What is Cybersecurity?

• How is it defined?
• What are the key issues?
• The current guidance
• Current threats to operations and IT
• Why is it urgent now?
• The purpose of a cyber security program

 Cyber security and Operations

• Key areas of operations
• Alignment to operational resilience
• The relevance of ICT to operations
• STP and operations
• Implementing cyber security controls within operations
• The three lines model and operations

Cyber security and IT

• The modern IT department and its responsibilities
• Standards and requirements
• Firewalls
• Access rights and super users
• Monitoring and prevention
• New solutions for cyber security
• The impact of changing patterns of activity
• Identification of intruders an controls
• Modelling concerns and identification of issues

 IT and Cyber Controls

• Frameworks and Compliance
• Security architecture
• Procedures and controls
• Security policies and procedures
• HR Issues

 IT, Operations and  Cybersecurity

• The nature of the solutions
• The IT threat assessment
• Identifying vulnerabilities within IT
• Third party risk management and monitoring
• The increasing risk obligations

• How are work patterns changing as a consequence of the crisis?
• How does this change the risk assessment?
• Encryption
• Bi lateral key exchange
• Monitoring and reporting

The Cybersecurity Program

• The key elements
• Regulations and standards
• Threat analysis and drivers
• Internal v external
• Vulnerability Management Processes
• Vulnerability Scanners

The Cybersecurity Operations Centre

• Key concerns and issues
• Size and agility
• Data and technology
• The plan and analysis
• Time of operation
• Identifying trends and data mining
• Incident management
• BCP and DR

The benefits gained includes specialist technical and behavioural knowledge, and an understanding  of the approach to be adopted regarding implementing a cybersecurity program including the impact of new ways of working on the risk management profile of the firm.

Delegates who complete the course will receive a Certificate in Cybersecurity in Financial Institutions: Operations and IT Risk and for those who require a demonstration of competency via an assessment a 20-question and multiple choice answer quiz, remotely invigilated, with 1 resit and results report is available at no additional charge when requested at time of booking.

Highly interactive expert-led intensive presentation, Q&A, group real-time in-depth case studies, regulation and discussion supported by key principles and theory. The virtual learning platform uses safe, industry preferred encrypted Cisco WebEx to optimize live face-to-face visual interaction, discrete chat, for polling and quizzes.

(An invitation via email with access link is included for all participants.)