Cybersecurity Culture, Strategy & Leadership
Develop leadership skills and create an effective cybersecurity strategy to build resilient security cultures within complex organisations.
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Module purpose
This module equips participants with a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape, including major threats, vulnerabilities, controls and regulatory frameworks, and develops the leadership skills needed to build and sustain a strong cybersecurity culture aligned with business objectives.
Cybersecurity landscape
Understand major threats, vulnerabilities, controls and regulatory frameworks shaping today's cybersecurity landscape.
Governance & risk
Apply governance, risk management, incident response and maturity monitoring to build an effective cybersecurity strategy.
Culture & leadership
Develop the leadership skills needed to build and sustain a strong cybersecurity culture and organisational structure.
Learning outcomes
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) cover knowledge, skills and competences for cybersecurity leadership and culture.
By the end of the module
Students will be able to understand the CISO role, master leadership tasks across all governance domains, and build a working CISO organisation aligned with business objectives.
Practical leadership capabilities
The module emphasizes practical leadership outputs, from building a protection roadmap to defining the dashboards and organisation needed to run a cybersecurity function.
Protection roadmap
Build a protection roadmap covering transformation actions across the plan, build, run and monitor domains.
Security dashboards
Define security dashboards covering the seven components of maturity, for technical and managerial audiences.
CISO organisation
Design a CISO organisation and define cybersecurity roles aligned with business objectives.
12-week programme
The delivery path moves from the cybersecurity landscape and threats to governance, risk management, the protection roadmap, incident management and maturity monitoring.
Week 1: The Cybersecurity Landscape
Review narrated incidents and the overall potential business impacts of cybersecurity events.
Week 2: Cybersecurity Threats
Overview of the major cybersecurity threats organisations face today.
Week 3: Cybersecurity Risk Management
Apply risk management principles to cybersecurity decision-making.
Week 4: Categories of Controls
Overview of controls as structured following major categorisations.
Week 5: Frameworks & Regulations
Review major cybersecurity related frameworks and regulations.
Week 6: Governance & the Plan Domain
The governance activities and the PLAN domain of governance.
Week 7: Building a CISO Culture
Case discussion: building a CISO culture, a function, and aligning it with the organisation.
Week 8: Business & Technology Risks
The risk management process across business and technology risks.
Week 9: The Protection Roadmap
The BUILD domain of governance to implement relevant transformation actions.
Week 10: Incident Management & CERT
Incident management, CERT and the RUN domain of governance.
Week 11: Maturity & Dashboards
The MONITOR domain, including the seven components of maturity and the definition of technical and managerial security dashboards.
Week 12: CISO Roles & Organisation
Understand the various cybersecurity roles and the development of a CISO organisation.
Cybersecurity Culture, Strategy & Leadership
The module gives 5 ECTS and concludes with a certificate distributed at the end of the training.
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Your trainers
Our trainers are active cybersecurity leaders with hands-on experience in CISO roles, governance frameworks and building cybersecurity culture across Belgian and European organisations.
Georges Ataya
Georges Ataya is one of Belgium's foremost authorities in cybersecurity governance and risk management. Professor and Academic Director at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management, he co-founded the Cybersecurity Coalition Belgium and serves as its Vice-Chair. With 45 years of experience advising organisations across the public and private sectors, he brings both academic rigour and deep practitioner insight to every session.
Taco Mulder
Taco Mulder is CISO at Belgium's Federal Public Service Policy & Support (BOSA) and a recognised voice in public sector cybersecurity. A former CISO at Brussels public hospitals, he coordinates the Cybersecurity in Healthcare Focus Group at the Cybersecurity Coalition and is a topic leader in Information Security Management at Solvay Brussels School. He is also a mentor and coach for the Women4Cyber programme.
Kian Bayat
Kian Bayat is Cybersecurity Stream Lead for Vulnerability Management at Federale Assurance, and previously held senior cyber risk, business continuity and crisis management roles at Nagelmackers Bank and ING Belgium. With over 20 years of experience spanning IT risk and security leadership, programme and project management, infrastructure and software development, he combines deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement at executive and board level. He is an accredited APMG CRIS trainer, an ISACA Belgium board member, and a member of the Cyber Security Coalition Cyber Awards Task Force.
Tania Postil
Tania Postil is a senior cybersecurity and GRC consultant, currently strengthening the IT risk and security team at Banque Degroof Petercam on DORA compliance, IT general controls and security awareness. Certified CISA and ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, she has delivered CISO-as-a-service, internal audit and operational risk management engagements for organisations including Keytrade Bank, Generali Belgium and AXA Banque Europe. An accredited speaker and trainer, she serves as Vice-President of the ISACA Belgium chapter.
Target audience
The module is designed for leaders and professionals responsible for cybersecurity strategy, governance, culture and organisational resilience.
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