Cybersecurity for Managers
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Learn how to prepare, detect, and respond to modern cyber-attacks and how to help safeguard your business operations.
Cyber risk is a business risk that has grown significantly in recent years. Organizations do not get to choose if they are the target of cyber-attacks, such as a Ransomware campaign, and are often left vulnerable. This two-day application based course will prepare your business to mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks and to implement modern cyber-attack defense practices and techniques. Participants will also discover how to hire, retain, and manage a security team.
Topics Covered
- Introduction to cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity controls and defense in depth
- Building and measuring a cybersecurity awareness program
- Vulnerability management, patching and threat intelligence
- Cyber-attacks and hacking techniques
- Cyber incident response plans and execution
- Building and managing cybersecurity teams for modern active defense
- Cybersecurity metrics and presenting to the board
Key Learning Outcomes
- Recognize modern cyber threats, technology trends, and risk reduction.
- Practice management actions for a strong cyber security program.
- Assess strategies for hiring, retaining, and managing a security team.
- Navigate through a cyber-attack to prepare for potential, real attacks.
- Obtain and report meaningful metrics and reporting capabilities.
Course Duration: 2 days | Continuing Education Contact Hours: 14
Past Participants Said
"Extremely knowledgeable instructor who used language that matched the participants. Also provides extensive real world content for applying right away." - Fall 2022 Participant
Course Endorsements & Partnerships
This course has been endorsed by techNL as a valuable professional development option for member organizations.
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This course qualifies for Professional Development Units (PDUs) as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Each course has a specific qualifying factor for PDUs. See the table below for a specific PDU breakdown for this Gardiner Center program.
To learn more about PDUs and how to apply these credits to your active credential please see www.pmi.org.
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Talent Triangle Allocations |
Qualifying PDU Hours |
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Ways of Working |
11.2 |
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Power Skills |
0 | |
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Business Acumen |
2.8 | |
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TOTAL |
14 |
Instructor(s)
Dean Parsons (he/him)
Dean brings over 20 years of industry and cyber security experience to the classroom from both a technical and management perspective.
He has worked in both Information Technology (IT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Defense in critical infrastructure sectors across telecommunications, electric power grid generation, transmission, distribution, oil & gas refineries, storage, and distribution facilities, and managed security service providers.
Dean is an ambassador for modern cyber defence for businesses, critical industrial engineering systems, and an advocate for safety. He consults and conducts technical and high-level assessments on cyber security and security defence programs for organizations across; power system facilities, marine (offshore/onshore) terminals, manufacturing, water distribution, wastewater plants, and engineering projects.
His mission as a certified instructor is to empower each of his students as he walks through industry best practices and a wealth of practical case studies ‘from the field’, and delivers actionable takeaways that can be implemented as soon as classes end.
Over the course of his career, Dean’s accomplishments include establishing entire IT and ICS security programs for critical organizations, successfully containing and eradicating cyber attacks through incident response to targeted malware and ransomware infections in electricity generation and manufacturing control networks, performing threat analysis, digital forensics, documenting and facilitating incident response exercises, and building proactive cyber threat hunt teams. He consults and conducts technical and high-level assessments on cyber security and security defence programs and controls for organizations across; power system facilities, marine (offshore/onshore) terminals, manufacturing, water distribution, wastewater plants, and engineering projects.
Dean is a member of several advisory boards on information and industrial cyber defence, and holds cybersecurity professional certifications including GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional), GRID (Response and Industrial Defense), GSLC (Security Leadership), and GCIA (Certified Intrusion Analyst), as well as the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He is a proud native of Newfoundland and Labrador and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland.