The purpose of the course is to provide participants with the chance to re-evaluate the threats and vulnerabilities that may affect their organisations. It takes a holistic approach and explores strategic, operational, brand and IT-based threats and associated vulnerabilities. The course will start with a review of strategic management and the key elements of how to identify risk issues and the links to organisational exposure. As well as conventional methods of analysis, the course will also approach threats and risks from the view-point of an adversary or competitors’ view-point, known as “red teaming”.

Improving decision-making is at the core of the course, allowing participants the chance to explore how better decisions can be made and how to avoid classic mistakes. International standards, aligned to ISO31000 are referred to during the course.

Cyber security is reviewed, particularly the various and growing threats to organisation reputation through the use of malware and determined hackers. Finally, the importance of economic crime and the vulnerability to loss or theft of key information or intellectual property is examined.

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The course is divided into five days

1. Overview of risk, issue and threat analysis
2. Business continuity and vulnerability analysis
3. Decision-making and risk/vulnerability analysis
4. Use of futures methodologies
5. Online reputation management and cyber security

Day One: Overview of Risk, Issue and Threat Analysis

• Key elements of effective risk analysis and management
• Threats, vulnerabilities, loss/impact
• Reputation and strategic management and vulnerability analysis
• Evaluation of brand, business model and strategic capabilities
• Risk assessment, frameworks and international standards
• Strategic issue management and threat assessment
• Threat assessment using conventional and alternative (red teaming) analysis

Day Two: Conducting a Vulnerability Analysis

• Identifying threats and risks to the organisation: assets and capabilities
• Business impact analysis and risk assessment
• Importance of policy and stakeholder analysis
• Quantifying organisational threats and risks
• Prioritising threats
• Mitigating and reducing risk exposure

Day Three: Decision-Making and Vulnerability Analysis

• Overview of making better decisions
• Decision-making and vulnerability analysis
• Use of decision trees and other methods for making more logical decisions
• Use of historic data for decision making
• Use of futures methods in guiding decision making
• Issue analysis
• Win/loss analysis and value chain analysis
• Financial ratios and statement analysis

Day Four: Use of Futures Methodologies

• Concept of strategic anticipation and foresight analysis
• Scenario planning
• Horizon scanning
• Trend analysis

Day Five: Online Reputation Management and Cyber Security

• Threats via online reputation management
• Proactive and reactive online reputation management
• Tools and monitoring systems
• Handling negative comments online
• Measuring online reputation
• Vulnerability of information and knowledge access
• Different malware and attack modes used by hackers
• Vulnerability to economic crime and information security
• Developing cyber resilience

Fee: £3500 + VAT

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