Cyber and IT risk management
About the course
As cyber and IT threats continue to grow in frequency and sophistication, financial institutions face significant challenges in managing these risks. This course equips participants with the essential knowledge to navigate today’s complex cyber landscape.
This training offers strategies for identifying, assessing and mitigating cyber and IT risks, including insights on the role of AI, human behaviour and automation. Our expert practitioners will cover a range of topics, from cyber governance to third-party management, ensuring participants gain a comprehensive understanding of these risks.
Attendees will leave the course prepared to create a cyber risk programme that aligns with business objectives, integrates with core processes and addresses emerging cyber threats.
What participants say:
- ‘These training courses give you access to a broad spectrum of related subtopics, handful of real-life examples to reinforce understanding, as well as wealth of experience and insights.’
Learning objectives
- Understand the current cyber threat landscape
- Learn how to build a culture of cyber security compliance
- Identify human behaviour risks driving cyber incidents
- Evaluate third-party and operational resilience exposures
- Increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a cyber risk programme
- Utilise artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to enhance cyber risk mitigation
Who should attend
Relevant departments may include but are not limited to
- Cyber risk
- Cybersecurity
- Operational risk
- Information technology
- Cyber crime
- Risk management
- Third-party risk
- Senior management
Tutors
Marlene Dehart
Southern Bancorp
Head of information security
Marlene is a Senior level Cybersecurity and Information Security Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is responsible for providing strategic and technical direction in secure product and service delivery, architecture and assurance, risk management, and compliance oversight. Her proven track record and leadership abilities, coupled with sincere passion and commitment, has enabled her to achieve measurable success in the information security profession and the emerging Cyber Security forefront.
Raj Narayan
IYCOM
Managing partner
Raj has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry with roles at organisations such as, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Truist and Wells Capital Management. His primary area of focus has been AI and audit with expertise in AI governance, AI risk, data governance, financial crimes risk and AI security management. He focuses on helping governance, risk, audit, cybersecurity and compliance teams translate regulatory expectations and emerging technology risks into practical, execution ready governance.
Adam Ennamli
Deel
Global head of operational risk management
Adam is a senior global executive with over 15 years of experience in technology, operational risk and sustainability at large organisations. Prior to his current role as global head of operational risk management at Deel, he was the chief risk officer for compliance at General Bank of Canada. He led the combined risk. compliance and security function to build a durable competitive advantage for GBC while navigating the transition to improved partnerships, technology and capabilities. He has also held roles at Reuters, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corportation, Morgan Stanley and National Bank of Canada.
Teddy Ramanakasina
EY
Associate director - global information security
Teddy is an associate director in global information security at EY with more than 25 years of international experience across telecommunications, banking and insurance. He specialises in cybersecurity, IT audit, technology risk, governance and regulatory compliance, advising organisations on complex technology and risk across regulated environments. His background combines 18 years at Orange Group (IT audit, large-scale payments and mobile financial services) with global responsibilities at EY, involving complex international security and risk perimeters and high-impact decision-making. Throughout his career he has overseen group-level cybersecurity programs, incident response and operational resilience, cloud and third-party risk governance and executive risk arbitration across regulatory frameworks.
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