24 November 2026 | The Oyster Box Hotel, Umhlanga
Brought to you in collaboration with ITWeb Brainstorm and BCX
Cyber security is fundamental to protecting citizen data, maintaining public trust and keeping essential services running. This Public Sector ICT Forum will focus on the practical steps KwaZulu-Natal provincial departments, municipalities and public entities can take to strengthen resilience as ransomware, data extortion, phishing, credential compromise, attacks on unpatched systems and third-party exposure place increasing pressure on public-sector environments.
The agenda will examine how leaders can identify the services and systems that matter most, understand exposure across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments, strengthen identity and access controls, improve asset visibility and patching, detect and respond to threats, and prepare for service recovery. It will also consider how to prioritise limited security investment, clarify accountability between government teams and service providers, protect data and introduce AI responsibly without weakening operational resilience.
The executive forum will touch on the following issues, and more:
Protecting essential services by identifying the systems, data and dependencies required to keep them running during and after a cyber incident.
Improving investment decisions by directing limited ICT budgets towards the most material risks, critical controls and recovery priorities.
Reducing supplier and third-party risk by establishing clear responsibility for identity, infrastructure, applications, monitoring, incident response, backups and recovery.
Building public trust by protecting citizen information and demonstrating that critical digital services can be restored within agreed priorities.
Why should you attend?
Leadership and governance:
Understand how executives, ICT teams, risk functions and service providers should share accountability for cyber resilience.
Environment resilience:
Assess cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments against service criticality, security, sovereignty, cost and recovery requirements.
Practical readiness:
Identify priority actions across identity, privileged access, patching, segmentation, monitoring, protected backups and recovery testing.
Responsible AI adoption:
Understand the data, access, integration, logging and governance controls required before AI is scaled across public services.
Agenda
09:20
11:00
Who should attend?
Stronger cyber defence for a resilient public sector executive forum is open to public sector IT practitioners in the KwaZulu Natal province whether they are part of the national, provincial or local government structures including:
Civil servants across national, provincial, and local government departments Public sector leaders and executives ICT, governance, and policy professionals
Venue
The Oyster Box Hotel
Occupying a majestic location on the Umhlanga beachfront in KwaZulu-Natal province, The Oyster Box is one of South Africa’s most celebrated hotels, as famous for its remarkable coastal views as the understated luxury and gracious hospitality that have become the hallmarks of this cherished seaside destination.
The Oyster Box is the perfect location for unforgettable events with an array of modern multi-purpose events venues, elegant restaurants and impressive coastal vistas, The Oyster Box offers an exceptional space, for making unforgettable memories.
More about the venue:
www.oysterboxhotel.com
Event Sponsor
About BCX
At BCX, we pride ourselves on being one of the leading South African end-to-end digital partners for corporates and enterprises across the African continent, within the Private and Public Sector. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Telkom Group, we aim to become the number 1 digital partner of choice for clients within our chosen markets.
BCX drives business results by helping our clients place their customer at the heart of their organisations. Enabled by our technological capabilities such as converged communications, cloud services, industry solutions, cyber security and digital edge, BCX will innovate solutions to deliver exceptional value through better experiences along the value chain.
To do this we combine local market understanding and deep industry expertise with some of the world’s most advanced Information and Communication Technology, together with a tireless commitment to make your unique digital journey as seamless as possible.
For more information, please visit www.bcx.co.za
