To ensure resilience, we must take a comprehensive approach to security, spanning physical, cyber, supply chain, and personnel risks. In this roundtable, we will explore:

• The current state of Critical Infrastructure and its evolving security landscape.
• The critical impact of third-party risks, highlighting sector-specific examples and the importance of a robust risk management framework.
• Strategies to prioritise supplier diversification, including the role of sovereign suppliers in enhancing national security.

As nationally significant operators, Critical Infrastructure providers must cultivate strong local partnerships with vendors, service providers, and industry leaders to build a more secure and resilient future.

• Explore opportunities to prepare for incidents before they happen. What does good incident response look like?
• Discuss key insights gleaned from more than 500 significant cyber compromise event responses across the nation in the past year
• The most dangerous threats are coordinated and synchronised. What should be on your Cyber checklist for 2025?

An open conversation on fostering agility to adapt, respond rapidly, exercise control, and continuously evolve your operational capabilities.

• Navigating the Complexity: Balancing people, technology, and processes in resource-constrained environments
• Beyond Organisational Silos: Identifying and mitigating risks across an ever-increasing attack surface, including IoT and remote workspaces
• A spotlight on Data Movement and Storage: Detecting, encrypting, and continuously assessing cloud storage and email
• Refining Priorities: Sharing experiences in adopting new strategies that align with your unique risk appetite and adapting quickly to lessons learnt

• As AI, and interconnected IT and Operational Technology (OT) solutions expand, the stakes for secure, resilient data sharing across systems, organisations, governments, and international borders have never been higher.
  
• How can Boards, Executives, and Operations teams balance pragmatic cyber risk management with business demands, ensuring both legacy and emerging technologies are safeguarded without compromising security, compliance, or innovation?

• Exploring AI's role in streamlining governance processes for better compliance and proactive threat management
• How can AI technologies can be used to provide proactive responses to the evolving cyber threat landscape
• Integrating AI within public sector security frameworks to boost cyber resilience

AI is already here, and we're seeing incredibly innovative use cases being rapidly adopted across government agencies. But there's also considerable risks AI introduces across cyber security, data governance, privacy and ethics. Neverthless, leaders are putting pressure on technology and security leaders to adopt AI at pace, often without the right governance and guardrails in place.

This roundtable will talk through a basic 'AI Jump Start' approach to setup some basic governance and guardrails around AI adoption, to encourage AI usage in the right way.