Business Essentials for the Information Security Professional is a joint offering by Tuck’s Center for Digital Strategies and Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth.

This executive education program is designed for information security managers of Global 1000 companies and their direct reports. Sponsored in part by Dartmouth’s Institute for Security Technology Studies, this program will enhance your fundamental business skills and understanding so that you may engage more effectively with other business leaders throughout your enterprise. You will also develop a more strategic mindset to help you communicate security risk to the organization and demonstrate information security’s core value to the business.

PROGRAM goals

• Develop strategic thinking and planning skills
• Sharpen business communications skills
• Gain insight into how senior business leaders think
• Broaden understanding of risk and decision making
• Enhance program/project leadership skills
• Share best practices and build a network of professional colleagues

program topics

Strategic Thinking and Planning

Understand the impact that a focused, well-executed strategy has on a firm’s performance and decision making; learn how to incorporate strategic thinking and planning into your initiatives.

Leadership, Change, and Organizations

Discuss the constraints and opportunities of organizational culture and explore a framework for leadership; study the impact of organizational dynamics on leading projects and driving change.

Program/Project Management and Governance

Attain insight into program/project management and effective governance; develop a strategic plan, share best practices, and gain feedback of peers.

Communications, Power, and Influence

Examine how concepts of influence and power can define authority and control; refine your communications strategy by sharpening your objectives, analyzing your audience, and honing your message.

Risk, Investment, and Decision Making

Acquire deeper understanding of the psychology of risk and information security as risk management; learn how CFOs make investment decisions and how to do risk analysis in uncertain conditions.

who should attend

Business Essentials for the Information Security Professional is designed for CISOs and their direct reports seeking to enhance their fundamental business skills and knowledge, to complement their technical expertise, and to communicate more effectively with other strategic business leaders in the organization.

PROGRAM FACULTY

Paul Argenti, Pino Audia, Hans Brechbühl, Sydney Finkelstein, M. Eric Johnson, Stephen Powell, Kent Womack

The research and insight that Tuck's Center for Digital Strategies brings to the issues of the corporate IT organization and Tuck Executive Education's proven skill in management education combine to create a faculty team and curriculum tailored to the needs of today's information security professional.

pre-program sessions

Financial Tools and Management (optional)

Examine good vs. bad investments and the basic tools of analysis, including cash flows, time value of money, ROI, with an emphasis on project finance, controls, and evaluation.