Cyber Resilience Awareness Day Virtual Summit 2026

Cyber resilience has moved from concept to mandate - but engineering it into real systems remains the hard part. In this fireside chat, ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG Chairman Francesco Chiarini sits down with Ron Ross and Vicky Pillitteri, co-authors of NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 and SP 800-172, to unpack how organizations can move from resilience theory to operational practice. The conversation will cover selecting and applying resilience engineering principles, protecting critical assets in an AI-driven threat landscape, and defining the minimum viable operations organizations must protect within their impact tolerance - plus an exclusive look at two new control updates proposed to NIST SP 800-53 on data vaulting and isolated recovery, submitted jointly by the ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG Task Force and NIST.

Key Themes:
* Applying cyber resilience engineering: translating NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 into practical controls that hold up against real disruption.
* Protecting critical assets in the AI era: treating AI/ML models, pipelines, and data as first-class assets.
* Minimum viable operations: identifying functions to keep running during an attack, aligned to impact tolerance.
* NIST SP 800-53's future: a preview of proposed controls on data vaulting and isolated recovery.

Featuring:
Francesco Chiarini, Chairman, ISSA Cyber Resilience SIG and VP CISO in Residence, Rubrik (Moderator) (https://issa.org/speaker/francesco-chiarini/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiarini/)
Victoria Pillitteri, Manager, Security Engineering & Risk Management Group, NIST (https://issa.org/speaker/victoria-pillitteri/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriayanpillitteri/)
Ron Ross, CEO, RONROSSECURE, LLC (https://issa.org/speaker/ron-ross/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronrossecure/)