Cybersecurity for Executives

Improve your cyber risk management skills. Learn the basics of cybersecurity and the top cyber risks affecting executives and their organizations.

Introduction

• You are a target and the first line of defense

1. Understand the Big Picture

• Understand the big picture overview
• Why are you a target?
• Example: Organized crime
• Why are you in the line of fire?
• Example: Cyber war cross-fire
• Insider threat: Cyber failure

2. How to Think About Cybersecurity

• Think about cybersecurity summary
• Not what you buy, how you travel
• Germ theory
• Where to get IT support

3. Avoid Phishing Attacks

• Avoid phishing attacks summary
• What are phishing attacks?
• Organizational response to phishing attacks

4. Stop Malicious Code

• Stop malicious code summary
• What is malicious code?
• Organizational response to malicious code

5. Avoid Identity Theft

• Avoid identity theft summary
• What is identity theft?
• Organizational response to identity theft

6. Avoid Financial Cyber Theft

• Avoid financial cyber theft summary
• What is financial cyber theft?
• Organizational response to financial cyber theft

7. Special Topics

• Special topics summary
• Reasonable cybersecurity
• Cyber insurance
• Cloud computing
• Internet of Things
• Contractual firewalls
• Third-party cyber risk management
• Cybersecurity-related sales objectives
• Active defense

Conclusion

• Next steps