Cybersecurity Leadership Short Course | MIT Sloan Executive Education

Cybersecurity Leadership for Non-Technical Executives

Dates: Nov 14-15, 2019 | Apr 7-8, 2020 | Jun 11-12, 2020 | Oct 27-28, 2020

Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

Stuart Madnick is the John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Professor of Engineering Systems at the MIT School of Engineering, and the Founding Director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan: the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.

Madnick’s involvement in cybersecurity research goes back to 1979, when he coauthored the book Computer Security. Currently, he heads the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan Initiative, formerly called the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, aka (IC)3.

Madnick holds a PhD in computer science from MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1972. He served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group in the Sloan School of Management for more than 20 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 books, articles, and reports. Besides cybersecurity, his other research interests include Big Data, semantic connectivity, database technology, software project management, and the strategic use of information technology.

Madnick has served as a consultant to major corporations and has been the cofounder of five high-tech firms. He currently operates the 14th-century Langley Castle Hotel in England.

Keri Pearlson is the Executive Director of the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan: The Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)3 at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Pearlson has held positions in academia and industry including Babson College, The University of Texas at Austin, Gartner’s Research Board, CSC, and AT&T. She founded KP Partners, a CIO advisory services firm and the IT Leaders’ Forum, a community of next generation IT executives. She is the founding director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium at the International Institute of Analytics. Pearlson began her career at Hughes Aircraft Company as a systems analyst.

Pearlson's research spans MIS, business strategy, and organizational design. Her current research studies how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity and how organizations build trust to share mitigations for cyber breaches. She is the coauthor of Managing and Using Information: A Strategic Approach 6thed and of Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value. Her work has been published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, The Academy of Management Executive, Information Resources Management Journal, and Harvard Business Publishing.

Pearlson holds a Doctorate in business administration (DBA) in MIS from Harvard Business School, and an MS in industrial engineering and BS in mathematics from Stanford. She is the founding president of the Austin Society for Information Management (SIM) and was named “2014 National SIM Leader of the Year.”

Michael Siegel is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is currently the Co-Director of the PROductivity from Information Technology (PROFIT) Project. Siegel’s research interests include the integration and use of information from multiple and the use of modeling and data analytics to analyze complex systems.

His work has been published in areas including the use of information technology in financial risk management and global financial systems, cybersecurity, applications of computation social science to analyze state stability, digital business, financial account aggregation, healthcare information systems, heterogeneous database systems, managing data semantics, query optimization, intelligent database systems, and learning in database systems.

He received his BS in engineering from Trinity College (1977), an MS in engineering from the Solar Energy Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980), and an MA and PhD in computer science from Boston University (1989).

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Fighting cybercrime requires a new kind of leadership

In today’s landscape of escalating cybercrime, resiliency calls for a new kind of leadership and cybersafe culture, requiring the active engagement of both technical and non-technical management.

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Companies must build a culture of security, or risk a disastrous attack on data and infrastructure.

Robert C: As a technical professional, I took the course in part to learn how to work more efficiently and effectively with non-technical executives. The course exceeded all my expectations because of the faculty and the diversity of my fellow students. The content of the course was robust with information and insight provided by the faculty. I was repeatedly wowed by their masterful abilities to engage the diverse audience with the course content and each other. The course was an enthusiastic call to action about cyber security. Many frameworks, methods and insights were shared that could positively impact organizations of any size. The faculty provided a playbook template that was rich with thought provoking questions so each individual participant could transform their in class case study learning into action plans to impact the students work environments. Thanks to the brilliant yet personable faculty, the playbook I was enabled to write was pure ROI for me and my employer. We began implementing enhanced communication and other real world cyber security solutions the first day I was back from MIT Thank you MIT!

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Christina S: Interesting perspectives from knowledgeable speakers.

Guntram H: Comprehensive introduction into the matter of cybersecurity. I benefited from the lectures as well as from the class discussions with a number of international participants. And would have liked to learn more about the technical topics behind it.

Sebastien G: Perfect course for business leaders in search of a holistic approach to understanding and addressing cybersecurity topics. Interactive class experience leveraging cases, frameworks and first-hand experience of faculty and participants alike. Fireside chat session very engaging.

Jason L: Geared towards those who are not CIOs/CISOs, the cybersecurity Leadership for Non-Technical Executives provides an excellent discourse on fundamentals of cybersecurity, approaches to developing a culture of cybersafety, and development of holistic implementation strategies.

Stephen A: Really enjoyed this course. The content was great for people with and without cyber security experience.

DAY 1 SAMPLE
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Session 1: What Managers Need to Know about Cybersecurity
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 2: Proactive Cybersecurity Management
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Networking Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Session 3: Managing Risk
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Session 4: Building a Cybersecurity Culture
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Networking Reception
DAY 2 SAMPLE
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Session 1: You’ve been Hacked: Now What? (Exercise)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 2: Ethics in Cybersecurity
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Networking Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Session 3: Governance of Cybersecurity
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Session 4: Building Your Cybersecurity Plan
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Program Conclusion

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John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Information Technology
Professor, Information Technology and Engineering Systems

Founding Director, Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan Program

Executive Director (IC)3
Management Science
Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity