• Watch a preview of this course • Discover how to take this course: Online, In-Person sans.org/LDR514 LDR514: Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership Aligning Security Initiatives with Strategy As security professionals, we have seen the landscape change. Cybersecurity is now more vital and relevant to the growth of your organization than ever before. As a result, information security teams have more visibility, more budget, and more opportunity. However, with this increased responsibility comes more scrutiny. This course gives you tools to become a security business leader who can build and execute strategic plans that resonate with other business executives, create effective information security policy, and develop management and leadership skills to better lead, inspire, and motivate your teams. Policy is a manager’s opportunity to express expectations for the workforce, set the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and empower people to do what they ought to be doing. These policies must be aligned with an organization’s culture. In LDR514, we break down the steps to policy development so that you have the ability to design and assess policies that can successfully guide your organization. Leadership is a skill that must be learned, exercised, and developed to better ensure organizational success. Strong leadership is brought about primarily through selfless devotion to the organization and staff, tireless effort in setting the example, and having the vision to see and effectively use available resources toward the end goal. Effective leadership entails persuading team members to accomplish their objectives, removing the obstacles preventing them from doing it, and maintaining the well-being of the team in support of the organization’s mission. LDR514 will teach you to use management tools and frameworks to better lead, inspire, and motivate your teams. Hands-On Training LDR514 uses business case studies, fictional companies, and the Cyber42 leadership simulation game to put you in real-world scenarios that spur discussion and critical thinking of situations that you will encounter at work. This web application-based game is a continuous tabletop exercise where students play to improve security culture, manage budget and schedule, and improve security capabilities at a fictional organization. This puts you in real-world scenarios that spur discussion and critical thinking of situations that you will encounter at work. The course also uses case studies from Harvard Business School, case scenarios, team-based exercises, and discussions that put students in real-world situations. You will be able to use these same activities with your own team members at work. You Will Be Able To • Develop security strategic plans that incorporate business and organizational drivers • Develop and assess information security policy • Use management and leadership techniques to motivate and inspire your teams 5 Day Program 30 CPEs Laptop Required GSTRT Strategic Planning, Policy & Leadership giac.org/gstrt “ This course is great content for leaders within the field. It pushes people to stop always focusing on the technical aspects of cybersecurity and really understand what the business needs from its security function as a whole to enable the business” —Alexander Walker, TechVets “ The knowledge gained in class will directly translate to an increased maturity in my organization’s security policy as topics and principles discussed are implemented.” — Mike Parkin, Chapters Health System “ I loved the labs and exercises. They were exactly what I was looking for as the new marketplace security PM on my team.” —Rebecca Gaudet, Microsoft