Cyber Management Alliance is a UK-registered cybersecurity training provider and trusted advisor to private and public sector organisations.

Cyber Management Alliance (CM-Alliance) provides its clients with a broad portfolio of strategic and operational cybersecurity services including the NCSC-Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response (CIPR) Breach Readiness Programme.

The key focus of the CIPR Programme is to enable clients:

• To be compliant with new breach regulations like the GDPR by enhancing their cyber resilience posture and reducing their risk exposure. 
• By supporting, developing and assisting management in ensuring that the business can swiftly respond to and resume its operations during and after a cyber-attack.
• To embrace a best-practice, standards-based approach to managing (monitoring, detecting, responding to, containing) a cyber-attack.

Throughout this programme, we work with all stakeholders in the business to create and adopt a set of strategies, policies and technologies to ensure that the organisation is aligned and compliant with the GDPR’s breach notification requirements.

NCSC-Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response Workshop

Is your organisation prepared to respond to a data breach?

By including a Cyber Incident Response Plan in your GDPR preparation road-map, you will demonstrate to the regulators that you have the policies, procedures and planning in place to swiftly respond to a data breach or cyber-attack.

This two-day workshop will enable you to prepare a defined and managed approach when responding to a data breach or cyber-attack of an information asset. The content is intended for senior management and business executives who wish to gain a better understanding of incident response or who are responsible for helping organisations plan and prepare for potential cyber threats, and effectively deal with actual cyber-attacks. This is not a technical course, therefore, there are no prerequisites.

This cybersecurity training course provides senior management and incident response teams with the vital processes, knowledge and skills to lead and manage a cyber crisis. The course is designed for senior management involved in responding to a cyber or data breach  across an organisation, including staff involved in:

• Strategic and operational decision-making.
• Information security.
• Enterprise risk management.
• Audit & Compliance.
• Business continuity.
• Service management.
• Human Resource management. 

 This training is available as a one-day public course or a two-day internal workshop. 

About the NCSC - National Cyber Security Centre

Launched in October 2016, the NCSC or National Cyber Security Centre is headquartered in London and brings together expertise from CESG (the information assurance arm of GCHQ), the Centre for Cyber Assessment, CERT-UK, and the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure.

The NCSC-Certified training is designed to assure high-quality training courses delivered by experienced training providers. The courses are assessed at two levels, namely, awareness and application.

This course has been certified for the application level of incident response in the areas of Risk Assessment, Business Continuity Planning and Incident Management. The Application level is for anyone looking for in-depth courses for their professional development.

The Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) is the only pure-play information security institution to have been granted Royal Charter status and is dedicated to raising the standard of professionalism in information security. CIISec represents professionalism, integrity and excellence within the information and cybersecurity sector.

The NCSC-Certified Training and the Chartered Institute of Information Security's (CIISec) accreditation enables organisations to distinguish between reputable courses and ones that have not been validated using a Government-endorsed assessment process.

Continuing Professional Development

• CPD points can be claimed for this course at the rate of 1 point per hour of training for this NCSC-certified and CIISec-approved course (8 points for one-day public course and 15 points for the two-day internal workshop).
•  (ISC)2 members can claim 8 CPE points after they complete the whole course and obtain the attendance certification.
• ISACA members can claim 8 CPE points after they complete the whole course and obtain the attendance certification.

A summary of what delegates will learn in the CIPR course: 
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• The latest techniques and insights on incident response.
• Threat Intelligence-led testing and response framework adopted by leading governments and institutions.
• How to use threat intelligence to lower organisation risk and speed up response times.
• The Cyber Kill Chain (the cyber-attack process) and how to design an early warning system to lower discovery time from months to days.
• How to create actionable, fit-for-purpose plans, checklists and processes.
• How to define and baseline “Normal” within your organisation.
• Understand "Normal" and how it can help reduce your time to respond to and reduce human error.
• The best methods to stop up to 90% of all cyber-attackers in their tracks, before they breach your critical data.
• How to design and implement a response framework and build an effective cyber response team.
• The “Golden Hour” and why it’s critical to managing an incident.
• The core concepts of incident triage, OODA and their relevance and importance in a cyber resilient organisation.

Directly download the complete Learning Objectives PDF of the NCSC-Certified Course here.

Benefits of arranging an internal exclusive private workshop include, but not limited to:

1. Organisation context & organisation specific exercises.
2. Define the threat actors and create a threat actor library specific to your organisation.
3. Defining Normal - understanding your organisation's baseline.
4. Define / improve alerts for your analysts.
5. Assess and improve your organisations triage capabilities.
6. Organisation specific Attack Scenarios.
7. Detection & Response Strategies.
8. Technology stack review & assessment of integration into SoC & monitoring technologies.
9. High level review of your monitoring and log management.
10. Review your PR & communication templates & internal communications approach.
11. Review and improve the team and organisational structure of IR teams and CSIM (cybersecurity incident management) teams.
12. High level review of incident response breach preparedness.
13. Understand areas of improvement of your organisation’s incident response plans.
14. Baselines cyber resilience awareness across the business.
15. Become more compliant with data breach response regulations by creating fit-for-purpose data breach response plans.
16. Achieve tangible reductions in detection and response times to cyber-attacks that could lead to better managed and lower data breach compensations.
17. Improve inter-department communication and interaction before and during an incident (This is especially true when organisations host the CIPR workshop internally, over 2 days).
18. Streamline and optimising technology investments with the possibility of tangible savings across multiple technology sets.
19. Achieve more productive and efficient staff with increased motivation and better learning and career development.
20. Throughout the duration of the workshop all attendees have a aim to create an improvement action plan to further develop the operational strategies, processes and plans post the workshop. 

Delegates will learn and understand:

• The latest techniques and insights on incident response.
• Threat Intelligence-led testing and response framework adopted by leading governments and institutions.
• Deep-dive into the Cyber Kill Chain and design an early warning system to lower discovery time from months to days.
• How to create actionable plans, checklists, playbooks and processes.
• How to define and baseline “normal” within the organisation.
• How to stop up to 90% of all cyber attackers in their tracks and before they breach the organisation's critical data.
• How to design and implement a response framework and build an effective cyber response team.
• The secrets of managing TV reporters and media journalists.
• The “Golden Hour” and why it’s critical to managing an incident.
• Basic application of incident Triage, OODA and the Diamond Methodology.
• How to analyse recent attacks and how these attacks avoided detection.
• Security Incident Orchestration and how it can help reduce your time to respond and reduce human error.
• How to automate critical incident response tasks to increase employee efficiency.
• How to run effective table-top exercises with management and technical teams.
• How to assess their organisation's breach readiness.

Templates, Worksheets, Checklists and other takeaways

All online and public students receive numerous takeaways including immediately usable cyber response checklists, templates like cyber response plans and workflows that you can put to use in your organisation immediately. 

 

Meet the Trainer 

Amar Singh has a long history and experience in data privacy and information security. Amar 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.

Amar has the highest integrity and is trusted by FTSE100 companies with some of the most sensitive commercial information. He 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 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.

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