Schedule

Rittenhouse·11:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Friday, December 11, 2026

Tabletop to Turnkey: Incident Response Programs That Survive Contact With Reality

Stephen Dyson & Julian Austin

Incident response & ransomware

About this talk

Most incident response plans are written for the incident someone imagined, not the one the organization actually gets, and most tabletop exercises end up confirming the plan instead of breaking it. This talk covers building IR playbooks and exercises designed to fail productively: stress-testing decision points, communication chains, and legal or regulatory notification triggers before a real incident does it instead. Drawn from both playbook development and live exercise facilitation, it covers what separates a paper plan from an organization that actually recovers, and how current breach no

The speakers

Where it is

Sponsors & Community HubRestrooms⇅ Escalator⇵ ElevatorRittenhouseRittenhouseMain DJ StageSponsorsSponsorsTOOOL Lockpicking VillageCheck-in& InfoChill-outspace
2nd floor. Not to scale.