Friday 13 May 2022, 11am-12noon (BST)

The geo-political threat has increased significantly in recent months, and the cyber landscape became more precarious overnight. Suddenly, the use of cyber warfare and the threat of Nation State attacks leaking into industrial sectors became almost a certainty. It was imperative that companies ensured their readiness to protect and respond to attacks was as good as possible.

In this session, we hear from Inchcape’s CISO, Tammy Archer, on how she convinced the Global Executive Committee to set cybersecurity as the business’ number one priority (including implementing an IT change freeze and dedicating all IT staff globally to cyber remediation for three whole days), and got them to accept the inevitable business disruption.

In order to meet the impending threats, Tammy assessed Inchcape’s defences at the time, and was not comfortable the organisation had done enough. She managed the whole improvement agenda as a major incident and was able to influence all leaders globally to improve their cyber maturity.

Hear how Tammy managed to secure her organisation in uncertain times, the steps she took, and the outcomes that led to the board allowing her to run Operation Stronghold every 6 months going forward.

Chaired by

Martin Smith MBE (info), Chairman & Founder, The SASIG

Presented by

Tammy Archer (info), Chief Information Security Officer, Inchcape