When:    June 18th | 2025      Attend

Cybersecurity compliance often feels like an expensive obligation, draining time, budgets, and resources - but what if it could be a catalyst for value instead?

On this CPE accredited webinar, our panel of experts will redefine compliance as a strategic asset that bolsters resilience, reputation, and profitability. Tailored for business leaders, IT professionals, and security enthusiasts, this webinar offers practical insights and real-world examples to transform compliance from a burden into a competitive edge, and attendees will learn how to:

• Grasp Compliance Costs: Identify the full range of financial, operational, and resource impacts.
• Reposition Compliance: Turn regulatory demands into a strategic security advantage.
• Measure ROI: Quantify the business value of cybersecurity investments.
• Gain a Competitive Edge: Use compliance to boost trust and reduce risks.

Moderator

Colin Whittaker, PCI Industry Alumni, Founder and Director Informed Risk Decisions Ltd. Colin has been instrumental in driving forward a risk and security strategy for payments over the last 15 years since he retired from the military in 2001, and took up the role of Head of Security at APACS. Whilst there he was one of the first people to be elected to the PCI SSC Board of Advisors where he was always keen to try and promote the differences in threat between Europe and UK, and the US. He was also responsible for coordinating Visa Europe's approach to cardholder data breaches in Europe, and for the changes to the Visa Europe Compliance strategy through the creation of the Technology Innovation Programme which gave the very first PCI DSS compliance relief for EMV chip accepting merchants. In 2015 he went independent and currently provides cyber security risk consultancy services to a wide range of public and private companies. Colin has presented on Information Security at major events around the world, and has published a number of papers on security.

Panel

Paulo Amaral, Senior Director of GRC at Diligent, has a proven record of building and maturing cyber risk and compliance programs. He established Diligent's third-party risk program while aligning cyber risk management with key compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and FedRAMP/NIST 800-53. His experience in meeting diverse external requirements, coupled with his prior work automating compliance for SaaS organizations, offers valuable perspectives on the practicalities and costs associated with security compliance.

Dirk Schrader is a seasoned expert in cyber resilience and information security processes, Dirk is Global VP of Security Research at New Net Technologies, now part of Netwrix, the leading provider of SecureOps™. A 25-year veteran in IT security with certifications as CISSP (ISC²) and CISM (ISACA), he works to advance cyber resilience as a modern approach to tackling cyber threats. Dirk has worked on cybersecurity projects around the globe, starting in technical and support roles at the beginning of his career and then moving into sales, marketing and product management positions at both large multinational corporations and small startups. He has published numerous articles about the need to address change and vulnerability management to achieve cyber resilience.

Josh Bressers is vice president of security at Anchore where he guides security feature development for the company’s commercial and open source solutions. He serves on the Open Source Security Foundation technical advisory council, is a co-lead of the OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere project, and is a co-founder of the Global Security Database project at the Cloud Security Alliance.