GCA Executive Course
Cyber Essentials for GCs and Boards
September 23, 2024
Each GCA Executive Course ensures that GCs become fully up to date with one or more cutting-edge Business Management developments proposed by GCA Alumni. The Lead Instructor is always one of the best and he or she teaches the subject specifically for the practice of GCs and CLOs.
Executive courses you will never forget
While the GCA Executive Program allows GCs and CLOs to take one week dive into the world of Business Management and the Future of General Counsel, each GCA Executive Course ensures that the GCs remain up to date in the field of Business Management items suggested by Alumni themselves.
Everything, of course, according to the proven GCA concept: intensive lessons from the very best Lead Instructors, motivated peers and a lot of attention to mutual connection. Your GCA network will become even bigger and closer.
Cyber Essentials for GCs and Boards
We better up our game!
by Prof. Dr. Mr. Lokke Moerel
Cyber risk is steadily reported by companies to be in the top 3 of critical business risks, but research shows that boards and their General Counsel lack the required cyber experience and cyber risks are not yet sufficiently embedded in the regular risk management and reporting structures of companies. This while applying a set of baseline security standards protects against 99% of the cyberattacks.
Regulators in the EU (NIS2, DORA) and all around the world are responding to what they perceive as a lack of cyber readiness by issuing specific requirements as to cybersecurity, cyber risk management, due cyber governance including requirements as to board oversight, the role & position of CISOs and board’s cybersecurity knowledge and expertise. These regulations also include provisions involving individual personal accountability and liability.
Opportunities & Threats
- Cyber threats today and tomorrow
- Geopolitical implications and digital sovereignty
- How to measure possible impacts
Legal responsibilities and lessons learned
- Global legal landscape governing corporate responsibility for cyber
- General Counsel and Board responsibilities and lessons learned
- Lessons learned from assisting multinationals in their global cyber incidents
Monitor and measure
- Overview of the questions Boards and GCs should ask
- Security frameworks and mappings to gain and maintain control
- Top 10 controls and how they look like in practice
- Monitoring relevant threats and adapt mitigations
- Cyber board reporting metrics that make sense
- Cyber oversight by the Board with a no-nonsense approach
Security incident scenario
- We will conclude the day with a real-life cyber incident scenario and will practice how to respond to a cybersecurity incident/hacking of critical corporate data. This incident scenario has many legal implications to illustrate the role of the General Counsel and the Legal Department.
Prof. Dr. Mr. Lokke Moerel
Lokke Moerel is one of world’s best-known global experts on new technologies and cyber. She is a member of the global privacy & cyber security team of the technology law firm Morrison & Foerster and spends much of her time assisting global companies respond to their cyber security incidents and cross-border regulatory investigations and assisting with their cyber preparedness.
She is also a professor of global ICT law at Tilburg University and Co-Academic Director (together with Freddy Dezeure) of the Tilburg University professional learning program Advanced Cyber Security & Governance as well as of the professional learning program AI & Law (teaching Algorithmic Accountability).
Lokke is a member of the Dutch Cyber Security Council (the advisory body of the Dutch cabinet on cybersecurity), expert on cyber of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Program, member of the Advisory Boards of the Dutch Academic Cyber Security Society (ACCSS) and The Hague Security Delta (HSD) and chair of the board of the Netherlands Atlantic Association. She was a member of the latest Monitoring Committee Dutch Corporate Governance Code.
Time to introduce some GCA Alumni
Diversity is one of our core values. All GCs are welcome. Some GCA Alumni are happy to share their GCA experiences with you.
Practical information
- Upcoming GCA Executive Course: Monday, September 23, 2024 (8:30am to 9:00pm) including dinner.
- Registration is ongoing.
- Throughout this day the language of instruction is English.
Admission fee
We believe in all-in fees. The tuition fee amounts to € 1,250.- (ex VAT) and includes all lessons, all teaching materials, the lunch, a walking dinner and all bites during the breaks and even all drinks during the day (incl wine/beer etc, but except liquors).
Het Roode Koper
The GCA Executive Course of September 23, 2024 will be held in one of the finest Hotel-Estates in The Netherlands called ‘Het Roode Koper’ in the midst of the beautiful National Park ‘De Veluwe’ with a great hospitality allowing you to fully focus on the Program.
