About this event
Cybersecurity is no longer solely a technical or operational concern. As geopolitical instability, state-sponsored attacks, AI-enabled threats and growing dependence on interconnected digital infrastructure reshape the global operating environment, cyber resilience has become a critical board-level responsibility.
Boards must be prepared to oversee increasingly complex cyber risks while ensuring that their organisations can withstand disruption, maintain critical operations and recover effectively when incidents occur.
This webinar will examine the board’s role in strengthening cyber resilience, preparing for crisis and safeguarding organisational continuity. It will explore the governance implications of digital sovereignty, cross-border data, critical-infrastructure protection and the increasing convergence of cybersecurity and national security.
The discussion will also consider how regional conflict, sanctions, supply-chain vulnerabilities, hybrid threats and fragmentation within the global digital ecosystem are changing the risks faced by organisations operating across sectors and borders.
From cybersecurity to organisational resilience
Cyber resilience extends beyond preventing an attack. It encompasses an organisation’s ability to anticipate, withstand, respond to and recover from cyber incidents while continuing to deliver its most important services.
For boards, this requires cyber risk to be integrated into governance, enterprise risk management, crisis preparedness and business-continuity planning. It also requires directors to understand the organisation’s dependence on external technology providers, digital infrastructure and interconnected supply chains.
Digital sovereignty introduces a further set of governance questions. Organisations must consider where their data is stored, who controls the infrastructure on which they depend, which legal jurisdictions apply and how geopolitical tensions could affect access to essential systems and services.
Join us to explore
- The board’s role in overseeing cyber risk and organisational resilience.
- How geopolitical conflict and hybrid threats are changing the cybersecurity landscape.
- Preparing for AI-enabled and state-sponsored cyber threats.
- Crisis preparedness, operational resilience and business continuity.
- Digital sovereignty and the governance of cross-border data.
- Supply-chain and third-party technology vulnerabilities.
- Governance safeguards for critical infrastructure.
- Cybersecurity risks affecting energy, finance, logistics, aviation and government.
- The growing relationship between corporate cyber resilience and national security.
- The implications of sanctions, geopolitical instability and global digital fragmentation.
Key questions
- How should boards prepare for cyber incidents connected to geopolitical conflict?
- Is the global digital ecosystem fragmenting into competing blocs?
- What governance safeguards are required for critical infrastructure?
- How should boards oversee digital sovereignty and cross-border data?
- How can organisations strengthen resilience across interconnected supply chains and third-party systems?
- What happens when international institutions cannot contain geopolitical escalation?
- At what point does cyber resilience become a matter of national security?
Join The Conversation
Join the Good Governance Academy and GCC BDI for a timely discussion on the governance responsibilities arising from an increasingly complex and fragmented digital world.
EVENT TIMES
DATE:
22 October 2026
03:00 Los Angeles
06:00 New York
07:00 Rio de Janeiro
11:00 London
12:00 Cape Town
13:00 Riyadh
15:30 New Delhi
18:00 Beijing
19:00 Tokyo
21:00 Melbourne
23:00 Auckland
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