Beyond reactive: building a resilient cyber risk program - nov 20 - GDS Group

Beyond reactive: building a resilient cyber risk program

IT - ROUNDTABLE
20 November 2025 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EST
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Managing cyber risk is hard, but it doesn’t have to be miserable. Monte Carlo, anyone?

Most organizations still manage cyber risk through outdated workflows, manual analysis, and abstract scoring models that leave security leaders struggling to explain what matters and why.

The process is slow, manual, and buried in spreadsheets. It shouldn’t be this painful.

And it’s why leading CISOs are shifting to a more resilient model: one that makes risk measurable, defensible, and aligned to business priorities. Modern organizations are quantifying risk in financial terms that executives understand, ranking priorities by financial impact, and getting actionable answers in hours rather than months.

The question is, where do you get started on that journey? And how could it help transform your business?

Join this executive roundtable, hosted by Meet the Boss in partnership with Safe Security, to explore how security leaders are turning cyber risk into a resilience driver, and using quantification to have clearer conversations, guide decisions, and prove business value.

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Event host

Nick Sanna

President
Nick Sanna, President, SAFE Security, Nicola (Nick) Sanna is the Founder of the FAIR Institute, a 16,000 find out more

SAFE

SAFE is the leader in AI-powered, continuous cyber risk management. SAFE empowers risk and security professionals to become indispensable partners to the business, by enabling real-time quantification, prioritization, and mitigation of cyber risks, to support digital growth initiatives and ensure organizational resilience in the face of evolving threats.

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Discussion topics

How do you quantify cyber risk in financial terms the business understands?

How can you automate workflows to get from risk discovery to action, faster, and scale with adding headcount?

What does it take to move from static snapshots to always-on risk intelligence?

Why Attend

Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

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Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.

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Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed.

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Alex Boehme, CTO, H&M Group
"Since the session I did have several of the attendees reach out to me. We were able to grow our networks, connect together, share experiences, and I look forward to continuing those dialogs into the future"
Jeffrey Johnson, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Officer, Siemens Health Affairs for North America
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Mike Welna, Senior Information Security Director, Boys Town
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Margaret Bond, Director of Cyber Security, Numotion
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Marty Sprinzen, Founder & CEO, Vantiq

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Collaborate and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed

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In-depth face time with the world’s leading tech companies pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges

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