Global Resilience Federation

Disconnect / Reconnect
A virtual tabletop exercise
Tuesday, November 17 at 1:00 PM ET

Learn more about this complimentary event here: grfbrc.org/ttxdisconnect

Using live, anonymous polling, attendees will work through a decision-driven scenario focused on third-party service disruption, testing how organizations detect, restrict, disconnect from, operate without, and safely reconnect to a critical third-party platform during uncertainty.

Participants will examine the decision-making behind actions: what factors need to be weighed, how can they be monitored or validated, what thresholds should organizations have in place ahead of time, and who holds the authority to act on them?

A panel of seasoned security and resilience practitioners will discuss responses and review poll results in real time. All participants will receive an After-Action Report with key findings and recommended actions.

Thank you to all who joined us last week for the 9th Annual Summit on Security & Third-Party Risk. Attendees were treated to some wonderful presentations, and we were thrilled with the many side discussions on how to enhance our mutual resilience!

LS-ISAO members, your event starts at 1:30 today in St. Croix 1.

All other attendees of the Summit on Security & Third-Party Risk, we'll see you tonight at 7pm for the Welcome Reception at Bar 17 Bistro on the roof of the adjoining Aventura Hotel!

See the full attendee handbook here: grf.org/summit2026.

It includes an agenda, session descriptions, speaker bios and more.

When the Storm Hits Everyone at Once: Geopolitics, Shared Dependencies, and Collective Digital Resilience - Wednesday, October 28 at 2pm ET

Please join the GRF Business Resilience Council for a panel discussion featuring Next Peak's Greg Rattray and other authors of the new book "Understanding Digital Resilience: Foresight and Navigation through Cyber Heavy Weather" as they discuss the journey towards digital resilience in a geopolitically charged environment.

Register here for the complimentary webinar: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The most critical digital disruptions of the past year weren’t attacks on one company. They were attacks on shared dependencies that rippled across sectors and borders. In 2025, a single cyber-attack shut down a car maker’s plants in five countries, cost the UK economy an estimated £1.9 billion, and pulled the British government into an unprecedented loan guarantee to protect suppliers and customers. A cyber incident caused a similar impact in the aviation industry: check-in, bag drop, and gate assignments across Europe were consolidated onto shared MUSE software, creating heavy concentration risk, and when software was targeted by ransomware, the disruption contributed to at least 217 flight cancelations. Both examples illustrate the dangers that exist when layered threats are brought to bear by geopolitically motivated threat actors.

Thank you to our Gold Sponsors of the 9th Annual Summit on Security & Third-Party Risk! We're grateful for their support of this year's summit.

If you’re not already registered, join us at the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando, October 21-23, 2026! Learn more and register here grf.org/summit2026