Join us to learn about our many members-only resources and activities, and to meet your fellow CEO Trustees (members). 

Video Conference Time:
1pm - 2pm ET
12pm - 1pm CT
11am - 12pm MT
10am - 11am PT

IMPORTANT:  This is a video conference with a visual presentation. For full participation, please join via web-based device with video capability. Registration is necessary in order to receive dial-in details.

Additional dates will be scheduled to meet new member needs and schedule constraints. 

Cyber Crime for Board Directors

Security breaches can turn calm work environments into high-stress battle zones. Informed board directors, equipped to understand threats and take appropriate precautions, play a crucial role. They must also navigate AI's disruptive potential, managing strategic risks and opportunities while ensuring compliance and safeguarding stakeholder relationships. This preparedness allows for smart and swift decision-making during cyber attacks.

This course is designed to educate board directors about cybercrime, incident response, and the impact emerging technology and AI is having on business. Participants will learn about key risks, methods for managing risk, and how to enable business in a safe and secure way without sacrificing time to market. We will review scenarios based on real-world intrusions by a sophisticated attacker, examining tactics and technologies from both the attacker’s and victim’s perspectives. The scenarios will illustrate the most common methods attackers use to establish a foothold and remain undetected in the victim’s network.

The course also covers the pros and cons of follow-up actions available to the victim and provides critical insight into the many issues investigators and victim organizations face when defending networks and responding to security breaches.

This is a highly interactive course with public company directors and high-quality attendees who are either on boards or likely to land on boards. It is designed with relationship building in mind, not merely networking. 

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, directors should be able to:

• Understand how attackers defeat defenses and compromise networks

• Oversee and build AI literacy to help safeguard the company

• Explore the most common network defense posture assumed by victims

• Collect electronic evidence

• Understand how investigators analyze data and use findings to resolve incidents

• Grasp the challenges an organization faces after its computer security defenses are breached

• Understand the full process of cyber incident response through an active simulation with audience participation

Approved Attendees Only: If you wish to learn more or apply to participate in this program, apply at ceotrust.org/apply. If you register here, you will still be subject to screening, and fees will be returned if denied entrance. 

Role, Responsibilities, and Process for the Audit Committee 

One of the major operating committees of a company’s board of directors is the audit committee. The committee’s oversight of financial reporting and risk management is more important today than it ever has been. In addition, the audit committee’s responsibilities are increasing as investors, regulators and other stakeholders raise their expectations.

This training will focus on the audit committee’s key role, responsibilities and oversight of various areas including financial reporting, internal controls, audit, risk and compliance. We will also cover emerging governance, audit committee issues and trends, as well as practical and actionable insights, perspectives and ideas to help maximize performance. In addition, board director faculty will share real-world experiences that make this content easier to absorb and understand the importance and impact at the board level

In this program we cover the primary elements a director needs to know to be an effective Audit Committee Member or Chair, including:

• Audit committee oversight - roles and responsibilities
• Differences between private and public companies 
• Critical accounting policies 
• Whistleblower reports
• Deterring fraud
• Audit committee benchmarking / best practices
• Audit committee meetings and how to be most effective
• Committee reporting
• Practical tips for the audit committee chair and members
  

Oversight of:

• Financial reporting and internal controls, including questions to consider prior to reporting
• Financial statements: earnings releases, tips for reviewing reported results
• External audit (reinforce audit quality by establishing clear expectations for auditors)
• Internal audit (if applicable) and using them effectively (to identify and monitor key risks beyond reporting and compliance)
• Key risks and/or coordination with other board committees 
• Regulatory requirements & compliance

Expect an Intense Exploration of Audit Committee Work Along with Time to Interact with Other Top-Tier Board Candidates, Public and Private Company Board Faculty. 

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST SOON! ONLY PREAPPROVED ATTENDEES MAY ATTEND. SPACES ARE LIMITED. SEND YOUR REGISTRATION REQUEST TO http://ceotrust.org/apply AND INCLUDE BIO, RESUME OR LINKEDIN.