The average business struggles to navigate the new privacy legislation and its impact on business operations, much less its impact on IT and cybersecurity, frequently relegated to be an “IT problem.” This is not only inaccurate, but dangerous, leading to at best a “checklist approach” to privacy and cybersecurity, and complete misalignment between business goals, regulatory requirements, IT enablement of these goals, and cybersecurity alignment with both.

Worse, the average business executive is not engaged, nor understands, privacy risk management and cybersecurity principles, both of which are essential in being able to –at a minimum– help the executives complete a handshake with privacy and cybersecurity professionals. IT, legal, and HR are frequently and inappropriately charged with this role, diverting them from value creation to a miss mash of value protection, and governance.

This presentation by Chris Moschovitis, in conversation with Jo Stewart-Rattray, will review the essential steps in establishing a pragmatic privacy and cybersecurity program alignment for a business, starting with ways to identify goals, communicate with the executive teams, align and partner with IT, privacy asset valuation, threat and vulnerability assessments, environmental considerations (cloud, IoT, distributed workforce), control selection, incident response, people and cybersecurity, and program management.

Moderator: Jo Stewart-Rattray, Chief Security Officer, Silver Chain Group

Jo has over 25 years experience in the IT field and specialises in consulting in risk and technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance and security in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses. Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across a number of industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail, healthcare and government.

Speaker: Chris Moschovitis, Chairman & CEO, TMG Media and author of Cybersecurity Program Development and Privacy, Regulations and Cybersecurity: The Essential Business Guides.

Chris is an active speaker and writer, and delivers workshops on a variety of topics, including Cyber Security, Privacy, Information Technology Strategy, Governance and Execution, and Digital and Business Transformation. As the Chairman and CEO of tmg‐emedia, he continues to lead the firm’s consulting practice focusing on strategy, governance, privacy, IT value creation and cybersecurity value preservation.

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