Fundamentals of Cybersecurity for Boards and Executives

Course objectives

• Describe the threat landscape in business rather than technical terms
• Explain what ransomware does to an organisation and why paying fails
• Identify the few controls that prevent most incidents
• Read a security report critically and spot a non answer
• Ask the questions that expose weak assurance
• Understand director liability and disclosure obligations
• Judge whether a security investment request is proportionate

Who should attend

• Board members and non executive directors
• Chief executives and executive teams
• Audit and risk committee members
• Public sector accounting officers
• Senior managers without a technology background

Course outline

1. 01The threat landscape in business terms
2. 02Ransomware and why paying is a poor plan
3. 03The controls that prevent most incidents
4. 04Reading a security report critically
5. 05Questions that expose weak assurance
6. 06Director liability and disclosure
7. 07Judging an investment request
8. 08Documented breaches and what the board was told

Scheduled sessions