Hacking Cyber | Securing your Workplace in the Digital Era

A practical discussion reflecting on cybersecurity lessons learned from the past year. We will look at who is driving today’s malicious attacks, and how to analyse how safe your organisation is. Should you be rethinking your cyber resilience strategy? Our expert speakers will share their predictions on what transformations we can expect to come our way in the latter half of 2021, and how effective Japan’s efforts were to keep cyber-attackers out of the Olympic spotlight.

Date: 12th August 2021 | Time: 17:00 - 18:00 JST

It’s not a coincidence that cyberattacks surged during the pandemic.

The health crisis provided the perfect storm, with millions of people shifting to remote working almost overnight, for many of whom this was unknown territory. Governments and organisations became reliant on cloud-based tools, while slow-to-react IT policies and an uptick in employees working from personal devices opened up a Pandora’s box of cybersecurity issues and concerns. This has victimised organisations of all sizes and backgrounds, and the message from 2021 so far has been loud and clear: cybercrime knows no borders; it is a very real issue that we can no longer afford to ignore.

No organisation will be more alert to this than the International Olympic Committee, currently staging the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. While officials have acknowledged that cyberattacks will happen, their focus is largely on responding in a way that keeps damage minimal. Doing so will be seen as a significant victory both for the Games and for Japan. But what will their approach be, and who is it on the other end of these malicious attacks? Join us on August 12, for a practical discussion reflecting on lessons learned from the past year. We will look at who is driving today’s malicious attacks, and how to analyse how safe your organisation is. Should you be rethinking your cyber resilience strategy? Our expert speakers will share their predictions on what transformations we can expect to come our way in the latter half of 2021, and how effective Japan’s efforts were to keep cyber-attackers out of the Olympic spotlight.