Cyber Security for Business Executives

With digital systems playing an increasingly central role in powering businesses, understanding how to tackle cyber security has become fundamentally important to executives and decision makers. Best practice advice often encourages organisations to take a pro-active approach to dealing with cyber security risk, but often stops short of providing important background knowledge on the threats, how to view them in the context of an organisation, options for dealing with them and how they are likely to evolve. This course brings together insights from business, government/regulatory and technology domains to provide a 360 degree view of cyber security to non-technical decision makers.

Drawing on Imperial's extensive expertise in cyber security and thought leaders from business and government this programme will build core knowledge on cyber security, enabling you to identify and understand the root causes of risks within your business. The material covered will not only enable you to have a solid grasp of the cyber security landscape of today, but also how emerging security issues and global technology trends will impact organisations of all types in the future.

Mid to senior level executives working in industries where cyber security is either an established or rapidly emerging concern. The course is designed to appeal to professionals working across a range of industries including financial services, energy, telecoms, health, consultancy and government. This course assumes a general user level knowledge of IT systems and does not require previous experience in technology, coding or a detailed knowledge of cyber security.

Programme Content:

This short accelerator course will cover strategic considerations of cyber security together with primers on the technical aspects of the subject. You will gain knowledge on how nation states formulate policy and regulation, the challenges that corporations face in dealing with risk and get to grips with how the science and technology fits in. By the end of the course students will have a better grasp of what

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