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, alongside independent research showing that most organizations confuse designed maturity with the continuously degrading readiness they actually possess. A fireside conversation 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 into resilience indicators.

Resilience is no longer a checkbox, but a number tracked continuously from assessment 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 ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG and Chief Resilience Architect, Fenix24 (https://issa.org/speaker/calin-gheorghiu/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/calin-gheorghiu-81657313a/)