Presenting Cyber Security to Business Audiences
Presenting cyber security to a business audience is a separate skill from doing the work. This four week course covers the briefing itself: what to open with, what to cut, and how to answer a question you were not expecting.
You present in every session and get direct feedback. By the end you can brief a board, defend a budget request, and speak clearly during an incident when the room is tense and the facts are still moving.
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Class size
- Capped at 10 learners
What you will be able to do
- Open a briefing with the decision you need rather than the background
- Turn a technical finding into a business consequence a director recognizes
- Build a ten slide executive deck and present it inside fifteen minutes
- Answer a hostile question without becoming defensive or vague
- Say what you do not yet know during an incident without losing the room
- Present a budget request in terms of risk reduced, not tools bought
- Adapt the same material for a board, a project team and an audit committee
Course outline
6 modules
- What boards, executives and project teams each want to hear
- What your audience already believes about security
- Choosing the single message you will be remembered for
- Naming the decision you are asking for
- Planning for the time you get, not the time you were promised
What you need before you start
- Enough security knowledge to have material worth presenting
- A webcam and microphone for live practice
- Readiness to be recorded and to watch yourself back
Who this course is for
- Analysts and engineers asked to present to people outside the team
- Consultants who deliver findings face to face with clients
- Security leads preparing for a first board or executive briefing
- Incident responders who handle stakeholder updates during a live event
- Technical staff moving into roles where speaking is most of the job
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