Cyber Resilience Awareness Day Virtual Summit 2026

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When a major cyberattack is contained, the hardest phase often begins after the headlines fade: deciding what to turn back on, in what order, and under whose authority. Most organizations default to ad hoc, urgency-driven recovery, racing to restore whatever the business is loudest about - which reintroduces risk faster than it restores confidence.

This session presents the Critical IT Services Restart Framework, a structured, four-phase model (Assess, Remediate, Assure, Reconnect) for governing the transition from incident containment to safe business-as-usual operations. Rather than treating recovery as a single event, the framework sequences restoration through dependency-driven layers - starting with identity and access management, then security perimeter controls, then infrastructure and network services - each gated by explicit minimum activation criteria and formal executive sign-off.

Attendees will learn:
* Why "technical restoration" and "operational trust" are not the same thing, and why conflating them creates reinfection risk
* How to build a dependency-driven restart sequence instead of a business-urgency-driven one
* What minimum viable conditions (security, staffing, monitoring) should gate every service reactivation
* How to structure governance and sign-off authority so no layer advances without verified integrity
* Practical lessons on compensating controls and degraded operating modes that keep the business running safely mid-recovery

Featuring:
Shwetha Babu Prasad, Senior Information Security and Data Protection Specialist (https://issa.org/speaker/shwetha-prasad/) (www.linkedin.com/in/shweprasad)
Saket Varma Namburi, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, MGT Impact Solutions (https://issa.org/speaker/saketh-varma-namburi/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsakethvarma/)