Managing Cyber Incidents in an AI Driven World

Cybersecurity incidents are no longer isolated technical issues—they are business-critical events with far-reaching legal, operational, reputational, and regulatory consequences. In 2025, we saw a sharp rise in AI-driven attacks, regulatory crackdowns on breach response failures, and a growing expectation that boards and executives be directly involved in crisis oversight. As organizations face more complex threat environments and increasingly fragmented regulatory landscapes, cross-functional preparedness is essential.

This program is designed for leaders and professionals responsible for managing digital, reputational, and regulatory risk—across legal, privacy, cybersecurity, operations, product, public policy, and governance. Whether you're advising on compliance obligations, coordinating internal response teams, communicating with regulators, or protecting high-value data and systems, this course provides a realistic, hands-on roadmap for managing cyber incidents under pressure.

Through a dynamic tabletop simulation, participants will walk through the full lifecycle of a high-stakes incident—from early detection and containment to legal analysis, crisis communication, regulatory reporting, and executive decision-making. Real-world case studies and expert-led discussions will provide frameworks for navigating internal alignment, third-party risk, public exposure, and global reporting obligations.

Special attention is given to emerging technologies and regulatory convergence, including the impact of AI on both attack surfaces and compliance frameworks. The course also explores the human rights and ethical dimensions of cybersecurity breaches, equipping participants to lead with both strategic insight and organizational accountability.

The program is structured across four key modules, each aligned with a phase of the incident lifecycle. Led by global experts and industry leaders in security, law, policy, and risk, this program delivers actionable strategies and tools to help your organization mitigate exposure, respond effectively, maintain trust, and build long-term cyber resilience.

This course offers a comprehensive and highly interactive deep dive into modern cyber incident management, equipping participants with practical strategies, decision-making frameworks, and cross-functional insights needed to navigate high-pressure, high-impact digital crises.

At the heart of the program is a realistic, scenario-based tabletop exercise, where participants simulate a coordinated response to an escalating cyberattack in real time. Through this immersive experience, they will move across the full lifecycle of a major incident, tackling legal, technical, operational, reputational, and regulatory dimensions as they unfold.

MODULE 1. Understanding Cyber Risk in the AI Era

Explore the latest cyber threats and attack vectors, including AI-powered threats, third-party vulnerabilities, and geopolitical risk factors. Understand how evolving technologies and organizational structures impact risk exposure, and which corporate functions must align for effective mitigation.

MODULE 2. The First 72 Hours

Learn how to detect, escalate, and contain a breach under pressure. Topics include incident triage, engaging forensic experts, legal privilege strategies, early regulatory assessments, and building internal and external response teams, including executive and board involvement.

MODULE 3. Managing the First Month of Fallout

Navigate the broader response timeline, including ransomware negotiations, data leaks, public disclosures, media scrutiny, and multi-jurisdictional reporting obligations. Participants will learn how to balance speed, accuracy, and strategic alignment across legal, policy, comms, and operational functions.

MODULE 4. Postmortem and Building Organizational Resilience

Conduct a structured incident review, extract lessons learned, and build the foundation for governance reform, AI/data risk frameworks, and stakeholder trust recovery. Emphasis is placed on accountability, board reporting, human rights considerations, and ethical AI oversight.

This program is designed for professionals who lead or contribute to the response and management of cyber incidents — particularly those navigating the intersection of regulatory obligations, operational disruption, reputational risk, and emerging AI-driven threats.

It brings together a diverse group of participants across legal, security, compliance, governance, risk, policy, and technology, and is especially relevant for:

The program fosters a cross-disciplinary approach to cyber crisis management, providing all participants, whether technical, legal, strategic, or policy-oriented, with a common framework to respond decisively, collaboratively, and ethically to high-impact incidents.