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You’re leveraging digital technologies to make your offer safe and seamless for your customers. But in doing so, you’re creating an increasingly complex digital ecosystem – which can expose your organisation to serious risk.
In a world where a single incident can have far-reaching consequences, resilience needs to be at the heart of your digital strategy. This programme will help you build the resilience you need to address digital challenges, such as ecosystem fragility, cyber threats, and GenAI-related privacy and ethical concerns.
Detailed programme
This programme takes you through four half-day, live online modules. You’ll develop your knowledge through discussions, case studies, a business simulation and a maturity assessment. You’ll explore changes in the regulatory environment – and discuss the ethical challenges of AI. And you’ll return to your organisation with the essential tools to help your organisation mitigate cyber risk.
Module 1: Digital context and cyber resilience
- Discover essential digital resilience principles
- Learn how cyber threats are evolving
- Explore the impact of regulation like the EU’s AI Act and NIS2
- Learn to create a digital vulnerability assessment
After Module 1 you'll take part in a cyber-attack simulation.
Module 2: Cyber strategies and human behaviour
- Understand the evolution of resilience across the digital value chain
- Learn to develop cyber strategies and make smart investment decisions
- Make humans the strongest link in the people-technology relationship
- Explore human behavioural challenges
After Module 2 you'll carry out an online Digital Resilience maturity assessment of your own ecosystem.
Module 3: Digital governance in the age of AI
- Explore the evolution of AI – and its implications for governance
- Discover data lineage principles and practices for decision-making
- Know how to strike a balance between innovation and regulation
- Learn from a panel of experts on new and envisaged digital regulation
Module 4: Developing cyber agility in the digitised economy
- Develop and measure your organisation’s ability to respond to incidents
- Learn how to deal with cyber criminals
- Create a mitigation action plan
- Explore how threats and mitigation strategies could evolve
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Why this programme
- Explore best practice in digital resilience and the shifting regulatory environment
- Understand the risks of shadow AI and AI platforms
- Get tools to support your organisation’s cyber strategy, governance and incident response practices
- Explore ways to contribute to cyber investment and strategy decisions
- Measure your organisation’s resilience maturity – and learn to improve it
Who should attend
- IT managers who work with cyber specialists
- Project managers and sponsors of AI and digital projects
- Business decision-makers who are responsible for digital resilience
- Heads of infrastructure or operations – and leaders of digital transformation
- Governance committee members - and compliance officers who want to promote cyber-aware culture
Fees and financing
Boost your impact – and your budget
Did you know you may be eligible for:
- Group discount: Register three participants from the same company at the same time and get 15% off
- KMO-portefeuille: Flemish SMEs can apply for funding to cover training costs
- Alumni discount: Vlerick alumni receive 10% off as a thank you for their loyalty to the Vlerick Business School
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Success stories
Saïda van Kalsbeek
Programme Manager Cyber Security Gemeente Den Haag
The programme was professional, interactive and highly relevant. The Vlerick team demonstrated a strong commitment to excellence – they were responsive, supportive and addressed our requests promptly and accurately. The learning journey was not only insightful, but also enjoyable. I wholeheartedly recommend the Cyber Resilience for Business Leaders programme to anyone looking to strengthen their knowledge and skills in cyber resilience.
Faculty
Martin Butler
Professor of Management Practice
Martin Butler lectures in digital transformation, digital resilience and technology futures.
Anna Collard
SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist at KnowBe4 AFRICA
Anna Collard is an SVP of Content Strategy & Evangelist for KnowBe4 Africa and has been working in the cybersecurity field as a security architect and consultant for 18 years. She has assisted organisations across South Africa, Europe and the U.S. to improve their cyber resilience, in particular focussing on human behaviour.
Geert Baudewijns
CEO and Founder, Secutec
Secutec offers security, data backup, data protection and optimisation tools. Geert is a world-renowned cyber negotiation expert – and the author of Negotiating in the Dark.
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