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Most tabletop exercises for cybersecurity focus on the known issues and challenges in a particular organization: the architecture, the known vulnerabilities, the dynamics of incident response among different departments, and the current processes. When you're designing something bigger, for a multinational corporation, or for a competition that involves students in law, policy, international relations, and cybersecurity, the stakes get a lot bigger (and more fun to plan out). In this session, we'll talk about what we can learn from building a "bad day in cyber" exercise that involves geopolitical intrigue as well as an array of threat actors.
Wendy Nather Senior Research Initiatives Director, 1Password
Wendy Nather is the Senior Research Initiatives Director at 1Password. She was previously Director of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security, and Research Director at the Retail ISAC, where she was responsible for advancing the state of resources and knowledge to help organizations defend their infrastructure from attackers. Wendy was also Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research, covering the security industry in areas such as application security, threat intelligence, security services, and other emerging technologies. Wendy has served as a CISO in both the private and public sectors. She led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), as well as for the Texas Education Agency. Wendy is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, as well as Splunk’s Bluenomicon. She was listed as one of SC Magazine’s Women in IT Security “Power Players” in 2014, and an “Influencer” in the Reboot Leadership Awards in 2018; she was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2021. She serves on the board of directors for Sightline Security, an organization that helps provide free security assessment services to nonprofit groups. Wendy is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and a steering committee member for the IST Ransomware Task Force. She is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.