About our course

Our online course Cyber Risk Resilience for Directors contains essential cyber risk education in language participants can understand.

Cyber Risk Resilience for Directors is designed specifically for boards, directors and business owners.

This series initially looks at basic concepts of cybercrime locally and globally, while also discussing first party impacts in the event of a cyber breach. From there, our education examines the cyber informed legal, regulatory, and privacy obligations that boards, business owners and directors must consider in the governance of their respective organisations.

The content appeals to all participants by avoiding technical jargon while incorporating relatable scenarios through a thoughtful, logical structure. 

Course duration:

Module 1 - 1 hour
Module 2 - 1 hour

Module 1 | Understanding Cyber Risk

Our first module focuses on gaining a better understanding of cyber vulnerabilities in business today and the critical impacts a cyber event exposes. In this first module you'll learn:

  • Why cyber governance is a board issue

  • That managing cyber risk is everyone's responsibility in a business

  • How cyber events and human error occur

  • To analyse the specific types of risks presented so that you can focus risk management activities where they matter the most

  • Important questions to ask of management

Module 2 | Directors' duties, legal duties and building a cyber resilience framework

Our second module in this series focuses on guidance for directors and business owners. This module discusses:

  • Why cyber resilience, rather than cybersecurity only, is the focus for businesses today

  • Why cyber resilience is a governance issue

  • Directors' duties and cyber risk governance in Australia

  • Legal duties, including Privacy Law, and the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act

  • How to apply our cyber resilience framework to your organisation

What participants are saying

Since the 2024 release of this two module series, we've received some great feedback

  • This is a highly informative course

    Tackles some very technical issues in cyber security and provides practical examples of how to deal with potential and existing threats.

  • On point, thorough, well presented

    Easy to follow, thorough and certainly very relevant today. I was very impressed by the detail.

  • Fantastic course!

    The course content was current, on point, easy to follow. Interesting and disturbing case examples were provided and it is something I can draw on in my role very easily.

Your instructor

Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director

Simone is the legal practitioner director of Law & Cyber (L&C), an incorporated legal practice which provides risk management education about cyber events and email fraud, legal and insurance advice, executive briefings, and the facilitation of cyber incident tabletop exercises. She has nearly 30 years of experience as a lawyer including 20 years managing legal claims against professionals. She is the author of numerous articles on professional responsibility, particularly in relation to cyber risk, which have been published in leading professional journals, and she speaks regularly at conferences and via webinars for organisations on topics related to professional duties, cyber risk and privacy. Simone has presented educational seminars on the topic of cyber risk and email fraud for leading Australian lawyers’ professional associations, education providers and industry bodies. Simone is passionate about protecting Australians from cybercrime and is a thought leader in the area of professional responsibility and cyber risk.
Learn more about Simone here