Cybersecurity in the AI Era
The modern digital landscape has fundamentally shifted. Cybercriminals are no longer wasting time trying to break through complex IT firewalls. Instead, they are using highly sophisticated, AI-empowered tools to bypass the tech entirely and target the finance department directly.
As a finance professional, you hold the keys to your company’s cash reserves and most sensitive data, putting you right on the front lines. Protecting the balance sheet is no longer something you can simply outsource to an IT helpdesk: it requires active governance, heightened professional scepticism, and a modernised approach to daily financial controls.
This course strips away the complex technical jargon and provides a practical, actionable playbook designed specifically for accountants. You will learn exactly how modern AI threats bypass traditional checks, how to spot internal vulnerabilities, and how to build a cyber-resilient finance function from the ground up.
Provides 1 hour of CPD
What you’ll learn:
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Defeating AI-Powered Fraud: How to identify and stop modern external threats, including executive deepfakes, synthetic supplier identities, and ‘exfiltration-only’ ransomware attacks.
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Securing the Supply Chain: Practical steps to upgrade your procurement processes, allowing you to demand cyber-maturity scores from vendors and protect your company against third-party security risk.
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Governing ‘Shadow AI’: How to manage the internal risks of your own team’s AI adoption, ensuring you establish clear, ethical safe zones to innovate.
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The ROI of Cyber Resilience: How to use financial metrics to confidently pitch security investments to the board as pure value preservation.
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The Finance Leader’s Action Plan: How to implement a robust 5-pillar strategic framework, equipping you with zero-trust verification rules and practical analogue contingency plans for a complete digital blackout.
What’s included in the course?
Videos
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- The content is professionally explained by our expert tutors alongside a visual presentation
Handbooks
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- A range of examples to show you how these concepts might apply to real-life situations, e.g. in finance
Presentation slides
- The visual presentation from the video can be accessed for note-taking and for browsing without the video playing
- Can be downloaded as a PDF file
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