Resilience by Design: Beyond the Outage Era

July 2, 2026

ROUND TABLE

Resilience by Design: Beyond the Outage Era

Thursday, July 2 at 3:30pm
CALI Kitchener Road Restaurant & Bar

Building a Future
we can all trust

Average cost of downtime now hovering at $9,000 per minute

In an era where digital business is synonymous with total availability, the traditional "Disaster Recovery" mindset is no longer enough. As we navigate 2026, the industry has reached a tipping point: downtime is no longer just a technical glitch—it is a financial catastrophe, a regulatory violation, and a permanent stain on brand trust.
Key Discussion Pillars:
  • The 4-Step Resilience Roadmap: A strategic framework to Assess, Consolidate, Engage, and Iterate your application posture.
  • Architecting for the "When," Not "If": Why 2026 mandates a shift toward a robust security fabric and multi-cloud redundancy as AI adoption accelerates.
  • Attack-Driven Outages: Combating DDoS, API abuse, and malicious bots through Unified WAAP and virtual patching at the edge.
  • Defining the "Point of No Return": Practical strategies for establishing your Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO) and executing effective tabletop exercises.
With the average cost of downtime now hovering at $9,000 per minute, and frameworks like the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandating that firms prove their ability to withstand disruptions, resilience has shifted from a "nice-to-have" to a core strategic imperative.an era where digital business is synonymous with total availability, the traditional "Disaster Recovery" mindset is no longer enough. As we navigate 2026, the industry has reached a tipping point: downtime is no longer just a technical glitch—it is a financial catastrophe, a regulatory violation, and a permanent stain on brand trust.
This exclusive roundtable gathers senior IT leaders and security architects to move beyond the myth that "adding more servers" prevents outages. We will dive deep into the transition from basic High Availability (HA) to Fault Tolerant (FT) "specialist" architectures—the difference between a quick recovery and never losing service in the first place.
Join us to learn how to bridge the "architectural gap" and ensure your business remains airborne, even when an engine fails. Resilience isn’t accidental—it’s architectural.

Meet the Speaker

Koh Kwang Hwee
Principal Security Consultant
Kwang Hwee is the Principal Security Consultant at Thales, bringing over 20 years of expertise in information technology and cybersecurity. He is a strategic lead in architecting and deploying advanced application and data security solutions, ensuring seamless technical execution and robust protection for global organisations.
Prior to joining Thales, Kwang Hwee led security support and consultancy services at NTT Security, where he served as the Lead Security Consultant for their Global Security Operations Centre (SOC). In this capacity, he managed critical security services for Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Kwang Hwee holds a Bachelor of Computing (Business Systems) from Monash University, where he was inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society. A highly credentialed expert, he maintains an extensive suite of industry certifications, including CISSP, GSEC, GCIH, CCSE, and JNCIS-SEC, reflecting his deep proficiency across multi-vendor security ecosystems.

Schedule

03:30pm: Registrations
04:00pm: Welcome Drinks & Welcome speech by Thales
04:15pm: Resilience By Design : Beyond the Outage Area by Thales
05:00pm: Networking & Dinner
CALI Kitchener Road Restaurant & Bar

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181 Kitchener Road, #02-02, Singapore 208533

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