Oversight of Cybersecurity in an Era of Digital Acceleration

Description

Who Should Participate?

Key Benefits

• After completing all components of the course, participants will:

  • Understand the landscape of cybersecurity threats including increased exposure from: 
    • Cloud migration and computing
    • Remote workforces
    • IT controls
    • Shadow IT
    • Cyber criminals’ targeting of employees and board members
    • Expediting of new vendor relationships
    • Increased online interactions and reliance on new platforms
  • Learn how best to evaluate their organization’s cyber maturity and existing cybersecurity programs and where/how they must evolve.
  • Learn how to engage productively with the Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and other senior members of management.
  • Develop a checklist of questions to ask management around cybersecurity planning, vulnerabilities and risk appetite.
  • Appreciate how the nature of cyber-threats will evolve.
  • Qualify for 8 CEUs toward the annual requirement to retain their ICD.D designation

  Participants will gain key insights and a robust understanding of cybersecurity risks. They will develop confidence and the necessary skills to make valuable contributions and enhance decision making in the boardroom, ultimately mitigating the impacts of existing and emerging cyber risks.

Format

• The structure includes:

   

  1. Independent online learning (four to six hours) This is a critical component of the course (and includes videos, readings, and more). It will prepare participants for effective participation in the live session and ensure they are ready to apply learnings from the course to their board work. The required independent learning should be completed prior to the live session. It is meant to be completed at a pace that works best for each participant.
  
  
  2. Live, instructor-led session (approximately four hours)
     This instructor-led online session will focus on the application of concepts covered through the independent learning. Attendance at the live session is required for successful course completion. The live session may include class discussions, breakout group discussions and exercises, Q & A with the instructor, and  simulations.
  
  
  3. Supplemental resources and tools
     Participants will receive supplemental resources to augment the required components of their independent learning packages.
  
  
  4. Learning sustainment and engagement opportunities
     Following course completion, participants will be invited to join an Alumni Portal, becoming part of a community where they gain access to tools and resources to help apply course learnings in real-life settings. They will also have opportunities to engage in discussion forums with course peers to exchange questions, ideas and experiences and apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills.

Course Offerings

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  City	Course	Application Deadline	Live session	Time
  Online	CYB 15	October 10, 2023	October 31, 2023	10 am -2:15 p.m. ET
  Online	CYB 16	May 21, 2024	June 12, 2024	10 am -2:15 p.m. ET

Faculty

Michael Parent, PhD, ICD.D

National Academic Director and Lead Instructor

 

Michael Parent, PhD, ICD.D

National Academic Director and Lead Instructor

 

Dr. Michael Parent is a recognized expert on Corporate Governance in Canada, with a focus on cybersecurity and IT governance. He is also co-founder of the ICD’s Board Oversight of Technology Program (which has since evolved into Digital Transformation from the Boardroom and DIT and Oversight of Cybersecurity in an era of Digital Acceleration) and currently the Academic Director for the Vancouver cohort of the ICD-Rotman Directors’ Education Programs. He has been an academic for over 25 years and is currently a Professor at the Segal Graduate School, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Prior to joining SFU, he was an Assistant Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University. Michael is an active executive educator, and has taught programs for the federal and provincial governments in Canada, Crown Corporations, as well as a number of public and private, for-profit and non-profit organizations. Before becoming an academic, he spent over a decade in the high technology industry in IT, new product development and marketing.

From 2015-2017 he was a Professor and Vice-Dean at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. He also held appointment as a Senior Special Advisor to the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, Government of Canada, in 2018-2019.

Michael holds a MBA and PhD degrees from Queen’s University, and qualified for the Institute of Corporate Directors’ ICD.D designation. His current research centres on governance practices at the Board, cybersecurity, IT governance, and luxury brands. He has published extensively in leading practitioner and academic journals. Michael has also written over 50 teaching case studies and coauthored three books.

Michael is an active executive educator, and has taught programs for the federal and provincial governments in Canada, Crown Corporations, as well as a number of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

He is the Academic Director for the Vancouver cohort of the Directors’ Education Programs for Canada’s Institute of Corporate Directors, co-Academic Director for the Montréal cohort, Founding Academic Director of the Ottawa cohort, and teaches the IT and Cybersecurity Risk module nationally.