Grasping for Control: The future threat landscape

Join the authors of ISF’s Threat Horizon 2027, Mark Ward and Richard Absalom, to explore how global developments will remake the threat landscape over the coming years and consider how organisations can prepare. Key takeaways: • Evaluate key areas of change that impact every business, from geopolitics to technical development. • Identify emerging threats and trends related to this changing environment. • Understand the actions required to prepare for these threats and build a resilient organisation. Speaker bios: Richard Absalom is a Principal Analyst with the Research team. His work involves investigating, clarifying and sharing best practice with ISF Member organisations. Richard has been with the ISF since 2016 and his research has provided insight into topics as varied as measuring security, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain security, artificial intelligence, security assurance, secure Agile development, mobile app security, and identifying future information risks for the flagship Threat Horizon report series. He also now supervises the quality of all Research products, providing an even wider view across many and varied topics around information security. Mark Ward is a Senior Research Analyst at the ISF who has been lead author on the last two editions of the flagship Threat Horizon report. Before joining the ISF, Mark worked as a journalist for a variety of mainstream publications including the Daily Telegraph and New Scientist. He spent 20 years at the BBC covering technology news for the corporation’s website. During that stint in the newsroom, he cultivated a strong interest in all aspects of cyber security – its history, practice and its increasingly criminal focus. That knowledge has been augmented with an understanding of how information security is practiced and the gumption and grit required to help organisations prosper spite of the cyber threats ranged against them.