Advanced Program Cyber Security & Governance

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Online brochure
Start- and course dates
May 22, 2025
Tilburg Campus
Duration
5 days (3 days and 2 days)
Fees
€5500 (exempt from VAT)
Language
English
Rankings
Executive Education - Open Programs
Diploma
Certificate

Cyber workforce gap is increasing and requires upskilling current workforce 

Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing cross-sectoral fields of expertise. In today’s hyperconnected digital landscape, the industry faces a critical global shortage of nearly 4 million cybersecurity professionals. With demand for qualified practitioners increasing year after year, this deficit aligns with insights from the Future of Jobs 2025 (World Economic Forum), which identifies cybersecurity as a cornerstone of the evolving workforce landscape. 

The agile cyber environment, with the proliferation of cutting-edge technologies – such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), sets high requirements to continually raise workforce awareness, competence, and skillsets. Educating students is not sufficient to close the workforce gap. We need to re-train and upskill current workforce and their management. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the challenge, no single expert can provide the breadth and depth of knowledge. It requires collaboration across the public and private sectors, and cover areas from technical to legal. 
 
The Advanced Program Cyber Security and Governance is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary course that encompasses the full spectrum of cybersecurity knowledge areas, enabling organizations to orchestrate effective cyber risk management and carry out day-to-day risk mitigation and resilience activities. 

What makes this program unique? 

  • The program combines the best practices of academia, public sector, and industry to meet the organization’s needs through a holistic and strategic approach, while offering a truly practitioner's foundation.  

  • The quality of the lectors is outstanding, with contributions from: RDI, DNB, TU Delft, NHTCU, Fox-IT, Microsoft, NATO, ASML, TILT. Every day of teaching is co-hosted by seasoned CISOs from very mature organisations like ASML, KPN, AkzoNobel, Rabobank, Nationale Nederlanden. 

  • This program is aimed at managers and future leaders so they learn to set guidelines and standards within their organizations, organize processes and coordinate resources to implement risk mitigation, convey their knowledge into the rest of the organization and facilitate informed oversight by their Board. It allows an organization to boost its cyber maturity by offering actionable insights in all relevant areas. 

  • Each course day is divided into four teaching sessions, blending theoretical knowledge with practical exercises and case studies (for example a "Cyber crisis simulation"). 

  • Participants also benefit from the exchange of experiences and networking opportunities with their peers and the program’s lecturers.

Boost the cyber maturity of your company 

This program is designed for managers, future leaders, and decision-makers in both public and private organizations, regardless of size, who oversee or influence cyber security, risk management, governance, legal coordination, and incident response. Participants will gain the skills to set guidelines and standards within their organizations, organize processes and coordinate resources to implement risk mitigation, convey their knowledge into the rest of the organization and facilitate informed oversight by their Board. It allows an organization to boost its cyber maturity by offering actionable insights in all relevant areas. 

Entry-level 
The course does not require a specific technical background. It is aimed at participants with managerial cyber responsibilities or ambitions (middle management) as well as general managers with oversight duties. 

‘People think that cybersecurity is something that’s highly technical. Yes, some roles require deep technical expertise, but cybersecurity is a vast domain and making an organization cyber-resilient also requires generalist roles that need a broader skillset.’ ~ Bobby Ford, Chief Security Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprises. 

Program content of the Advanced Program Cyber Security & Governance

The program consists of 5 days, with one module covered each day. These modules have the following main themes. To enhance your comprehension of these themes, we've included a selection of topics that are part of the theme. For a comprehensive overview of all the topics covered within a theme, please download the brochure. 

Module 1: Cybersecurity as a strategic enterprise-wide risk 

  • Cyber as business opportunity and business risk 

  • Asset management and risk appetite 

  • Threats, CTI, threat informed defense 

  • Supply chain risk, attracting and retaining talent  

Module 2: How can we mitigate the risk? 

  • Security frameworks, baselines, auditing and reporting 

  • Multi-vendor strategy 

  • Cloud security 

  • Insights from research 

Module 3: What is our legal responsibility to manage and oversee cyber risk? 

  • Legal landscape, corporate responsibility 

  • Deep dive EU legal framework (NIS2, DORA, CRA) 

  • Reporting to Board, CISO role and responsibilities 

  • AI as cyber threat and defense 

Module 4: What can we expect from the institutions? 

  • Overview of EU cybersecurity stakeholder landscape (institutions, public-private cooperation, impact of NIS2 and DORA on the landscape) 

  • How to cooperate with a CERT, ISAC, what to expect 

  • How to cooperate with the NCSC, the High Tech Crime Unit, ENISA, what to expect 

  • What can we expect form the institutions: introductions and Q&A with with RDI, DNB and ENISA  

  • Introduction by DNB of what to expect if you participate in TIBER-EU simulation attack on critical functions of the financial sector 

Module 5: Cyber incident preparedness & response 

  • Cyber crisis management 

  • Legal aspects of incident response (including legal checklist) 

  • Lessons learned from major incidents 

  • Core elements of an Incident Response Plan 

  • Deep dive: case study 

  • Experience with ransomware 

  • Cyber crisis simulation (exercise)

Testimonial

The nomination for the "Gouden Zandloper 2024" highlights the industry's recognition of this program's excellence. To give you a glimpse into the experiences of students from previous editions, you can explore their testimonials on this page. 

Lex Jansze (CISO at Topicus.com) 
"Great lectures of specialists and nice discussions on practical solutions with CISO's from large enterprises, board members of different companies, national and European authorities and other people from the security community. It broadens and deepens the vision on cybersecurity"  

Stephan Linnenbank (Non-executive director from several organizations in the insurance and pension sector) 
“As a member of several supervisory boards in the financial sector, I attended the Advanced Cybersecurity & Governance course in 2024. Given the increasing importance of cybersecurity to supervisory and supervisory boards, especially with the advent of regulations such as DORA and NIS2, this course was extremely valuable. The content was in-depth and relevant, the instructors were experts in their fields, and the level of other participants was high. I highly recommend this training to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge and skills in cybersecurity and governance.” 

Joris den Bruinen, General Director-Non-executive director at The Hague Security Delta
“I highly recommend the TIAS cyber course! As a participant, the TIAS course delivered an exceptional high-quality knowledge program. This is achieved by the rare combination of high-quality, scientifically tested content delivered by lecturers from both academia and practice and class-room discussions and contributions from the senior cyber professionals participating in the course. This created a sustainable cyber security 'learning community, the practical strategic applicability of which is of great value to me and HSD.” 
“This TIAS Cyber Course contributes not only to individual learning abut also to improved strategic cyber risk management within the own organization as well as a more cyber resilient Netherlands as a whole. Again, highly recommended!”

NameLocationStart date
Cyber Security and Governance - 22, 23 May and 11, 12, 13 June 2025Tilburg CampusMay 22, 2025

Practical aspects: hotel stay recommended 

The program is delivered at the TIAS campus in Tilburg. It is highly recommended for participants to stay on site for the duration of the course (three days and two days respectively). An important benefit of the course is the exchange of experiences and networking with the participants/lecturers. Social activities will be organized in the evenings to maximize this interaction. TIAS has access to favorable arrangements with the hotels in the area. 

Costs of the Advanced Program Cyber Security & Governance

Tuition for the Advanced Program Cyber Security & Governance is €5500 (exempt from VAT).

How do you finance your education?

You have found the program that best suits your learning goals and ambitions. But how do you finance this? There are different ways to do that. Your employer can play a role, but there are also interesting statutory regulations that you can use yourself. We list the possibilities for you.

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Faculty of the Advanced Program Cyber Security & Governance

The program combines the best practices of academia, public sector, and industry to meet the organization’s needs through a holistic and strategic approach, while offering a truly practitioner's foundation.  

We ensure this by having an impressive list of lecturers from academia, the public sector, and industry.

Academic Director

  • Lokke Moerel (Tilburg University and TIAS)
  • Freddy Dezeure (lecturer) 

Faculty

  • Peter Kornelisse (EY and TIAS)
  • Michel van Eeten (TU Delft)
  • Petra Oldengarm (Cyberveiligheid Nederland)
  • Jacco Jacobs (DNB)
  • Jasper Nagtegaal (RDI)
  • Careen Shannon (ASML)
  • Erdogan Taskesen (TSHD)
  • Alex van der Wolk (MOFO) 

 

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