Certificate
Modern Defence and Security Challenges
As the boundaries between physical and digital conflict blur, modern leadership requires a deep understanding of evolving defence and security risks. Executives today must not only protect their organisations from threats like sabotage, espionage, or cyberattacks—they must also be able to shape strategic responses, make informed governance decisions, and foster organisational resilience.
This immersive executive programme is designed to provide that foundation. Participants completing the course will:
- Gain a strategic understanding of today’s most pressing defence and security challenges
- Learn how to assess risk exposure across the corporate environment
- Develop decision-making skills for high-pressure scenarios
- Strengthen the governance, culture, and continuity of their organisations
Objectives
1
Understand today’s evolving threat landscape and its impact on corporate leadership
2
Identify and assess major risks including cyberattacks, sabotage, and insider threats
3
Strengthen strategic decision-making in security crises and hostile threat scenarios
4
Develop governance frameworks to ensure security, resilience, and continuity
5
Translate threat intelligence into concrete security strategies and organisational measures
Benefits
Curriculum
Day 1
Understanding the threat environment
- The Global Security Environment
- Threat Vectors in the Corporate Environment
- Incidents of Corporate Sabotage
- Fireside Networking
Day 2
Leadership and Decision-Making
- From Strategy to Action: Lessons from Intelligence Leaders
- Legal & Ethical Deep Dive
- Crisis Leadership Simulation
- Fireside Chat: Transparency vs. Secrecy in Leadership
Day 3
Organisational Resilience
- Developing a Resilient Security Strategy
- Interactive Weakness Assessment
- Workshop: From Insight to Implementation
- Certificate Presentation
Speakers profiles
Peter R. Neumann
Professor, King’s College London
(UK)
One of Europe’s most prominent voices on terrorism and radicalisation, offering critical insight into how ideological threats and hybrid tactics increasingly target corporations and public-facing brands.
Joel Brenner
Former Inspector General,
NSA (USA)
A veteran of U.S. counterintelligence and privacy law, Brenner offers unmatched insight into cyber defence, national security oversight, and the strategic blind spots of global corporations.
Paul Taylor CBE
Senior Fellow,
RUSI (UK)
With decades in European defence policy and NATO advisory roles, Taylor brings a sharp analytical lens on European strategic autonomy and institutional preparedness.
Gerhard Schindler
Former President,
BND (Germany)
As the former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, Schindler provides rare access to the mechanics of international intelligence cooperation, hybrid threats, and political risk.
Frank Sauer
Senior Researcher,
Bundeswehr University
With deep academic credentials, Sauer helps corporate leaders understand how state-level tactics and geopolitical escalation increasingly intersect with private sector risk.
Sandro Gaycken
Director, Digital Society Institute
(Germany)
A leading thinker at the intersection of tech innovation and cyber defence, Gaycken advises NATO, governments, and industry on digital sovereignty and disruptive tech risks.
TARGET GROUP
Who should attend
- Board members and C-level executives overseeing governance, compliance, or organisational resilience
- Senior leaders in critical infrastructure sectors (energy, tech, transport, defence)
- Chief Security Officers (CSOs), Chief Risk Officers (CROs), and equivalent roles
- Strategic decision-makers operating in high-stakes or geopolitically sensitive environments
WHY ESCP & MONARCH
ESCP brings world-class executive education and global academic standards. MONARCH adds unmatched operational expertise from intelligence and defence.
This is not another cyber workshop. It’s a high-level leadership programme built for those shaping strategy, policy, and resilience at the top.
Held in a secluded, sustainable setting, this experience enables real conversations with security leaders in an atmosphere of trust.
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