Resilient or just compliant? Rethinking cyber governance for 2027

Wednesday, December 2 2026 at 3:00 pm (GMT)

About 45 minutes

About this event

Can you show your board where the business is exposed, which investments matter most and whether resilience is improving? Demonstrating compliance is part of the answer, but it cannot answer those questions alone.

Join experts from NCC Group and guest speaker Blair Crawford from Avertro for a live panel discussion exploring how leaders can move beyond compliance-led reporting towards evidence-based governance that supports business resilience and better decisions.

Drawing on practitioner experience and real-world observations, the panel will explore what good looks like: continuous, integrated governance that brings people, evidence and technology together. The discussion will consider where a managed GRC approach fits in helping organisations turn insight into action, maintain oversight and demonstrate improvement over time.

Join us to explore how to:

Demonstrate resilience, not simply that controls exist
Give boards a clearer understanding of exposure through meaningful business risk insights
Focus investment and remediation on the risks that matter most
Prepare for change across AI adoption, supply chains and regulatory obligations
Show progress over time, rather than rely on point-in-time assessments

Whether you’re a CISO, risk leader, governance professional or technology executive, join us to explore what your organisation needs to do differently for 2027.

Hosted by

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Kat Sommer Director, Government Affairs & Analyst Relations @ NCC Group

Seeking to act as an interpreter between technical, policy and analyst communities, Kat leads NCC Group’s political engagement, government relations and lobbying work, educating policy-makers on cyber security realities and creating conducive operating environments for cyber security professionals.
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Blair Crawford Chief Revenue Officer @ Avertro

Blair Crawford works with security leaders on how they govern, measure and report AI and cyber risk. He has spent more than a decade building and scaling cybersecurity businesses, from biometric authentication to security governance. Across Australia, the UK, Europe and the Middle East, he has led teams partnering with executives in government and critical infrastructure. He is a long-standing advocate for privacy and security as a public good.
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Darren Speirs Executive Principal Security Consultant @ NCC Group

Darren Speirs is an Executive Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group specialising in cyber governance, risk and resilience. He works with organisations across regulated sectors to improve governance maturity, align security investment to business risk and build sustainable compliance and resilience programmes.
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Oliver Howard Lead Proposition Manager @ NCC Group

Olly has 15 years experience in the cyber industry, working in a range of roles across NCC Group from sales, portfolio management and proposition development. His recent work has focused on shaping our offering to the market around Cyber Governance & Assurance, ensuring we bring the best of our capabilities together and present them in a way which supports our clients in navigating the various challenges and opportunities that it represents. Olly will be hosting the 'Resilient or just compliant? Rethinking cyber governance for 2027' webinar to delve into the topics with the panel from NCC Group.