Dublin Chapter event with IISF, 4th November, ESB HQ, Dublin
On 4th November, Cyber Ireland’s Dublin Chapter in partnership with IISF hosted an in-person event at ESB HQ, Dublin on “Cyber Resilience: Strategies for an Evolving Threat Landscape”.
This was the first partner event with IISF, a not-for-profit association of security professionals, IT and cybersecurity practitioners whose mission is to improve the understanding and practice of Information Security within the Irish business community.
Cyber Ireland and IISF recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding which aims to establish a framework for cooperation and collaboration between Cyber Ireland and IISF in areas of mutual interest: Bringing together the cybersecurity community across Ireland; and Facilitating joint events to share information, best practices and thought leadership.
Over 50 members from both Cyber Ireland and IISF attended the event and got to hear about practical strategies on building Cyber Resilience.
Kate O’Loughlin, Vice President, Information Security Engineering, Mastercard and Co-Lead of Cyber Ireland’s Dublin Chapter moderated the event.
The first speaker was David Begg, Cybersecurity Strategy and Governance Manager, ESB who presented an Overview of the ESB Cybersecurity Resilience Strategy, speaking about the factors of influence and setting the strategy within the overall business goals.
Noel Comerford, Director of Group IT Audit and Advisory, Flutter Entertainment spoke about building Cybersecurity Resilience through Cyber Incident Response planning, drawing on real-world lessons gained from his experience working in cybersecurity across various sectors.
Key takeaways included:
- OT and IT convergence is leading to increased vulnerabilities.
- The need to carry out regular mature risk\strategic assessments.
- The need to keep your Strategy alive and in line with new emerging threats, including the impact of AI.
- Test your Recovery plan: use actual business scenarios and understand what drives your revenue /service offering.
- Practice Regular decision-making exercises with incomplete information.
- The best technical plan fails if people can’t execute it under pressure. Plan for humans, not just systems.