Emerging Trends Talk #2: Cyber Kill Chain and Security Capabilities

Despite heightened attention and unprecedented levels of security investment, the number of cyber incidents and their associated costs continues to rise. The concern typically revolves around the growing sophistication of malicious hackers and other adversaries, and whether being secure is even possible in today’s rapidly evolving landscape of cyber attacks. Cybersecurity is a broad and ever evolving discipline – as organisations seek to protect their organisations, it is important to understand how attackers typically achieve their objectives, and the cybersecurity capabilities that any organisation should consider building in order to respond to these threats. In this session, we will discuss the following:

• Anatomy of a cyber attack – introducing the cyber kill chain, and the steps attackers take to achieve their objectives
• Responding to cyber attacks - layered defense and cyber security capabilities, and shift from prevention to detection
• Cybersecurity capabilities – introducing cybersecurity capabilities at a high level, which include cybersecurity management, extended enterprise, application security, infrastructure security, identity and access management, data security and data leakage prevention, threat intelligence, security operations, vulnerability management, incident response and business resilience

The Emerging Trends Talk Series consists of 3, one-hour talks which will be held throughout 2022 covering focus areas crucial in cultivating a forward-looking mindset and the right organisational culture to turn risks into growth opportunities for long-term sustainability.

Learning Outcome

• Review the anatomy of a cyberattack – introducing the cyber kill chain, and the steps attackers take to achieve their objectives
• Respond to cyberattacks – layered defense and cyber security capabilities, and shift from prevention to detection
• Identify core cybersecurity capabilities

Target Audience

The programme is targeted but not limited to

• Existing Board Directors
• All business decision makers
• Aspiring Board Directors
• Senior management of organisations
• Chief Data Privacy Officers