Beyond the Doomsday: Operational Resilience, Identity Sprawl, and Back-to-Basics Cyber Defense

**Executive summary:** This roundtable episode brings together security professionals to discuss contemporary operational risks and defenses, emphasizing the need for foundational hygiene, phishing-resistant identity controls, cloud backup and data survivability strategies, clarity around the cloud shared-responsibility model, improved observability over simple visibility, and sensible human oversight for AI-driven automation.