The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre advises organisations to prepare for the worst – even how they would continue to operate “on pen and paper” if systems were taken offline. That advice has never been more relevant. As threat actors increasingly use AI-driven automation to accelerate reconnaissance and exploitation, the speed and scale of attacks are changing faster than most defences.

In this environment, resilience depends on visibility and control. You can’t defend what you can’t see – and you can’t contain what you can’t isolate. The first step is knowing what assets and connections exist across hybrid environments, how they interact, and where dependencies create weak points. From there, segmentation and microsegmentation allow teams to limit lateral movement, reduce the blast radius of any breach, and maintain continuity – so that “pen and paper” remains a contingency plan, not an operational reality.

Among the discussion topics:

• How can proactive defence drive real resilience?
• What does effective microsegmentation look like in practice?
• How do you make your visibility intrinsically valuable?
• How do you align cyber defence with your risk appetite?