The Executive's Playbook for a Cyberattack: Stories, Strategies, and Survival

Threat actors are relentlessly evolving, making traditional cybersecurity defenses insufficient. To thrive in this landscape, organizations must embrace an "assumed breach" mindset and prepare for inevitable attacks. This presentation reveals how to leverage cyber threat intelligence, frontline expertise, and the business lens to create realistic cyber simulation exercises tailored to organizations that engage executives directly. We'll share gripping frontline stories of how threat actors target management to extort ransoms, and distill hard-won lessons from hundreds of incident response engagements and executive tabletop exercises. The goals of this presentation is to highlight the challenges faced by executives during a cyber incidents crisis and to empower some key takeaways to support them in their future crisis management to efficiently manage the crisis, minimize business disruption, reputational damage, and regulatory fallout.