CM-Alliance’s IR Services feature on Zscaler Annual Planner for CISOs

Cloud security division Zscaler has released its annual planner for CISOs, 2023. Zscaler CXO Revolutionaries 2023 Calendar Offers CISOs a monthly challenge to improve their organization’s ability to survive and thrive in today’s complex threat landscape.

With monthly challenges on the calendar, April focuses on building cyber resilience. It spotlights the Cyber ​​Management Alliance’s expertise in cyber incident response, golden hour, IR books and cyber desktop exercises.

CXO Revolutionaries is a Zscaler-sponsored resource center that provides hands-on, practical, and real-world examples of digital transformation initiatives for technical C-suite executives.

For the month of April, the calendar focuses on building resilience against cyber attacks and features the Cyber ​​Management Alliance’s expertise in enabling organizations to build incident response capabilities.

About the vision behind releasing this planner, Christopher Jablonski, Director, CXO Revolutionaries & Community said, “CISOs have one of the most challenging roles and can use all the help they can get. Our mission at CXO REvolutionaries is to help these leaders and other CTOs accelerate secure digital transformation. While we publish a variety of thought leadership in pursuit of that goal, We also get creative and release very crowd-focused resources like this unique annual planner.”

The annual planner recommends that all CISOs focus attention on their incident response processes and procedures by April, 2023. This also includes updating incident response cyberbooks and ensuring they are relevant, up-to-date and fit for purpose.

“Pay close attention to what you specify in the “golden hour”, which the Cyber ​​Management Alliance explains as the period of an incident that makes it known who you are going to call, who can approve critical actions, who handles the press, a third party who will handle forensics, members of the crisis management team and so on . You also need a similar playbook after the incident.”

This is the critical advice for CISOs from the calendar, based on the exhaustive work and resources continuously created by the Cyber ​​Management Alliance.

Cyber ​​​​Management Alliance is also a leader in conducting cyber crisis tabletop exercises that help organizations assess whether or not their IR plans will actually work in a real crisis. These exercises also reveal the extent to which each Critical Response stakeholder understands their roles and responsibilities during a cyber security incident.

The Zscaler planner confirms the importance of conducting these desktop cyber attack exercises that are important not only from a regulatory perspective, but more so from a business continuity perspective.

This is how we discuss these table exercises in the planner:

“Tabletop exercises (TTX) are a great way to evaluate your plan and can reveal whether your organization can handle a certain type of attack. Practicing critical decisions within the C-suite provides vital information needed to optimize responses to potential incidents. It’s best to debate response efforts when not in the middle of an attack.”

For its appearance in the annual planner for CISOs, Amar Singh, CEO of Cyber ​​Alliance Management said, “The role of the CISO becomes more difficult every year given the rise and complexity of cyber attacks. It can often be challenging to prioritize what to do and when. An annual planner like this is a great way to help CISOs and their teams focus attention where it matters and keep the Eye on the ball.”

“We at the Cyber ​​Management Alliance firmly believe that cyber attacks are inevitable and building incident response capabilities and overall cyber resilience is the only real defense we have against them. We are so pleased that Zscaler has featured us and our work in their calendar. We We are truly passionate about building cyber resilience capabilities for organizations around the world. And we hope this board brings our message about the importance of IR capabilities, playbooks, tabletop exercises and more to an even wider audience.”

Cyber ​​​​Management Alliance Ltd, founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, UK, is a global leader in cyber security consulting and training.

We’ve enabled more than 750 enterprise customers in 38 countries across industries to strengthen their cyber defenses. Cyber ​​​​Management Alliance is also internationally known as the creator of the UK NCSC-Certified training courses in planning and responding to cyber incidents and building and optimizing incident playbooks.

Cyber ​​​​Management Alliance is also one of the world leaders in conducting cyber crisis tabletop exercises for technical, operational and executive audiences. We also conduct special Ransomware Tabletop exercises, apart from holding sessions specially designed for the C suite called Executive Briefing and Awareness Sessions.