Q4 2025 Stay Tuned as Security Leader – Program details

Course program

December 8th – Novotel Brussels City Center

• Executive crisis command: CISO leadership in a cyber resilience simulation,
  interactive roleplay by Kian Bayat & Egide Nzabonimana (ISACA).
• Digital trust by design: how CISOs build assurance programs from business risk scenarios?
  by Mark Thomas, President, Escoute Consulting, ISACA Hall of Fame.
• How to bring cyber / information security to the agenda of the board?
  by Thomas Colyn, CISO DPG Media

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Morning

Executive Crisis Command: CISO Leadership in a Cyber Resilience Simulation

How prepared are you to steer your organization through the chaos of a cyber crisis? Join us for an interactive, role-playing simulation designed exclusively for the CISO community.

In this immersive workshop, you’ll take the seat of an executive leader facing a fast-moving cyber incident. Together with peers, you’ll experience the pressure, the dilemmas, and the critical decisions that determine whether your organization emerges stronger or suffers lasting damage.

Through this dynamic exercise, you will:

• Experience a realistic cyberattack scenario as part of an executive team.
• Understand how each role—CEO, CMO, Audit, CRO, CIO, and CISO—shapes crisis outcomes.
• See and feel the benefits of applying best practices in information security and digital trust.
• Discover the impact of communication, coordination, and leadership under pressure.
• Learn what happens when responsibilities are neglected—and how resilience collapses.

At the end of the simulation, you will leave with:

• A clear grasp of key cybersecurity concepts and crisis structures.
• Practical insights into the strategic role of CISOs in building digital trust.
• Lessons you can immediately apply to strengthen your organization’s resilience and leadership culture.

Why attend?

Because in the digital age, trust is your most valuable asset and leadership under pressure defines it. Workshop by Kian Bayat & Egide Nzabonimana (accredited trainers @ ISACA)

Afternoon

Digital Trust by Design: How CISOs Can Build Assurance Programs from Business Risk Scenarios?

Mark is an internationally known Governance, Risk, and Compliance expert specializing in information assurance, IT risk, IT strategy, service management, cybersecurity, and digital trust.  Mark has a wide array of industry experience including government, health care, finance/banking, manufacturing, and technology services.  He has held roles spanning from CIO to IT consulting and is considered a thought leader in frameworks such as COBIT, DTEF, NIST, ITIL and multiple ISO standards.   Mark is also a two-time recipient of the ISACA John Kuyers award for best conference contributor/speaker as well as an ISACA Hall of Fame recipient. He is also an APMG product knowledge assessor for the CGEIT, CRISC and CDPSE certifications.

How to bring Cyber / Information Security to the agenda of the board

1. Relationship Information Security – Board
2. How to build a ’supported’ Information Security strategy
3. Actionable IT Risk Mgt
4. IT Risk Ownership
5. Translation IT Risks to actionable roadmap items

By Thomas Colyn, CISO DPG Media