COMPREHENSIVE SYLLABUS
Eight Executive Modules.
Rigorous Professional Mastery.
Designed around real-world executive scenarios, technical runbooks, and defensible documentation.
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MODULE 01 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Fiduciary Responsibility & Boardroom Cyber Governance
📜Establish the legal, financial, and strategic framework for cybersecurity oversight. Understand board director liability, Caremark duty of loyalty, committee structures, and the CISO reporting mandate.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERBoardroom Playbook: Fiduciary Cyber Governance & Director Liability
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MODULE 02 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ): The FAIR™ Model
🛡️Abandon subjective "red-amber-green" heatmaps. Master Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR™) to quantify cyber loss exposure into probabilistic dollars and cents for capital allocation.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Quantitative Cyber Risk Modeling (FAIR™)
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MODULE 03 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Regulatory Mandates, SEC Disclosure & Legal Liability
📋Navigate high-stakes compliance regimes: the SEC 4-day material cybersecurity incident disclosure (Item 1.05 Form 8-K), NDPA, GDPR, NIS2, and personal officer accountability.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: SEC Disclosure & Global Regulatory Compliance
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MODULE 04 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Third-Party & Supply Chain Cyber Risk Governance
⚙️Govern the enterprise extended perimeter: critical software dependencies, SaaS vendors, cloud service providers, and fourth-party risks that cause over 60% of modern corporate breaches.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Third-Party Supply Chain Risk Governance
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MODULE 05 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Cyber Insurance Strategy, Underwriting & Claims Defense
📊Structure an effective cyber risk transfer program: understanding policy coverage towers, exclusions (war/state-sponsored, unpatched vulnerabilities), warranty statements, and claims recovery.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Cyber Insurance Structuring & Claims Recovery
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MODULE 06 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Executive Crisis Leadership, Ransomware Policy & Communications
🔍Lead under catastrophic pressure: managing dual-extortion ransomware, corporate extortion negotiation policies, crisis PR, law enforcement collaboration, and board war room execution.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Crisis Leadership & Ransomware Decision Framework
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MODULE 07 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Strategic Threat Landscape: Geopolitics, AI & Nation-States
📑Anticipate macro cybersecurity shifts: state-sponsored cyber warfare, intellectual property theft, deepfake executive impersonation, shadow AI risks, and critical infrastructure disruption.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Geopolitical Cyber Strategy & Enterprise AI Governance
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MODULE 08 · EXECUTIVE DOMAIN
Building a Cyber-Resilient Culture & Boardroom Dashboards
🏆Drive transformative organizational change: replacing blame-based culture with psychological safety, measuring security behavior change, and designing executive dashboards that drive strategic decisions.
📝 DELIVERABLE WORKPAPERExecutive Playbook: Boardroom Dashboards & M&A Due Diligence