ACCA: Manage the cyber threat for finance professionals

• How to facilitate a risk assessment to identify the potential threats and the vulnerabilities they may exploit and the business impacts of a cyber-attack.

• Recognise that the risks are constantly changing and the need for continuous process improvement. Including how to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the cyber/information security practices.

• Understand how to manage an incident and the processes required to effectively respond and recover.

• Understand that effective security protection is a combination of people, process and technology and how to create a culture of cyber and information security.

• Understand the physical and logical access controls which should be implemented to adequately and appropriately protect the organisation’s information and technology resources.

• Understand the potential risk responses and mitigation actions to appropriately and adequately protect the business from the identified cyber risks.

1. Introduction

• Objectives of the course

• Outline of the cyber threat

• What’s different about cyber

2. The basic hygiene factors

• Secure configuration of IT infrastructure

• Malware protection

• Configuring network devices securely

3. Approach and effective access controls

• Implement approaches and effective access controls

• The importance of 2 factor authentication

4. Understand risks

• Principles of risk management

Manging the risks effectively

5. Understand and manage third-party supplier risks

• Manging the full supply chain

• Information value and sensitivity

• Supplier impacts on service delivery

6. Understand and manage third-party supplier risks

• Manging the full supply chain

• Encouraging a cyber-security aware culture

• Words into actions

7. Respond and recovery

• Incident management capability

• Respond and recover plan for breaches

8. Continuous improvement

• The need for performance monitoring

• Defining appropriate KPIs

• Performance dashboard

9. Skills and resources

• The importance of access to the right skills

• The need for up-to-date training

10. Concluding themes