MC01 - Strategic Leadership in Cyber Risk and Digital Trust  

Leading cyber risk decisions, governance, and trust in digitally dependent organisations.

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Start Date

... September 2026

  Credits

7.5 ECTS

  Semester

1 semester

  Delivery

Distance Learning

  Duration

13 Weeks

  Language

English

About This Course

This is a first-semester course in the MBA Cybersecurity and Cyber Insurance Business Management
This course examines cyber risk as a strategic leadership and governance challenge in digitally dependent organisations. It explores how cybersecurity, resilience, and digital trust influence organisational continuity, value creation, regulatory legitimacy, and stakeholder confidence. Through governance frameworks, enterprise risk management approaches, and executive-level case studies, students develop the ability to translate technical risk into strategic decisions, design effective accountability structures, and lead under conditions of uncertainty. The course addresses legal, financial, operational, and reputational dimensions of cyber risk while engaging with the ethical and leadership responsibilities that shape trust in digital ecosystems.
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What You Will Learn


Cyber Risk as a Strategic Business Issue

  • Cyber risk as an enterprise and board-level risk
  • Impact of cyber incidents on reputation, valuation, and operations
  • Integrating cybersecurity into enterprise risk management


Governance, Regulation & Digital Trust

  • Corporate governance models for cybersecurity leadership
  • EU and global regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, NIS2)
  • Building digital trust as a competitive and reputational asset


Resilience & Crisis Leadership

  • Cyber resilience and business continuity strategies

  • Leadership in ransomware and cyber-incident scenarios

  • Managing supply-chain and third-party cyber risk

Skills You Will Gain

Strategic Cyber Risk Leadership

  • Translating technical cyber threats into board-level decisions
  • Designing governance models aligned with organisational strategy
  • Evaluating cybersecurity investments and risk-reduction outcomes

Resilience & Crisis Decision-Making

  • Leading cyber-incident response and crisis management processes
  • Developing business continuity and recovery strategies
  • Conducting post-incident analysis and organisational improvement planning

Trust-Centred Governance & Stakeholder Management

  • Building governance systems for third-party and supply-chain cyber risk
  • Communicating cyber risk and trust strategies to boards and regulators
  • Leading cross-functional teams across IT, legal, compliance, and operations
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Your 13-Week Journey

Here’s how your learning unfolds

Week 1 – Cyber Risk as a Strategic Business Risk

Introduces cyber risk as a strategic enterprise threat affecting growth, continuity, and reputation. Frames cybersecurity as a leadership and governance issue.

Week 2 – Governance: Board Accountability, Leadership Roles, and Decision Rights

Explores board oversight, executive roles, and governance structures that ensure cybersecurity accountability without shifting responsibility to IT.

Week 3 – Building digital trust as a competitive advantage

Examines how digital trust shapes customer confidence, partnerships, investor expectations, and regulatory credibility.

Week 4 –  Enterprise cyber risk management (ERM integration)

Integrates cyber risk into ERM through risk appetite, scenario planning, and executive prioritisation.

Week 5 – Cyber resilience and business continuity leadership

Focuses on maintaining and recovering critical services through resilience planning, dependency mapping, and continuity governance.

Week 6 – Legal, regulatory, and compliance leadership (EU and global)

Covers executive responsibility for regulatory compliance, including GDPR and NIS2, and the governance structures needed to support it.

Week 7 –Incident response leadership and crisis decision-making

Develops leadership capability for managing cyber incidents, escalation decisions, and stakeholder communication.

Week 8 – Financial Management & Corporate Governance: C‑Level Cyber Risk, Valuation Impact, and Digital Trust Economics

Links cyber risk to valuation, investment decisions, cyber insurance, and the economics of digital trust.

Week 9 – Operations Management & Supply Chain: Enterprise Resilience, ZeroTrust Execution, and ThirdParty/SaaS Risk

Addresses supplier, SaaS, and cloud dependencies while applying Zero Trust principles to operational governance.

Week 10 – Marketing Management & Growth: TrustLed GTM, Assurance Packaging, and Reputation as a Revenue Engine

Shows how security assurance and reputation can support market entry, procurement credibility, and revenue protection.

Week 11 – Assurance, audits, standards, and continuous improvement 

Uses frameworks such as ISO and NIST to build governance evidence, maturity roadmaps, and improvement cycles.

Week 12 – Cyber culture, human risk, and leadership influence

Examines behavioural drivers of cyber risk and leadership strategies that strengthen organisational awareness and responsibility.

Week 13 – Capstone: Board-level simulation and executive cyber crisis exercise

Students lead a board-level cyber crisis scenario and produce an executive recovery and improvement roadmap.


Week 1 — Systems in Transition

See the world in systems.
Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.

Week 2 — The Digital–Circular Nexus

Discover how tech enables sustainability.
Explore how AI, IoT, and data power circular innovation.

Week 3 — Policy as Infrastructure

Understand Europe’s circular blueprint.
Dive into the EU Green Deal, CEAP, and Digital Europe frameworks.

Week 4 — Designing for Re-entry

Design for durability, reuse, and remanufacturing.
Learn how digital twins and simulation tools extend product lifecycles.

Week 5 — Tracking Resources Through Data

Follow materials in motion.
Understand how IoT and data infrastructures create transparency in supply chains.

Week 6 — Blockchain for Accountability

Trust through transparency.
Explore blockchain’s potential for tracking, verification, and ethical assurance.

Week 7 — Learning Loops with AI

Let data drive regeneration.
See how AI and machine learning enable adaptive circular decision-making.

Week 8 — Cognitive Factories

Meet the new industrial symbiosis.
Examine how robotics and smart manufacturing create circular production systems.

Week 9 — Reverse Intelligence

Close the loop through recovery.
Explore reverse logistics, digital disassembly, and resource recovery networks.

Week 10 — Measuring Circularity

Turn data into progress.
Use metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to track circular performance.

Week 11 — Financing the Regenerative Future

Empower innovation.
Discover how deep-tech, investment, and valuation models support circular ventures.

Week 12 — Ethics and Mindsets

Lead with responsibility.
Reflect on ethics, human–machine collaboration, and the competences for circular leadership.

Week 13 — 2040 and Beyond

Imagine the future you want to build.
Learn to rethink linear vs circular economies and explore planetary boundaries.

Learn With Us

This course is co-created with academic and industry partners supporting circular innovation.
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation
Giorgos Demetriou
Associate Dean of Research and Innovation

Co-Created for Change

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