Consultative Committee webinar – "Automated cyber risk management to achieve digital age resilience” (27.02.2024)

On 27 February, the UPU Consultative Committee held its first webinar of 2024, on the theme "Automated cyber risk management to achieve digital age resilience”.

(left to right): Terry Roberts, Massimiliano Aschi, Steve Remy, and Rasha Al Abdali.

 

On 27 February, the UPU Consultative Committee held its first webinar of 2024, on the theme "Automated cyber risk management to achieve digital age resilience”. Steve Remy, CEO of 8 Degrees East (co‑rapporteur of the “freight and transport” thematic chapter), organized a solution-based discussion on cybersecurity with top experts on the matter:

• Terry Roberts, global cyber intelligence, risk and national security executive, as well as Founder, President and CEO of WhiteHawk Inc., and Expert Adviser for 8 Degrees East. Terry is also the former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Office of the US Chief of Naval Operations, and was Executive Director at Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
• Massimiliano Aschi, UPU .POST Group Chair
• Rasha Al Abdali, Assistant Director General of Policies and Governance, MTCIT, Oman

The conversation tackled how postal operators – and the wider postal sector in general – could build resilience while facing cyber threats in an environment where AI is on the rise and technological tools are becoming increasingly complex.
The webinar is available on the CC webpage here.