashwin's current role as a senior cyber security thought leader within the Office of the CTO, he brings a rare combination of CISO consulting experience and deep technical knowledge to become a sought after trusted advisor to enterprises, startups and industry collectives. Ashwin is able to apply technical threats into appropriate business contexts to determine overall risk to organisations. His ability to "talk tech" one minute and then talk "business" at executive level the next, has stood me in good stead. He has a deep security capability in cloud, threat intelligence, network, endpoint as well as mobile and IoT.