Blue Team Con 2026

Name: Learning How to Pop Champagne Bottles: How Leaders Should Reframe Cyber Wins and Losses
Start: 2026-09-12T14:00:00-0500
End: 2026-09-12T14:25:00-0500

Learning How to Pop Champagne Bottles: How Leaders Should Reframe Cyber Wins and Losses

Saturday September 12, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm CDT

Swissôtel Chicago

Moments after the Oklahoma City Thunder won their first Championship, the team had a problem. None of the team’s young stars knew how to open a champagne bottle. Normally, after winning, we would see videos of players popping champagne bottles and celebrating. But the Thunder needed a little help, and backup guard Alex Caruso, who won an NBA championship in 2020, had to teach his teammates how to celebrate. In the world of cybersecurity, it often feels like you are always down 17 points chasing to catch up with new threats and vulnerabilities. But every day, employees are successful in making the right cybersecurity decisions. According to Harvard Business Review, we should be celebrating these small wins because they create “momentum that will propel you toward your bigger goals." Likewise, every cyber crisis contains both the seeds of success and the roots of failure. This presentation will explore how leaders should reframe their companies' views of success and failure to make their organizations safer. By first exploring current cybersecurity trends. Next, we will discuss the importance of small wins and the challenges that success can pose for organizations. Then we will examine the lessons from failure and how failure is the first step for growth. Finally, the presentation will provide ways for leaders to reframe how they view success and failure and how embracing both can help their teams secure a championship.

Speakers

Anthony Hendricks

Director and Chair of Cybersecurity, Crowe & Dunlevy

Anthony Hendricks is a legal problem solver and litigator at Crowe & Dunlevy, one of Oklahoma’s largest and oldest firms. At Crowe & Dunlevy, Anthony serves as founder and chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group. His legal practice focuses on data privacy... Read More →

Saturday September 12, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm CDT
Swissôtel Chicago 323 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, USA

Talk, Talk Track 2

Audience Intermediate
Subject Management / Leadership
global Y

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