Given the facts, the business focus and taxonomy must shift from an IT and security narrative to that of resiliency. The CEO, senior management and board must be asking if their business is prepared for and able to carry on business operations during and after a cyber crisis. To survive and even grow your business, an organisation must put cyber resiliency at the heart of its cyber and digital strategy.
Cyber Management Alliance’s Executive Briefing and Awareness Session (EBAS) is specially designed for executive management, CEOs and boards of directors, engaging them in a business context to help explain the threats and risks from cyber-attacks, and providing them with simple, tactical and strategic steps to help improve their resilience to reputation-damaging cyber crises.
A cyber-crisis is often invisible and near impossible to detect in the early stages. In many cyber-attacks, by the time a business detects the attack it is often too late. The data has been stolen, the newspapers know about your attack, and your customers are worried about their personal data being in the hands of criminals.
The Executive Briefing and Awareness Session is structured around key topics and based on our experience with clients from different sectors around the globe. However, it is flexible and can be tailored to the type of audience and business.
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Target Audience |
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CEOs, Chairpersons |
Business Unit/Division Heads |
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Legal Counsels |
Directors/Heads of Sales & Marketing |
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HR Directors |
CIOs & CTOs |
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Communications/PR Directors |
Board members, Non-Executive Directors (NED) |
In almost every situation we recommend at least one pre-workshop, 2-hour preparation session to ensure that we have a good understanding of the purpose, requirements and key outcomes of the session.
During this session, we also aim to understand the attendees, their vision and objectives, and the unique challenges the business is facing in the current environment.
Where the session needs to be tailored to bespoke requirements, we will work with the client to ensure the session meets their requirements.
The Executive Briefing and Awareness Session structure is based on our experience with a broad range of clients from different sectors. This can be customised as per your requirements.
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Introduction |
· Introductions - why we are here · Objectives and outcomes |
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Business Impact – Fact or Fiction |
· Providing a pragmatic fact-based insight into the real and present threat from cyber-attacks · Case studies – non-technical analysis of the business impact of attacks |
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Threats & Risks: The Agents of Chaos |
· Discuss the importance of threat actors, their motivation and the role of threat actors in scenario planning and risk management |
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Threats & Risks: The Protection Fallacy |
· Discuss and propose a better way than simply focusing on protect |
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Threats & Risks: The Privileged User |
· Insights and examples into the importance and relevance of privileges, and users with privileges |
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Threats & Risks: The Golden Hour |
· The relevance and significance of the Golden Hour and critical insights into what you can do to increase your chances of managing a crisis with little negative impact |
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What Would You Do? |
· An interactive “What Would You Do?” session based on one or more attack scenarios |
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Takeaways & Recommendations |
· A summary of what the business must focus on to improve its cyber resilience and overall maturity |
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Close & FAQ |
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Amar Singh is a Certified Cybersecurity Trainer. Amar has a long history and experience in data privacy and information security training. He has served as CISO for various companies, including News International (now News UK), SABMiller, Gala Coral, Euromoney and Elsevier. Amongst various other activities, Amar is a Global Chief Information Security Officer and Trusted Advisor to a number of organisations including a FTSE100 firm, and is chair of the ISACA UK Security Advisory Group. He also founded the not-for-profit cybersecurity service for charities, Give01Day and is an Executive to the Board of the National MBA in Cyber Security.
Amar has the highest integrity, has been trusted by FTSE100 companies with some of the most sensitive commercial information and has been involved with highly sensitive forensic investigations.
He has the ability to deal with both technically-astute, board-level executives and lead an organisation's information security direction. Apart from his experience and abilities, Amar holds a number of industry-recognised certifications, such as the ISO 27001 Certified ISMS Lead Implementer, MoR, CRISC and CISSP certification.
Amar is an industry-acknowledged expert and public speaker and is regularly invited to speak and share his insights by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world including The BBC, The Economist’s Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times, SC Magazine, InfoSec Magazine, Computer Weekly, The Register and the AlJazeera English Channel.
“I found the course to be very interesting. It not the usual bookish theoretical type, of course, it was quite interactive.."
CIO, Rak Bank, Dubai
“Amar Singh brings a wealth of personal experience and knowledge.”
President ISACA UAE
“The course was excellent. Not the typical core text book training but giving valuable insights and experiences.”
Head of IT, Bank of Sharjah, UAE
“This was the most interesting and attractive courses I have ever attended. A lot of inside knowledge was shared.”
Head of Audit, Emirate Global Aluminium, UA
"I wish all Senior Executives attend this course. It’s the most practical course I have ever attended. It teaches you not just how to understand but also how to respond to a Cyber Attack. ."
"The information we learnt provoked plenty of conversation both around personal experiences with the challenges that I face in the business and also backing up what was said in the course with real-life examples"
"The training was very informative and well knowledgable and i would recommend this course to anyone who wishes to explore cyber security even further."
IT Director, Christ the King Sixth Form Colleges London
"It’s been a great two days of learning. We drilled down, we simplified how an incident should be detected and how an incident should be handled. One of the key learnings I have taken is define normal. ."
"The overall training was good, it was quite informative. I highly recommend this training session to at least the CXO level people because it is something very meaningful for them and it can be very beneficial for organisations."
"Amar is a good mentor because he did more than just teaching. The checklist and mind maps are a really good part of the course. ."
IT Manager, HLB HAMT, Dubai UAE
"Amar is an excellent tutor and mentor also. The key aspects of the training is interactive sessions. Everyone has shared their experiences. I gained much knowledge which will be useful for my day to day activities."
"I really learnt a lot from this course as it was the first cyber security course I have been on. What I liked the most was the mind-mapping."
Paramount Computer Services, Dubai UAE
"I recommend everyone to attend this course whether your business is at the beginning or whether you have already implemented some of the IT security procedures. Even if you think you are protected but in fact it is not protected.."
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