Helping Businesses Accelerate Operational & Cyber Resilience

It’s no wonder businesses are struggling to navigate the ever-changing threat landscape with skills shortages and time constraints. Not to mention spiralling costs to insure against the increasing volume of cyber threats.

To remain operational should the worst happen, you need to achieve a balance between good cyber resilience and business strategy by integrating cyber security and risk management into your organisation.

According to research carried out by CSI at the start of the year, businesses are not confident their cyber insurance will cover their cyber risk. The true cost of ransomware is in fact much more when the cost of downtime and reputational damage is factored in.

The study found the technical controls deemed most important to security decision makers for building cyber resilience are network monitoring and establishing a Security Operations Centre (84%), and multi factor authentication (MFA) and endpoint detection and response (EDR/XDR) (both 83%).

We’ll share more insights from our research during the event.

For a different kind of conversation about security – from Zero Trust and NIST, to cyber insurance, operational resilience, and changing regulations, CSI invites you to join us at the F1 Arcade at St. Paul’s in London, for an insightful afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and networking.

Guests will have exclusive use of the F1 Arcade Briefing Room with access to the full-motion simulator racing experience!

After the presentations, you can enjoy some friendly, competitive F1 racing, while networking with colleagues and specialists from our partner ecosystem.

Note: the venue is fully wheelchair accessible with a floor-level entrance and toilets, and the simulators can be set up for hand-use only, if required.

Dave Woodfine is an ex Royal Air Force Senior Officer, who spent the last four years of his service in senior cyber defence and offence roles on behalf of the British government. Firstly, as commanding officer at the Ministry of Defence’s Security Operations Centre in Corsham, which monitors the MOD network of 500,000 devices along with the gateways to the MOD supply chain. Secondly as commanding officer of the Joint Cyber Offensive Unit based at GCHQ in Cheltenham.

On leaving the Armed Forces in 2013 Dave formed Cyber Security Associates offering a range of cyber managed and consultancy services to UK and overseas clients. For the past 3 years Dave has been the Chair of the Gloucestershire First Local Enterprise Partnership Cyber Tech Group offering cyber security advice and guidance to local businesses within Gloucestershire. In addition, he is a stakeholder and supporter within the Golden Valley Cyber Development Project and an active Industry Supporter within the Cyber First scheme.

Dave continues to actively advise businesses on their cyber security resilience and maturity and leads the team at CSA as their Managing Director. The team of CSA cyber professionals provide around the clock detection and protection against the cyber threat and will help companies recover when they fall victim to a cyber-attack.