Event Presentation: "Resilience instead of risk – how companies strengthen their resilience. Cyber ​​Resilience Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Organizations."

11. Dec 2025, 10-10:30 AM (CET) — Online | Registration required

Resilienz statt Risiko – wie Unternehmen ihre Widerstandsfähigkeit stärken. Cyber Resilience Assessment für KRITIS-Organisationen.

Empalis presentation on December 11, 2025, at the WebKo KRITIS of IT Security Online: Why a cyber resilience assessment minimizes risks and thus strengthens corporate resilience and awareness of cyber resilience across all disciplines within the company.

The presentation introduces the topic of KRITIS and cyber resilience, and explains why critical infrastructures are particularly worthy of protection today.

Cyber ​​Resilience as a Team Sport

In the main section, the presenter first addresses standards such as NIST and legal requirements such as DORA and NIS2. IT is understood here as a team sport: Cyber resilience can only be achieved across departments and is therefore not a purely IT project. Only the respective department can assess the actual risk through a business impact analysis, determining which processes and data are most critical in the event of a cyber incident – ​​or other scenarios that threaten data security.

Why a Cyber ​​Resilience Assessment?

The following section presents Empalis's solution for a cyber resilience assessment in a practical way, including (organizational) measures,  risk management, documentation, backup, technological options for strengthening defenses, etc. – in other words, developing an action plan to strengthen resilience and developing the resulting benefits for the customer.

Agenda

  • Classification of Cyber ​​Resilience in the Context of Critical Infrastructure (KRITIS)
  • Why a Cyber ​​Resilience Assessment?
  • Key Components for Implementing Cyber ​​Resilience
  • Presentation of the solution, which shows what a cyber resilience maturity analysis looks like based on a defined assessment
  • Next Steps

Speaker

Michael Melcher is a Senior Consultant in the Data Protection Team at Empalis. He brings over 20 years of experience in backup environments, IT engineering, implementation, architectural design, and project management to his work as a consultant and solution architect.

What is the IT Security Web Conference?

IT-Sicherheit Online has been a long-standing partner of Empalis Consulting in the field of cybersecurity and cyber resilience. We regularly publish technical articles on core topics of interest to IT decision-makers as authors and speakers in the magazines and web conferences of kes and IT-Sicherheit.

At the KRITIS web conference hosted by the two magazines IT-SICHERHEIT and kes, participants will learn about up to seven software solutions/services related to KRITIS in one morning.

The morning will begin with an expert keynote address that will provide a general overview of the topic and offer important guidance for selecting a solution.

Participation is free with registration. The Event will be held in German. 

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We look forward to seeing you at 10:00 a.m.!

Your Empalis Team

Philip Röder, Head of Business Development & Consulting

Are you interested in learning more about cyber resilience in companies, especially critical infrastructure? Feel free to contact us directly.

Philip Röder, Head of Business Development & Consulting
Phone +49 162 4196789