Cyber Resilience Awareness Day Virtual Summit 2026

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Cyber resilience has moved from aspiration to mandate, tested on two fronts at once: it must hold up against AI-enabled adversaries that never sleep, and be measured with a rigor regulators and boards increasingly demand. Cyber Resilience Awareness Day 2026 convenes practitioners, researchers, and standards bodies to answer one question: how ready are we, really, across readiness assessment, recovery strategies, and roadmap design.

The day opens with the state of the art in measurement: an AI extension to the CR-CMM maturity model that turns AI resilience claims into evidence, presented alongside independent research showing that most organizations confuse designed maturity with the continuously degrading readiness they actually possess. A fireside conversation on resilience engineering with NIST previews proposed control updates for data vaulting and isolated recovery, reframing practice around minimum viable operations and impact tolerance.

For recovery, sessions introduce an ISSA-produced framework for safely restarting critical services after an incident (sequencing identity, security, and infrastructure layers rather than restoring by urgency) alongside secure-by-design threat modeling, AI-integrated vulnerability governance, and quantifiable remediation metrics that turn architecture decisions into resilience indicators.

Resilience is no longer a checkbox, but a number tracked continuously—from assessment to recovery to the next AI-era exam.

Featuring:
Francesco Chiarini, Chairman ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG and VP CISO in Residence, Rubrik (https://issa.org/speaker/francesco-chiarini/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiarini/)
Calin Gheorghiu, Co-Chairman Cyber Resilience SIG (https://issa.org/speaker/calin-gheorghiu/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/calin-gheorghiu-81657313a/)