Hybrid Warfare and Business Resilience — Are We Ready?

Name: Hybrid Warfare and Business Resilience — Are We Ready?
Start: 2025-09-24T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-24T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Restaurant ET

Hybrid Warfare and Business Resilience — Are We Ready?

Date: September 24th, 2025Time: 12:00 - 15:00Venue: Restaurant ETLocation: Mindegade 8, 8000 Aarhus Centrum, Denmark

FEATURED SPEAKER

Thomas Janke

Senior Security Architect at BESTSELLER

AGENDA OF THE EVENT

Hybrid warfare is no longer a distant, theoretically, it’s a growing reality that CISOs must actively prepare for. Unlike traditional cyber threats, hybrid warfare involves indirect attacks that target national infrastructure, creating widespread disruption without ever directly hitting a specific business. These events—such as power grid failures, communication blackouts, or transport system collapses—can paralyze entire economies and test the resilience of even the most mature organizations.

In today’s volatile geopolitical climate, CISOs are expected not only to safeguard data and systems but to help lead their companies through complex, ambiguous crises that extend beyond the digital realm. Hybrid attacks blur the line between military conflict, cyber disruption, and societal instability, demanding new crisis models that factor in everything from basic human needs to the psychological strain on employees and families.
This roundtable will explore how CISOs can develop robust, people-first strategies that prepare their organizations for the unpredictable, long-duration crises characteristic of hybrid warfare. It’s a conversation about leadership uncertainty and the critical role of preparedness in safeguarding not just infrastructure, but people.

12.00 - 12.40

Welcome and lunch

12.40 - 12:45

Iouri Engberg

Community Director at twoHundred

Welcome by twoHundred

12.45 - 13.45

Thomas Janke

Senior Security Architect at BESTSELLER

Drawing on a year of focused scenario planning and resilience work, Thomas will share practical insights from his experience preparing a global organization for the realities of hybrid warfare. His talk will center on the question: Are we truly ready for a crisis that doesn’t start with us—but still impacts us completely?

In an essence he will share insights, learnings, dilemmas, and suggestions across:
•The psychological and logistical impact of hybrid warfare on employees – and why family, not work, becomes the priority.
•Strategies for establishing physical meeting points and ensuring access to essential resources like water, heat, and power.
•The importance of alternative communication tools like satellite phones when networks are down.
•Why CISOs must be prepared to take on responsibilities far outside their formal role in a national-level crisis.
•The need to move beyond tabletop exercises and practice in conditions that reflect real-world constraints.

13.50 - 14.50

Group discussion hosted by Veeam

14.50 - 15:00

Iouri Engberg

Community Director at twoHundred

Summary and thanks for today!

12.00 - 12.40

Welcome and lunch

12.40 - 12:45

Iouri Engberg

Community Director at twoHundred

Welcome by twoHundred

12.45 - 13.45

Thomas Janke

Senior Security Architect at BESTSELLER

Drawing on a year of focused scenario planning and resilience work, Thomas will share practical insights from his experience preparing a global organization for the realities of hybrid warfare. His talk will center on the question: Are we truly ready for a crisis that doesn’t start with us—but still impacts us completely?

In an essence he will share insights, learnings, dilemmas, and suggestions across:
•The psychological and logistical impact of hybrid warfare on employees – and why family, not work, becomes the priority.
•Strategies for establishing physical meeting points and ensuring access to essential resources like water, heat, and power.
•The importance of alternative communication tools like satellite phones when networks are down.
•Why CISOs must be prepared to take on responsibilities far outside their formal role in a national-level crisis.
•The need to move beyond tabletop exercises and practice in conditions that reflect real-world constraints.