Executive Programs for Individuals

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Overview

Cybersecurity risks continue to multiply and are becoming increasingly complex, challenging senior leaders everywhere around the globe. Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Cybersecurity Program is offering an intensive five-day executive education course on cyber resilience and collaboration for senior technology and cyber leaders in the public- and private-sectors.

The U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy emphasizes that digital transformations pose urgent risks, and solutions must extend beyond information-sharing between the private sector and government to achieve cyber resilience. This course, taught by instructors with experience in the White House, as senior cyber executives, and as professors at Columbia University, will equip you to overcome these challenges. 

Who Should Apply

Private and public sector cyber leaders (CISOs, CIOs/CTOs) and direct reports, military (in the ranks of O-6 to O-8), and U.S., and other government officials (from GS-15 to SES).

Admissions Criteria and Process

Interested Applicants should apply for the course. To ensure a cohesive cohort of qualified senior professionals, the lead faculty members will make the final selection of accepted participants.

Professional Benefits

Learn to solve key challenges and opportunities for cyber resilience, informed by issues surrounding cyber governance, risks, policy, and resilience.

• Expand your connections and enhance your professional profiles.
• Receive a world-class executive education, offering a broad overview and immersion in public-private cybersecurity risks/collaboration, and policy considerations.
• Elevate your cyber leadership skills, becoming a sophisticated and versatile leader navigating the dynamics between public and private cybersecurity stakeholders.
• Benefit from a community of alumni for peer learning and professional development and engage with leaders in the field.
• All participants earn a certificate from Columbia University.

Curriculum

Program Directors and Faculty

Based in New York City, a global business hub, our cyber security and resilience research and courses are innovative and influential. For instance, our New York Cyber Task Force’s work on enhancing Internet defense significantly influenced the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy and the creation of a public-private joint Cyber Defense Collaborative by the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency.

You will learn from SIPA’s unique team led by some of the world’s top authorities in the business and national security dynamics of cybersecurity and resilience. Our faculty combine their long histories as cyber practitioners in the private sector, military, intelligence, and White House with deep credentials in academia and instruction.

The course will be supported by the Picker Center for Executive Education, founded in 1999. The Center allows us to bring in distinguished Columbia faculty on location in New York and in Washington DC.