Cyber Resilience Empowering digital leaders to build resilient, secure organisations
Vlerick Business School
Digital Transformation and AI
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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.
Programme Content
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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Programme Audience
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
Programme Benefits
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
Testimonials
"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."
Saïda van Kalsbeek
Programme Manager Cyber Security Gemeente Den Haag