Audit‑Ready vs Battle‑Ready
What the First 60 Minutes of a Cyber Crisis Reveal About Your Business Resilience
Date
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
Time
3:00 PM CET
2:00 PM GMT
9:00 AM ET
Location
Virtual Event
Zoom link provided after registration
We invite you to a 45 minute fireside chat with Carlo Alexander Schreurs, Lars Jacobs, and Justin Black
Guest Speaker: Carlo Schreurs
Global CISO FrieslandCampina

This session focuses on what actually happens in the first hour of a cyber crisis; when systems are down, teams are under pressure, and leaders must give clear answers fast.
What this session is not
- No frameworks.
- No policies.
- No vendor sales pitch.
Just real experiences from leaders who have handled major cyber incidents — and lived with the consequences.
What we will focus on
During the session, we’ll unpack the questions every executive faces when an incident hits:
- What is truly required to keep the business minimally operational?
- How long will recovery realistically take — not aspirationally, but in practice?
- How do you communicate clearly and credibly under intense internal and external pressure?
Why this matters
Led by CYPFER, specialists in recovery‑led incident response, the discussion is grounded entirely in real incident experience.
We consistently see organizations slow down or derail recovery because of:
- Assumptions that were never tested
- Critical dependencies that were undocumented
- Unclear ownership when decisions mattered most
This session is designed to surface those issues before they turn into board‑level problems.
Key themes
Minimum Viable Dependencies (MVDs)
Do you actually know, and have you tested; what the business needs to operate at a minimum during a crisis?
Executive expectation vs operational reality
What leaders expect to recover first versus what proves critical in real incidents.
Communication under pressure
How optimism, ambiguity, or misalignment can increase stress, damage trust, and amplify reputational risk.
Ferrari vs Go‑Kart recovery
Executives often expect a “Ferrari” recovery; full functionality, business as usual.
Reality usually demands a “Go‑Kart” first; limited, manual, but operational.
The problem isn’t choosing one.
The problem is never aligning expectations before a crisis, forcing high‑risk decisions at the worst possible moment.
RSVP Today
This conversation reinforces a simple truth:
Battle‑readiness doesn’t come from theory or compliance.
It comes from having the hard conversations in advance, understanding trade‑offs, and learning from real incidents where time, clarity, and ownership mattered.