Session Title

Beyond Checkboxes: Embedding True Cyber Resilience

Abstract

Many organisations treat cybersecurity as a compliance checkbox, bolted onto technology as an afterthought. This traditional, siloed approach leaves critical gaps attackers exploit.

Based on management legend W. Edwards Deming’s system of profound knowledge, this session presents a blueprint for transforming security into an intrinsic business capability.

Learn how leading organisations are injecting security throughout processes, dismantling barriers between functional silos, and fostering systemic quality to create true cyber resilience.

Key Takeaways:

- Why old command-and-control security models fail in today’s complex threat landscape

- How Deming’s management method applies to modern cyber risk challenges

- Best practices for enabling security mindfulness across entire organisations

- Tactics to break down silos and align business, technology, and security goals

- Steps to ingrain threat awareness, vigilance, and safe behaviour into cultures

Bio

John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.