You are invited to join members of The Executive Connection for their next speaker session, led by Tony Barnes on “To Pay or not to Pay?”
To Pay or Not to Pay? The Ransomware Question
An interactive cyber ransomware exercise where participants form a crisis management team and are required to navigate the real dilemmas involved in a cyber extortion and ransomware incident.
What you will learn
Experience a real-world cybercrime ransomware incident by becoming part of an executive and Board-level crisis management team navigating multiple dilemmas and decisions during a cyber ransomware and extortion event.
What you will take away
Gain a detailed understanding of the multiple dilemmas faced by a company as it goes through a serious cyber incident crisis.
Understand how to plan for a cyber event.
Understand how to build a crisis management plan and cyber breach event management council.
Understand the dilemmas involved with negotiating with cyber criminals.
About Tony
Tony Barnes is a Partner at McGrathNicol, an internationally experienced technology executive, cybersecurity professional and non-executive director of critical infrastructure companies. Over a 30-year career he has led start-ups and publicly-listed businesses alike.
He advises organisations on large-scale cyber security transformation, incident response and building digital trust, as well as managing technology risk and improving cyber maturity, often in complex, regulated business environments.
Tony is also experienced in providing cyber and technology due diligence advisory services to organisations involved in all aspects of M&A activity.
Pivoting into cyber specialism after a successful career as CEO of fast growth public and private technology companies and previous journalism and broadcasting career, Tony is a Deloitte UK Fast50 winning CEO and EMEA Fast500 winner with a broad senior executive background in media, technology, SaaS platform development, HR tech and services, electricity utilities, smart metering and IoT, fiberoptic telecommunications, Big4 consulting, large NFPs, start-ups and cyber security platforms/managed services.
20+ years in CEO/COO/MD positions in Australia, UK and New Zealand.
12+ years delivering cyber security projects and advisory services.
Non-Executive Director of Critical Industry Businesses and large-scale NFPs.
Masters Degrees in Business (MBA), Law (MBLaw) and Cybersecurity (M.InfoSystemsSecurity).
Holder of the 'gold standard' CISSP cybersecurity professional certification.
Executive education in cyber, AI, big data, analytics, digital privacy, and leadership
Author of two Sunday Times and Amazon best-selling non-fiction books with 200,000+ sales.
TEC members are high-integrity business leaders from a diverse range of industries who meet monthly to support each other and address the challenges of leading in these increasingly uncertain times.
The speaker session is the first part of a monthly all-day meeting and is attended by between 14 and 16 people. During the afternoon, the TEC members continue with their Executive Session. Our speakers are subject experts focused on stimulating active discussion with the group.
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