Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Overview

As innovative technologies are adopted, new issues arise, so students learn to look ahead, evaluate and communicate threats before they unfold.

These prospective professionals will thus be in a position to make a major contribution to intercepting cyber risks and preventing negative impact on the performance of organizations, both private and public.

The Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance course at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi is highly interdisciplinary, by necessity, considering that computer technology increasingly affects almost every facet of modern life. It combines technical elements of computer science and analytical methods with a range of topics in the social sciences: management, economics, finance law, social engineering, ethics, and behavioral skills.

Applicants should ideally have multidisciplinary backgrounds. Whether their undergraduate degree is in computer science, engineering, management or economics, it is useful to have studied a broad range of subjects and, of course, to have an interest in the prevention of and response to cyber risks.

Career Opportunities

As Cyber Risk Managers graduates will support tasks related to cyber risk management at organizational level in order to govern the enterprise risk by designing and implementing ad hoc strategies.In particular, they will be prepared to:

• Identify cyber risks in complex organizations
• Provide advisory services to increase awareness within organizations to both IT and non IT professionals

• Support the design and maintenance of the organization’s processes and information systems