RIE Toronto is pleased to announce Cyber Resilience: Threats, Response &Recovery,
a half day symposium / working session that examines how organizations
assess, decide, and respond when a cyber incident is already underway.
The day is guided by two well respected cybersecurity practitioners. Terry Cutler opens
the symposium by pulling back the curtain on how modern cyber attacks actually
happen. This is followed by From Hack to Response, a cyber incident tabletop
exercise facilitated by keynote speaker Robert Beggs, CISSP, MBA.
Terry’s opening session explores the attacker’s mindset — how threat actors gather
information, exploit human behavior, and take advantage of everyday gaps that often
go unnoticed. His session looks at how attacks begin, setting the context for the
response challenges that follow.
Following this opening perspective, Robert Beggs introduces the incident scenario and
outlines how participants will work through the tabletop exercise. Teams are then guided
through a realistic breach scenario, with live threat injections introduced as conditions
evolve.
Participants will assess emerging risks, make decisions with incomplete information,
coordinate technical and executive communications, and work through response and
recovery actions under pressure. The session concludes with a facilitated debrief,
including insights from the attacker’s perspective to surface gaps, assumptions, and
blind spots.
Together, these sessions draw a clear line between how attacks start and how
organizations respond — highlighting the judgment, coordination, and communication
that define real cyber resilience. more info...
