Strategic Leadership for Cybersecurity Managers: From Team Management to Security Culture Development
2h 35mBeginner2025-01-14
Authors
Jerich Beason
Chief Information Security Officer, Podcast Host, Speaker
Course details
This course aims to transform cybersecurity professionals into influential executive leaders who can strategically align security with business goals, build high-performing teams, defend budgets, communicate effectively with stakeholders, increase organizational influence, lead through crises, and establish a lasting legacy of secure leadership.
Join instructor Jerich Beason as he imparts lessons on power, influence, and legacy. Learn how to walk into a boardroom and not just survive but drive decisions that protect, enable, and evolve an organization.
Learning objectives
Create and align a cybersecurity strategy to business objectives.
Design a high-performing cyber team and lead with trust.
Build and defend a security budget with confidence.
Communicate effectively with boards, execs, and cross-functional teams.
Market cybersecurity internally to increase visibility and influence.
Lead through crises with calm, control, and credibility.
Develop successors and build a legacy of secure leadership.
Join instructor Jerich Beason as he imparts lessons on power, influence, and legacy. Learn how to walk into a boardroom and not just survive but drive decisions that protect, enable, and evolve an organization.
Learning objectives
Create and align a cybersecurity strategy to business objectives.
Design a high-performing cyber team and lead with trust.
Build and defend a security budget with confidence.
Communicate effectively with boards, execs, and cross-functional teams.
Market cybersecurity internally to increase visibility and influence.
Lead through crises with calm, control, and credibility.
Develop successors and build a legacy of secure leadership.
Skills covered
Governance, Risk, and ComplianceCybersecurityOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Strategic leadership for cybersecurity leaders
The First 90 Days in Cyber Leadership
- Welcome to the war room - Owning your role early
- Mapping the terrain
- Listening before leading
- Quick wins, strategic patience
- Establish your credibility quickly
Building a Winning Cybersecurity Strategy
- Strategy vs. activity
- Aligning to business outcomes
- Risk, resilience, and reliability
- Strategy on a page
- Making the strategy last
Building and Leading a High-Performing Team
- Designing your org for now and the future
- Hiring for the long game
- Coaching like an executive
- Creating a culture of trust
- Handling underperformance
- Your team brand
Budgeting and Business Cases That Win
- Understanding the budget game
- Speaking the language of finance
- Building the business case
- Defending the budget in tough times
- Multiyear thinking
- Pitching with confidence
Marketing Your Cybersecurity Org Internally
- Why marketing matters in cyber
- Crafting the cyber narrative
- Making your team visible
- Embedding security in culture and communication
- Staying consistent and clear
Communicating with the Board and Managing Crises
- What the board wants to know
- Creating your board deck
- Speaking calm in chaos
- Incident response for execs
- Reputation risk is business risk
- Post-crisis leadership
Developing Your Successors and Building Legacy
- Lead with executive presence
- Developing future leaders
- Succession planning in action
- Leaving a legacy
- When it's time to move to the next opportunity
Conclusion
- Turning knowledge into action