Join Catherine Sherwin for a discussion on why cyber security needs to be led from the top. Business leaders often think that their biggest cybersecurity challenges are technical and leave it to their IT teams to manage, leading to a disjointed bottom-up compliance driven approach that fails to address the real areas of business risk.
By adopting a risk-based approach makes cyber-security accessible to the organisation’s leaders and ensures that the real risks to the organisation are identified and addressed.
The experiences and views of Catherine Sherwin, not only is well-known technology professional but as an inspiring role model, is most appropriate for the anniversary of the death in 1852 of Ada Lovelace, the first programmer.
About the speaker:
Catherine Sherwin, Managing Director, UK Digital Practice Lead is an internationally mobile Digital Managing Director with extensive leadership experience, having spent more than two decades working across all aspects of Technology. She drives complex technology and digital transformation based on her experience in IT leadership roles, IT strategy and governance, large-scale IT outsourcing, cyber security, major cost reduction, Technology carve-outs and contractual management.
Catherine works with clients across numerous sectors with a specialism particularly in working with private-equity clients in the Fintech sector. She has recently completed an interim Group CIO role for a major Payments client. Using her leadership experience, Catherine applies a risk-based approach to cyber security thus capturing the board and exec team’s understanding; avoiding the common perception that cyber security is a technical issue and difficult to understand. Working with enterprises to develop their cyber security function and ensuring they have the capability to investigate information security incidents and breaches.
Catherine’s internal role within AlixPartners includes heading the UK Digital and Technology practice. She has excellent awareness of IT and digital technology related developments and issues across industries, this allows her to collaboratively leverage the insight and experience of her teams. Her responsibilities include IT Turnaround and Transformation, Cyber Security and Advanced Analytics.