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ARTICLE · 09 JANUARY 2026

Cybersecurity: Hardening Your Business Against Cyberattacks

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Cyberattacks are, unfortunately, a persistent risk to organizations and their operations. While many see cybersecurity as primarily a technology issue, the core of cyber resilience lies in ensuring your teams are prepared...

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Jasmine de Guise
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Cyberattacks are, unfortunately, a persistent risk to organizations and their operations. While many see cybersecurity as primarily a technology issue, the core of cyber resilience lies in ensuring your teams are prepared, coordinated, and able to take swift action in the event of a breach.

At the Strategies for the Future Conference in October, Miller Thomson lawyers Jasmine de Guise and David Krebs, along with Debora Monteiro, Director, Cyber Defense & Resilience at Deloitte, presented a clear action plan on how to prepare for, respond to, and successfully recover from cyberattacks.

What is cyber resilience?

Firewalls alone are no longer enough. Cyber resilience calls for an integrated legal, technical, communications and leadership response ecosystem.

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