ARE YOU PREPARED FOR A CYBERSECURITY INCIDENT?
The world of organizations, businesses and companies has been confronted with a relatively new phenomenon: cybercrime.
Cybersecurity has become a new discipline in the struggle to maintain the integrity of our businesses and organizations. Cybersecurity used to be the realm of technical experts alone. This is no longer a valid assumption: cybersecurity is also a concern for general managers and business leaders. They need not only to be aware of the threats that cybersecurity incidents pose to our businesses and organizations, but also to understand how to prepare, prevent, mitigate and respond to a wide variety of cyber related disruptions. Unfortunately, traditional incident management responses are not sufficient, and more needs to be understood, analyzed and applied to assure that cybersecurity incidents can be prevented, or, when things go wrong, can be adequately responded to.
CYBERSECURITY INCIDENTS CAN IMPACT YOUR ORGANIZATION
Cybersecurity incidents are among the most complex phenomena a manager can encounter.
Most of us are professional in our own fields, but only some of us know how to respond effectively to a cybersecurity incident.
Every year, countless people and organizations are being impacted by cybersecurity incidents or the effects they cause. The effects of cybersecurity incidents on organizations that are directly impacted can be devastating. These incidents can brutally disrupt our business, our organizations or companies, and threaten the livelihoods of our staff, clients and beneficiaries, may damage or destroy our assets, and even force us out of business. We should ask ourselves: Are we prepared for such intense events? Are we ready to manage a cybersecurity incident?
How do we bounce back quickly from something that has hit us hard?
The Cybersecurity Incident Response Programme CIRP™ will help find answers to these questions. CIRP™ is a blended learning programme developing individual and organizational capabilities to manage cybersecurity incidents, based on global best practice. The programme
shares overviews of the nature of cybersecurity incidents, theoretical and practical concepts on how to best prepare, and presents global best practice in prevention, preparation and response mechanisms.
CYBERSECURITY INCIDENTS HAPPEN, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT
Risk managers around the world apply due diligence in preparing and readying their staff and organization for the moment when things go wrong. That should include being prepared and ready for a cybersecurity incident.
CIRP™ capacitates governments, international organizations, private sector and individuals to prepare for and overcome cybersecurity incidents.
RESEARCH AND BEST PRACTICE
The management of a cybersecurity incident requires employers, managers and staff to respond effectively, whilst navigating a plethora of volatile dynamics in an often difficult and unpredictable context. CIRP™ presents effective responses to cybersecurity incidents and best practices that have been distilled from multiple case studies, academic research, experiences from cybersecurity incident managers and law enforcement.
CIRP™ OFFERS A SOLUTION
The CIRP™ programme provides a comprehensive eLearning experience that goes further and deeper than any other existing standard crisis management programme and is unique in its kind. The programme is open for those who are most at risk: general managers at executive, division or unit levels, cybersecurity incident responders, and operations support managers alike, and provides unlimited access to knowledge, skills and resources that were not available to them before. The CIRP™ programme has been created for a contemporary online learning environment and is completely built around the concept that connectivity has replaced face-to-face contact, both in training as well as in the management of cybersecurity incidents.
OUR TARGET
In summary, the CIRP™ programme is an interactive e-Learning programme for managers in organizations tasked with responding to cybersecurity incidents involving. The programme is foremost aimed at managers at all levels who are responsible for cybersecurity and cybersecurity incident response in companies and organizations around the world.
THE CIRP™ PROGRAMME AS EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
The CIRP™ programme fits non-for- profit organizations and private businesses alike and can be valued as an effective risk management and due diligence measure. The objective is to enable managers to effectively deal with a cybersecurity incident, whilst navigating the dynamic and complex environment in which the organization, staff, the threat actors, the media, law enforcement, national authorities and many other stakeholders are immersed. The programme integrates cybersecurity incident management into the concepts of business continuity planning, security risk management, organisational resilience management and contingency planning.
CIRP™ PROGRAMME BOARD
The programme is unique, in the sense that it synthesizes more than thirty years of research and global best practices. The quality of the programme is validated by a Programme Board consisting of world experts in the field of cybersecurity incident response, law enforcement, and crisis management.
The CIRP™ Programme leads to the Certification Cybersecurity Incident Manager CSIM™ qualification, which is accredited by Highfield International, the international branch of Highfield Qualifications, a top 5 UK awarding organization. Highfield accreditation has recognised the CIRP™ programme as being equivalent to a level 6, using the Ofqual’s Regulated Qualification Framework (RQF) as a reference.
