David LaFalce Joins Global Resilience Federation Board
Fairfax, VA USA – January 24, 2022 – Global Resilience Federation (GRF) is pleased to announce that David LaFalce, Global Head of Operational Resilience at Wells Fargo, has joined its board of directors.
LaFalce joins the board as the representative for Business Resilience Council (BRC). BRC is a GRF subsidiary focused on four key programs:
1) Cross-sector sharing of threats, incidents and vulnerabilities;
2) Developing an operational resilience framework to withstand destructive events;
3) Building third-party security connections including vendors, suppliers, and other partners;
4) Running exercises that test the resilience of members against geopolitical, physical and cyber threats.
As a member of the board, David LaFalce brings extensive business resilience experience. At Wells Fargo, he is responsible for ensuring robust plans are in place to deliver essential services when faced with severe but plausible scenarios such as extreme cyber-attacks, IT system outages or third-party supplier failure. Prior to Wells Fargo, David was Managing Director and the Global Head of Security and Business Continuity at DTCC, and the Chief Security Officer at The Clearing House Payments Company.
In his volunteer work, LaFalce has been an elected member of the Board of Directors, Business Resilience Committee Executive Advisory Group, and is a Threat Intelligence Committee Member of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). He has also served on the Executive Committee, Cyber Security Steering Committee, Business Resilience Committee, and the Supply Chain Work Group for the Financial Service Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC).
LaFalce has taken the helm of BRC at a pivotal point in its growth. The community is home to the recently launched Operational Resilience Framework, a set of rules and implementation aids that minimize disruptions of critical services and systemic impacts to customers in the face of destructive attacks and adverse events.
The BRC community also released the new Third-Party Security Connection to build communication paths between security teams of members and vendors ahead of incidents in order to facilitate clear and urgent dialogue.
In its daily operations, BRC supports members with alerts and reports on significant weather events, destructive activism, geopolitical threats to supply chains, acts of terrorism, and major cybersecurity threats and incidents.
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About GRF
Global Resilience Federation (GRF) is a non-profit hub and integrator for support, analysis, and cross-sector intelligence exchange among information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs), organizations (ISAOs), and computer emergency readiness/response teams (CERTs). GRF’s mission is to help assure the resilience of critical and essential infrastructure against threats that could significantly impact the orderly functioning of the global economy and general safety of the public. Visit @GRFederation on Twitter or Global Resilience Federation on LinkedIn. Media inquiries may be directed to Patrick McGlone at pmcglone@grf.org
About BRC
The Business Resilience Council (BRC) is a nonprofit member-driven, analyst-supported, multi-sector community for sharing significant incidents, threats and vulnerabilities impacting businesses with regional, national and international footprints that must manage crises and navigate response scenarios in order to maintain operations. The BRC is a member of the Global Resilience Federation network of information sharing communities.