Session Details
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 / 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM at Juniper 4, West Convention Center, Level 3
Resilience by design: Ensuring operational continuity in the cloud era

Senior executives know that downtime can be devastating. A Cockroach Labs 2025 survey found that 93% of tech leaders worry about the impact of outages. Building resilience is a strategic imperative to protect the bottom line and maintain customer trust. This panel explores strategies for building resilience into modern infrastructure so that critical services stay up even during attacks or failures. Expert leaders discuss designing cloud and network systems that anticipate disruptions (like DDoS attacks, outages, or third-party failures) and recover automatically, minimizing downtime. Topics include the distributed architectures, automated failover, and incident preparedness that knit security and IT teams together. 

Key Takeaways

  • Learn why resilience is no longer a byproduct of good design; it’s a core objective and it requires proactive architectural decisions.
  • Explore why resilience requires coordinated planning across infrastructure, product, legal, and communications teams.
  • Understand how modern resilience strategies protect more than uptime; they safeguard revenue, customer trust, compliance, and brand reputation.
Speakers
Daniele Molteni
Daniele Molteni
Director, Product Management
Cloudflare
Brent Busby
Brent Busby
Director, Global Network Services
PayPal
Aris Petridis
Director of Technology, Engineering
Kaizen Gaming (Betano)
Albert Guinn
Field CTO
Cloudflare
Brandon Smith
VP Mgr - Cyber Security
Moody's Corporation
Tags
Session Track
Application — Connect & Protect
Target Audience
Infrastructure and Operations Leaders, C-Suite, Executive Leadership
Session Knowledge Level
Intermediate | Level 200
Session Topics
Security modernization & zero trust, Threat prevention & response, Performance & resiliency
Type
Panel Discussion
Industry
Financial Services & Insurance, Aviation - Transportation & Logistics, Energy - Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
Product Categories
Application Security
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