ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–Gene Fredriksen, CISO with PSCU, has been selected to help represent the nation¹s credit unions in the Global Forum to Advance Cyber Resilience. The Forum is the first of its kind dedicated to operationalizing cyber resilience.
The Global Forum to Advance Cyber Resilience establishes a public/private collaborative partnership bringing together industry, business, government and critical infrastructure leaders to operationalize cyber resilience. Cyber resilience and security are no longer afterthoughts in the process of developing and implementing services. Boardrooms are now proactively integrating resilience and security tools throughout the organization to deliver services to clients, both internally and externally.
"The holistic concept of resilience encompasses more than traditional security measures. It speaks to the optimization of people, processes and technology to yield systems that are not only secure but will also inherently survive and recover from a wide array of threats and caustic environments,” said Fredriksen. “The Global Forum to Advance Cyber Resilience is the first of its kind targeting operationalizing standards and practices focused on the critical issue of cyber resilience."
The Forum leverages standards such as the NIST and FFIEC frameworks for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity and the Department of Defense enterprise service management framework, along with best practices and lessons learned to operationalize cyber resilience and deliver a cyber resilience service management action plan. PSCU, through Fredriksen¹s participation in the Forum, will offer credit unions representation in this critical area and ultimately benefit the credit union industry by bringing back tools and techniques to more effectively fight cybercrime.
The first Forum meeting was held in February 2016, bringing together public- and private-sector representatives.