A breakfast seminar exclusively for business leaders and senior board members seeking guidance on cyber security threats, by the security consultancy, Advent IM, is running at the company’s Training Centre, near the M5 at Birmingham, on Wednesday, December 7.
The seminar will be delivered by Advent IM Managing Director and Director of Cyber Strategy and Research for The Security Institute, Mike Gillespie. As a Director, Gillespie understands the place of senior leadership in cyber resilience and risk management. This seminar is to promote and enhance understanding of the organisational threats that boardrooms need to factor into resilience strategies. Seminar attendees will also have first access to places on the forthcoming training course, again exclusively for senior leaders and the C-Suite, to start in March 2017.
Mike Gillespie, pictured, is a member of the Professional Security magazine editorial board. He said: “The cyber threat landscape is high on the agenda of all boardrooms. Many businesses have felt the impact of cyber-attack, either directly or through supply chain partners. No size of business is immune and no kind of service spared the attackers attention, with even hospitals being struck by ransomware. Recent research suggests that 82 per cent of businesses say security is a CEO or board level concern and two thirds saying they are increasing cyber security spend. The additional spend is great, but without leadership and solid strategy, it may not achieve anything near its potential, and cyber risk may not be reduced. We have to make sure boardrooms are well briefed and understand how to go about effective cyber risk management.”
Details of the seminar and how to book can be found at http://www.advent-im.co.uk/breakfast-seminar-7th-december-cyber-security-awareness-for-business-leaders/ or call 0121 559 6699 or 0207 100 1124 or email [email protected].
