Executive Cyber Awareness
What is the Executive Cyber Awareness Qualification?
This 1-day National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) - Certified course will provide you with the knowledge and relevant context of organisational critical, technical and people factors, involving cyber security.
This course will help you to become better informed of critical business risks associated with cyber security – enabling you to make proportional, impactful decisions.
Who is this Qualification for?
This Executive Cyber Awareness course is for any business leader who may or may not have an information security background but are required to determine their organisation’s cyber security strategy, investment and culture. This course is for executives, directors or senior management from public, commercial and corporate sector organisation, shareholders and business owners/leaders, including C-level professionals or risk owners.
Executive Cyber Awareness Benefits
- Determine which cyber security risks apply to an organisation – including reputational, operational, or financial risks.
- Gain insight to the global cyber threat landscape and real-world consequences of ignoring corporate risk.
- Understand various cyber security defence strategies, measures, capabilities, or operations that are possible to invest or implement into an organisation.
- Translate how real-world hacking case studies or data breaches relate to an organisation’s cyber security posture and maturity.
- Discover the methodologies an attacker might adopt to breach security and to expand access within an organisation’s network.
- Demystify cyber security industry jargon and associated media hype – including understanding what malware is and what it’s capable of.
Accreditation / Qualification(s) offered
Successful completion of this course will mean you will be awarded the NCSC-Certified Training at Awareness Level with IISP Core Skills A1, A2, A4, A5, B1, B2, C1, E1, E3, F1 and IISP Secondary skills H1, A7, C2, D1, D2, A3.
What This Course Includes
This includes course registration and NCSC-Certified Certificate.
Delivery Partner
This course will be delivered by our partners, Protection Group International, as part of our Cyber Alliance who will be the training provider of this course.
Delivery method:
Virtual ClassroomInstructor-led course
- Register your interest
- This is a virtual course with a live instructor. It includes interaction and group-work to embed learning. We encourage use of cameras, and have regular breaks to maintain freshness and engagement.
Small Classes
NCSC Certificate
Does not Expire


All prices are per person and exclude VAT.
By the end of this course, you will be better informed of the potential business risks associated with cyber security. You will be able to determine what you are trying to protect, who are you protecting it from and what measures are available to protect as well as adequately prepare your organisation.
There are no entry requirements for this course.
This training is typically tailored to an industry or for a defined audience with various durations. Example topics include:
- Definitions
- Headline Macro ‘Cyber’ Risks
- What is the risk to my industry/sector?
- Threat Actors and Motivations
- Common Access Techniques – how are organisations being attacked?
- Emerging Legislation and Compliance
- Corporate Management of Cyber Security
- Maturity Driven Investment
- Information Security Management Systems
- Operational Cyber Security Capabilities
- Cyber Insurance
- Cyber Security Strategies
Upcoming dates for Executive Cyber Awareness
Click here to register your interest in Executive Cyber Awareness.
All prices are per person and exclude VAT.
VAT will be calculated at checkout.