Keep calm, adapt, and thrive in the AI and cloud era, protect trust and continuity as your organization transforms.
Modern Cybersecurity & Resilience
Live Online Training
📅 4 Weeks ⏱ 12 Hours 🌐 Live on Zoom 💬 English
A practical, live program for mid-level professionals navigating the real-world complexity of the AI and cloud era, where cyber threats evolve fast, operating models shift toward outsourcing and shared services, and critical delivery depends on always-on platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
You will learn how to adapt modern cybersecurity and operational resilience to protect business-critical services, data, and applications during disruption, covering AI-enabled attacks and defenses, cloud/hybrid exposure, third‑party and supply‑chain risk, and crisis decision-making.
Built for organizations under pressure, the course shows how to make high-impact security and resilience improvements with limited budgets and resources, prioritizing what matters, reducing avoidable risk, and communicating tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.
The course translates leading frameworks (ISO 27001/22301, NIST CSF, DORA, NIS2) into actions you can apply immediately, while acknowledging that regulatory expectations are rapidly maturing and differ across countries and industries.
Who Joins This Program:
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Cybersecurity, IT risk, and GRC professionals ready to move from controls to operational resilience
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Security engineers, IT/cloud architects, and platform/DevOps leads working with cloud, identity, and CI/CD environments
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Business continuity and operational resilience practitioners integrating cyber scenarios into continuity planning
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Digital transformation, operations, and service owners accountable for uptime, customer trust, and third‑party delivery
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Risk and compliance professionals translating fast-evolving regulations into pragmatic, workable programs across business units and suppliers
Why This Program?
Built for teams under pressure:
learn how to prioritize controls and resilience improvements when budgets, headcount, and time are limited.
Practical, not theoretical:
each session connects frameworks (ISO/NIST/DORA/NIS2) to real decisions you’ll face, like responding to AI-enabled attacks or explaining risk and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
Designed for modern operating models:
cloud and hybrid realities, third‑party dependencies, and delivery speed are treated as normal, not exceptions.
Live, interactive learning:
ask questions, test scenarios, and learn with peers facing similar constraints and regulatory complexity.
Designed by a practitioner:
who has carried this responsibility for nearly three decades, so the program stays realistic, actionable, respectful of constraints, and aligned with organizational goals.
Keeps services running:
focus on reducing disruption and downtime for business‑critical services, so resilience shows up in real performance, not only in documentation.
Format
Live instructor-led sessions on Zoom
What's Included
All course materials and resources, plus a certificate of completion.
Prerequisites
Professional experience in cybersecurity, IT governance, risk, or business continuity (not a beginner course).
Program Information
Duration
4-week online live program
8 sessions, 90 minutes per session
Schedule
Twice per week from 19:00 (GMT+4)
Language
English (all materials and instruction)
What Will You Learn?
Foundations of modern security and resilience: ISO, NIST, DORA, and NIS2 - simplified and mapped to real operational decisions.
AI-driven threats and defenses:
how generative AI changes phishing, fraud, and ransomware, and where automation helps defenders.
Cloud and hybrid realities:
common vulnerabilities, control gaps, and resilience patterns in modern environments.
Third‑party, outsourcing, and supply‑chain exposure:
how dependencies change your risk profile and what “good enough” oversight looks like.
Transformation lens:
how AI and digital disruption reshape resilience strategy, priorities, and operating models.
Continuity and crisis leadership:
scenario-based planning, response coordination, and communication that protects operations and stakeholder trust.
Adaptive capability under constraint:
risk based prioritization, iterative improvements, and faster decision making as threats, cloud services, and dependencies change.
Secure software delivery (SDLC/SSDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD):
embed security into fast‑moving delivery pipelines, from requirements to release, without slowing transformation.
Business service continuity (cyber-focused): reduce the frequency and impact of disruptions for critical services, prevent what you can, detect early, respond decisively, and recover fast.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
David Inaneishvili is a Security and Resilience practitioner with 30+ years of international experience across cybersecurity, information security governance, business continuity, crisis leadership, and digital transformation. His work experience spans Europe, including the Nordics, and the wider region, with engagements and collaboration in diverse environments and multicultural teams connected to the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Pakistan, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas across banking and financial services, industrial engineering and manufacturing, IT services and solutions, pharmaceuticals, critical infrastructure/energy, non-profit and public-sector environments.
Today, he works on the advisory, consulting, and audit side, supporting highly regulated, high‑availability organizations with practical, execution‑focused security and resilience compliance and improvements.
David holds an MSc (Eng) and an MPA, and maintains advanced certifications including CISSP‑ISSAP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, and CISA.
He is also an educator and public speaker, delivering training, coaching, and lectures, and presenting at regional and international events (including GITI, IDC Security Roadshow, ISACA EuroCACS, CISO Europe, (ISC)2 chapter events, and WSBI‑ESBG forums).
Learn more about David on LinkedIn.
About KN Institute
KN Institute for Leadership & Resilience is an international institute based in Tbilisi, Georgia, delivering practical, results-focused programs that strengthen leadership capability, organizational resilience, and risk readiness.
Our work integrates global standards with hands-on practice and real-world application.
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This program is available for organizations and private cohorts. Contact us for tailored delivery options.
Frequently Asked Questions
1.Is this course suitable for beginners? No. This program is designed for professionals with at least 3–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, IT risk, compliance, or business continuity, and assumes working knowledge of information security concepts. 2.What if I miss a live session? You will receive session materials, frameworks, and guidance on what was covered so you can stay on track. Sessions are not recorded to encourage focused participation and protect discussion confidentiality. 3.Will I receive a certificate? Yes. Participants who complete the program receive a Certificate of Completion from the KN Institute for Leadership and Resilience. 4.Does this program prepare me for CISSP, CISM, or other certifications? No, this is not exam preparation. However, the course covers ISO 27001, NIST CSF, DORA, NIS2, and core resilience principles that complement formal certification paths. 5.What tools or software do I need? A laptop or desktop computer with stable internet, a webcam, and a microphone/headset. All live sessions are conducted via Zoom. 6.How do payments work? International participants pay in EUR (or equivalent in USD), while participants in Georgia pay in GEL; organization-sponsored participants can request an invoice/PO. Payment instructions are provided after registration. 7.Are discounts available? Yes. An early-bird discount applies to the first 5 self-funded participants, and group rates are available for 3+ participants from the same organization. 8.What do I get after the course beyond the sessions? Participants are invited to join the KN Global Knowledge Network on LinkedIn for ongoing peer connection, updates, and practical resources.
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