Early Bird Tuition - $4,495
Available until January 6, 2025
Regular Tuition - $4,995
Discounts are available for
NYU Alumni, U.S. Veterans and Government Employees, and Employee Group Discounts
Leadership in a Cyber Dependent World
Registration Deadline:
January 24, 2025
Program Description
Successful leaders in today’s connected world should be able to coordinate, communicate, and lead across technical and non-technical teams to raise awareness and educate all employees about cyber vulnerabilities, threats, and risk mitigation to ensure that business operations continue despite the onslaught of malicious activity from well-resourced and increasingly sophisticated cyber actors.
Connected devices and technologies are ubiquitous enablers that drive business value and mission success across all sectors of the economy. These opportunities come with risks and a cybersecurity incident affecting your organization is a certainty. The ability to lead proactively and effectively during a cybersecurity crisis is the difference between success and upward mobility and reputational damage and value loss. Leadership is an essential element of any cybersecurity strategy from resilience to talent acquisition and retention. This program is the ideal blend of leadership, technical education, and practical skills that will form the foundation of leadership roles in a wide variety of industries and organizations for decades to come.
The blend of technical computer network exploitation education with skills like crisis communications, digesting and actioning intelligence, and thinking strategically about the future of cybersecurity as technology evolves is essential to the success of any leader across sectors. Together with an in-person practicum at the end of the course, this approach creates a community of skilled cyber leaders with a deep network of resources from which each student can pull as they continue in their leadership journey.
The courses are specifically designed to create leaders with real cyber talent and hard skills who can critically evaluate a cybersecurity incident and act and respond accordingly. The strategic nature of the courses also prepares the cohort to create internal cybersecurity policies and strategies while interpreting external policies for how they may impact their organization.
Those who successfully complete this program will earn the Certificate in Cyber Leadership.
Course Topics
- Basics of Cyber Network Attack (CNA) - Adversary Tactics and Techniques
- Consuming Intelligence for Leaders
- Crisis Communications
- The Future of Cybersecurity and Emerging Tech
- Strategy and Policy Development
- Basics of Cyber Incident Response
- Security Versus Compliance
Program Schedule
This 8-week program features live interactive faculty-led sessions coupled with asynchronous modules providing cohort members with robust content delivered in a flexible format. The program features an in-person intensive practicum that will test the skills developed throughout the modules in a team exercise format led by industry experts.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, participants will have a better understanding of:
- Understand how a cyberattack is planned and executed.
- The difference between cyber security and compliance.
- How to consume and provide feedback to cybersecurity intelligence reports.
- Lead and manage the adoption of new technologies.
- Create and build cybersecurity policies and strategies.
- Build and manage a crisis communications plan.
- Respond quickly and effectively to cybersecurity incidents.
Who will benefit most from this program?
Current or aspiring leaders from the first line to the C-suite who want to add cybersecurity incident response and recovery to their skillset. This course was designed by industry leading experts and was specifically engineered to provide immediately relevant skills, a robust network, and hands-on experience that can be translated into action immediately upon completion. These individuals include:
- Team and department level supervisors whose portfolios include a nexus to cybersecurity and the implementation of emerging technologies
- Team members who aspire to, or are newly appointed to, team or department level supervisor positions.
- Senior leadership or executives that desire a deeper understanding of cyber vulnerabilities and cyber incident response.
This 8-week program features live interactive faculty-led sessions coupled with asynchronous weekly modules providing cohort members with robust content delivered in a flexible format.
The program will culminate in an in-person intensive practicum that will test the skills developed throughout the modules in a team exercise format led by industry experts at the NYU Washington DC Center.
VIRTUAL HYBRID
- Module One: Week of February 10th, Basics of Cybersecurity
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, February 12th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Two: Week of February 17th, Basics of CNA
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, February 19th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Three: Week of February 24th, Incident Response
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, February 26th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Four: Week of March 3rd, Risk Management
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, March 5th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Five: Week of March 10th, Future of Cybersecurity
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, March 12th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Six: Week of March 17th, Security Versus Compliance, Consuming Intelligence for Leaders
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, March 19th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Seven: Week of March 24th, Organizational Change Management, Crisis Comms
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, March 26th, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Module Eight: Week of March 31st, Strategy and Policy Development
Live Synchronous Session - Wednesday, April 2nd, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
ONSITE TABLETOP EXERCISE
- Friday, April 18th and Saturday, April 19th, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
NYU Washington DC - 1307 L St NW, Washington, DC 20005
*20% alumni discount available for those who have received a degree from NYU. Use the code ALUM-20 when registering to receive this discount. Please note that your alumni status will be verified.
*20% discount available for U.S. military veterans and U.S. government employees. Use the code USA-20 when registering with your government email address to receive this discount.
*10% discount available for organizations registering multiple employees. Contact Michelle D'Amico at mcd231@nyu.edu prior to registering your employees to receive this discount.
Program Faculty
Clayton “CJ” Dixon is the Senior Vice President for Growth and Partnerships at M&C Saatchi World Services. CJ oversees M&C Saatchi’s public sector cybersecurity portfolio and innovations related to the intersection of strategic communications and cyber. CJ previously served as the Senior Advisor for Cyber Policy and Deputy Director for Emerging Technology Policy in the Office of Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience at the Department of Homeland Security. CJ was also a Senior Advisor at New York City Cyber Command where he helped develop and implement citywide cybersecurity policies to protect New Yorkers. In a previous life, CJ served as a US Army Psychological Operations Officer countering violent extremist propaganda in West Africa.
Program Faculty
Chelsea Magnant is an expert at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. She's currently a Director at the Brunswick Group in the Technology, Media, and Telecoms practice where she advises clients on policy strategy and communications.
Before Brunswick, Chelsea spent 5 years at Google focused on geopolitical risk and tech policy strategy. Most recently, she led the public policy portfolio on cybersecurity and emerging technologies. Before that, she worked on the Global Affairs Strategy and Innovation team, leading scenario planning and strategic communications to help Google successfully transition into a more regulated state.
Chelsea began her career at the Central Intelligence Agency, helping the US Government's senior policymakers navigate complex geopolitical issues.
Chelsea is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs where she teaches on emerging technologies and their impact on developing countries. Additionally, she teaches tech policy and communications for the Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub.
Program Faculty
Nick Reese is the co-founder and COO of Frontier Foundry, an artificial intelligence company, and was most recently the first-ever Director of Emerging Technology Policy at the US Department of Homeland Security where he advised the White House and senior Cabinet officials on national security implications of emerging technologies. He is the author of the DHS AI Strategy, DHS’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Transition Roadmap, and the 2022 DHS Space Policy. He was also the lead DHS representative for the development of Space Policy Directive-5, National Security Memorandum-10, the National Space Policy, and Executive Order 13960.
A noted expert in cyber operations, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and outer space, he currently holds a faculty position at New York University teaching graduate courses related to emerging technology and geopolitics.
Mr. Reese has a 20+ year career in the US Military, Intelligence Community & Homeland Security with a focus on operations and bringing technical solutions to high-stakes national security challenges. From the front lines of the War on Terror to building Quantum Computing Policy he has been an instrumental actor in protecting our nation with an eye both on today and the future.
Mr. Reese is a graduate of Saint Leo University and Old Dominion University. He lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and their dog.
