Cyber Security Risk Management & Compliance for Senior Management

Overview: Overview: Cybercrime has evolved and its occurrence and complex nature have come to impact on brand reputation, customer service, sustainability of businesses, compliance with regulation and largely the approach to risk management. Cyber risks are rated as the greatest threat to institutions and have become a high-ranking risk to establishments. Many board members, business owners/executives and senior management members have come to realise the enormous threat technology poses to business continuity and survival.   

This programme is designed to empower participants to add value to their executive roles and contribute to building resilient organisations and safeguard investments in IT systems from preventable cyber breaches. Participants will be given practical skills and techniques to understand cybersecurity from a risk and compliance perspective, acquire perspectives of the changing technology and cybercrime landscape with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud technology, sophisticated and integrated payment systems and technology, etc. Participants will be practically engaged using case studies from investigations handled by the Bureau, incident response activities, intelligence gathered within the local and global cybersecurity landscape.  

Couse Objectives: 

• To enable executives understand developments in the cybersecurity space, and the emerging cyber-security threat landscape affecting organisations.  

• To empower leaders of organisations to understand cybercrime from an organisation’s perspective,  

• To equip participants with knowledge of industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) and various implementation approaches to ensure cybersecurity compliance.   

• To enhance the ability of Executives to lead cybersecurity initiatives, including fostering a culture of security awareness of their employees to reduce the people risks that lead to cyber breaches.   

• To equip participants to implement, monitor and assess the effectiveness of implemented cyber-security controls and how to ensure compliance across the organisation.  

• To address the legal and ethical implications of cybersecurity decisions, including handling and reporting of cybersecurity incidents within organisations.   

Couse Modules: 

• Introduction to Cyber Security Risk Management  

• Situational Analysis of Cyber Threats – Global and In-Country Perspective   

• Managing Insider-Related Risks & Integrity Management  

• Common Cyber Threats, Risks & Attacks Affecting Enterprises  

• Security Standards, Regulations and Benchmarking                                                                                                    

• Conducting Information Security Risk Assessment         

• Cyber Security Contingency Planning  

• The Contemporary Cyber-Threat Landscape and Controls   

• Managing Risk in Legacy & Unconventional IT Environments.  

• Cyber Security Control Adequacy and Effectiveness Assessment (Assurance Management)  

Target Audience: 

Board Members/IT & Audit Committee Members, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Directors/Directors, Management Executives, Risk Management Heads, Compliance Heads, Human Resource Heads/Executives, Heads of IT, CISOs/Information Security Managers, Heads of Finance/Managers, GRC Executives, Heads of Internal Audit, Heads of Educational Institutions, Business Continuity Managers, among others.