So, You Think You're
Cyber Resilient?
Most boards have accepted a breach is coming. Far fewer can answer what comes next. An evening panel across security, resilience and the law on the questions leaders are actually left holding.
Ends with a live breach, demonstrated in minutes. Then drinks on the 8th floor.
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Everyone plans for if.
Almost nobody plans for after.
A breach is no longer a question of if, but when. Most organisations have accepted that. Far fewer can name the three services the business genuinely cannot operate without, or how long they could survive without each. That gap is where a bad day becomes a bad year.
The obligation has moved
From protecting data to proving you can keep delivering critical services through disruption. Someone in your organisation is now personally accountable for that.
Recovery is the underestimated half
Getting the attacker out is one thing. Getting the business running again is another entirely, and most plans fail their first real test.
The Panel
London · 15 October 2026, 17:00 BST
An evening at the Squire Patton Boggs London office, built for the C-suite. Three specialists across security, resilience and the law. A moderated panel, your questions, and a live breach to finish. Canapés, drinks and networking on the 8th floor.
In short
So, You Think You're Cyber Resilient? is a free live panel on cyber readiness, response and recovery, held on Wednesday 15 October 2026 from 17:00 to 19:30 BST at the Squire Patton Boggs London office, 60 London Wall, EC2M 5TQ. It is hosted by Precursor Security with Axiologik and Squire Patton Boggs, and is aimed at CEO, CIO and CTO level leaders, with CISOs welcome. The evening covers what the law now expects of leadership, who is personally accountable for resilience, how decisions get made during an incident, and why recovery is the part most organisations underestimate. It ends with a live breach demonstration, followed by canapés, drinks and networking on the 8th floor. Places are limited and registration is required.
- Date
- Wed 15 October 2026
- Time
- 17:00 to 19:30 BST
- Venue
- 60 London Wall, London EC2M 5TQ
- Cost
- Free, registration required
Two and a half hours.
The answers you actually own.
Not a technical deep dive. This is pitched squarely at the decisions leaders sign off on: what you must keep running, what the law now expects, how the call at 2am actually gets made, and what recovery really takes.
First alert fires
Nobody is sure it's real yet
Domain admin taken
Attacker now moves at will
Backups encrypted
Recovery plan quietly fails
Ops grind to a halt
Critical service is down
Who decides?
The room looks at the CEO
The real question
Could your business answer every line above tonight?
Three acts and a close.
One evening.
Deliberately not a panel that fizzles out. It ends with a live breach, so the room stays to the last minute and walks into networking with the stakes fresh.
The threat landscape
Terry Hancock · Axiologik
Terry frames the threat every organisation now faces, then reframes the conversation around the harder question: whether you are genuinely ready to respond and recover.
The panel, with your questions
Moderated · Terry, Jordan & David
Forty minutes turning that framing into the questions leaders actually own. Accountability, the law, the reality of recovery, and how decisions get made under pressure. Then the floor is yours.
The breach, live
Jordan Carter · Precursor Security
A live, scenario-driven demonstration of just how easily an organisation gets breached, exploiting the everyday gaps across people, process and technology that most boards assume are covered.
What good looks like
Terry & David
The threads drawn together into what good actually looks like, and a practical way to baseline your own readiness and recovery before you need it. Then drinks on the 8th floor.
A red teamer, a resilience lead
and a lawyer.
Three perspectives that rarely sit in the same room, answering to each other in front of you.
Moderator
Host & cyber advocate
To be announced
Chairing the discussion and your Q&A
Our moderator keeps the evening on the questions the room owns, runs the panel through the resilience arc, and opens the floor for your own questions in the final ten minutes.
Terry Hancock
Resilience specialist
Axiologik
Readiness, recovery and what good looks like
Terry opens the evening by framing the threat landscape and the question that matters more than whether you will be breached. He closes it with what good actually looks like, and where resilience investment genuinely moves the needle rather than just looking like it does.
Jordan Carter
CTO
Precursor Security
How attackers get in, and how incidents unfold
Jordan runs the offensive side of Precursor Security's CREST-accredited red team. He closes the evening with a live, scenario-driven breach: the everyday gaps across people, process and technology that most organisations assume are covered.
David Naylor
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs
Legal and regulatory accountability
David covers what the law now expects of leadership: obligations shifting from protecting data to proving you can keep delivering critical services through disruption, who is personally accountable, and what demonstrable resilience means to a regulator.
The questions we're asking.
Five rounds following a resilience arc: what you must keep running, what the law expects, withstanding the hit, recovering for real, and proving it before you need to. Every one framed around a decision your board owns.
Round 1Do you know what you'd need to keep running?
Name the three services your business genuinely cannot operate without, and how long you could survive without each. Could you?
How well do organisations really understand their own dependencies, the suppliers and single points of failure they are quietly relying on?
When we get in, how often is it through a supplier the board had no idea was a risk?
Round 2What resilience the law now expects of you
Obligations are shifting from protecting data to proving you can keep delivering critical services. What does that change for this room?
Who is personally accountable for resilience now, and what does demonstrable resilience actually mean to a regulator?
With the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and the NCSC CAF, what should leaders be doing now rather than scrambling later?
Round 3Withstanding the hit
When the breach lands, what separates the organisations that keep critical services running from the ones that grind to a halt?
The call comes at 2am on a Friday. Who is actually making the decisions, and how much of that is judgement versus a plan you can follow?
The ransom demand lands. How does that decision get made, and who should be in the room?
Round 4Recovery, the half everyone underestimates
Getting the attacker out is one thing. Getting the business running again is another. Why do recovery plans fail at the worst possible moment?
What separates the organisations that recover in days from the ones that take months?
What can you only fix before an incident, never during one?
Round 5What good looks like, and how you'd know
Strip it right back: where does resilience investment actually need to go? What is theatre and what genuinely moves the needle?
Most organisations have never tested themselves against a severe but plausible scenario. What is the one thing to check, or commission, on Monday morning?
The final ten minutes belong to the room. Bring the question you have never had a straight answer to, and put it to all three of them at once.
The Evening
Doors at five. Panel by half past. Live breach before drinks. Done by half seven.
Arrival & canapés
Check in, canapés and a drink, meet your peers before we start.
Introduction
The threat landscape, and why readiness and recovery is the real question. Terry Hancock, Axiologik.
Panel & audience Q&A
Moderated discussion across Terry, Jordan and David, then the floor opens to the room.
The breach, live
Jordan Carter shows, in minutes, just how easily an organisation gets breached.
The close
What good looks like, and your next move. Terry Hancock and David Naylor.
Drinks & networking
Up to the 8th floor. Drinks, views and conversation until 19:30.
The City of London,
and the 8th floor.
Hosted by Squire Patton Boggs in the City. The panel runs downstairs; drinks and networking move up to the 8th floor afterwards, with the City skyline for company.
Squire Patton Boggs
60 London Wall, London EC2M 5TQ
Transport
Two minutes from Moorgate (Elizabeth line, Northern, Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City). Five from Liverpool Street and Bank.
On arrival
Check in at reception from 17:00. We'll email full joining details the week before.
Networking
Drinks on the 8th floor, 18:50 – 19:30
One evening. The answers you own.
Bring the question your board has never had a straight answer to, and put it to a red teamer, a resilience lead and a lawyer at the same time. 15 October, in the City of London.
Common Questions
Everything you need to know before you arrive.