Bring a Strategy Masterclass to your Organization
Course starts 2 October 2019
Bring a Strategy Masterclass to your Organization
Course starts 2 October 2019
Course information
REGISTRATION CLOSES:
24 September 2019
COURSE STARTS:
2 October 2019
LENGTH:
8 weeks (excluding orientation)
EFFORT:
8-11 hours/week of self-paced learning, entirely online
LANGUAGE:
English
Introduction
News of large-scale cybersecurity threats and cyberattacks dominate the headlines all too often in today’s Information Age: hackers exploiting vulnerabilities of a retail giant, foreign influence in elections, and new forms of ransomware underscore the importance of preparing for these types of emerging threat.
As a result, cyber risk management has become a fundamental component of business operations, and understanding and mitigating risk has become an essential skill for business leaders, thought leaders, analysts, as well as security and technology specialists.
Harvard VPAL’s Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age is an online short course that equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how to identify and manage operational risk, litigation risk and reputational risk. The course will help students assess and mitigate specific vulnerabilities within an organization’s networks, systems, and data in order to provide the knowledge and skills to protect the integrity, security, and confidentiality of their digital assets.
What will set you apart
After successfully completing this highly interactive and supported online learning journey, you’ll walk away with the ability to:
- Articulate the role of cyber risk management within an organization
- Investigate the threats to an organization's critical business systems and data
- Assess the vulnerabilities of an organization's critical business systems, networks, and data
- Recommend a cybersecurity leadership plan
- Deduce types of questions necessary to determine the technologies implemented in an organization’s cybersecurity
- Distinguish the legal and compliance risks for an organization or sector
Course curriculum
Hear from cybersecurity experts and guest speakers as you follow your learning path through the weekly modules of this online course:
Orientation Module: Welcome to your Online Campus
Course Module 1: Cybersecurity risk is business risk
Course Module 2: Identifying the threats to an organization
Course Module 3: Identifying important business systems and assets
Orientation Module: Welcome to your Online Campus
Course Module 1: Cybersecurity risk is business risk
Course Module 2: Identifying the threats to an organization
Course Module 3: Identifying important business systems and assets
Each participant will recieve a copy of Sun Wu's book "Strategy for Excecutives"
Harvard VPAL’s Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age is an online short course that equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how to identify and manage operational risk, litigation risk and reputational risk.
Your Course Convener
ERIC ROSENBACH
Course Convener, Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Eric Rosenbach is the Director of the Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Co-Director of the Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He previously served as the Chief of Staff to US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and held the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was the Chief Security Officer for Tiscali, the largest pan-European internet service provider, and is a former US Army Intelligence Officer.
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