Cybersecurity stopped being just an IT issue a couple of years ago. Today, it's a critical business concern. A single cyberattack can cripple operations, damage reputation, and lead to significant financial losses. That's why it's crucial for business executives and senior leaders to have a strong understanding of cyber risks and how to effectively mitigate them.
Our Cybersecurity Briefings for Executives are designed to equip your leadership team with the knowledge and tools they need to navigate the complex world of cyber threats.
The CEO, senior management and board need to know if their business is prepared for and capable of carrying 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.
Our 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. In a condensed, time-effective format, we provide them with simple, tactical and strategic steps to help improve business resilience to reputation-damaging cyber crises.
Executives gain a clear understanding of the current cyber threat landscape and the specific risks faced by the organisation.
Senior Management develops the ability to make informed decisions about cybersecurity investments and strategies.
Leadership teams understand the critical steps involved in responding to a cyber incident and minimising its impact.
Business executives master the art of identifying, assessing, and mitigating cyber risks effectively.
Learn about real-world incidents and the current threat landscape. Executives are engaged in a business-relevant and non-technical context.
Discover the most urgent vulnerabilities facing your modern business learn and how to address them. The Executive Briefing Session on Cybersecurity Awareness will help you make confident security investments and empower you with better cybersecurity leadership skills.
Receive concise, boardroom-ready recommendations, covering everything from best practices for incident response to practical steps for achieving cyber resilience.
We understand and respect the paucity of time that senior leadership faces. Our tight, engaging sessions fit seamlessly into packed schedules, ensuring you gain essential knowledge and action items—fast.
Our briefings are designed to be interactive and engaging. Delivered by experienced cybersecurity professionals with real-world expertise, our sessions are delivered in the business-focussed language that Executives and Board of Directors speak.
We understand that every organisation has unique cybersecurity needs. That's why our briefings are fully customisable. You can select modules from our existing courses to create a bespoke briefing that addresses your specific priorities.
Crisis Preparedness: Key components of crisis preparedness, including cyber risk evaluation, forming effective crisis response teams and the essential elements of crisis communication protocols.
Decision-Making Under Pressure: Recognizing common cognitive biases that impact crisis decision-making. Understanding techniques for rapid analysis during crises. Building awareness of decision-making challenges during cyber incidents.
Strategic Communication: Strategies for effective stakeholder management during crises. Techniques for handling media relations and press conferences and principles of internal and external communication during crisis situations.
Crisis Leadership and Recovery: Key principles of crisis leadership. Strategies for guiding an organisation through the recovery phase. Techniques for conducting effective post-crisis analysis.
Case Studies Review: Real-world crisis management cases, including cyber crises. Effective strategies and potential pitfalls in crisis response. Insights from both successful and unsuccessful crisis management efforts.
A focus on the sector-relevant challenges
Focus on the real threats and risks to your sector
Highlighting the importance of privileges and credentials
Highly engaging delivery tailored to the audience
Estimated duration 30 - 45 mins
Suitable for C-Level and Exec leadership team.
A focus on the business-relevant challenges
Focus on the real threats & risks to the organisation
Highlighting organisation-specific threat actors and their motives
A discussion on key strategies to ensure your organisation is better prepared
Estimated duration 180 mins
For both Executives and Senior Leadership teams
A focus on your business relevant challenges
Focus on the real threats of a Ransomware attack on your organisation
Verbal simulation of a Ransomware cyber attack
Estimated duration 60 - 120 mins
Detailed Planning
Management discussion & review of their actions & decisions
Realistic business-impacting scenario
Verbal simulation of the cyber-crisis scenario
Estimated duration 60 - 120 mins
“The overall objective was to demonstrate & raise awareness amongst the board members. It is a regulatory obligation to ensure that the board are aware of their duties when it comes to incident response & cyber management. It was very important to run this workshop in my opinion."
"Amar Singh is an excellent facilitator and is highly experienced which makes his insights useful to all participants. Importantly, Amar knows how to engage a room full of business executives and is able to present highly technical concepts in a nontechnical, easy to understand manner."
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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