Cybersecurity in the New World

Organizations are affected by changes in the external environment. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated our vulnerabilities. Companies are stretched financially and operationally as they have to adjust to a new business model. Many countries have implemented lockdowns and restriction on travel and logistics. Employees are working from home and some businesses have shut down if they cannot remodel their services. Past major events such as the terror attacks in beginning of this century, the hacks of critical infrastructure in the last decade, major data breaches in the last 20 years, global financial markets crash in 2008 and others have impacted many countries and companies that are not prepared. As most of our systems and processes depends on digital technologies, it leaves us open to cyber attacks. We need to be prepared for the next external change that may leave us vulnerable to an attack. In the presentation some of the ways to increase our cyber resilience will be discussed. Cybersecurity must continuously evolved and be proactive. It must be top down and bottom up. The governance of Operational Technology and Information Technology needs to be holistic and seamless to prevent gaps in the environment. Just as important is the situation awareness on the ground and the control mechanism to bring to management attention when things go wrong or are likely to. In the presentation, some of the best practices of Cybersecurity to address the problems will be covered. Presenter Biography: John Lee is the Managing Director of Global Resilience Federation Asia Pacific. He manages the Operational Technology Information Sharing Analysis Centre (OT-ISAC). It is a membership driven community with organizations from public and private sectors managing OT critical assets and infrastructure. He has more than 20 years of experience in Information Security and ICT industry having managed teams in APAC and Middle East for MNCs.