RESILIENCE IN THE MAZE
Business & Cyber Resilience in an Age of Unrelenting Risk
The Crystal Maze Live Experience, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Wednesday 25 March 2026, 4pm-10pm
in partnership with Axonius
OVERVIEW
Join with peers for an unforgettable evening that blends insight, challenge, and connection. CISO Winterfest 2025 combines a high-impact panel discussion with a live and immersive Crystal Maze experience—because resilience isn’t just a strategy, it’s a practice.
PANEL INSIGHTS
We’ll open the evening with a high-impact panel discussions. Hear from our panel of leading CISOs as they explore:
'The Architecture of Resilience'
Realising Resilience via Visibility and Action
How can a unified platform transform data silos into decision engines—empowering teams to detect, prioritise, and remediate before irreparable damage occurs?
Leading Beyond Security
What behaviours, governance models, and leadership habits must modern CISOs adopt to influence resilience across the business, not just the tech stack?
You’ll leave with actionable insights, leadership frameworks, and bold ideas to strengthen your resilience strategy.
INTO THE MAZE
Next, you’ll step into the live Crystal Maze experience — a high-energy challenge designed to test decision-making, teamwork, and composure under pressure. Working in, you’ll race against the clock to solve puzzles and earn crystals through quick thinking and collaboration. Experience firsthand how uncertainty, agility, and teamwork come together — because resilience isn’t just a strategy, it’s something you practise.
RECEPTION & REFLECTION
Enjoy delicious seasonal food and drinks whilst celebrating your maze adventures at an exclusive festive reception. Swap stories, debate lessons learned, and deepen connections with leaders who live the pressure every day.
Will you emerge from the maze stronger, wiser, and more resilient?
MEET THE PANEL
Brandyn Murtagh, Founder MurtaSec
is a founder and bug bounty hunter with over a decade in cybersecurity. He’s delivered 200+ validated vulnerability disclosures and earned top honours including “Most Impactful Bug,” “Most Criticals,” and “Best Written Report,” at numerous competitive live hacking events, working with some of the most mature bug bounty programs globally. His perspectives and insights on AI and cybersecurity have been featured by the BBC, ITV, The Stack, Good Morning Britain and many more.
Duncan Hayes, Head of Cyber Defense, Hargreaves Lansdown
Duncan is a seasoned IT and cybersecurity leader with 25+ years’ experience across industries including manufacturing, defence, nuclear, energy, and finance. Early roles in Wintel Engineering, Incident Response, and Global Crisis Management honed his expertise in high-stakes environments. Over the past decade, he has held senior cybersecurity roles — including Head of Cyber Resilience, Operations, Investigations, and Defence — at institutions such as Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Quilter, Hastings Direct, and Hargreaves Lansdown. Renowned for his strategic vision, Duncan excels in cyber resilience, exercising, and threat-informed defence, driving robust security maturity worldwide.
Justin Coker, Vice President EMEA, Axonius
Justin has nearly three decades of experience in the field of enterprise cyber security management. He has held various senior leadership roles with Symantec, Skybox Security, IronNet, Anomali and Cyberbit. He is also a regular CISO keynote speaker, thought leader and media contributor, a trusted voice in the EMEA cybersecurity space. He has also been a committee member of the NSCC Childline White Hat Ball for the last 9 years.
Ian Lowe, Director International Marketing, Axonius
Ian brings over 20 years of experience to the cybersecurity industry. A recognized leader in the field, Ian has developed and introduced successful cloud-based security solutions adopted by leading technology firms, financial services organizations, and governments globally.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Axonius is the system of record for all digital infrastructure for IT and security teams worldwide. We give customers the confidence to Control Complexity™ by providing a comprehensive understanding of all of their assets at all times.
Founded in 2017, Axonius solves an age-old problem – how to manage an always-expanding sprawl of devices, users, software, SaaS applications, cloud services, and the tools used to manage and secure them. Without an accurate understanding of what’s in your environment, everything else suffers, and Axonius was born to take on the biggest challenges in IT and security today.