Cyber Resilience Beyond Compliance in Financial Services

How leaders can test impact tolerance, address concentration risk and adapt security architecture for AI-driven threats

 

Financial institutions face a new risk cycle shaped by operational fragility, concentration in critical technology providers and the accelerating economics of cyber attack. Impact tolerances are now established in policy; the harder question is how well an institution can remain within them when a real disruption crosses systems, suppliers and business services.

 

Dependence on a small number of cloud, connectivity and technology providers makes that question more pressing. Regulatory oversight of critical third parties may improve visibility across the sector, but each firm must still understand its own dependencies and manage the consequences of an outage. Leaders need current maps of what connects to what, credible response plans and an honest view of where resilience remains untested.

 

At the same time, frontier AI could change the speed and scale of attacks against financial services. Security teams must weigh that emerging threat against legacy architecture, constrained budgets and existing investment priorities. The strategic challenge is to build a risk-aligned security stack that can contain disruption, adapt as threats change and stand up to board and regulatory scrutiny.

 

Join BT and Illumio with fellow financial services leaders for a confidential dinner at the House of Lords. Share candid perspectives on operational resilience, third-party exposure and the decisions that will shape security architecture for the decade ahead. Places are limited, so register your interest now.

 

The questions we will explore

 

During the dinner, we will focus on topics such as:

• How has your approach to impact tolerance changed since the initial regulatory transition, and what have real incidents or exercises revealed?
• Which critical services would be hardest to sustain through a third-party or connectivity outage, and how would you manage the impact?
• How confidently can you map connections among providers, systems and workloads, and keep that picture current as your environment changes?
• What has the prospect of AI-enabled attacks changed in your day-to-day security decisions, investment priorities and response planning?
• If you designed your security architecture afresh within a fixed budget, where would you invest first, and which existing gap could you no longer accept?Looking five to ten years ahead, what architectural principle must hold as AI threats, cloud concentration and regulatory scrutiny intensify?

Who is invited?

 

This dinner is designed for CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Cyber Security, Directors of Operational Resilience and other senior leaders in financial services responsible for cyber risk, technology architecture, third-party dependencies and critical business services. It is especially relevant to those translating impact tolerances into operational decisions and reassessing their security stack for the years ahead.

 

Join a select group of senior financial services professionals at the House of Lords in London. For any enquiries, please contact Mergim Begolli on 0208349 6458 or email m.begolli@business-reporter.com.

 

This sponsored dinner is brought to you by BT and Illumio and is only for senior executives, as described above. Registrations from consultants, solution providers or other sellers to this market will not be accepted.

 

This event is free of charge to attend.

 

When you register, we will ask for your corporate email address, which we will share only with the event sponsors, BT and Illumio. See our privacy policy.