Oxford Cyber Security Briefing for Banking and Finance
Exploring cyber security and risk
This briefing summarises the essential lessons from the six-week Oxford Cyber Security for Business Leaders Programme.
- Start dates: 4 December 2024, 26 March 2025
- Duration: 3 weeks
- Location: Online
- Cost: £399
In this briefing, you will:
- Assemble core business assets worthy of protection and assess their associated cyber risks, vulnerabilities, threats, and impacts.
- Recognise the anatomy of attacks and which cyber attacks are of most concern for those assets.
- Inspect cyber risk appetite and reputational risk and recognise two risk management frameworks.
- Explain and apply an understanding of different cyber controls to reduce risk.
- Describe emerging technologies and examine their role in a continually shifting cyber landscape.
- Discuss the need to evaluate risk and cyber controls when strategically embracing emerging technologies.
There's a gathering cyber storm. This storm is brewing, and it's really hard to anticipate just how bad that will be.
What you'll learn
- Understand how to determine what are critical business assets
- Assess risk in today’s cyber landscape using proven frameworks
- Identify key strategic decisions you will need to make to protect critical assets and maintain business continuity
Further information
Read more about how the programme is delivered, answers to common questions and the programme’s terms and conditions.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact us at OnlineExecEd@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Outline
The Cyber Security Executive Briefing programme is designed to seamlessly integrate into your busy schedule, giving you the flexibility to learn at your own pace.
All modules will be available at once. You can expect to spend 1 to 2 hours per module.
Module 1: The Cyber Landscape
Understand the critical assets that companies and institutions must protect and the crucial role of trust in the banking and finance industries.
Module 2: Strategic Response
Understand technology governance and risk management, IT system security and resilience, and cybersecurity operations to develop a strategic response to protect critical assets and business continuity.
Module 3: Cyber Innovation
Examine emerging technologies and their role in a continuously shifting cyber landscape to help you adapt to the cyber future of your organisation.
Benefits
Your credentials
On successful completion of this programme you will be awarded an official digital badge from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In order to be issued with a digital badge, you will need to meet the requirements outlined in the course orientation module.
Please note this course is not eligible for CPD or CPE credits.