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<\/div>\nBLACK HAT MEA \u2013 Riyadh \u2013 Wednesday, Nov. 15 \u2013 <\/strong> Cyber resilience is more important than ever, particularly with the added dimensions of deepening geopolitical threats and risks coming from new technology like AI.<\/p>\n In a fireside chat at the Black Hat Middle East and Africa conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week, Reem Alshammari, cybersecurity leader for the Women in Cyber Security Middle East<\/a> group, said that while operations are becoming more digitized, cyber resilience must remain a part of that.<\/p>\n “In cybersecurity, we keep saying that it is not the matter of will we be attacked, it’s a matter of when we will be attacked,” she noted. So, it’s imperative to ensure there is an ability to bounce back within all layers of the organization.<\/p>\n Alshammari’s conversation partner, Abeer Khedr, CISO of the National Bank of Egypt, noted that the COVID-19 pandemic put resilience firmly in the limelight.<\/p>\n Khedr said that specifically, the move to remote working was a new variable that businesses were “globally suffering from that nobody was really accounting for.”<\/p>\n That kicked off a broader conversation on weathering challenges, she said, so there is no better time than now to focus efforts on cyber resilience, particularly when presenting to CEOs.<\/p>\n “Cyber resiliency has to be owned at the top of the organization and the senior management level,” she said, and added that it must be integrated as part of a company’s operational strategy. “This is a journey of maturity, and for cyber resilience to work in my opinion, it has to be embedded inside an organization.” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n She pointed to two roadmaps for achieving cyber resilience: one is Accenture’s “State of Cybersecurity Resilience”<\/a> report, and the other is BS 65000<\/a>, which was developed by the <\/span>British Standards Institution (BSI)<\/a> as a code of practice for <\/span>organizational resilience. The latter was revised last year from its 2014 original version, and provides businesses with guidance and recommendations<\/span><\/span> in achieving resilience throughout their organization.<\/p>\n While these can be helpful to plot out one’s direction and steps forward, Khedr said to remember that cyber resilience is not an achievement check box, and is not a journey that can be achieved overnight.<\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLACK HAT MEA \u2013 Riyadh \u2013 Wednesday, Nov. 15 \u2013 Cyber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dark-reading"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1928&ssl=1",2560,1928,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C226&ssl=1",300,226,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C482&ssl=1",640,482,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C482&ssl=1",640,482,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=1536%2C1157&ssl=1",1536,1157,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1542&ssl=1",2048,1542,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C771&ssl=1",1024,771,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?resize=825%2C575&ssl=1",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?resize=590%2C410&ssl=1",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Dark Reading","author_link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/author\/darkreading\/"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cyber-resilience-requires-maturity-persistence-board-engagement-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1928&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hard Times Create Resilience<\/h2>\n