Beyond Compliance: What Does Good Threat-Led Testing Look Like in Financial Services?

Building confidence in cyber resilience through intelligence-led testing, realistic simulation and executive ownership

As cyber threats evolve and financial services organisations become increasingly dependent on complex technology ecosystems, cloud providers and third parties, the question is no longer simply whether organisations should test their cyber defences, but whether that testing provides meaningful evidence of resilience.

Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT) can move beyond a regulatory or technical exercise to provide meaningful assurance over an organisation’s ability to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from sophisticated cyber-attacks. Achieving that requires credible intelligence, realistic but controlled simulation and clear executive ownership of the risks and outcomes.

Lessons from CBEST and other TLPT programmes can help leaders test important business services and third-party dependencies, while translating technical findings into sustainable improvements in cyber and operational resilience. The changing threat landscape, including AI-enabled threats, also raises new questions what Boards and senior executives should expect from testing as part of their wider resilience and assurance strategy.

Join your peers at the House of Lords for a candid executive discussion what good threat-led testing looks like in practice. perspectives on meaningful assurance, realistic testing and executive accountability with senior leaders facing similar challenges. Places are very limited, so apply now.

The topics we will explore

During the meeting, we will focus on questions such as:

What should meaningful evidence of cyber resilience look like beyond regulatory compliance or confirmation that a test has taken place?

What lessons from CBEST and other TLPT programmes can help organisations design more valuable and credible testing?

How can threat intelligence be translated into realistic but controlled scenarios that reflect important business services and sophisticated adversaries?

How should organisations test resilience across complex technology ecosystems, cloud providers and other critical third-party dependencies?

How can testing findings be converted into sustainable improvements in prevention, detection, response and recovery?

What should Boards and senior executives expect from TLPT as AI-enabled threats evolve and resilience becomes a wider strategic priority?

This dinner discussion is designed for CISOs, CIOs, Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Cyber Security, Directors of Security Operations, operational resilience leaders and other senior financial services and insurance executives accountable for cyber risk, important business services and organisational assurance. It is relevant to leaders overseeing TLPT, resilience strategy, third-party risk and the translation of testing outcomes into sustained improvement.

Join a select group of senior professionals attending this dinner at the House of Lords in London. For any enquiries, please Mergim Begolli on 0208349 645 or email [email protected] .

This dinner is brought to you by LRQA and is only for senior executives, as mentioned above. Registrations of consultants, solution providers or other sellers to this market won’t be accepted.

This event is free of charge to attend.