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The Cyber Siege: Leading Through a Ransomware and Data-Breach Crisis

For chief executives and boards of African banks, telecoms and large groups. Learn to command the first hours, decide on the ransom, restore the business, meet notification duties, engage regulators and insurers, communicate under attack and rebuild. Then prove it in a live simulation.

  • Price₦259,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, chairs, risk and audit committee chairs, CISOs, general counsel and finance chiefs of African banks, telecoms, utilities and large groups.

What you will learn

  • Declare a cyber crisis early and run the first hours in order, with a decision log and an out-of-band channel
  • Set up a crisis cell with clear authority, including the authority to isolate systems
  • Restore services in dependency order, run controlled manual workarounds and verify backups
  • Decide on a ransom as a board, with legal, sanctions and insurance advice, and negotiate only through professionals
  • Establish what data was taken, meet notification duties on time and protect affected people
  • Engage regulators, law enforcement, insurers, lenders and partners with one consistent account
  • Communicate under attack, manage the financial impact and rebuild with independent review and accountability

Course outline

  1. The first hours of a cyber siege
  2. Command and decision rights
  3. Containment, restoration and the business
  4. The ransom question
  5. Data, customers and notification duties
  6. Regulators, law enforcement, insurers and partners
  7. Communications under attack
  8. Money, markets and the balance sheet
  9. Recovery, accountability and rebuilding
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days